Right now, I'm looking for a job, consulting or long term. Please consider looking at my resume.
Former graduate student and staff member of the Computer Graphics Group of the Caltech Computer Science at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Recently, I had been graphics group staff, working part-time on my physically based modelling work, part time helping with other research, and part time doing system administration. Unfortunately, the graphics lab suffered a funding crisis, so my funding was lost.
I am available for consulting. Email me for info. or look at my resume. In a nutshell, I can do graphics, coding (C, C++, Java, LISP, Perl, FORTRAN, PostScript, whatever...), simulation, numerics, and system administration. I prefer unix, although I don't mind cross-developing. I don't do windows (unless very well paid). I might do hardware and/or configuration if asked. I fix cars, houses, and locks, too.
Formerly (1985-1989 90 91 92 93) a Caltech Undergrad ( in
Blacker House(see also gdbg)
and a social Rudd),
hence I have a pointer to
Caltech UGCS and
Alumni(ae).
I was a TA for CS174 for several years.
I tend to go to the SIGGRAPH
conference every year.
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monty on host foggy on :0 --- last activity 668 days 12 hours ago
as of Thu Aug 28 17:38:54 PDT 2008
If you want to find my house (what are you, a stalker or something?), use your favorite mapping site(s) for directions: google maps or MapQuest or Yahoo Maps
I'm also on some assorted blogging and social/business networking sites- I'm interested in adding people I actually know to my connections/ friends lists at most of these, but not random strangers: orkut is where I put the most effort into collecting a bunch of friends, livejournal is where I participate the most since I have a lot of friends that post there, but most of my stuff is either random or personal, friendster I see as similar to orkut, but for a while was so slow it was unusable... it seems to have gotten better, but I haven't bothered to set it up or use it much, I made a myspace account because it's the hip and trendy place, but I have no idea if I'll do much with it, since most of my friends aren't hip enough, or whatever, to be there, I have a frappr map account because there were a couple of opportunities to add myself to groups there, and because the Caltech Alumni Association pushes linkedin for business networking, I have an account there. Oh, and as a Cephalapod nut, I'm a frequent participant over at TONMO.
[ASIDES: If you are looking for the other "Monty" who is a Caltech undergrad type, you want fowlkes@ugcs.caltech.edu to mail him, or http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~fowlkes to see his web page.
Also, there is another "Mark M" in Al Barr's group now: Mark Meyer, who he can be reached by email at mmeyers@gg.caltech.edu.]
I occasionally do work for my dad's consulting company. In particular, I helped him put his book online.
I also have my own consulting vision, Gnowhow.
Before Caltech, I went to Menlo-Atherton High School which has a reasonable alumni page for 1985 and for M-A in general. There is also a very sparse commercial Alumni Registry I found on the web some time ago, but which may have some addresses the newer official one doesn't. There's another commercial one here but it costs money to actually look at the profiles, so my "free login" just lets me see that there are around 20 people from M-A 85 signed up. I suggest using the offical, free site I mentioned first (I get a lot of junk email and junk US mail by people pretending to be affiliated with M-A who are really just giant AlumniCorp registries trying to get people to give them money.) Robin King (nee Glick) seems to have taken the initiative as the class records-keeper, so she's probably the best person to contact if you found my web page looking to track down M-A 85 folks (not sure if she'd want me to put her contact info, but I bet you can find her in google or at the alumni page above).
I was born on 10/2/67, and grew up in Menlo Park, California.
I also went to Camp Tohkomeupog in New Hampshire when I was a kid, and would recommend it for anyone looking for a boys' camp. My parents also have a house in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, so I've spent some time there as well.
And, for something completely different, I spent several months at The Findhorn Foundation in 1992, working on the Building Program.
I also have occasionally done development for XFree86, but I haven't really done much more than beta testing and small bug fixes, and not lately.
Dussin sits, grabbing his hair in both fists and pulling it, like in the cartoons. The next day, without mentioning any names, I will tell a student that before coming to Caltech I had never actually seen anyone pull at his hair in frustration. Her reply will be: " Pete Dussin!"The same guy also wrote a book called Complete and Utter Failure. I have not read this, but I hope I'm not quite as prominent in it. I hope Pete's not, either.
And that reminds me of another geeky thing from the 70s: Quark!
You should take a CPR course, and probably Standard or Advanced First Aid, and maybe the Basic Rescue and Water Safety courses (and some swimming would be good too...). There are some online CPR manuals at fitnessconcepts.com, There is a chart available at the university of utah, too. the University of Washington has an online course, too. There is also an australian site with a good EMT first aid manual, but I don't know if it meets US legal standards (although I have no reason to believe it's medically inferior). It bugs me that the American Red Cross, the american medical association, FEMA, and the American Heart Association don't seem to have these resources available; I think that any amount of obscurity in this is killing people, so it's almost negligent for the ostensibly non-profit groups that publish "at cost" manuals not to also have the information freely available on-line.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology, a must for fans of the deadpan surreal. The place is real, and it is every bit as, uh, whatever, as their web page.
Common Lisp The Language 2nd Edition ( and its mirrors) / Weather via Telnet / Return-Receipt-To:, an obscure but useful mail header / SSH (the Secure Shell) It's better than The Club® ...USE IT! /
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My namesake appears to have a more minimal philosophy on Web pages, but it's been spruced up a bit since I chose it as an example.
Incidentally, this page is not particularly "netscape/ie enhanced." I have some mixed feelings about netscape enhancements, e.g. I hate pages that have chosen colors that give me a headache, and anyway I'm annoyed at Netscape for not supporting math typesetting, and for being so subject to software bloat. Also, I think that Netscape is a little too close to a monopoly, kinda like Microsoft, so I would recommend considering alternate browsers, not that I know of a browser that isn't annoying in some way or other, but Netscape's got as many flaws as most. There's a lot to be said for lynx, although it doesn't do tables very well; there is links for that, but it's harder to navigate. But, you should feel free to use any browser you want, thus:
I also hate frames, blinking text, gratuitous animated gifs,
backgrounds that make the text hard to read, pages that depend on the
size of your browser window (resize your window... this page won't
look
stupid
any more stupid than before), images that take too long to load even
at full ethernet speeds, pages that like to split off a new browser
without my permission, servers that send cookies all over the place
for no reason (like Apache in "send a cookie for every friggin image"
mode, or does it always do that?), and imagemaps with no text/ALT
version, and I despise that horrible scrollit
javascript applet. I'm not a big fan of any case of "wait an extra 30
seconds just to see our company logo spin around" uses of
Java/javascript/...
Now, in the modern world of XML and friends, I'm still annoyed, particularly since the syntax is still crummy, the automatic generators are still awful, and there's still no standard way to make a comment that contains tags. Bleh.
My philosophy is also that badwidth is "costly" in human user time, and therefore sending even small images should be minimized. I think I picked up this attitude from my old 14.4 modem (yes, I have moved up to a real connection now), but I tend to get annoyed at the slow net even at work, where I have T3 or better to the real world. Anyway, the lack of neat-o-vision colors, big or gratuitous images (like these 20 icons per page sites), and confusing backgrounds that make it hard to read the text is purely intentional.
Speaking of the terrorists, I believe, from my observations, that Osama Bin Laden doesn't care in the least about Islam; I think he gets sadistic pleasure about having a bunch of weak-willed stooges who he can convince to commit murder and suicide just because he says so. Religious rhetoric is merely a tool to him for to manipulate and control his followers, and his use of it is both hypocrisy and blasphemy of the worst sort.
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