This site is run by Landon Dyer. I’ve been around on various networks since the late 1970s. I program computers for a living, and I often talk about that here. I would be programming computers anyway, and it’s astonishing and fantastic that people will actually pay me to write code. Wow.
Since I’ve been around a while, I occasionally write up stories that I think you’d find fun. I usually change the names to protect the guilty.
We have a son. I’ll refer to him from time to time, obliquely and not by name (despite protests to the contrary, anonymity on the net is hard to obtain, hard to maintain, and impossible to regain — and it would suck if you dad blew it when you were only a kid, right?)
We live in the Seattle area (I’ll bitch from time to time about the rain, but I truly think that it’s better than living in a desert like Silly Valley). Yes, I do work for a certain large software firm. I make no apologies, it’s fun (and it beats psychotic start-ups, which I’ll also probably rant about from time to time).
I also motorcycle, which you might think is incompatible with the rain, but it isn’t.
Here’s an article you will find interesting – surgeons are leveraging the Kinect for hands-free image selection and review while in surgery, to avoid having to scrub in / scrub out each time they want to see something.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/960393–surgeons-use-xbox-to-keep-hands-sterile-before-surgery?bn=1
I love your work with Atari, Donkey Kong rocks! I’m a collector of Atari 8-bit carts and hardware. Do you know if there is anyway to get “ahold” of any of those old Atari program managers or developers? I’ve foudn in my vast collection a cartridge in the early computer days 1979,80 for the project ‘Personal Finance’. The cartridge is Atari ready but was never released. I’ve found press releases and ads. I’d love to find the developers since it appears I need a disk that goes along with the cart to run. We’ve (AtariAge) been able to load at certain memory points to see menu, etc. A cool piece of history. Here’s the link if you can contribute (which would be much appreciated!): http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/194283-checkbook-cartridge-cxl8001