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They're at www.tarrall.com...)
Robert Tarrall
First, the news:
And now some contact info:
Robert Tarrall
Unix System/Network Admin
and chief NOC monkey
2546 15th St
Denver, CO 80205
work: (303) 830-0123
cell: (303) 588-5370 (emergencies/beer only)
tarrall+www@ecentral.com
PGP key
And now the, um, other stuff.
Perfesser of Oxymoronics, frontier infosurgeon...
proud member of the International Non-sequitur Association.
Our motto:
We may not make sense, but we sure do like pizza! ... and remember,
when you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China.
Photos seem to be mandatory for these www self-portrait/rambling
sessions, so for anyone who cares I've dumped a few
photos of myself on here. Quality isn't exactly awe-inspiring, but
I just don't tend to collect photos of myself and the parental units
lack a good scanner. If you'd like to buy me a Nikon F5 and a drum
scanner I'll be glad to rectify this situation.
Note: the only thing that I update on a regular basis around here is
my QUOTES FILE, a collection of quotes that
used to live in my .plan until it got way too long. Well, that
and my bookmarks list, which is updated
occasionally from my netscape directory.
Also maybe of interest is my old bookmarks
list which may have good links for racquetball, tube amps,
photography, orchids, Australia, SGIs, etc - though beware that
it's old and many of the links may have expired.
Yes, these pages are ugly! For the most part they were written in 1993,
BEFORE NETSCAPE EXISTED (gasp) when the Web consisted of a few hard-core
geeks playing around with
Mosaic.
Turning this into something pretty with frames, knobs, dials, Java and blinkenlights is on my to-do list... just below
eating
lutefisk,
in fact. Check back in a decade or so.
Racquetball
Head Sports has been kind enough to sponsor
me for the last three years. I'd be playing with their racquets even if
they didn't sponsor me, so I thought this was quite nice of them... only
polite to give them a little free advertising here in return. If you play
racquetball, definitely demo their stuff - particularly the Ti Fire 175XL
which is my racquet of choice this year. If you don't play racquetball...
I think they make equipment for heathen sports like tennis too, but I
wouldn't know much about it.
Car stuff
Never really considered myself a "car geek"... yet my bookmarks file is
infested with car links. What's up with that? Might be because I race
my Prelude at SCCA Solo I & Solo II events...
and I've just started working on restoring a 1954 Chrysler Imperial. Right
now it looks like this - still needs a
fair bit of work, which will probably happen this summer. There's
a better picture of the same model/year at the Online Imperial Club.
But I'm not a car geek. Really. Hey, get your soda can off my hood!
Orchids and other plants
I was temporarily the keeper of the
rec.gardens.orchids FAQ. I still have a
copy but it is almost certainly out of date. Check the former link
above first for the most recent version, and use the latter only as a backup.
I'm also working on a page describing orchids in
my collection, how I'm growing them, photos, etc. It is very rarely
updated, however, because I'm always getting sidetracked by racquetball,
autocross, etc.
Music
Seems like a list of bands you do/don't like is a traditional part of a
personal home page. Presumably this is intended to give some idea of what
sort of personality the reader is dealing with. Well, since my tastes
range from Skinny Puppy to Waylon Jennings, bagpipes to rap, let's just
say I'm schizophrenic (or eclectic as hell) and leave it at that. I would,
however, like to introduce you to a bunch of really good
bands you've never heard of.
Various stuff
The
Crouton Generation Archives are once again available, courtesy
of Jon. If you don't know about TCG... download 'em and you'll be even
more confused. You can also find similar material
here
to further increase your confusion.
I work for
E.Central/Neighborhood Link in Denver, Colorado. I do
system
and network administration here, just as I did at my previous jobs
at PAOS,
Colorado Research Associates,
LCD/JILA, and
UnixOps.
Before that (we're back into the Dark Ages now) I
was an undergraduate lackey/IDL programmer for
CASA. All of these (except the
current one) are in some way affiliated with
CU-Boulder. Guess where Robert
went to college... Had a couple of coding jobs before that but they were
in Turbo Pascal on a PC so who cares?
I guess I was punk once...
