{"id":111,"date":"2016-07-15T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T01:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:26:43","slug":"senior-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?page_id=111","title":{"rendered":"HS Reunion Senior Page<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":" \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t\n
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Prologue, Prelude<\/h1>\n

Looking back, around and ahead<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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A reunion, as with any milestone, provides an opportunity to reflect on where you’ve been, who you are, and what’s next. My family, spirituality, kites, arts and sciences, athletics and worklife. Certainly there are other facets to my life, but these groupings provide a skeleton to help make a coherent whole out of wildly disparate pieces. The seeds of who I am now are in the person I was when I left U.S. The same might be said of now 40 years from now (I’ll likely be dead, but this site may live on, at least in archive.org). We’ll see….<\/p>\n

I can see the embryo of my current self-conception in what I was thinking and reading in high school. It has certainly matured a lot since that time, but I think I was pointed in the right direction-college was definitely formative, as a lot of intense stuff happened and I uncovered some interesting new directions for my fevered brain to wander-especially Steiner and Crowley. My arts and athletics interests are very close to what they were then, though I discovered a few new things in college and beyond, notably gamelan, ambient, and avant-garde music. Kites are certainly new, particularly the quadline variety, as are inline skates. Martial arts I wish I had started earlier (I tried Judo in grade school, but no go). My interest in architecture has narrowed to Chris Alexander, but I still like theoretical physics and cosmology.<\/p>\n

After high school I went to Miami University and partied like a rock star, which was pretty much what everyone I knew did then! The summer after I left Miami I traveled all over Europe, then got a job in London with an investment firm. I set up their network and computers, helped write an investment management app, did charts and analysis. I had a great time wandering all over London and environs, drinking too much, hanging out at pubs and going to shows, but it was a really low-paying job. I did get a ski trip to Kitzbuhel and a flight to New York out of it. I was there for a year and a half, then went to work for the parent bank in Grand Cayman. A big pay hike. More big fun-I dove some, partied all over the place, went on fun skiing vacations, got a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, started doing t’ai chi. I set up their network, wrote some financial apps and ran a $40M venture capital fund. I was there 3 years-I left when the projects were done and I began to hear stories about myself from people who weren’t there.<\/p>\n

I left Grand Cayman for L.A. in ’89 because my parents became empty-nesters and moved there in ’86. I got a job after 6 months, moved to West L.A., lost that job, got another, bought a condo in Long Beach, lost that job, had a series of contracting and consulting gigs. I lived in Long Beach for 10 years, drove all over L.A., partied a lot, skied some, hung out at a recording studio, saw a ton of shows, got a bunch of music and recording gear. I started flying kites competitively at the beach there and skated and biked all over downtown Long Beach. I took occasional trips to NoCal, and one-offs to Hawaii, New York, Seattle, Colorado, and D.C.<\/p>\n

In ’98 I got married and had 3 kids over the next 10 years. I sold my condo just as the real estate boom took off and we moved to Orange County. During that time I worked for Quest Software for almost 9 years. I got laid off in ’08, moved to Portland, OR working for Hollywood Entertainment until they went under in ’10. At the end of ’15 I got laid off from Huron Consulting after 5 years coding a Java webapp for managing research grant effort certifications. I did a short contract for Hitachi Consulting with Nintendo, then a long one for Daimler Trucks working on an aftermarket parts webapp and a cab\/hood quoting\/ordering system. I’m currently working for Cambia doing Java apps for AWS-they converted me from a contract. The pandemic hasn’t really affected us much, other than me working from home fulltime. I bought a house in Sep. ’22, in the same general area.<\/p>\n

I’m playing in a gamelan and raising children. I’m sort of working on an inner development program and reading a lot, running, working out and doing t’ai chi 3 times a week. I’m working to stay in good shape, and try to practice my guitar, shakuhachi, and keyboard, but as always, time is lacking. Here’s a fairly recent picture:<\/p>\n

\"Me\"
Mathias’ 21st-January 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For a more comprehensive look at me, here’s my own website<\/a>. I’ve had a blog<\/a> since 1996, updated at whim. Plus also faceBook<\/a>, twitter<\/a> and linkedIn<\/a>. I think I’ll update this page every so often, too. (Last update: October, 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In any case, a snapshot\u2192This is The Time, and This is The Record of The Time\u2190<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Friends and family<\/h1>\n
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I gathered up a family between ’98 and ’07-a lovely wife and 3 great kids.<\/p>\n

\"Family<\/p>\n

\"Slideshow<\/p>\n

Before that I was quite single. I dated on and off, a pretty wide variety-an eccentric crazy lady, a born-again Christian, an 18 year-old (when I was 35), and a 45 year old (when I was 30). I’ve had a lot of different friends over the years. Hung out at many, many bars. A recording studio. A lot of music, drugs, booze (nothing hard, and rarely to excess-well, sort of). Skating, skiing, kiteflying.<\/p>\n

Things have changed a lot since then. With kids, everything is very different. I have to focus on them and on keeping things super stable. I don’t have many friends right now-work and kids, school and church, gamelan. faceBook helps me to stay in touch and connect with people from my past and present.<\/p>\n

\"Erika\"<\/p>\n

My wife Erika is a great wife and an excellent mom, involved with her faith community. She grew up in Long Beach and was a preschool teacher for a long time. She also did Renaissance Faire and worked as a “wench” in a ren faire-themed magic show. We met at a gay bar in Long Beach in ’97, and got close quickly. She moved in with me 6 months later after her car got stolen and someone broke into her apartment. We got married in November ’98 in her best friend’s backyard. She never wants to leave the Portland area. She wants to get a degree from Seminary. She has lots of tattoos and grew her hair out during the time of ‘rona. She’s worked at a local athletic club for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

