Then & Now
Born in NYC, moved to rural NJ shortly thereafter.
Early schooling (formal and informal) led to a variety of
scientific and artistic interests. Early 60s: Princeton,
Columbia; ’66 - ’72: teaching at School of the Arts (NJ),
Norwalk Community College (Conn.), left US, taught high school
in Almonte, ON, t.a. at York U., married, taught high school in
Nfld., separated (followed by divorce); ’72 - ’85: resumed life
in Toronto, pursued music, acquired taxi license (driving
intermittently over the years); ’85 - ’90: remarried, became a
father, continued music, taxi driving (later courier -
walker/metropasser); ’90 - present: began studying Wu-style Tai
Chi Chu’an, worked for GEnie (BBS assistant sysop), attended the
Rochester Forth Conference, worked for Dundurn Press (math
formatting, ed. corrections input); also Prentice Hall (ISP
survey completion, supplementary writing), Colborne
Communications (tables inputter), PCL Industrial Systems Ltd.
(embedded system enhancements), Microtronix Systems Ltd.
(development system planning); Jan. '99 - : Toronto Linux User
Group website maintenance; May ’99 - late '00: adapting an
SGI->Linux port of a graphics package (assistant on a project
for Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children); Nov. - Dec. '02:
marking Ont. literacy exams. Sept. '03 - '06: participating in
Improvisers Pool (music); Sept. '04 - '07: teaching at Music
Trends Teaching Studios. '08, etc.: My main current activities
are photography, improvised music, computer programming.
I retired a while ago; recently a grandfather ...