A Short Biography..(aka, A funny look at my life)

Born: 8/12/78 in Maryland, Raised in Edgewood, MD, Harford Co. Went to St. Stephen's school for 1-3rd grades, Edgewood Elementary School for 4-5th, Edgewood Middle School for 6-8th, John Carroll High School for 9-12th, and Rensselaer Polytechnic from 13th-the end of the century.

Entered Geekdom somewhere around the age of 6 when I typed in "Inch Worm" to the family's TI 99/4a computer and sat for hours mezmorized by a multicolor blob moving back and forth across the screen. Unfortunately, my programs have not gained much in complexity since then. I co-ran Utopia BBS in MD from 1994-1996 (the beginnings of my hacker (not cracker) life). More information about Utopia can be found here at Deater's site

I discovered girls somewhere around the 1st grade, and succeeded in getting a date by the 12th. Enough said.

Been an Orioles baseball fan all my life. Watched Cal's record breaking game from the standing room only seats at Camden Yards. Also watched them go from worst to, well, ALMOST first in '89. Still miss Memorial Stadium though, that's where the REAL fans were. You remember that time, Baltimore, right? when you didn't have to mortgage your house to see a baseball game and pay Albert Belle's salary?

Played in the Pit Orchestra in high school, and I'd like to do it again. It was the most fun I've ever had playing an instrument. Anyone need an out of practice Trumpet player?

Moved to Massachusetts after college. Turned down guaranteed government employment, and then offers from several prominent computer companies (HP, Cray/Tera to brag a bit) to work for a Linux startup. You can guess the outcome of that. But I thoroughly enjoyed it and have no regrets. I was the lucky enough to land a job Sun Microsystems afterwards, and now work in thier high-end server division.

That's about it. It's the short condensed version, but I figured I'd spare you the gory details. You don't REALLY want to know about me, you're just here to swipe my ultra-cool GREP powered search engine.




School/Work Related (aka, Serious)
I graduated RPI majoring in Computer Engineering and (almost) minoring in History (1 class short)
Rensselaer Related Material
My Schedules :
• Fall '96
• Spring '97
• Fall '97
• Spring '98
  There aren't any more, because the school started putting them in HTML format for us ;) so I didn't need to create my own.
Resume
• HTML
• Postscript
• PDF

So these are the important people. So important I've made them have a separate page, located here, but be warned, even though as I'm writing this I haven't written the page yet, there's bound to be a lot or pictures.

That only covers the friends I'm still in touch with. It doesn't cover those who I've known but (for whatever reason, normally my laziness) I haven't been able to keep in touch with. I'd like to know where these people are, how they're doing, and what they're up to. So if anyone knows them, could you let me know how they're doing? And let them know I'd like to hear from them. They include:

Jeremy Johnston:
Lived in Edgewood, MD for at least 4th-7th grade. Was a hell of a trumpet player, Last I heard he was in Florida on the Army base there sometime around 1991ish.


(Sher)Monica Farrow:
Lived in Edgewood, MD and went to Edgewood high when I went to JC. Last I heard she moved away somewhere around sophmore year (1994?).


Amanda Lyon:
Again, Lived in Edgewood, but I haven't seen her around since sophmore year in high school.


Aviator and Tin Man:
Two people who used to frequent BBS's in the northern MD/Harford County area. Specifically, Utopia BBS. I had a wonderful time discussing life and many questions of the universe with these people, and I'd like to know how they're doing. I know they both used to be on The Arcade Room, and the Sanitarium as well, both under those aliases as I remember. Also, I'd like to hear from anyone else who remembers Utopia in it's glory days... Diety, where are you? Panda Bear? ahh, memories....