[Vision2020] Poster Biographies --

[Paul Rumelhart]

I went to high school with Kris Wiese, don't know if they are related or 
not.  My memory of school is getting sketchier by the minute.

The name sounds familiar, though.

Paul

Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Did you go to high school here with Steve Wiese?
>
> Sunil
>
>
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>> 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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