\"Matt\"<\/p>\n

Mathias was born in ’99. He’s 25, went to a Waldorf<\/a> grade school, graduated from Clackamas Middle College<\/a>, attended Clackamas Community College<\/a> to finish up his Associates, now going to Portland State<\/a>. He’s turning into a fine young man, interested, thoughtful, loves to cook, but not to eat a lot of different things. Middle school was a challenge for him, high school was way better, and college seems to agree with him too. He swears like a sailor, likes playing video games, is a moderator on one site, and does freelance writing. He’s studying meteorological forensics, and is working on his Masters in disaster preparedness\/community resilience, and maybe a PhD. He worked at a local arcade for a while, and is now a parking enforcement worker at PSU.<\/p>\n

\"Claire\"
\nClaire was born in 2001-Erika had an emergency C-section and tore a uterine artery-thankfully in recovery. She went to Waldorf grade school-had a hard time. She graduated from New Urban<\/a> in 2019-he loves music, reading manga, 4chan, and playing video games. She has an extremely quick wit and is very funny, but low-key. She turned into a anarcho-capitalist, to the horror of the rest of the family, but I think that’s over. I got her a bass and stuff Xmas ’15, she has actually started playing it a little-she just got a cheap guitar too, is playing it some, and I got her a digital recorder for Christmas. She’s interested in journalism and library stuff, took a gap and tried starting back to PCC-school just isn’t their thing. She worked at Walmart stocking, then did cashier at Burlington, spent a couple of years at Victoria’s Secret at the mall, and is now at a secondhand clothes store on Hawthorne. She has an eclectic fashion sense-sort of goth\/Japanese. She’s getting piercings and tattoos, and wears makeup and funky hair. She moved out June ’21, and moved back in a year later-there’s a ton of drama that’s not my story to tell. She goes to a lot of shows.<\/p>\n

\"Salem\"<\/p>\n

Salem is the youngest of our family-they were born in ’07, a month early. They’re really an awesome person-Waldorf kid, loves youTube videos, Minecraft and chatting with their friends-spends a lot of time online. They’re a Junior in MAA<\/a> at Milwaukie High School, after spending grade school at Micha-El School<\/a>. For a while they did little weather segments and sent them to a local weatherperson-they got on TV for it Spring of ’16. We love them-they’re the best looking of us all. Adolescence has been fun-figuring out who they are has been a struggle and conflicts are part of it, but they settled into high school pretty well. They’re making a pretty big impact in the theater community at school. They worked at the Red White and Blue for a while. They want to go to Reed College.<\/p>\n

They’re all great kids-smart in different ways and mostly well-behaved (though they really don’t like to listen to their parents). We’re a loving family, but we’re not permissive.<\/p>\n

Our parents are mostly gone-my dad died September 2021, my mom’s pretty much OK-better now without the stress of looking after Dad through his dementia, Erika’s mom died Summer 2011, her dad died Memorial Day 2007.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

We moved to Portland, OR in ’08 from Laguna Beach in ’05 from Lake Forest in ’03 from Long Beach-I sold my condo for twice what I paid for it and cleared my debt. It went back up, and is now slowly getting cleared again. I work from home, and live close to school. We moved from a house to an apartment July ’11 to a larger apartment July ’17. I bought a house September of ’22, for more than I could really afford, plus rising interest rates didn’t help either. It’ll be fine, it’s a nice house with room for all of us, and some gardening area, but not quite enough storage. It needs some work, but isn’t that how it always is?<\/p>\n

I’m liberal, far left, progressive, socialist\/marxist, Green<\/a>, and believe in radical environmentalism. We are altering our only home beyond its range to support large numbers of people in the current socioeconomic mode, and we are beginning to pay for this-our kids will pay way more-their kids…it’s gonna be bad. The planet-the planet will be fine-it’s big, and has weathered lots over several billion years-we’re just a blip. I feel that the state has an obligation to the least among us, and that the most privileged have an obligation to more than give back as well. I believe that war is absolutely wrong, as is the death penalty, and any other kind of violence. I worked for the ACLU<\/a> for a while, and feel strongly about its mission. I despair the current state of politics-the endless exploitation, dissembling, fear mongering, pandering, corruption, and hypocrisy. I feel the same way about the corporate state and pop culture. I believe in a concept called the Threefold Social Order<\/a>. We all have an obligation to develop our inner selves to the furthest extent-I’m working towards a program to help do this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Spirituality and religion<\/h1>\n
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This a key topic in my life. Spirituality is a never-ending journey, especially for open-minded people who think, want to learn, and who question things. The things that I think and believe now are rooted in what I discovered early on, and have evolved significantly over the years. I did (and still do) a lot of reading, in a lot of different areas. Essentially, I’m an Anthroposophist<\/a>, with strands of Buddhism<\/a> (Tibetan<\/a> mostly), Golden Dawn<\/a>, Hinduism<\/a> and Taoism<\/a> shot though, plus a lot of fairy dust from all the other stuff I’ve read, experienced and absorbed.<\/p>\n

I read Castaneda<\/a>, Grof<\/a> and Kafka<\/a> in 7th and 8th grade, and my grandmother gave me a copy of Ouspensky’s 4th way<\/a> when I was 11 or so. I started doing palmistry and casting horoscopes around this time too, my mom had a Rider-Waite deck<\/a> lying around, and we went to TM<\/a>. As a high schooler, I read 2150 A.D.<\/a> and The Ultimate Frontier<\/a>. I was also part of a pretty liberal teen group at church, and the explorer post I was in had some people who were into this stuff too.<\/p>\n

I took an Eastern religions class in college, and discovered Crowley<\/a> and Steiner<\/a> (I found these 2 books in the library-Book of Thoth<\/a> and Knowledge of Higher Worlds<\/a> respectively). These two were extremely influential into my next directions, though I really couldn’t delve deeply into Steiner at that young age (it was good enough to know it was there, I guess). In England, I got into the Golden Dawn<\/a> and started moving back to original source material-the Tao Te Ching<\/a>, Bardo Thodol<\/a>, Bhagavad-Gita<\/a>, Dhammapada<\/a> and I Ching<\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n

