J. E. Brown

Software Engineer - Astronomer - Mathematician

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Occupations:

• Software Engineer about 20 years, lately in C++. Write me for my résumé.
  Now designing applications and components: Content Categorization Engine and taxonomy maintenance, astronomy, & others. Click here to see a few astronomy graphics.

Business Ventures:

	The Solar Almanac. This month's events in astronomy. Never miss a moon event.
	The Internet Bounty Hunter. Services for Your Web Site: Site Monitoring, Automated Broken Link Detection, Missing Page Location.
	™: Materials for good relationships.
	Proofreading for Civility ™ Writing someone a letter? Worried that your reader will take offense? Let us proofread the letter first, to catch those "typos of tact."
	Card Reader Service for 80-column IBM punch cards
	Vecpac, my C++ software for vector math and geometry

Offerings:

• Software for Sale -- original, handy tools and utilities that should exist, but didn't till now
• Photo Gallery

Articles:

• How to Take Notes in Class: The Comprehensive Guide
• Search Engines That Work (and Some That Don't) -- an exposé
• Speed Up Your Macintosh

Original Quotes:

• A person should live in such a way as to create a good story.

• Some people wonder if there's a God.
  I think the United States is God.
  We must be:
  Every time something goes wrong, we get blamed for it.
  -- J. E. Brown

• Q. If my radio falls into the bathtub while George W. Bush is speaking --
  will I be electrocuted?
  
  A. Not in California.

• Are you now, or have you ever been, a telemarketer or spammer?
  We need to know before we can process your housing / job / loan application.

• Communication is not a skill -- it is an ethic.
  Some people totally lack that ethic.
  Hire and fire accordingly.

• The place for practicing one's religion is called a "church" or "house of worship," not "public office."

Articles of Narrow Interest:

• Account Security: Using Passwords to Protect Customers' Privacy
• Dreaming in Insects: Do butterflies dream?
• How to Light a Floor Furnace
• How to Remove Cactus Needles from Leather Gloves
• MPW Shell: Bugs and Conflicts
• Assorted Bug Reports
• Misc. book corrections
• Plants and Trees that Won't Grow in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Skills: C++; GUI Design; Parsing; Automated Testing; Electronic Design

Hobbies: Programming -- Desktop Publishing -- Hiking -- Running -- Astronomy -- Photography -- Reading (Philosophy of Science / Psychology / Humor Theory)

Computers: Power Macintosh / Unix / VMS / NT.

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Los Alamos, NM USA