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Hello. My name is Dave, and I'm a programmer. (This is where you go, "Hiiiii, Daaaave.") Sit back, relax and put on some music if you like. In no particular order, here I am in a nutshell (where I belong): male, married, straight, human, husband, father, programmer, electronics engineer, thinker, tinkerer, inventor, speaker, writer, camper, comedian, magician and Type 5 personality on the Enneagram (INTP if you prefer the Keirsey temperament system). Whew! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Well, it's not vanity. It's self-defense. (I'm not defensive! I'm not!) These days you've got to have a home page to be cool. But do I care? No. I'm not cool, I'm just tired of people asking me where my web site is. And whattaya know, here you are reading it. So this is your chance to satisfy your curiosity about "that Goodman guy" without my even knowing. I was born at an early age. The event was so traumatic I didn't speak for over a year. People in Southern California during the late 50's didn't listen to newborns anyway. I must have suffered a terrible childhood, because I don't remember much of it. Or maybe it's just from growing up during the 60's. At a suitable age, I attended Chatsworth High School and Cal State University at Northridge, but I'm still not enlightened. After working in the public library during my education, I started servicing video games, then hard disk drives and finally entire computer systems. I had learned to program in high school (thank you, Mrs. Joyce Domike!), and found myself jumping back and forth between electronics design and software design. Once I got tired of having to order parts, I realized that perhaps software was better than hardware. Cheaper, too. I spent a number of years writing software for industrial automation, and then in 1990 joined a company that publishes games and educational software for the PC. I've been designing games ever since. I enjoy designing web pages. You can view some of the pages I've done for friends at Blaha's Burrow and Diane's Home Page. My mascot is the frog. You can tell which computer is mine by the rubber frog sitting on the keyboard. Frogs eat bugs, and programmers hate bugs. Get it? People mostly hold up the butterfly as the prime example of metamorphosis, but I prefer the frog, who moves from water to land, giving up gills and tail for lungs and feet. Frogs are cool looking. Ever see a butterfly up close? I read somewhere that the retina of a frog's eye has circuitry designed to spot bugs, and directly instruct the tongue where to strike. In other words, the frog is sitting there, maybe daydreaming of proposing pollywogs to his partner, when a dark, moving object that's the right size shows up on his retina. The retina says, "Bug at 2 o'clock!" and gives height and declination ballistics to the tongue, which lashes out and snares the hapless fly without the frog's brain having to slow down the process by even thinking about it. I can just see a frog sitting there in his reverie, suddenly blinking as it dawns on him, "Hey! I swallowed a fly! Cool!" Ribit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pictures? You want pictures? As if I'd open my wallet for the likes of YOU! Anyway, consider yourself spared. I do. How'd you like to be someplace with your family and another nerd who saw your web page points and yells "HI DAVE!" while waving frantically? Besides, graphics take too long for those of us with arthritic modems and overburdened providers. You'll have to make do with this thumbnail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PEOPLE: I like people who are funny, who let you know what they want but don't insist on it. I dislike people who are pushy or pushovers, and 95% of the attorneys I've met. FOOD: I like red meat, barbecue, fresh fruits and vegetables and exotic foods. T-bones, artichokes, pizza, matzoh brei and noodle kugel are high on my list. I dislike mayonnaise, liver, brussel sprouts and seafood. OTHER: I like exotic people and places, gadgets and driving fast. I dislike solicitors knocking on my door, junk mail, dishonesty, and most advertising. I like simple and elegant. Clean designs. I like mystery and challenge. I need adventure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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These ratings subject to change without notice. They've already changed. Did you notice? What? You say there were more than ten? So sue me! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yes, I watch television. I admit it. A lot of the time I just put it on to have some noise in the background while I read, write or program. Please don't hate me. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Okay, I can't be sure these are my 10 favorites, but they're close. Let's see YOUR list! And yes, there are 10 listings. It's in hexadecimal. So there! I sometimes use The Internet Movie DataBase to find out about a specific film. |
I also have a resume, pictures of people and places, a list of people I've known and a timeline of where I was living and going to school or work for each year that I've been alive. If you're a friend, family member or have a compelling reason, I can send you the file or web address on request. Wow. You made it to the end. Are we having fun yet? Thanks for coming. Can we just be friends? |
Copyright © 2004 David K. Goodman. All Rights Reserved. | |
Updated 8/1/2004 | |