[Vision2020] Poster Biographies --
Sunil Ramalingam
sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 27 07:00:48 PDT 2007
Paul,
Did you go to high school here with Steve Wiese?
Sunil
>From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
>To: Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Poster Biographies --
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:56:44 -0700
>
>Good idea, and I hope it catches on...
>
>I am a member of the UI staff, I work in HR (please, no hate mail about
>our benefits and whatnot - I'm just a programmer). I take care of the
>HR and Payroll modules of our administrative system. I panic when there
>is a problem with the payroll, and work on other projects when I'm not
>doing that. Luckily, problems with the payroll don't arise that often.
>
>I grew up here in Moscow (I actually moved here when I was five). I
>went through public school here and then ended up graduating from the U
>of I in Math and CS, after a couple of years at Annapolis. I'm a
>computer geek, I spend much of my time programming either at work or at
>home on my own projects. I'm interested in helping out with a few open
>source projects as well. I'm continually juggling programming projects
>at home. Currently, I'm working on a program that will (hopefully)
>learn to play the game of go well, a stocks program, and a "reverse"
>ray-tracer. Plus a few odds-and-ends type of projects here and there.
>I also spend a lot of time playing around with my linux boxes, which is
>where I do all my programming.
>
>I'm also interested in japanese, both as a language and a culture. I
>watch a lot of japanese-language movies, sometimes with no subtitles,
>and even understand a phrase here and there. I also listen to japanese
>music, and find that I can actually stomach their pop scene. Maybe
>because I can't understand most of it. Even though I'm over 40, I still
>enjoy playing video games - I just can't fit them in very often.
>Occasionally, I get outside and find that I don't catch fire when under
>the bright sun. Somehow, I need to work in some more vacation time so I
>can do my favorite thing in the world, which is to sit at a picnic table
>by a river or a lake in the shade and play solitaire until I'm bored
>silly, then just lie down and watch the clouds go by. That, or play a
>really intense game of Quake at a LAN party.
>
>Paul
>
>Andreas Schou wrote:
> > I know what a lot of you do -- philosophy professors, downtown
> > business owners, electricians, teachers -- but not everyone, and not
> > exactly what. So, out of possibly misplaced curiosity, I was thinking
> > of starting a thread for people to tell the Viz who they are and
> > what, exactly, it is that they do.
> >
> > I was also hoping to go ten minutes without a flame war. Don't know
> > that that's going to happen.
> >
> > -- ACS
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