I’ve read the Bible and the Koran as well, but for me they don’t have the impact of the Eastern material-I do like Rumi<\/a>, though, and some of the Gnostic Gospels<\/a>. Steiner is much more Bible oriented, and I agree in some part with what he says-that it’s a deeply esoteric document with everything hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen the Mevlevi Sufis<\/a> twice, and resonate well with the Sufi Sema ritual. After I moved to L.A., I had a close friend who was into this too, and we explored some of the GD stuff together.
\nI also dated a girl who went to a ton of churches, and I tagged along with her some. I also did the Catholic thing with her for awhile-I played guitar with the local church, and learned some esoteric stuff about the Catholic Mass. Did some work for the high school too. I left because I was too intense. Erika is a Wiccan priestess, so I’ve done some work there as well.<\/p>\n

We’re currently looking for a new church, after having attended Long Beach UU<\/a>, Laguna Beach<\/a>, Tapestry<\/a>, Atkinson Memorial<\/a>, Kairos UCC<\/a>, and Clackamas UCC<\/a> churches. I taught 7th-8th grade RE in ’09\/’10 at Atkinson, and occasionally t’ai chi. I played bass and drums some at Kairos, and was the Building and Grounds chair at Laguna. Erika is more of a Christian than was OK at the UU churches-I’m an Anthroposophist, so that makes me a Christian, but way out on the wild side…so I guess we fit in better in the UCC. Some other strands of my beliefs come from Gurdjieff<\/a>, Ram Dass<\/a>-mostly Be Here Now<\/a>-I saw him lecture in Long Beach in the ’90’s, and Richard Bach<\/a>-most notably Illusions<\/a> and Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/a> (read it when I was a kid).<\/p>\n

One of the things that I find very important is the unity in diversity of all things, and their interrelatedness. Also crucial is tolerance of and compassion for others. Reducing our attachment to things and emotions and increasing our aid and understanding of others is also important. The proper perspective on things needs to be developed.<\/p>\n

I subscribe to concepts such as the 4 elements and directions<\/a>, the angelic hierarchies<\/a>, the Enochian<\/a> aethyrs<\/a>, and to the Cabalistic Tree of Life<\/a> as important representations and realms to be studied and visited. I’m also interested in the Tarot<\/a> as a compact form of spiritual knowledge, the chakra system<\/a> as a good way of representing human energy fields, and Castaneda’s idea of assemblage points<\/a> and perception.<\/p>\n

We all have an obligation to develop our inner (and outer) selves to their furthest extent. Karma is real, reincarnation is real, the spiritual domains and our thoughts are real, and more real than we can possibly know while we’re here in the material world. We are surrounded by non-physical reality and non-physical beings and we ourselves consist of multiple interpenetrating selves that exist in different non-physical realms as well as the material one we commonly think of as “reality”. Christ is the chief of our solar family, and has merged with the etheric field of the Earth to become the Dharma King and keep our etheric bodies anchored. (a summary<\/a> of this.) I used to dream about being visited by aliens about once a month, or about odd astral travel things, or seeing symbols flying everywhere, even after I woke up. I think this has to do with being contacted by higher beings or some kind of preparatory thing, but as yet I haven’t made enough contact to know for sure.<\/p>\n

One of the most powerful and disturbing facets of my spiritual life has centered around the use of psychedelics<\/a>. For some reason, they acted as a catalyst to bring out in me the psychic abilities that all of us possess but may not use or even know about. Basically it acts as a “filter remover”, letting in all manner of stuff-some good, some bad. I did have some ability before these experiences (mostly with the beginning stages of OOBE), but much, much more after. There have been several incidents, five of which quickly come to mind: a Rush concert where I had the sensation of an angel coming towards me, a party at college where I was communicating psychically, a visit to the earth elemental realm, a call to TEX<\/a>-a window opened, there was a crowd of figures, and a voice said, “You’re the first one”, and a hike in the Santa Monica mountains where a friend and I heard the “fanfare of the deities”<\/a>-he was able to reproduce the sound, and what he reproduced was exactly what I had heard, even though we didn’t talk about it at the time. I view this last incident in particular as evidence of the existence of non-physical reality, as it was a shared experience, rather than something that happened me alone. I could be wrong, of course, and all of this could be complete delusion-who knows? I certainly don’t. I’m slowly trying to work towards these abilities without the use of drugs-Ram Dass rightly says, “psychedelics are like a business call-once you get the information, you hang up the phone, if you’re smart.” I haven’t been very smart, I guess. I have good ability at perceiving things, but I think I may be barred from OOBE and astral travel this time around. Still, I work on it, because the work is more important than the destination.<\/p>\n

I took the Bodhisattva Vow a long time ago. This means that you will forego enlightenment until all beings have attained it. This is something that you keep taking every time around\u2026 Here’s a long, intense version of it.<\/a> Thinking it through, this may change its focus as you progress-from personal to impersonal, large groups. Also, here’s the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer<\/a>. Dr. Steiner says some interesting things about how the Lord’s<\/a> Prayer<\/a> is a summary of everything that we need to know-coming down, going back up.<\/p>\n

During the ’90’s I had several revelations. These are outlined in my essays<\/a>. In short, evolution also applies to spirituality, and the process is explicable by science-energy can be raised and used, and non-physical reality is similar to ours, just at higher vibrational rates that we can’t currently perceive, but are able to with training and time. You can represent spiritual progress and ideas and other things using intersecting multidimensional areas and asymptotes. We are lenses and fine-tuned antennas for spiritual activity-we just have to gain access to it. These revelations continue, but at a slower pace-the one about lenses came in ’05\/’06. I had one in the woods Fall of ’10 about stages of development and dipoles. And one April ’18 about the relationship between chakras and elements. More lately, about representing things more simply and what to do next.<\/p>\n

