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 created the IHPVA.org web site and maintained it for about 10 years until the domain was stolen from me by the US/California chapter. I decided it was time to abandon IHPVA rather than fight with them any more anyway -- the principle activity of the US chapter is running an event called Battle Mountain in which streamliners race downhill through time traps. I ride my bicycles every day on streets to get to work and around town. Going 80mph for 200 meters duct taped into a torpedo no longer seems to have any connection for me.
My home phone is a Gizmo5 number accessible via the public phone system through Google Voice. It is a Internet phone, but it works just like a conventional landline phone for most people. I used Packet 8 for years. The Google Voice number forwards to a Tracfone cellphone, an Openmoko cellphone on T-Mobile, and the Gizmo5 number which is handled by my server at home which runs Asterisk PBX. Google Voice provides me with voicemail and will transcribe voice to text and email the text to me.
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.HuPI.org/ Human Power Institute
International Human Powered Vehicle Association, before the theft (archive site): http://www.IHPVA.eu/
After: http://www.IHPVA.org/
http://www.alseageo.com/ Alsea Geospatial, Inc, where I work.
http://www.IncidentView.com/ IncidentView, the project that I work on.
Places we volunteer
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
I have to update all these links -- looks like I lost some pages on one of my site moves.
Dahon folder
Fuji Touring Series III
Raleigh Record
Raleigh Alyeska, she's been powdercoated and named Jade.
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.
Old computer games
Japanese computer trivia test: What was MSX?
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?
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.
Bike tour: Scotland/England
Santa Rosa
2000
2002
Belle the turtle
The pond
1203 Beaver St
Robert Louis Stevenson park
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
Solar Creek
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
