User:Rabit/Brag

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You were warned!!!

(yes, my brain is cluttered)


 * Worked on Smalltalk-based underwater video catalog system for the research branch of the Monterey Bay Aquarium


 * Designed a custom bulletin board system (mSQL/lite and Perl) for University of Arizona, used by eminent scientists like Alfred Kaszniak, Stuart Hammeroff, Alwyn Scott, David Chalmers and hundreds of other scientists around the world. Implemented an interactive, online abstracts submission system (Oracle and Perl) used in major conferences held in Arizona and Sweden.


 * Designed and implemented a PHP-based online showroom for the former Ferrari of Los Gatos, created a MySQL and PHP-based searchable parts catalog for Silicon Valley Auto Group.


 * Implemented a cross-platform Windows NT and Windows CE software package, widely used to manage industrial bar code scanners for beverage packaging.


 * Maya (software) and Lightwave user and instructor


 * Assisted a two-week computer animation workshop with Rick Vertolli of California State University, Chico, Andrew Gordon, a lead animator of Pixar's Monster's Inc, Michael Wellins of Will Vinton Studios and creator of many Spike & Mike's shorts, and John Feather, later co-creator of the computer-generated Gollum in the Peter Jackson adaption of The Lord of the Rings. In two weeks, set up 80 workstations and 3 labs as an ad hoc animation production studio, led planning of production pipeline, assisted with coordinating the 40 students into groups, planned out and assisted with writing up procedures and checklists for managing assets (objects, textures, scenes) as local/global copies, and shared across workstations, set up a 'remote-controlled' "screamernet" renderfarm where finished scenes could be submitted and rendered by the next day.  By the end of the two weeks, the 5 minute long animation was fully complete, rendered at D1, and post-processed ready to be sent the next day to CSU Media Arts competition, where it took 1st place.


 * Own three generations of MIDI Guitar technology; ARP Avatar, Yamaha G10, and Yamaha G50. I own two great Ibanez guitars, my very first 'frankenstrat' Fender Stratocaster, several Yamaha electrics, a bango, a ukelele, and an autoharp.  I also own a variety of keyboards and love dabbling with MIDI software like ranging from trackers to full-scale sequencing software like Cubase.


 * Typical geek obsessive collecting behavior, consists of two SGI Indigo2's, a large SGI 4D/70GT graphics workstation that once was involved in the production of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Altos ACS8000 MP/M minicomputer (multi-user CP/M), various Macs (Mac OS X makes me take back anything bad I said of Apple), modded XBOX running Linux, a NUON DVD player with SDK, various tablet and touch screen PC's (NEC Stylistic, NCR 3124, 3COM Audrey, and Iopener), a HP 912 digital camera that can run MAME, and at least two plushies.


 * My home network has five access points (three BayStack 660 2mbps, one Proxim RangeLan 11mbps, and one Belkin 54g. Don't need that many, but hey, I get great coverage!;], 15+ networked devices at any time, including modified Series 1 TiVo (TiVoWeb is just great), TINI microcontroller (eventually interfaced to tickertape-style LED sign), Sega Dreamcast running Linux, Zaurus w/802.11b CF card, and two wireless NEC Stylistic tablet PCs running Linux.


 * I am a Disney-fanatic! (my grandma was a close childhood friend of Walt Disney's sister, performing plays together in her family barn)


 * I have a website devoted to my music!

My interests can be summarized as follows;

Amiga Animation Anime Anthropomorphic Anthropomorphics Assembly Language Atari Audiomonster Bach Bears Bunnies Bunny Rabbits C Cartoon Worship Character Animation Chick Corea Chris Hülsbeck Classical Music Comics Computer Animation Computer Graphics Computer Music Computer Science Csound Cubase Sx Cute Things Demoscene Digital Signal Processing Dimension Jazz Directx Disney Disneyland Distributed Rendering Don Dorsey Emax II Emulation Flash Mx Flying Monkey Orchestra Foxes Frank Gambale Fsf Furries Furry Furry Art Furs Further Confusion Geckos Glenn Gould Gsp2101 Guitar Guitar-playin' Bunnies Havoc Inc. Hayao Miyazaki Hopping Houdini Hp48 Ibanez Jaguars Jamba Juice Jan Hammer Jazz Jazz Fusion Jean-michel Jarre Jeff Kollman Jeff Minter Jem Jogeir Liljedahl Linux Lion King Lions Macromedia Flash Mars Lasar Martin Iveson Maya Mice Midi Mike Oldfield Miyazaki Mod Tracking Mononoke Hime Music That Doesn't Suck Nectarine Radio New England Digital New Style System Nguyen Le Nuon Old Synthesizers Open Source Openal OpenGL Openml Paganini Paul Van Dyk Photography Php Pixar Pixel Shaders Pointy Objects Ponpoko Programming Progressive Jazz Progressive Rock Rabbits Radiosity Rats Raytracing Reaktor Real-time Graphics Retro Art Retrocomputing Richard Jacques Rob Hubbard S2 Samplers Scott Henderson Shiny Things Silicon Valley Simulated Marble Simulated Wood Grain Skaven Slashdot Smalltalk Soft Drinks Softimage Soup Steve Vai Symphonic Rock Symphony X Synclavier Synthesizers Techno The Lion King Tigers Tribal Tech Undocumented Features Unrealistic Goals Vangelis Vertical Blanking Interrupts Vi Video Game Music Vivaldi Wardriving Watership Down Xbox Xbox Development XG XSI Yngwie J. Malmsteen