I work on this stuff when I can. One day I’ll get beyond the First Knowledge Lecture<\/a>\u2026I figure I’m a zelator\/practicus. For awhile I was doing the LBRP<\/a> daily to protect my kids’ room. I’m pretty happy with my chakra work, meditation and pranayama, but I’d like to spend more time with T’ai Chi-I’ve made it back to the long form, I taught Mathias the 24, then we learned the 108 in early 2019-doing it 3 times a week, working on balance, breathing, and chi circulation. I blazed through the Steiner material, and this is much more aligned towards coming up with something that will work and be useful for more people. I think I know where to go with this. I think I’m pretty good at absorbing even the fringiest of this stuff without becoming unbalanced-in a lot of ways, you have to be super grounded and settled to be able to navigate this without deranging yourself.<\/p>\n

I have very little patience for dogmatic faith-we need to be spiritual scientists-researching, forming hypotheses and testing our perceptions-they are so very subtle and quiet. I enjoy offending my wife with blasphemous statements.<\/p>\n

We celebrate the Wiccan sabbats<\/a> when we can. We are active in our church. We share our faith with our children. We have several altars in our home (mostly Marian-Erika’s thing-I do have a small Buddhist one next to my bed).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I have a wide range of artistic interests, mostly out of the mainstream. I’m dividing these into words, sounds and images, though I’m putting science and the humanities in here as well.<\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of the written word. I was an early reader, and early into the adult books as well. I read Kafka<\/a> in 7th grade, fer chrissake! I still read a lot, now mostly non-fiction and some science fiction. My favorite novels run in the cyberpunk genre-Gibson<\/a>, Rucker<\/a>, Stephenson<\/a>, Brunner<\/a>, Sterling<\/a>, and I love Dune<\/a>, Stranger in a Strange Land<\/a>, plus also Harlan Ellison<\/a>, P.K. Dick<\/a> and J.G. Ballard<\/a>, as well as the usual suspects-Lord of the Rings<\/a>, Ursula LeGuin<\/a>, etc\u2026 I’d like to write, but don’t have the time to explore that\u2026<\/p>\n

My musical interests have evolved significantly over the years. From pop to metal to prog to dance to hiphop back to metal to alternative to electronica, on the mainstream side-but I don’t have a whole lot of interest in mainstream music anymore, except for the stuff I already like and new stuff I find from time to time-Claire is out there as well\u2026 Beginning in ’84, I began to explore non-western and avant garde musics while taking a class in electronic music. Javanese and Balinese gamelan<\/a> in particular, ambient, Philip Glass<\/a>, Wendy Carlos<\/a>, Brian Eno<\/a>, Robert Fripp’s soundscapes<\/a>, Laurie Anderson<\/a>-these are a few of the things and artists I’m interested in-I’ve seen Glass and Anderson several times, Ravi Shankar<\/a>, the Mevlevi Dervishes<\/a>, the aborigines, etc.-I was a big subscriber to UCLA Live<\/a>. I also like North Indian classical music, natural sounds, noise, Peter Gabriel’s<\/a> soundtrack work.<\/p>\n

I play guitar\/bass and didgeridu. I played in the UCLA Balinese gamelan<\/a> for 4 years, and I’ve been in Venerable Showers of Beauty<\/a> (videos<\/a>) at Lewis and Clark College since ’09, mostly balungan-esp. slenthem<\/a>, though I switch over to gong and kempul, kenong, depending (we returned from a 3 year hiatus November of ’22). I’m starting to learn suling, and I need to broaden out with the other instruments-I’m starting on bonang too. We used to play all over Portland-less now, but we did a gig at the state pen October ’24. I can make useful sounds on keyboard, saxophone, sitar, recorder, drums\/tabla, shakuhachi, suling. I’d like to get better at the violin and piano (the Korg has beautiful piano sounds) and learn the trumpet. I used to have a pro-level rig with a Mesa 50-50<\/a> amp, a Chapman stick<\/a> and an Ampeg SVT-50<\/a> cabinet, but I got rid of all that and have a smaller rig with a ’71\/’72 Gibson SG<\/a>, a ’52 Fender Deluxe Tweed<\/a> amp, a Pod HD-400<\/a>, and a wireless (I did keep the Stick-wanna buy it? also a Zoom 9150, tabla, yamaha midi keyboard). I used to have an 8-track digital recorder, FM synth, sampler, reverb, a MIDI keyboard, electronic drum pad, drum machine and a handheld sequencer, but I got rid of all that and got a Korg Kronos<\/a> (I kept the drum pad and handheld sequencer). I also got a shakuhachi<\/a>-I borrowed one several years ago, and now I have my own-I can make fairly decent sounds with it. I played bass and drums with the church choir at Kairos for awhile-I got compliments, and it was fun to actually use those skills a little.<\/p>\n

