I'm an independent software developer and a sustainability writer based in the delightful city of Ottawa, Ontario. I get to think for a living, which makes me happy.

Bio

B.Sc.: EE Northwestern U. Tech. Institute, 1976                

M.Eng.: Systems/Computer Engineering Carleton U., 1984

Ph.D.:  Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences U Wis Madison 1996

Postdocs: Argonne Lab department of Mathematics and Computer Science; University of Chicago department of Geophysical Sciences 

Intervening adventures: Manager of a web software team at Clotho Advanced Media LLC. Architect of an online citywide permit approval system for the City of Madison (since defunct). Management consultant. Author of a book on management intended for small teams and high-performance small businesses. A software gig at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

Things I do

• Edit Planet3.org and try to understand the future
• Python and Django contract work,
• Computing in general; Python and Javascript in particular. Increasingly interested in nuts and bolts of UX. Django.
  
• Software as medium and as topic in education. Literate programming and computer literacy.
• Cognition/Communication/Control/Modeling/Decision Theory (concepts formerly known as "cybernetics").
  
• Collaboration and productivity. 
• Random bicycling, random landscape photography, where possible at the same time.
• Music. Jazz, blues, Texas swing. Piano and clarinet are my instruments. I am not very good.

Interests

Other things I find especially interesting, more as a spectator: 

• History. Demographics, technology and environment as factors in history
• Architecture, planning and civil engineering
  
• Science fiction
  
• Decorative and fine arts, mostly European 1850 - 1935, also Japanese woodcuts and silver age Marvel comics
  
• Kubrick, The Coen Brothers, Steve Jobs, Tom Wolfe, the Naipaul Brothers, Alan Watts, Leonard Cohen, Samuel Delany, Philip K Dick, Bob Wills, Grapelli, Robert Hunter, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton ... 
  
• I listen to sunradio.com all the time. You probably should, too.