User:IanOsgood

Greetings,

I have done lots of anon edits and gnoming, and decided I ought to have a home here.

I work for The TOVA Company in Portland, Oregon programming in Java and C. I run scholastic chess tournaments for Chess for Success and coach my local elementary school team.

I used to work on Ward's wiki. My home there: IanOsgood. I also did some code-knitting on Rosetta Code, a Program Chrestomathy.

Interests

 * Computer chess
 * Computer go (Amazed that AlphaGo came out of nowhere to become the best Go player in the world!)
 * History of chess and its offshoots shogi, makruk, and xianqui
 * Space topics
 * Timeline of spaceflight (upcoming)
 * Amateur rocketry - I was a member of the Portland State Aerospace Society, working on their high power rocket and avionics testbed. And their new OreSat project became the first cubesat designed in Oregon!
 * Space colonization
 * new space companies like SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Blue Origin
 * the new US manned initiatives for commercial cargo and commercial crew
 * Astronomy
 * Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
 * Astronomy Picture of the Day
 * Bicycle commuting
 * Battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, especially those from Arcimoto, Tesla, Inc., and Aptera Motors ( RIP resurrected!)
 * Alternate energy, especially solar power and liquid fluoride thorium reactors
 * Volcanology: Erta Ale, Ol Doinyo Lengai, blue flame sulphur lava of Ijen, and of course, local Mount St. Helens
 * Forth programming language
 * Esoteric programming languages such as SNUSP - SNUSP was an article I originally authored (although I now think it and most other esoteric programming languages are effectively research or vanity projects, and should live on the esoteric programming language wiki instead)
 * Unusual articles

Projects

 * /List of astronomical objects by angular size
 * /Automotive X Prize standings

Forth source test
Hooray! The tag started supporting Forth around February 2017.