Kindling

Lady luck (alias Alláh, Karma, Etcetera) has smiled upon me with a variety of interesting ways to pay the bills.

Here’s my resume.

Here it is disguised as a MS Word doc.

Here it is posing as a pdf file.

Here’s a list of some of my favorite things I’ve done for pay:

1. Terrorized badgers for God’s gardeners on the side of Mount Carmel in Palestine.
2. Stirred and tested sewage in God’s Country (Yosemite).
3. Expelled lovers from God’s gardens on the side of Mount Carmel in Palestine.
4. Drove around Yosemite National Park to help employees with my database app.
5. Worked as an experimental physics intern at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).
6. Developed automated tests for Mac OS at Apple Computer.
7. Developed secure email software at NASA.
8. Ported an embedded operating system from assembly language to C for the Department of Defense.
9. Improved an early AJAX-based mapping application for the U.S. Geological Survey.
10. Developed an early smart card portal for Sun Microsystems and Citibank.
11. Presented distributed systems research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (as a lightly-reimbursed grad student).