Curricula Vitae

Netscape Odyssey

LASIK experience

Hobbies

Forgive the vintage-1996 style of this site. Over the years, I've updated content but not the style.

Venturing

Planning RV trip to Burning Man 2009 (my fifth, her first)
Enrolling in classical guitar courses
Seeing Dark Star Orchestra
Seeing Lenny Kravitz at the Santa Monica Civic Center
Belize with Denise, Seth, and Lucy
Diving in La Paz Mexico with John, Darryl, Bob, and Peter
Diving oil rigs with Charlie Orchard
Motorcycling through the hills behind Ojai with Denise
Ocktoberfest with Denise
Black Sabbath at the Forum
Planning visits to national parks in the Western U.S and Canada, possibly on the motorcycle
Ventured through southern Thailand before, during and after the Phuket IDC, 1Q-2007
Completed the Instructor Development Course in Phuket Thailand, January 2007
Diving Fiji, October 2006
Motorcycled through the Sierra passes (Tioga, Sonora, Ebbett's, Carson), Reno, Lassen Volcano National Park, and rafting in Oregon with Dave Cole and friends, September 2006.
Burning Man 2006
Alaska for quality time with family, August 2006
Rocky Point, Mexico, April 2006
Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, for diving and trapeze, January 2006
La Paz, Mexico, for diving, October 2005
Cozumel, Mexico, for diving, August 2005
Big Sur, for mind and body, June 2005
New Zealand (2 weeks on the North island, and 2 weeks on South), Nov/Dec 2004
Australia for diving with Dave Cole, including 8 days on/around Great Barrier Reef Nov. 2004
Dove southern Florida (Key Largo) with Lucianna Molinari and Lori Tanaka May 2004
Dove southern Thailand (Koh Tao and the Similan Islands off of Khao Luk) Feb. 2003
10-day sight-seeing trip to Brazil (Buzios and Rio) Dec-2002 with Julie and Melina and Te'o Fleming
Cross-country motorcycling across the Southwest U.S. on a BMW K1200
The wine country of Northern California
The Wayfarer's in Palos Verdes, California
Getting in shape:

Biking (50 miles/week)
Weightlifting (4 hours/week)
Swimming (3 miles/week)

Enjoying Burning Man 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Captured lo-fi video at Burning Man 2002, including:

Continuing a dive education through at Dive-n-Surf in Redondo Beach, California:

Divemaster with Linda Sue Dingel - Oct-2005
Enriched Air Nitrox with Linda Sue Dingel - Mar-2004
Rescue Diver with John Conroy and Linda Sue Dingel - Mar-2003
Emergency First Responder / DAN Oxygen - Jan-2003
Advanced (Naturalist, Navigator, Night, Deep, Bouyancy) Dec-2002
Open Water with Kathy Kempton and Bob Clarke and Linda Sue Dingel, Apr-2002

Competed in the Kona Classic Underwater Photography and Art Festival for a week, winning an underwater camera for this photo (then lost the thing on a dive in Brazil)
Camping, hiking, biking and motorcycling in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles

Vignette vignettes
Joining a crew of 75 others, I joined Vignette in April 1998 as a Senior Systems Engineer in the West. Flying to Austin for a sales meeting, BBQ and beer, the rest became big history. Trades under VIGN

Netscape Odyssey
Before the Vignette rocket sled, I had an exciting time at Netscape Communications as a Systems Engineer. For a glimpse, read this piece from FastCompany or browse the alumni pages on ex-Mozilla.org . Traded on the NASDAQ under NSCP before a faceless corporation dismantled it for parts

LASIK experience
My refractive surgeies started in 1998.

Autobiography in 10 seconds:

Born April 28, 1966 in Los Angeles
Trudy Latas Pre-school, 1969-71
Don Benito Elementary, 1971-73
Marshall Fundamental, 1973-77
High Point Academy, 1977-80
La Salle High School 1980-84 (photo)
UC San Diego, Biology, 1984-85
Cal Poly Pomona, B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Physics, 1985-91
Joined Netscape, 1996
Moved to Hermosa Beach, 1997
Joined Vignette, 1998
Moved to Manhattan Beach, 1998
Moved back to Hermosa Beach, 2005
Moved back to Manhattan Beach, 2007

Hobbies

Sushi

The Phil Hendrie Show

Watching:

Abusing rental cars on business trips, including one from a Netscape parking lot, in 1997

Enjoying sunsets and views of the Pacific from the beach

Having occasional dinners with my family

Spending time with my girlfriend

Books
Some stuff I've read:

Still planning to read:

Wherever You Go, There You Are

The Japanese Art of War

The Road Less Traveled

Ender's Game

Chaos

Hug the Monster

First Things First (well... I guess not ;-)

Quotes

"The survivors are not necessarily smarter or bigger, but are the ones who adapt most easily to change" -- Charles Darwin
"If you have the time, you won't have the money, and if you have the money, you won't have the time."

"Everyone wants to win, but only winners have the will to prepare to win" -- Mohammed Ali

"Future illiterates won't be those who can't read and write, but those who can't learn, unlearn, and relearn" -Toffler

"Have you noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone faster is a maniac?" -- George Carlin(?)
"It's always the right time to do the right thing" -- Martin Luther King
"A hero dies once, wheras a coward dies a thousand times" -- Unknown

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" -- William James
"Those who predict have no knowledge, and those who have knowledge do not predict" -- Lao Tsu

Music