User:Brian Wilson

Hi, I am Brian Wilson and this is my Wiki. More professional interests can be perused on the Main Page; this is my personal space.

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

I am now senior gis analyst at Alsea Geospatial, Inc in Corvallis, Oregon. I am also a Linux system administrator and occasionally a writer.

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 I used to maintain http://www.ihpva.org/, now it just sits there looking outdated; volunteer help is welcome.

I still have this Packet 8 phone set up as my home phone number: 541-368-4120. It is a Internet phone, but it works just like a conventional landline phone for most people.

I am experimenting with a Grandstream phone number at 541-368-7383 which will probably become my regular phone number pretty soon. I can set it to forward either to my Asterisk PBX at home via a Gizmo project phone number, my cellular phone, my work phone, or all three. It also provides me with voicemail.

It's all out there

The web projects

http://www.wildsong.biz/ That's this site.
http://www.SolarCreek.org/ Clean renewable energy for everyone's kids
http://www.IHPVA.org/ International Human Powered Vehicle Association
http://www.HuPI.org/ Human Power Institute

http://www.alseageo.com/ Alsea Geospatial, Inc, where I work.
http://www.IncidentView.com/ IncidentView, the project that I work on.

Places we volunteer

Chintimini Wildlife Rehab

We cared for a crow named Mojo for over a year. Alas, he died a couple months ago.

Benton County Fish Passage Improvement Program

The bicycles

Dahon folder
Fuji Touring Series III
Raleigh Record
Raleigh Alyeska, currently being powdercoated.
Ryan Vanguard
Biketator

No longer in the bike barn
Cyclodyne
Rotator Tiger
Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Hoo - not really into MTB's but this was a nice one
Gary Fisher Paragon - set up as a fast road bike with slicks and Scott bars
1984 Honda Elite 125

Temporary guest
BiGHA I had this bike on loan for a few weeks.

The Love Bike -- tandem test ride

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