 Innocent shepherd or future terrorist? Only Donald Rumsfeld knows for sure. |
Raised by a pack of wild Bichon Frieses in the marshes of southeastern Michigan...
...Jim is suspected to be the oft-rumored love child of Burt Reynolds and a young chupacabra named Heidi. His first spoken language was known to scholars as BASIC, an obscure form of pidgin English consisting mostly of grunts, whistles, and GOTO statements. At age 7 he was brought (forcibly) into civilized society, where he remains as a tax-paying citizen to this date.
Or, if you're one of those people who prefers the truth... I am currently a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I work as a software developer and webmaster at TerraSpark Geosciences, and I am also involved in the MANTIS wireless sensor network project at CU. I received my undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, a fantastic liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts. After college, I spent the next four years working for various software companies in the Boston area. I first worked as a consultant for Concentra Corporation, and later for Oracle Corporation after they acquired Concentra in late 1998. I then joined the research and development team at Knowledge Technologies International, where I acted primarily as a user interface designer for the company's ICAD product. |
 About meWritingMost of what I write these days is in the form of research reports with titles like "Semiautomatic Sub-Volume Bounding Surface Definition," and if you're interested in those reports, chances are that you've already read them. On occasion, though, I write for recreation. Once in a while, something I've written amuses me, and even more rarely, my writing amuses other people, too.
Food that smiles
A while back some friends and I were planning a get-together via email, and while discussing what kinds of food we should prepare, my friend Lisa put in that I would eat just about anything as long as it wasn't smiling. I sent out a brief, somewhat politically incorrect reply. Public Service Anouncement After living in Massachusetts for eight years, I moved to Colorado in 2001 to start graduate school, leaving many of my friends 2000 miles away. About two years later, I wrote this bit of persuasive commentary to explain the relative merits of the state I now call home. |
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