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Portland, Oregon 97219 503-246-3563 mailto:ward@c2.com http://c2.com/~ward Purdue. I spent a decade at Purdue. I got my licence as a freshman and did my first operating from the club. I remember the club leaders of the era, guys like... * JohnSoloman * VicOhm * JanDietzien * DickEvans * DaveBunte Years later I felt the club had languished and it was now my turn to make things happen... * ClubPresident * NewsletterNightAtArnies * SundayPizzaBowling * MorseCodeTeachingMachine * SuperDuper Operating. I dropped out of ham radio when I took a job in the research labs a Tektronix. It was really the club that had held my interest, not ham radio. I've kept my ticket renewed all these years, and my life membership keeps the QST comming every month. So the last few years finds me operating a 50 watt Ten Tec Scout on 40 cw now and then, talking to nobody in particular. Morse Code. I finally learned the code well enough to copy in my head. That makes it a lot more fun. To hone my skill I set the rig up by my bed so I could work a few qsos in the dark when I woke up in the middle of the night. I had to quit though. I fell asleep in the middle of a qso a couple times. I also got too much flack from my wife, Karen. (That's above and beyond the call...my radio room is just off the master bedroom! -- TomDoligalski) Working. I spent 10 yrs at Tektronix. I started doing uP based prototypes, got into IC cad, did some chip design, then got hooked on object-oriented programming. I've been working with Smalltalk (developed at Xerox Parc in the '70s) ever since. I worked for a small company for almost four years where I developed a bond trading application in Smalltalk. Since then I've been consulting to big companies (often banks or insurance companies, some more interesting) that are using Smalltalk. I work a week or two a month which is enough to keep me going. The rest of the time I just putter in my office. I consider myself a self-funded academic. My specialty is objects. I've also helped create a movement that goes by the unusual name Pattern Languages of Programs. We hold conferences and have several books out. (See http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/patterns/patterns.html) An Odd Thing. I had a car wreck a few years ago. I was knocked out but managed to shoot a few photos anyway. I scanned them recently and put together one of my better pages: http://c2.com/~ward/wreck/. Family. I have two boys, age 8 and 11. The older, Patrick, has the engineering mind. I remember when he was four I found him with the toilet cover off, explaining how it worked to his one year old brother. The younger, Christopher, is the artist. He has always had an ear for music and responds to it. I come from a family of two brother who never got along so getting along is something my boys work on a lot. For example, I often ask one to do the other's chore, like running a left-out item of clothing to the hamper. Scouting. The boys are both into scouts. Karen is the scout mom, I just tag along. The scouts have some great facilities out here, beach property, mountain property, sea scouts with big ships, lots of cool stuff that the scouts use. For example, they maintain a ranch with about fifty horses. They summer high on Mount Hood and winter in a sheltered valley fifty miles away. Well, each spring and fall they get fifty volunteer scouts to ride the horses between the ranches. It takes a week going up, a few days less comming down. It's on our list of must-dos. Adventure. I'm much less of a plan ahead parent. My idea of fun is what we've come to call "adventure". On a moments notice we'll head into the city (for example) just to see what's happening. Adventure means that we don't know what we'll be doing, or even if it will be fun. Our adventures have turned into fountain walks, park concerts, indian rights protests (we just watched) and light-rail tours. We had one adventure where my car was towed. It seems that I had parked in a place reserved for squad cars. We got to meet the nice lady in the police station (which whas right there -- how convenient) who sent us by bus to the impound lot on the other side of town, where we met a german traveler trying to figure out the bus schedule, who was still waiting for the bus after we got our car back, so we drove her to her destination, which was youth hostel and we got to hear a lot of travel stories on the way. Yea, that was a good adventure. You know, If I hadn't been a dad, and hadn't had my kids along for company, I probably wouldn't have liked having my car towed at all. That's why I like being a dad. |
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My boys are now 16 and 19. The younger has just returned from 10 days of backpacking at PhilmontScoutRanch which has me thinking of JohnSolman. |
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My boys are now 16 and 19. The younger has just returned from 10 days of backpacking at PhilmontScoutRanch which has me thinking of JohnSolman. |
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My boys are now 16 and 19. The younger has just returned from 10 days of backpacking at PhilmontScoutRanch which has me thinking of JohnSolman, who wore the same red wool jacket with the Philmont bull emblem. http://www.boyscoutstore.com/store/ProdImages/b41n09664s.jpg My boys are both in their 20s now and out of the house. Karen and I get to pay more attention to ourselves and each other. Sweet. I've been hanging out at DorkbotPDX which is a little like a ham radio club but without the radio. * http://c2.com/cybords/wiki.cgi?DorkbotPdx |
