Will

I have been around since the founding, am interested in the intersection of technology and creativity and make and repair software for a living.

Prime Directives:

• Have Fun
  • Play is as important as work
  • Not everything has to have a higher purpose
• Embrace Kaizen
  • Always be improving your skills
  • Always be documenting
  • Leave things cleaner and more organized than when you started

Current Obsessions

This category is really exciting my need to inventory and is destined to grow more branches and leaves

• Coffee
• Science Fiction (SF, not Sci Fi, dammit!)
  • Phil Dick
  • Cyberpunk from way back
    • William Gibson
    • Bruce Sterling
    • Rudy Rucker
    • Neal Stephenson
    • Blade Runner
  • Existential Horror
    • Lovecraft
    • Peter Watts
    • Alien
  • New Space Opera
    • Alestair Reynolds
  • More SF to come…
• Music, Sound, and Noise
  • Keyboards and Synthesizers
  • Noise
    • Means
      • Devices, pedals, and gadgets
      • Electroacoustic/digital hybrids like the Emitters
      • Computer generated with Max/MSP, Pure Data
    • Venues
      • Live improvised performance - what I generally do
      • Recording - not so much
  • Singing - I kill
• Automata
• Complexity
• Worst Case Scenarios
• Best Case Scenarios
• Bicycles
• Making
• Science
• Space Travel
• Worst Case Scenarios
• Best Case Scenarios
• Far out theories

Skills and Infrastructure

• Computing
  • OSes
    • Mac OS X - currently Mavericks, on desktops
      • Launchbar - launching apps from the keyboard
      • Total Terminal - was Visor, an always available command line
      • Total Finder - like a Visor for graphical file browsing
      • Divvy - keyboard based window paning
      • HomeBrew - compiling and installing open source software
      • Keyboard Fu - not software, wetware
    • Linux - servers
    • Windows - Windows XP and 7, resisting windows 8, use for games or when forced to
  • Hardware
    • Mac Hardware - Specialize in used - haven't bought new in a while
      • Mac Pros - the classic aluminum expandable tower form factor, not the closed "trash can"
        • Mac Pro 1.1
        • Mac Pro 4.1
      • Desktops
    • Quicksilver - retired
    • Blue and White - retired
    • Mini - destined to be repurposes as a low power home server
      • Laptops
        • Late 2011 Macbook Pro 8.3 - current
        • Mid 2009 - deceased
        • Pismo - deceased
    • PC hardware
      • Ancient P5 ATX tower - retired
      • Boot camp on Mac Pro 1.1
      • Boot camp on Mac Laptop (need to migrate)

• Programming
  • Languages Used - in order of current usage level
    • Javascript - starting to get very serious about this one
    • Perl
    • SQL
    • Max/MSP, Pure Data - visual, not semantic programming useful for video and sound
    • Arduino / Processing - ramping these up for the wearable electronics
    • Java - can't believe I used to love it
    • Bash
    • C Shell
    • Ruby
    • Objective C
    • C
    • C++
    • Pascal
    • Basic
  • Languages of interest - slated for future acquisition
    • Functional Languages like Haskell
    • Python

• CAD
  • 3D Studio Max - long, long ago
  • Tinkercad - my first 3D printing project
  • OpenSCAD - Next several projects
  • Fusion 360 - Learning
  • Autocad - Learning

Projects

This I intend to flesh out and make the major feature of my page with statuses, sound, video, etc.

• Smart Bicycle Jacket
• Emitters
• 2nd Generation Emitters
• Programmable effects box
• Hubbub