About Me
I've been programming since I taught myself ATARI Basic on a (then) brand-new
ATARI 400. You know the one: it had a painful, membrane keyboard. I've
also programmed HP48/49 calculators, UNIX boxen, Mac databases, and was once Feyd-Rautha
on DuneMUSH (the first one, with cameos on those that followed). I can't
stand Java, and was a big fan of Python until C# came along.
I've developed a taste for science fiction and fantasy (concom for MosCon --
Moscow, ID), Pink
Floyd, astronomy (BS Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, 1996),
motorcycling and music (I play the euphonium, though I'm now a decade out of
practice). I also hold a SCUBA license, and was once training to be a private
pilot (an excellent way to skip out on an unfortunate thermodynamics class).
I joined Microsoft at the beginning of 2006, after spending time working at various
startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. My first two years were spent in the
depths of LINQ to SQL, and now that .NET 3.5 is released, I'm working on technologies
related to Silverlight.
In 2007, my partner and I purchased a nice home on somewhat over an acre in the countryside
north of Redmond, and planted a hot tub and small herb garden in the yard.