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Robert Tarrall

First, the news:

16 September 2006.

Photo: Erin Hooley

And now some contact info:

Robert Tarrall

Director of Technology

and chief NOC monkey

E.Central/Neighborhood Link

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 I 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 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/VMS+Unix admin 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?

punk head I guess I was punk once...