I worked part-time in a recording studio for a while during the mid-90’s and did sound for the Laguna Beach church, as well as the Laguna Community Concert Band<\/a>. I have musical ideas, but no time to work on them. I set everything up and recorded a piece for a film I did on the 2004 Seal Beach Kite Festival<\/a>. More ideas have come, but again, no time. I set up the studio in the garage and then the family room of the house we rented-everything is on the computer and I’ve tracked one thing. I had to pack it all away when we moved and got rid of some stuff. I got a new (to me) handheld sequencer (Yamaha QY-100<\/a>) and did a piece to learn it. I picked up a Pod<\/a> on eBay and a more advanced one on Facebook-it has everything I need for guitar and a mic pre as well. I’m contemplating getting a Helix instead-seems to have better modeling tech…but spendy. I play around on iPhone music apps from time to time, and want to do more computer music stuff, but…same old story. Here’s a thing I did a few years ago on the iPhone-beTTa real<\/a>. The Korg is much more versatile, but not portable…I also got a Gecho<\/a> and an Orba<\/a>, but don’t use them much. I did put together a piece on the Kronos for a kite video I did for work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I like fine art, especially impressionism<\/a> and 20th century abstraction<\/a> (fine graffiti<\/a> too). I have an ex who’s an artist<\/a>, and I like her stuff. I appreciate dance, classical music and theater, but don’t really like but a small sliver of it. I like odd non plot driven films-Baraka & Samsara<\/a>, Koyyanisqatsi<\/a> and the like, though I do like 2001<\/a>, Blade Runner<\/a>, the first Matrix<\/a>, Pulp Fiction<\/a>, Fifth Element<\/a>, Brazil<\/a>, Blue Velvet<\/a>, and Dune<\/a>. Cool World<\/a> is a guilty pleasure, as is Road House<\/a>. I watch too much TV, and I like animation-I’d loooove to work for Pixar!<\/a>-got an in? Claire has gotten into manga, and I’ve followed her a little-I read Akira<\/a> and Fullmetal Alchemist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve always been interested in math and science. I wanted to be an engineer, then an astronaut. I clearly remember the Apollo 11 mission<\/a>-did a scrapbook for it. I read Synergetics<\/a> in high school\/college, and saw Fuller<\/a> give a lecture just before he died. I was into Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a> for awhile, until I found out that his buildings leaked. I still like architecture and urban design. I also read a lot of Toffler<\/a> and Sagan<\/a> when I was young. Now I’m into particle<\/a> and theoretical physics<\/a> and cosmology<\/a>-the smallest and biggest scales in the universe. I also like set theory<\/a>, infinity<\/a> (see White Light<\/a>), topology<\/a> and some of biophysics<\/a> and evolutionary theory<\/a>. Lately I’ve been getting into sociology and behaviorism. I have some theories about how to represent personality traits and societal traits using multi-dimensional grouping and statistics. I read a lot about this kind of stuff too-Wikipedia is a really good resource.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When I got back from Grand Cayman, I picked up a cheap wooden dual-line kite from Costco. I was living in Brentwood, and would drive down Sunset Boulevard to the beach at Pacific Palisades to fly it. It was fun, but the kite wasn’t really controllable and fell apart easily. A few years later I discovered a kite shop at the Redondo Beach pier (Sunshine Kites<\/a>) and bought some nicer kites. These flew better, and I would go down to Belmont Shore and fly them every so often. I wasn’t very good.<\/p>\n

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That completely changed in ’96 when I picked up a Revolution<\/a> at the kite shop at the Huntington Beach pier (Kite Connection<\/a>-thanks, Dave!). I had often driven past there to\/from work, and seen these kites in the air. For me, this was not just a Revolution, but a revelation. The Rev is a quadline kite-2 lines at the top and 2 at the bottom on each side connect the kite to a handle in each hand. Compared to a dual-line kite, there’s basically no comparison. The extra set of lines and the shape of the kite enable you to control the speed and position of the kite with astonishing precision. Without too much effort, you can make it stop, hover, reverse, go sideways and spin. Here’s an example from me messing around<\/a>, and John Baressi’s Bugs Bunny routine from 2017 Marseille Kite Festival<\/a>. That fall was the American Kiteflyers Association<\/a> Convention in Santa Monica. I went, and was seriously hooked. I would fly all day on weekends, after work, and sometimes I would take off work and fly during the day too. With all that time flying, I got pretty good pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

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I started competing in ’97. In ’98 I came in 7th in the conference, and in ’99 I came in 3rd in the conference with 2 firsts, a 2nd and a 3rd. I went to Nationals in Muncie, flew a flawless routine and won. In 2000, I moved up to Masters class, competing against multiple national champions and legends in the sport. Daunting. I placed 4th in the conference in ’00, 3rd in ’01, 5th in ’02. By this time I had 2 kids to take care of, so my time at the beach became less and less. I was also trying to craft a new ballet routine, and went through several pieces of music, including Gentle Giant, a cut from the Ice Age soundtrack and an edit of a gamelan inspired piece by Wendy Carlos that got me a press mention at the Berkeley Kite Festival in ’02.<\/p>\n

At that time, for various reasons (mostly infighting within the group of people running the events), competitive flying in Southern California stopped entirely, and I haven’t competed since. All I do now is (rarely) fly indoors, and I want to get on skates and do it\u2026I tried, and it’s an interesting concept. They’re renovating the elementary school around the corner, and it has a gym-I may be able to do more indoor stuff!<\/p>\n

Here’s a kite video I did for work<\/a>…<\/p>\n

I used to have a large power kite called a Nasa Parawing 5<\/a>. I messed up my hip, so I sold it to a friend. I was starting to kite surf. This is a hella exciting sport. I’ve been in several TV spots, one for the Weather Channel. I’ve written several articles for online kite websites.<\/p>\n

Kiteflying is one of those activities that everyone has done, but only when you get involved do you find that there are many, many different facets to it. From the bitty ones that kids fly, to huge show kites flown by the likes of Dave Gomberg<\/a> and Peter Lynn<\/a>, to sport kites, to power kiting, to kite aerial photography, to sky art, to (now) power generators and sailing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I’ve always been a relatively active person, though for a while there not as much as I should. Getting older, kids, and just being busy restricted my involvement in sporting activities. I have always been a skier and a tennis player. I found a picture of me at 3 1\/2 on skis. That’s almost 60 years\u2026<\/p>\n

