The Present

A long-time Unix aficionado and groupie, I am the Resident Computer Nerd and general system administrator for the UCSD Department of Communication. I manage the department's collection of computers - some 35+ Macintoshes of various persuasion, ~half-dozen PCs, and webservers for

The Department of Communication
The Graduage Program in Science Studies
The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
The Alexander Luria Memorial
La Clase Magica
The Center for Academic and Social Advancement

I also manage the network infrastructure that connects those clients and servers to the network, a switch or two, a hub or three, a few miles of wire, and a lot of users who want to read their email and surf the web. Mostly, they get to do their work with a minimum of fuss, muss, and hassle.

I also do Unix consulting, primarily for WebMistress.com, a web design and development company based in La Jolla, CA, and Spokane WA.

In my copious free time, I am also re-building an old house on Thorn St, in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego, and raising two dogs, named Tinka and Ozu.

I am a former doctoral candidate with the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. I received my C Phil degree in 1991 from the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. The working title (and ostensible topic) of my dissertation was A Social Constructivist History of Usenet. While I maintain an interest in the history of communication technologies and the specific history of Usenet, I have a real job and therefore no time nor interest in finishing a PhD that would not take me anywhere.

For a number of years, in addition to my duties as department WebMeister, computer network manager, and all-round computer jockey, I taught classes in the history, development, politics, and use of the Internet and World Wide Web - Communication and Computer Networks (Comm/MT 111 A/B/C) and Introduction to Media Making in Communication (Comm/MT 102) for the Department of Communication and Summer Session at UCSD. I also taught classes in the history of film (Cinema 100) for Palomar Community College.

I:
love dogs;
am alergic to cats: (kids and cats are fine as long as they belong to someone else);
have raised my child to the point where: he takes care of himself pays his own way in the world, and is, IMHO, a nice guy (no parent can desire less nor expect more);
play the shakuhachi
grow bamboo
like zen poetry and sayings

I collect:

16mm movie cameras;
antique single-shot target rifles;
old musical instruments
hammers

It is also rumored that I collect women. This is categorically untrue. They keep cats (I'm mildly alergic and a dog person at heart). They're also expensive to keep around and they steal your Tupperware (TM) when they leave. I think it's a conspiracy because other women come around and sell you new Tupperware as soon as they find out you're single (again).

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This page last updated on: Wed Apr 13 11:33:32 PDT 2005