My Life in TLAs

I go to church at IBC. Bible translations which I have read in their entirety include JPS, KJV, and NIV.

I have two degrees from MIT. I have memberships with AAA, ACM, ADC, and NRA, and an Open Water Diver certification from SSI.

The airports I’ve visited the most are TPA, FLL, BOS, IAD, and DCA. I drive a 4WD 2006 FEH and usually get between 29 and 32 MPG.

I work for PTR at NRL, which is under ONR (part of DOD, of course). My computer is an LED-backlit MBP running OS X (pronounced “oh ess ten”, not “oh ess ex”; it’s the version after OS 9). I write software for its BSD layer and compile it with GCC. Other software I write against the JDK’s API, which I then compile with ANT and run in a JVM. Sometimes I run Scheme code with PLT or MIT/GNU. I have also worked on software to control robots from MHI and ASI.

I store files on AFS and money at BOA and ING. I communicate via AIM and my ATT cell phone. I spend far too much time browsing the WWW and reading RSS feeds. I listen to music in AAC format. I watch TV shows and movies on DVD. TNG and TOS are my favorite Star Treks. SG-1 is my favorite Stargate. TAS is my favorite Batman. My favorite comic book characters are the members of the JLA in the DCU.

I live in the USA.

I am JRH.

May I Please Have My Name Back, Now?

I think I was incredibly patient throughout this whole mess, but it’s really getting old. Nobody ever asked me for my permission to use MY NAME as a meaningless campaign slogan, but now that things are settling down and the inevitable disillusionment is growing, I want it back.

Here, I’ll even let you have another poster with my name on it, but this time it’ll actually make sense, because it will have my face on it:



I guarantee that the original photograph didn’t come from Reuters or AP; I just took it myself with my MacBook Pro’s built-in camera and Photo Booth (using the Comic Book filter). I then spent far too long trying to figure out the GIMP in order to put my name across the bottom (GIMP.app 2.6.0 definitely deserves the “experimental” warning; it has the usability of something from Redmond).

Anyway, it’s bad enough that the Smithsonian won’t give me my rock. Is it really too much to ask that I get to keep my own name?

I’m not being too audacious, am I?

A MacBook Pro Full of… Not Much, Yet

This is my first post using my spiffy new MacBook Pro. It's got a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 4 GB RAM, and a 200 GB hard drive - quite the improvement over my aging PowerBook G4 (800 MHz G4, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB disk) which I've had for almost 5.5 years.

Alas, I will no longer be able to run OS 9 applications (not that I did that very often). I will also miss having Univers Condensed Oblique keycaps. At least my command keys still have Apple logos on them.

Anyway, so far I've installed Emacs.app, Tunnelblick, and ext2fsx, as well as Ubuntu 7.10 on a 10 GB partition… and that's about it. Oh! And a texinfo version of SICP, complete with ASCII art figures.

For backing up with Time Machine, I got a 1 TB LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ (I liked the name). It came formatted as HFS+ and it lets me use my shiny new FireWire 800 port.

Hurray for new toys. :-)