Interests
- Biking
- If I remember correctly, I was in first grade when Mom and Dad
bought me my Schwinn spyder bike with the burnt orange metallic
paint job, white metallic banana seat, and three-speed with the
shift lever on the crossbar. More than twenty years since that
orange beauty went out to pasture I bought myself a new bike.
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- Genealogy: Getting in Touch With the Past
- When I was a kid, I remember Christmas visits to the houses
of lots of people who were, I was told, my aunts and uncles. It
was only in 1995, when I got involved with my dad's family history
research, that I began to understand just how these people
were related to me. I've been hooked ever since.
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- Horology: Treasures That Tick
- Somewhere along the line, people started giving Uncle Carl the
filthy, broken-down clocks that they discovered in their attics
or basements. He'd apply his ingenuity and a bit of elbow grease,
and before long they were ticking along and sitting pretty on
the mantel, or on a bracket, or hanging on a wall.
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- Karaoke
- Because there just aren't enough opportunities for humiliation in my everyday life. My lovely bride first got me to step up to the microphone on a dare, but the karaoke outings became a good an acceptable excuse to get out of the house and drink beer. As an exercise to experiment with server-side scripting and databases, I put together a list of all the songs I've performed (to mixed reviews) in public.