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Chronos Tachyon

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About Me

I'm a gay computer geek, originally hailing from Kansas but now living in San Francisco. You might know me as Donald (or some variation thereof) if you only know me from meatspace.

You might want to visit my homepage . Or, you might not. My bio explains my online handle, if you're curious.

My Interests

Computer programming: network protocols, virtual machines, emulation. Video games.

Music:

Techno: Orbital , Underworld , Juno Reactor (generally the older stuff), Moby (depending on his mood). Video game music: most NES/SNES, Metroid Prime , Rez . Other: Alanis Morissette , Madonna (Ray of Light era).

Heroes:

Alan Turing. Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace. Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie.

My Blog

BART

Crossposted from LiveJournal.Oh, I forgot to mention that, during the course of flying to Phoenix and back, I took BART for the first time.BART vs. Muni Metro: BART is generally on-time. Muni... isn'...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:10:00 PST

Google, Phoenix, Zürich

Crossposted from LiveJournal.I've been too busy with work to blog about what's been happening since my last post.Back on Monday April 14th, I started at Google with 2 weeks of training at the main cam...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:37:00 PST

Still Alive

Crossposted from LiveJournal.So... tomorrow I start at my new job. I'll be spending lots of time down in Mountain View for the first few months while I train. I'm hoping I've got my head around the ...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:22:00 PST

A Thought

Crossposted from LiveJournal.(Yes, I’m putting off packing. A U-Haul is reserved, and I should have an apartment.)I was reading this Wired blog about the Q&A with Barack Obama at Google fro...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:08:00 PST

Hilarious video from The Onion

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Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:43:00 PST

Moving to San Francisco

Crossposted from LiveJournal.I've been keeping this under wraps, but I've been interviewing with a company out in the Silicon Valley again, and I survived the interview process and will be receiving a...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:44:00 PST

I just lost all respect for John McCain

Crossposted from LiveJournal.And for a very surprising reason:John McCain Enters the Autism WarsAt a town hall meeting Friday in Texas, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared that "there's strong evidenc...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:29:00 PST

Dad; Stepmom

Crossposted from LiveJournal.I've been meaning to write this since last week, but I needed to calm down a bit before I posted it.First, a digression about my dad.My dad's been traveling a rocky road o...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:25:00 PST

World of Warcraft; Harry Potter; Google

Crossposted from LiveJournal.As some may already know, I reactivated my dormant World of Warcraft account last month. That's part of why I haven't been posting as much.So far, I'm having fun again. ...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:47:00 PST

Possible job offer

Crossposted from LiveJournal.I was recently approached via e-mail by a recruiter for a very large, very famous company based in Mountain View, CA, which is probably where I'd have to relocate to.Nothi...
Posted by Chronos Tachyon on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:06:00 PST