truebuilder
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Location | Olympic Peninsula, Western Washington, United States |
| Introduction | I've been unix software support for a major computer manufacturer, a database programmer, a janitor (twice), a system administrator, a scientific programmer (twice), a blood banker, and a US Army "personnel specialist" (clerk). These days I'm retired, keep my "OS-hand" in with the many-flavored distros of Linux. |
| Interests | Cats, Contemplation, Friends, Galaxies, Gibbous Moon, Hiking, Making Love, Old HP Calculators (Voyager Pioneer Charlemagne + +), Reading, Serenity, Skiing |
| Favorite movies | Babylon 5, Casablanca, Castle in the Sky, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, Firefly, Forbidden Planet, The Lathe of Heaven (the WNET version made in 1979 & released in 1980), The Maltese Falcon, NausicaA, New Amsterdam, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Spirited Away, Star Trek (especially TNG), Star Wars (the first six, especially 1-3), Young Frankenstein |
| Favorite music | Johann Sebastian Bach, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dave Brubeck, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Faith Hill, Don McLean, Glenn Miller, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Patrick O'Hearn, Steve Reich, Chris Spheeris, Sniff 'n' the Tears |
| Favorite books | Greg Bear, Alfred Bester, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur C Clarke, Paul Cook, Blake Crouch, Stephen R Donaldson, Robert A Heinlein, Tony Hillerman, Eric Hoffer, Ursula K Le Guin, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Linda Nagata, Robert Pirsig, Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger), A E Van Vogt, Sam Watterson, Roger Zelazny |