My Life

Old Friends, Granite and Pine

Posted by BitLizard on June 14, 2009 at 1:05 pm

What a great pleasure it was to meet with some of my very old and special friends this past week. We are talking “long acquaintance” here …  high school and garage band days. My friend Jim – I think its been something like 26 years since I’ve seen him. His brother Ken, bass player for [...]

Car repair: arrrgh, Chevy Malibu: Yummm!

Posted by BitLizard on March 12, 2009 at 3:03 pm

My Land Rover LR3 is in the shop for repair for a computer crashing problem (yes, oh the irony of that). Basically after driving awhile and perhaps tapping on the brakes all the idiot lights come on at once – transmission fault, brake fault and suspension fault. The suspension fault is actually the most worrisome. [...]

Microsoft and Bill Gates in the 80′s

Posted by BitLizard on February 10, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Image representing Bill Gates as depicted in C...

Image via CrunchBase One of the benefits of being a minor mover and shaker in the early days of personal computers is that I got to personally meet a number of people now considered legends. My path crossed with Bill Gates of Microsoft fame a number of times. I had a product named “Show Partner“, [...]

From Albuquerque to Denver

Posted by BitLizard on January 25, 2009 at 12:56 pm

In 1968 my father, with a freshly minted college degree, took a new job in the Denver area as a computer programmer. Moving from Albuquerque to Denver was a big change for the entire family, but a much larger change for my mother. She had lived her entire life in Albuquerque with a brief sojourn [...]

Albuquerque sure has changed

Posted by BitLizard on December 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Earlier this month I attended a business meeting in Albuquerque, a city I lived in from the age of 1 year old to about 12. My memories from when I was 12 are predictably spotty. But I *do* remember enough that I have an idea of the layout of the city. Or rather the center-city. [...]