Last Updated:
July 11, 2007
(Updated Scaled Work; Added Tehachapi House Building Photo Gallery)
You wanna see me and my friends?
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Howdy. Some information on me and Deanie,
my wife, resides here, and the first picture (lousy as it seems) included her (and a
friend who wished to remain anonymous). Here's a link to
Deanie's web site, which
includes a sampling of her artwork for sale. |
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The other picture shows my son, Zachary. He holds the
position of honorary Aircraft Manufacturing Assistant although I've got
to say, patience in building is not exactly his forte'.
This particular picture shows him in a rented tuxedo, getting ready for
his senior prom.
He now attends Syracuse University
as a sophomore and has joined the SAE fraternity.
He's also doing an intership at Fidelity, marketing 401K programs for
the summer of 2007. |
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MY FATHER'S FUNERAL:
My father died on January 6th, 2007. I've put the
funeral service on line for those
who were not able to attend.
MOVE TO CALIFORNIA:
In April, 2005 Scaled Composites
offered me a job in Mojave, CA and I accepted. On August 24th we began our
journey west. I've got an
account of
the trip on my other web site (the
COZY one), since I flew the
plane from MA to CA over the course of a week.I've begun keeping a
intermittent record of our experiences
in CA.
Building a House in Tehachapi,
CA - As of February, 2007, we've started
building. I've created a
photo gallery to peruse
the build process.
VACATIONS:
- Deanie, Zach and I took the last two weeks of August, 2000 and traveled around the
southern half of Alaska - the part you can drive around. Geez, it's big. You may
view our itinerary and some pictures and comments.
- We splurged and took the Christmas/New Year's 2000 week down in the Cinnamon Bay Campground on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Not much
in the way of an itinerary (hang out on the beach, snorkel, swim, eat), but we bought a
disposable underwater camera and have some cool pictures
and commentary.
DAY TRIPS:
- Not a "vacation", per se, but we did go down to Martha's Vineyard
for 1/2 a day (one nice thing about having a plane, and a fast one) in May,
2004 just to get lunch and hang out by the wharf. We took some
photos with my new digital
camera.
- We FINALLY got a chance to get the
balloon ride that I'd been
waiting for for two years.
WORK RELATED:
- I've presented these papers at Hewlett Packard's
MICON 94 and EuroMICON 95 (MICON stands for Mechanical Integration CONference):
- Minimal Documentation - Abstract
- Designing Plastic Parts with SolidDesigner - Workshop
Abstract
- I've given the following presentation (in various incarnations) to customers of the
Workstation Division(s), as well as to customers of the Mechanical Design Division
(then the CoCreate Corporation, a
wholly owned subsidiary of HP, now an
independent company).
Engineering the Vision at Hewlett Packard (No Longer Available)
AIRPLANE RELATED:
I built this airplane (a Cozy-MKIV) in my spare time (besides all the
house, car and motorcycle work).

If you have an interest in reading about my progress in building
and flying this
plane see:
I've maintained a running commentary (with illustrations) of what I do.
If you'd like to know about COZY aircraft in general, or about the COZY
mailing list I administer, or about other links to aviation related (especially homebuilt
aviation), visit:
LETTERS I'VE WRITTEN:
- VerizonWireless
has the worst customer service department on the face of the earth (excepting
possibly Burma's dictatorship), so when I finally found someone there who
exhibited extreme competence, I felt compelled to write this
letter to her supervisor, supporting
her efforts.
- I hate flying commercially (the
COZY is MUCH better), but in January, 2006
America West Airways REALLY screwed up big time. Again, I was compelled
to bill them in this letter for
time wasted.
- So my family and I needed to fly east in June, 2006 for a vacation on
Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Three letters evolved from this fiasco. I'd
recommend reading them in order of their criticality:
OTHER:
- My Biography
- I wrote this magnetic poem while in the midst of a
discussion with a previous boss one day.
- My mother bought these icemaker trays
- they apparently come from outer space, judging from the english translations.
Enjoy.
What I like:
- I like Volleyball. I like my family. I like flying. I like
E-prime. Not in that
order.
What I DON'T like:
- I don't like idiots. I don't like people whose mouths have no connection to their
thinking apparatus. I don't like the HP/Agilent Drug testing policy
(since cancelled for lack of efficacy - YAY!). I don't like Nixon (the
man, not the movie) - dead or not.
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