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Discovering My Cool Qotient

Dec 2007

Tried on the phrase "True dat" for the first and last time. Turns out I'm not cool enough.

Second Son

Dec 2005

Second son born. It is more than twice as hard by the way.

Escape From Alcatraz

Jul 2004

First swim from Alcatraz; very cold. "I was in the pool!"

Fatherhood, what did I just do?

Apr 2004

Sean, world. World, Sean.

Look Into My Eyes

Jun 2002

Tricked Kerry into marrying me. Heh heh.

TK born in an Apartment

Apr 2002

Started Tacit Knowledge out of Scott's kitchen in San Francisco apartment. Scott is not a cleanly man.

Learning Business Rule #1

2000

Web boom ends. It would appear that successful businesses require a method to make money. Duly noted.

Getting Paid... Organically

Nov 1998

Took a fulltime developer job at Organic. This web boom is never going to end, I can feel it.

What? I can work, instead of surf?

Sep 1998

Leave Hawaii for San Francisco. Someone told me there were some programming jobs there.

Get Your Applets, Fresh, Ripe Applets!

Jul 1997

Finished programming my first real-world Java applet. Surely the future of Java is in applets.

CD-ROMs Rule!

Aug 1996

Took job back in Hawaii for a company writing CD-ROM training software: employee #26 This CD-ROM thing is going to be huge, I can feel it.

Graduation Day

Jun 1996

Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from CU Boulder, wasn't sure what was next.

I was Googling before Google

May 1996

Completed 3-D terrain rendering application in C++, dreams of Google Earth-like mobile application to help expeditions.

Did it smell like this on Close Encounters?

Jun 1995

Climbed Devil's Tower. Spent an hour hanging in a harness 300 feet up, trying to free stuck rope on the rappel down. Climbing partner hanging next to me has serious B.O.

Goodbye Island, Hello World

1990

Graduated from Iolani High School and left Hawaii for the great big world.

Surf's Up!

1988

Surfed the most beautiful wave in my life. Large local man acknowledges moment with hooting and hand pumping. I am happy.

Power Up

1987

Started modifying computer games to give characters super powers - really could have used a girlfriend

My Programming Career Begins

1982

Started programming in Visual Basic on my parent's IBM AT - you kids have it easy these days with all of your hard drive space. Imagine 256K.

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