I’ve also played tennis for as long as I can remember. I remember taking lessons at our racquet club<\/a> in grade school. I was a pretty bad competitor when I was young, though, as I’m a total hyper-perfectionist. I played soccer and racquetball at U.S., and started lifting weights there too, which continued up ’til ’96 or so. When I was in Grand Cayman, I did aerobics to get into shape (after a year and a half of debauchery in London), played a little tennis, then got into Tae Kwon Do<\/a>. I got a black belt, and started T’ai Chi<\/a> around that time too.<\/p>\n

When I came to L.A., I got a pair of Rollerblades<\/a>. My parents lived near a fake lake, and I skated around that a lot. When I moved to West L.A., I skated up and down the bike path from Pacific Palisades to Venice all the time. I started playing golf in ’93, took some lessons, and used to play about once a year or so. I started playing roller hockey in ’94 or so, then stopped because I was getting injured. I skated a lot in downtown Long Beach, and to the gym and back. I completely stopped all of this in ’97 or so.<\/p>\n

In ’04 I took a T’ai Chi class<\/a> at Saddleback College<\/a>, and Pilates<\/a> in ’05. I really like Pilates-it’s quick, and you can get fit quick. There were small gyms at our complexes, and 2 pools, but I didn’t really use them (I tried to, but Erika whined at me about it\u2026)<\/p>\n

I messed up my back in ’89 when I was doing Tae Kwon Do, and it hasn’t been the same, though now it doesn’t bother me unless I tweak it. In ’09 I started back at it a little-T’ai Chi, jump rope and a quickie workout. I was walking to and from the train and work, had a standup desk and ball and did bitty exercises too. Now my oldest has started working out, and since Sep. ’17 I’ve been going to the gym 3 times a week. I’m running for the cardio, my strength and flexibility is improving, I’m losing weight, flattening my belly, and getting fit again. Go me! I also take the stairs at work. We’re also doing t’ai chi-the long version<\/a>-he picked it up right quick, and we finish off our workout with it. Since we moved I’ve been going to Planet Fitness because it’s cheap, and running from there to Milwaukie High School track and back when it’s nice. I’m getting up to a pretty decent pace, and can easily run a 5k.<\/p>\n

I still like skiing-I was going maybe once a year, and it kills me because I’m never in good enough shape to ski the way I’d like to or know I can. Plus I end up sore for 3 days afterwards. I went in ’04 with work people-the head of the company took a few of us up to Mammoth in the Gulfstream they owned a part of. I took Matt and Salem up New Years Day ’17, and they picked it up right quick-it’s SO expensive, though, and I only got one run in by myself-though it was fun bouncing down the slope. Now that I’ve improved my shape, I want to go more.<\/p>\n

I like tennis too, but don’t get to play-used the tennis courts where we lived maybe 5 times. I want to play more as the kids get older\u2026 I’ve played a few times over the years-again, not enough to really fulfill my potential. I started up with a fellow player from gamelan for a bit, and my skills are there, but not consistency. I’ve also played racquetball on and off.<\/p>\n

I really like martial arts-especially T’ai Chi. I worked hard to get my black belt in Tae Kwon-Do, and kept it up for a few years. For the longest time I was trying to learn the long Yang form, but I learned the Chinese national one-the Yang 24 form<\/a>. T’ai Chi is really good for you, and you can get a good workout as well. I taught the 7th graders at school, and I tried it at church with the 7th-8th grade youth and adults\u2026 I started back on the long Yang form in ’09, got less than a third through, and stopped again. Mathias and I committed to learning it all Jan ’19, and it took us 3 months. I’m doing it now 3 times a week post-workout-I’m back to decent form, and doing the breathing and chi circulation.<\/p>\n

I lifted weights (strictly Nautilus) from ’79 to ’97, but it really didn’t do anything for me except toning and strength-I’m just not the right body type for bulkiness. I also started taking aerobics when I was in Grand Cayman-a quick way to get into shape. I tried to get a teaching certificate, but quit during certification when they rejected me-“little control of lengthy limbs”. Thirty years later and I still remember it… I really like Pilates. The exercises are as challenging as you want to make them, and I like the precision. I have 2 quickie workouts too, but no time to do them. I’ve started back at weightlifting, but it’s not Nautilus, so it’s not the same. I’m using the workout cards I made, so I’m getting some of it, but it’s not the same, and you really need a helper on Negative days. I’ve switched to Darden’s new thing: 30-10-30<\/a>. Strength training is important, as is cardio and flexibility. I’m running twice a week-nonstop and intervals, on the road and the gym, and alternating all the rest of the cardio at the gym. I can run a 5k pretty easily now for my workout.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed skating a lot-a great way to get around and in shape. It was also fun skating down the bike path to Venice Beach. Hockey was even more fun-another great way to get in shape and good skill building too. I played in a parking structure by Redondo Pier with people from work. I destroyed several pairs of skates, got hurt a few times, and everyone lost interest after the company we were working for moved back east. I skated all over downtown Long Beach, and up the river a ways too. I used to skate to the bar, but I got a bike and that was more efficient. The kids have skates now, so I may skate a bit more as they’re learning and after. There’s a roller rink<\/a> close by here in Portland, and I tuned my skates up and have gone every so often with the kids. Salem got a nice pair, and they picked it up right quickly-they were going to roller derby once a week for a while, and may pick it up again.<\/p>\n

I also have some definite ideas about our bodies, and physical, emotional and mental fitness. Check out the essays<\/a> for detailed info. Essentially I give regimens for diet, workouts and yoga routines. You need to have a fit body. A good diet, exercise and a stable mental and emotional base are critical to a happy life and inner development. You need to have balanced food, strength, cardio, flexibility and skill, mental and emotional balance, control and resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I work with computers. Been doing it since ’84, and in school before that-I remember doing punched tape in 7th grade in Orange to a mini at U.S. (’74ish). Bounced around a lot, doing almost anything you can do with computers. I even worked on a mainframe for a bit. My early work life was helping my Dad out grading CPCU tests, caddying, working at a copper tubing factory, and as a summer\/part-time helper at an insurance company-copying, filing, reception, etc. Some of the girls there had crushes on me, I think… I also helped my Dad out at work fixing up Lotus spreadsheets for risk management stuff. This was in ’82\/’83-the dawn of personal computing in business.<\/p>\n

