User:Brian Wilson

Hi, I am Brian Wilson and this is my Wiki.

Feel free to contact me by sending mail to brian at wildsong.biz

You will not find a resume here. I don't post resumes on the Internet any more, I found it to be generally a negative experience. I am currently working to become a professional gis technician. In the meantime I am a Linux system administrator and a writer. I review products and write articles which are even published occassionally. I am working as a part-time GIS tech at City of Corvallis.

I have a batch of bikes ranging from a Dahon folder to a Ryan Vanguard. I used to maintain ihpva.org, now it just sits there looking outdated. Volunteer help is welcome.

You can call me at 541-368-4120. It is a Packet 8 Internet phone, but it works just like an old-fashioned phone for most people. You can also call me on this cellular phone which is often near me: 707-888-6658. Pretty soon I will have several other amazingly weird Internet phone numbers for you to explore.

It's all out there

The answers

We don't need "rBGH".

We don't need "Golden Rice".

What we really don't need is patents on living things.

All we need is to study the 1000's of cultivars that we already have and are so busy losing.

Lost crops of Africa

Old computer games

Japanese computer trivia test: What was MSX?

MSX version of Bug Bomb

I wrote this game in 1983! It's still out there somewhere.

I found it on this picture of the MSX version here: http://www.funet.fi/pub/msx/graphics/jpg/gamecovers/

Hmm. That site is in Finland. I wonder how MSX and Bug Bomb fared in enchanting Suomiland.

Next question: What is a NEC PC-6001?

PC-6001 software

I wrote some games for it, so I googled it and found this picture. That's Bug Bomb again on the upper left. On cassette.

The site is http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~m-toyota/pc6001/pc6001.htm

Perambulations

I just came across my collection of Monterey pictures, I have to figure out the best way to create photo galleries in the Wiki. (I guess that comment belongs down below in the TODO section.) Anyway, so here we go.

Santa Rosa

2000

2002

Belle the turtle

The pond

Sweden

April 2001

I went to Stockholm for Coactive Networks. I lost most of the photos I took in a hard drive crash.

I found this picture of a street in Gamlastan which I used for an article on image servers; that's why it has the control bar at the bottom.

Bike tour: Pacific coast

Summer 2002 Victoria, Bellingham, Port Townsend, to coast and south to Gold Beach

Monterey

August 2002-June 2003

In the 2002/2003 academic year, I attended classes at CSU Monterey Bay, in Seaside California. My wife and I lived on campus in student housing. I worked for the Seafloor Mapping Lab and the Watershed Institute.

Julie worked for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California State Parks (doing restoration), and the Elkhorn Natives Nursery (mostly propagation). And of course she turned our tiny backyard from a rectangle of sand into a paradise.

More place holders: :-)

Corvallis

Our first winter here, everything froze.

I built a wireless bridge.

HestHavn

April 2004 We bought a house - "before" pictures

Finley

Missouri

Dancing Rabbit. October 2003

Bike tour: Northwest

Summer 2004 Vancouver, Bellingham, east of Seattle... Olympia Amtrak

Fall 2004

Hawaii

October 2005 La'Akea goes here

Stuff I oughta do

• Put together a calendar for the pedal wiki and use it to store personal

items such as

• WVGIS user meeting: next one will be in Eugene or Springfield, I think.

We just had one in Albany.

[Articles] that I am working on. (Restricted access.)

WVGIS meetings

2006-Feb-15 Albany

Ed Arabas - Using modelbuilder 9 to create a fire planning tool for Jackson County

Toshi Minoura - GIS applications in Enterprise Resource Planning

Tascha Wulff - Linn cty GIS dept