sub InTheBeginning{$time = 1972.03.25.23:06print "Hello world. WAAAAAAH!!!!! \s";} exit;
Okay, maybe not in PERL, but my current train of thought can't cope with anything else at the moment...
ANYWAY, this is supposed to be my bio page, so onward and forward:
From the Womb
First, I was born. My parents keep telling me that was my first mistake in life. Now you understand the confused look I always seem to have. Luckily, I was born in the best part of the world: Metropolitan Toronto, located in Ontario, Canada.
I went to XXXXXXX elementary school (marked out since Intel likes to use it for some security reasons) until grade 4 before moving to St. Catherines, 20 minutes from Niagara Falls. I then spent the best 3 years of my life as a child. I learned to jump into snow drifts, play Star Wars, and build TONS of LEGO spacecraft. I also went to Pine Grove Elementary School in my spare time.
California, Here I Come!
I came to the United States in the middle of sixth grade. I hated it. Both the sixth grade and the U.S. of A. We stayed at a relative's home in Hayward and moved quickly to our newly built house and present home in Martinez. Life went on as I went to Valley View Middle School, and College Park High School. I was also fortunate to take college classes including Calculus (ack!) at Diablo Valley College, right across from CPHS.
Go Aggies!
(Actually, UC Davis voted recently to change the school mascot to the COW, so Aggies are out of style now.)
Remarkably, I survived to the age of 18 and rushed out from the nest to UC Davis to start my college carreer.
I joined the Iota
Phi Chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega (APhiO), a national service organization in my second year where I spent more
that 90% of my non-studying, non-class time (ie. about 89% of the week). While everyone
else learned everything they needed to know in kindergarten, I learned my share in APhiO.
With APhiO consistantly staying over 200 members each year, almost all of my current
friends are somehow related to APhiO --a good thing, I think.
Anyway, somewhere in college I managed to GO to college. I majored in Civil Engineering and had a wonderful experience during a six-month co-op at the Contra Costa Central Sanitary District working on a trenchless pipe replacement project. The next summer, the City of Novato allowed me to see what city politics and red tape really means to someone who could really less than just getting the job done. Unfortunately, the Civil Engineering field was not doing so hot in California. I learned that Caltrans Civil Engineer median age dropped from ~53 to almost ~37 during my 4+ years at UCD indicating that their hiring spree that had started when I started college ended just about when I was finishing school. So now what?
Intel Inside™...
Crazy... I graduated with a Civil Engineering BS degree and now I work for Intel Corporation, the #1 chip manufacturer in the world.
I am employed as a software programmer engineering Distributed Systems Management
software. I am currently on a project team to deploy Tivoli's
TME10 Software Distribution product to distribute programs & files to 150+ servers
Commuting to Intel's Folsom site has allowed me to stay in Davis and do all the things a college student wanted to do but never had the money.