Yup, that's me (on the left), and no, I didn't do this with Photoshop. It's a photo from the San Jose Mercury when Bill and Al visited Silicon Graphics a few years ago. In spite of the fact that I obviously impressed them greatly, I have not yet received an invitation to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom. But I still wait by the phone every day, hoping they'll call.
Thanks to the encouragement I gave him at this meeting, Al finally amounted to something and won an Emmy, an Oscar, and the Nobel Peace Prize.
That's me again (on the left). I don't even remember why he was there, but Stephen Hawking came to visit Silicon Graphics and I scammed an invitation to the meeting. Standing behind Hawking, from left to right are me, John Mashey, Dave Orton and Kurt Akeley.
I was a principal scientist at Silicon
Graphics. Now I'm retired,
so there's not much on this page having to do with computer graphics;
it concerns only my money losing interests.
There are some interesting documents from my career at SGI that are worth including. Two were world-famous for a short time, and are still worth reading.
Free dynamic geometry software for Windows or Mac: Geometer Software.
Trip report from a birding trip to Cuba in 2017
Trip report from a birding/photography trip to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island and Antarctica in 2017
Trip report about a couple of days of birding in Argentina in 2017
Trip report from a birding/photography trip to the Bahamas in 2016
Trip report from a birding/photography trip to Panama in 2015
Trip report from a birding/photography trip to Jamaica in 2014
Photos from Botswana
More bird photos from the Palo Alto Baylands
Photos and trip report from a trip to Thailand (in 2010).
Preliminary page with bird images taken on a recent trip to Brazil (in 2006).
Bird photos from a trip to Brazil in 2005.
Photos a trip to Belize and the Florida Everglades, 2005.
Bird images taken at the Palo Alto Baylands with a Nikon D2x.
Photos from Bodie, a
ghost town near the California/Nevada border, and from Mono Lake.
Backyard photos: Lesser
Goldfinch, House Finch, Hutton's Vireo, Dark-eyed Junco,
Ants tending Aphids
Egrets and Nightheron
at the Palo Alto Baylands
More Egrets and Nightherons
from the Palo Alto Baylands
Digital photos from the Palo Alto Baylands
Digital photos from Costa Rica (2003)
Digital photos from the Farallon Islands (2003)
Images from the Galápagos Islands (1994)
Images from the Galápagos Islands (1997)
Digital photos from the Palo Alto Baylands
Images from the Galápagos Islands (2001)
Florida, Trinidad and Tobago, 2004
Images from Costa Rica
Costa Rican Butterflies
My Favorite Photos
Here is some advice for beginning photographers. It's now better than half-baked; I'd say it's three-quarters baked, but still far from completely baked:
35mm Photography for Beginners
A cycling trip with Ciclismo Classico to Sardinia and Corsica in 2012
Birding trip to south Florida with lots of photos, 2009
Visit to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, 2005
Costa Rica, 1996
Costa Rica, 1997
Costa Rica, 1998
Costa Rica, 2000
Costa Rica, 2001
Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, 1998
Italy 2000 (language classes)
See: curriculum.pdf.
A number of people have found it to be useful; perhaps it will also be useful for you.
Here's a page with our Burning Man, 2002, art project: The Octavepus.
Here's a page with the Burning Man, 2003 art project: The Flickertron
Here are some photos
from Burning Man, 2003
and (with stories) from Burning Man, 2004
and (with stories) from Burning Man, 2005
and (with stories) from Burning Man, 2006
and (with stories) from Burning Man, 2007
The Burning Man Ultramarathon, 2010.
Snail mail:
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Cupertino, CA 95014