Please visit Democracy for Colorado. With your help, we can restore intelligence and compassion to government. And we will.

“Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”

—Benjamin Franklin

“It is easy to start thinking that raising ethical issues in a technical discussion is improper, that there is some virtue in keeping technical decisions away from ethics. That is the worst mistake an engineer can make.”

—RMS

How to obliterate animal carcasses with explosives.

My resume, in plain text or printer-friendly PDF.

Check out the streaming mp3 from America’s greatest community radio station, KGNU. Jon Lybrook of Tera Bear Consulting and I set up the first mp3 and ogg streaming servers for KGNU years ago The volunteer wizards have improved things quite a bit since then!

Crime can be literature. And quite funny.

My rules for living:

• email in plain text
• play your banjo old-timey
• don’t drink cheap beer
• be nice to kids
• avoid SUVs, cell phones, and pacifiers.