I originally wanted to be an architect, and I would’ve liked that a lot, especially after I discovered Christopher Alexander<\/a>. More on that later. I couldn’t get in anywhere, so I went to Miami of Ohio<\/a> and got a degree in Systems Analysis<\/a>. Almost all of the work was on mainframes, and I never completed a project. Once I got out of school, I started working on PCs.<\/p>\n

My first job was in London, this investment manager from Lazard Brothers was starting a new investment company for a bank-bonds and currency-I helped set up a LAN, their customer database, the accounting system, and pretty much everything else that was computer related. I also did charting and financial analysis. After two years, I moved to Grand Cayman to work for the parent<\/a>, and wrote more software, set up a bigger LAN and databases, and supported more people. All the programming was in Turbo Pascal<\/a> and Btrieve<\/a>. The LAN was pretty fragile because I didn’t know what I was doing… I ended up running a $40M venture capital fund-doing the books, transferring money around, preparing financial statements, etc.<\/p>\n

After I got back to L.A., it took me 6 months to find a job. I spent all the money I saved in Grand Cayman in the process. I even went up to San Francisco-not a thing, even with networking-the closest I got was with the Trust for Public Land<\/a>-I just didn’t have the experience…I should’ve used a contact I had at Sun. I finally picked up a job at Mann Theaters<\/a> doing support for the communication system used to send box office back to the mainframe. I also did some other support and wrote a little Paradox<\/a> program for a user, which got me let go after 6 months (though they never said so). I got a trip to Colorado out of it, and free concert tickets (Rush!), plus running all over L.A. visiting theaters. For years afterwards, I didn’t see movies, just because of the smell of stale popcorn. It was cool hanging out at the Chinese Theater<\/a> after hours, with all the ghosts there.<\/p>\n

It only took me a month to find another job working for a tiny consulting firm<\/a> in Long Beach. I jumped all over SoCal, writing Paradox programs, doing LANs and support and training and Word macros. I got fired from that job after three years because I was too friendly with a few of the clients and made too many mistakes.<\/p>\n

Again, it only took me a month to get a job, this time on a contract with J&J<\/a> doing maintenance programming in Pascal. After a few years they moved the office back East and I remoted for awhile-I got a free trip to D.C. and one to New Jersey out of it… I also started doing consulting-firmware for a RPC airship flight controller here, Macintosh maintenance there, joystick firmware, LAN setups, support, setting up X-terminals, anything for a buck. I finally took a longer-term consulting gig with the ACLU of Southern California<\/a>, doing support and odd computer jobs. I worked for a software company in Newport Beach on an oil delivery system then telecommuted to Baltimore. I finally picked up another Pascal maintenance contract that changed into a C++ project doing hotel interfaces to\/from the main database (in Clarion) and remote hardware (think POS, phones, etc.). I came up with a really cool general-purpose way of defining the communications, all as a Windows service. I learned a lot, and got an interview with the Microsoft kernel team out of it, after I reported a flaw in the way TAPI worked.<\/p>\n

My next job was at Quest Software<\/a> in ’99, doing Delphi<\/a> for Space Manager<\/a>. It was pre-IPO, and I got some cheap options that paid for 2 cars when the stock went skyhigh. I finished the rewrite, and went to Shareplex<\/a> doing the monitor. That project got cancelled, and I started running the UI Studio. I had 2 designers working for me, and we did all the UI, graphics, reviews, standards, accessibility, etc. for the database division. I found out late in the game that they made WAY more money than I did… We moved to new offices in November ’05. In March ’08, I got laid off for cost cutting reasons, along with a bunch of other people.<\/p>\n

It took me a month and a half to find a job, so I got an offer the week after I left Quest. It was with Hollywood Video<\/a> doing logistics-Delphi\/Oracle maintenance programming for the distribution center, just after they came out of the first bankruptcy. It was pretty routine, fix this, change that-very formal processes-SOX and all that. I gathered a few more responsibilities, started working on a source code migration project, then end of life for one of the POS systems. Then the company went under. It took me a few months to find a job, and I worked at Huron Consulting<\/a> for five years doing Java<\/a> programming for the Higher Education group on a web based program for managing grant certifications<\/a>, then they lost a big client and laid off 3 people here in Portland-more cost cutting. I also did some UI design, which I really like doing.<\/p>\n

It took me a long time to find work this time-things are much more siloed and specialized than before, and I’m no spring chicken. After 5 months I got a 3 month contract to hire for Hitachi Consulting-working for Nintendo doing first PHP then Java programming for their third party developer program. I was picking up everything really fast, and they seemed to like the work I do. I decided not to go fulltime, as everything was a chaotic mess, so I got another contract for Daimler Trucks<\/a> on a major revision to their aftermarket parts application-it was all Java and Dojo<\/a> on Websphere<\/a>. I did another project doing aftermarket cab\/hood quote\/ordering with jQuery<\/a> and Bootstrap<\/a> too-it won several DTNA awards… Again, I picked it up really quickly. I left there June ’19, and started another contract with Cambia Health Solutions<\/a> in August ’19-more Java, and AWS<\/a>\/Spring Boot<\/a>-some web services, lambda, batch, etc. They brought me in full-time March of ’21 because they have rules about contracts. It’s a good place to work, and I’ve been at home ever since the pandemic started. We’re supporting several business units, wrote a big application to automate appeals intake processing. I got a promotion March ’24, and will probably end up splitting off to lead the non-appeals side of our group.<\/p>\n

