
t...@dreamersrealm.net
I am a Principal Software Engineer at EBSCO Publishing in the Search Services Group, where I head up the multilingual search efforts.
Some of my publications and presentations are available online.
I'm a member of the ACM and the ACL.
Some of my interests include, in no particular order:
- Spending time with my wife, kids, and dog
- Reading (history, foreign fiction, biography, sci-fi, fantasy)
- Studying (human) languages, living and dead (Old Norse and Middle Egyptian right now.)
- Photography (primarily medium format, but am dabling in large format and still use 35mm.) I have not jumped on the digital bandwagon, though once in a while I'll use my wife's digital camera.
- Listening to music in a variety of styles, from beboop to hip-hop, death metal to jpop.
- Programming language design and implementation. After spending almost six years professionally working on programming languages at Symantec and Thinking Machines, I've recovered enough to dabble again.
- Playing World of Warcraft. Here's a case where game meets reality. My primary character is a resto Druid in the guild Carnival of Fail on the Scarlet Crusade.
Here are some links to things of no interest to anyone:
- My Blog
- My Facebook page
- Python for Linguistics Programming
- My del.icio.us bookmarks
- My LinkedIn Profile
Some projects I'm working on in my spare time:
- Playing with Clojure, a Lisp-1 targeting the Java Virtual Machine. This has replaced Python as my primary prototyping language.
- A Mac OS X native (as opposed to X Windows) version of Berkeley Logo.
If you want to communicate with me securely, here is my GPG public key. The finger print is:
5819 1940 26C1 C384 F7E6 478E 611E B7AD 0030 3DBF
Some random quotes that tickle my fancy:
- Really, if Common Lisp wants to be “serious”, it can sit in the corner looking all conservative and shit while Clojure gets all the pussy. Blue Phil, in a comment on Common Lisp, Clojure, and seriousness.
- Perl is the Ron Jeremy of programming languages. A poster on Reddit.
Oh yeah, I'm a Vermonter, and proud of it.
Here's what I'm listening to: