User:Jbumw

I am Jim Bumgardner. I am a software developer from Los Angeles. My puzzle website is krazydad.com and my personal website is jbum.com.

I maintain a scrapbook of press-clippings, videos and ephemera at https://krazydad.com/scrapbook/.

Most of my wikipedia edits have been on the subject of historical automatic music, particularly early examples of algorithmic music composition, a long interest of mine. I have created pages for, and/or done significant edits on [Componium], [Organum Mathematicum], [Arca Musarithmica] and [John Birchensha]‎.

Some history:

1980-1984 Attended California Institute of the Arts. Majored in Music Composition. Focused on algorithmic music composition in my last years there.

1994 The Los Angeles Times published a feature about me (7/10/94), right around the time I was beginning work on The Palace.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/159218675/?terms=%22Jim%2BBumgardner%22

1994 I created The Palace avatar chat system, while an employee of Time Warner Interactive.

1996 The Palace was spun out as a separate company.

1999 I left The Palace company, when it was merged into Communities.com by majority investor Softbank.

2005 I started publishing free puzzles at my website krazydad.com. The site now has over a million free puzzles. I have also published over 40 puzzle books.

2006 I co-authored the book Flickr Hacks from O'Reilly. Around this period I created the Whitney Music Box (whitneymusicbox.org).

2010 I did some hacking on FourSquare, which was recounted in a Los Angeles Times article "Confessions of a Foursquare Cheater" and in my blog article "Mayor of the North Pole"

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/confessions-of-a-foursquare-cheater.html

https://blog.krazydad.com/2010/02/15/mayor-of-the-north-pole/

2014 The Atlantic did a piece about my observation that blended digital photos tend to produce an orange color ("Emergent Orange"), something I discovered during my earlier Flickr explorations.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-color-of-every-photo-on-the-internet-blended-together-is-orange/378614/

2020 The New York Times started running my Star Battle puzzles, Monday through Friday under the name "Two Not Touch"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/reader-center/more-puzzles-coronavirus.html