You know you are a true geek (and a nostalgic one at that!) when you still have your copy of 6502 Assembly Language Programming by Lance A. Leventhal (published 1979). I do not program much any more, but one of our company’s projects had a tight deadline, so I took on some small Java forms programming for the Blackberry. The thread management and resource management constraints are concurrently similar and different that my initial forays into programming.
(BTW, I’m sure it says something about me that I also have:
- The 8086 Primer
- Assembly Language Programming for the IBM 360/370
- Various PDP-11 programming manuals
- and other packrat nostalgia
…my wife would say that it means I do not know when to throw anything away). (more…)
Last year I was invited to be a part of the Trinity University Alumni Book Signing that occurs during alumni week. I have been invited back again this year; the event is October 20 at 11am in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall in the Dicke Art Building of the Ruth Taylor Fine Arts Center. If you are in San Antonio Texas that weekend, please stop by.
This picture was in the just released Spring 2007 Trinity University magazine, and it was taken at last years event. That’s me in black behind the table. The man and woman in front of the table are paid groupies (i.e., my mother and step-father who live in SA).
The gentleman to my right in the black leather jacket (Trinity authors always wear black) is none other than Robert Flynn, award winning author and my writing instructor when I was at Trinity. I majored in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics at Trinity, but I took a writing course every semester from Bob. And when I wrote my first novel (after 20 years in the tech biz) Bob was the first guy I called to read a draft and give me comments. In typical fashion, he didn’t hesitate. (more…)
