My Mug:
If you want, you can e-mail me at john@glyphic.com.
Here's a small picture gallery.
Last changed: June 28, 2012
My Interests:
Raising kids
Gay square dancing,
with the El Camino Reelers
Cycling
The Spirex screen saver.
Context Free
graphics language and image generator.My Story:
The most important thing in my life is my husband Mark Lentczner. I live in a co-op house called Ozone with Mark, my son Kyle, and my friend Martha. Mark and I were married on May 3, 1997.
I was born on April 1st, 1967 and grew up in San Diego, California. There I learned programming before I learned long division, which is appropriate since I work for Intel. I also went to Samuel Gompers Secondary School, class of 1985. When I went to Gompers it was nerd heaven, but now it has been hit by the No Child Left Behind hammer. I have no idea what happened since I left.
I spent seven years getting both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley before deciding that what I really wanted to do was logic design, computer engineering and computer architecture. So I left with the master's degree and went to work at Intel. I left Intel in 2005 to be a stay-at-home dad and Mark went to work at Linden Lab working on the virtual world Second Life.
Mark and I have been trying to adopt for years. Our previous fost-adopt child, Cory, didn't get to stay with us. But now we have a cute little boy named Kyle who we adopted in October of 2002. Five years later we adopted his sister, Kimberly.
My Trivia:
Latest Movie: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Latest Book: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Car: Mitsubishi iMiev (all electric)
Second Life Avatars: BamBam Sachertorte and Flambe Birdbrain
Sexual Orientation: Queer
Magazines: Scientific American (I'm not a staff writer for SciAm, you're thinking of John Horgan), Science News, Harper's, I.D., The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Funny Times
Web Zines: The Onion, Salon.com, Reddit, Slashdot
Love of My Life: Mark Lentczner
Computer: MacBook Pro
ISP: Raw Bandwidth Communications
Favorite Musician: Björk