I’ve also done freelance stuff, mostly programming and graphic design\/website stuff. I tried to do a thing with Illustrator that didn’t work out, I got a bitty one doing maintenance programming that I had to fight to get paid for. I’ve had three successful gigs-one long term doing web UI design for a defense contractor, a short one for a charity, and a website for a Dr’s office. I also maintained the school website, and I had 2 other bitty gigs, plus one more up here. I picked up another Java one, but it proved impossible given my time. I also did UI design for a startup doing grocery messaging stuff. I’m always looking for offsite, offhours graphic design, web and programming work. Here’s my resume<\/a> if you want something done or know somebody who does. Thanks!<\/p>\n

I like doing graphic design and artwork more than programming, though lately Java and Eclipse have changed my mind some. I was involved in usability and layout at Quest, as well as more mundane graphic artwork stuff. I’m passionate about usability, and user orientation, and interaction design. Computers are pretty much ubiquitous, and it’s crucial that they be easy to use. Mobile has raised an entire new paradigm for user interaction and computer usage, and it’s crucial to get it right-the grocery messaging designs really brought that to me. Cloud changes things on the back-end a lot too, and the whole node.js<\/a> thing.<\/p>\n

I try to keep up on the state of things, though, and am familiar with Linux<\/a> and Java<\/a>, xhtml\/css\/xsl\/ajax\/Javascript, Eclipse<\/a>, perl<\/a>\/python<\/a>\/php<\/a>, MySQL<\/a>. I used to use Macs all the time. I’m a huge fan of open-source-I used to use Ubuntu<\/a> Linux exclusively at home, and GIMP<\/a> for graphics. I like new programming paradigms, like extreme programming<\/a>, agile, object orientation, test driven stuff. I also need to pick up the bleeding edge stuff to stay relevant-noSQL, node, angular, react, etc. I got a Raspberry Pi<\/a> and that was my primary web host, with WordPress<\/a> and Eclipse Che<\/a> installed (though it’s much easier to use the x10host WP). I’m contemplating moving towards using mobile devices exclusively…tablets and Docker<\/a>, everything running on the web.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to patterns<\/a>. I heard about Christopher Alexander and pattern languages<\/a> in the early 90’s from the Whole Earth Review<\/a>. I promptly got the book<\/a>, read it through, and followed to the rest of Alexander’s work. This stuff is truly groundbreaking. Essentially a pattern is something fundamental, a concept that encapsulates a singular idea about how things are put together. Alexander developed it in the context of architecture and urban design. His premise is that there are a bunch of unitary concepts that can be used to develop houses, towns, and cities in a coherent, meaningful, and timeless manner. There are 3 levels of detail, and the patterns are interlocking and interrelated in a complex web. This concept can be applied to programming, and perhaps everything. The programming folks have recently jumped on this without really understanding the ideas behind it. The patterns they create tend to be fragmentary, disorganized, and lack the unity and overarching timelessness of the original work. This all came out in 1977, so I didn’t know about it when I was thinking about getting into architecture-too new and radical-“the New Urbanism<\/a>“. Alas, not to be. Alexander moved on to generative sequences<\/a> and centers, and wrote a magnum opus<\/em> called The Nature of Order<\/a>. I read them all in early ’16, and they’re really good-identifying and enhancing centers, creating life, and the indwelling of spirit in material things are the core, which makes this work about philosophical and spiritual topics in addition to being about architecture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Well, that’s it, you got to the end! I hope this gives a better understanding of who I am. It necessarily has to be somewhat of a summary, if only for space and time constraints. As I said 25, no, 44 years ago, I wish I had room for everything. I don’t, so a sketch is given instead. This one is much more detailed than that one was, if only because I’m older, more articulate, have more to say, more to recount, and don’t have the limitations of the printed page (or Mabian editors!).<\/p>\n

Of course, the future is indeterminate. I have kids, so unless something catastrophic or miraculous happens, I’ll be working and playing gamelan, the kids will be going to school, we’ll be involved in church activities, I may or may not be writing or playing the stuff I have in my head. Hopefully I’ll be exercising and doing t’ai chi.<\/p>\n

I originally wrote something here about how scary the Bush administration was, and how I was afraid of how bad things could go. It didn\u2019t, then Obama got elected, and the economy cratered. During Obama’s term, I was less afraid than I was during Bush-the conservatives suffered the same paranoia that the Left had during the Bush years. Then Trump as a backlash against Obama, and that was an insane chaotic mess. Then the pandemic, and Biden as a return to sanity. And now Project 2525, and all that. Funny how that goes…back and forth seems to be the norm now.<\/p>\n

But I’m still afraid-we live in a country where the gap between the haves and the have-nots is enormous, and growing. This is a recipe for trouble, and if you add endless war, a finance-based economy that works just for the rich, intractable politics that work just for the rich, illiteracy, extremism, and a culture of diversion, division, and distraction that works just for the rich, it really doesn’t bode well for us. Not to mention climate change, peak oil, the sixth extinction (dead bees, anyone?), and heavy weather, we’re so completely screwed, and it’s not far off-can you say ostriches and sand?<\/p>\n

I just have a hard time thinking that we can return to a normal, but you never know-maybe there’s a new normal just around the corner, though it could be that collapse and disorder is what’s around the corner. David Korten<\/a> has a theory about the cyclical seasonality of civilization, and that we’re in the middle of “Winter”, where things are going to change radically after a period of conflict that will redefine society, and that there will be some sort of collapse\/disorder, but rebuilding afterwards-like the 30’s-50’s. Who knows? But get ready for some “fun”…<\/p>\n

As a white male with skills, I can find work overseas as easily as I can here…and here I’m a citizen and white and male and “Christian” and not on the firing line, though Niemoller’s words<\/a> still ring true.<\/p>\n

In any case, thanks for getting this far. I enjoy doing these things, but never know how they’re received. Drop me a line<\/a> if you like. Have a nice life!<\/p>\n

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