What I have done with my time

These are projects that I have coded on that actually shipped. I'm not counting places such as Amazon where primarily I did systems administration.


  • True Insider
  • Cute Puppy
  • HearPlanet
  • MyWaves
  • 6reader
  • The Arbitrary Perl Embedder, aka 6perl my perl compiller
  • Microsoft Services For Unix
  • Myplay
  • Napster
  • TenTV
  • SGI Linux
  • SGI's bundling of and installer for Electric Arc Teleffect aka CosmoSynergy on SGI Visual Workstation NT machines and Irix 6.5
  • SGI Intranet Junction
  • The Wall Street Journal's Search Engine
    • Current Mood
      geeky

    Privilege Meme

    The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.


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    • Father went to college

    • Father finished college

    • Mother went to college

    • Mother finished college

    • Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor

    • Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers

    • Had more than 50 books in your childhood home

    • Had more than 500 books in your childhood home

    • Were read children's books by a parent

    • Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18

    • Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18

    • The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively

    • Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18

    • Your parents paid for the majority of your college costs

    • Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs

    • Went to a private high school

    • Went to summer camp

    • Had a private tutor before you turned 18

    • Family vacations involved staying at hotels

    • Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18

    • Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them

    • There was original art in your house when you were a child

    • Had a phone in your room before you turned 18

    • You and your family lived in a single family house

    • Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home

    • You had your own room as a child

    • Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course

    • Had your own TV in your room in High School

    • Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College

    • Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16

    • Went on a cruise with your family

    • Went on more than one cruise with your family

    • Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up

    • You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family

    childish games

    For some reason I was thinking back to making, “atom bombs”, in junior high school. Take a small room, a large box of ping pong balls and a whole bunch of mouse traps. Set the traps all over the floor putting two ping pong balls on each mousetrap. Peek through the barely open door and throw a ping pong ball into the room thus, “detonating”, the device.