Dave Harvey, pictured here just prior to boarding the mothership to Venus.

I'm Lost

I've gone to find myself.
If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

Background . . .

Senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona.
18 years experience in Telescope Control System Software engineering.
21 years experience in Computer Programming using assembly to C and Fortran.

Currently employed as a Senior Systems Programmer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona.
President of COMSOFT a software consulting company specializing in telescope control system and satellite tracking software.

Obsessions . . .

Astronomy - especially computer control of telescopes
Digital Photography
Earth Orbiting Satellite Tracking

Where they are.
Where they're going.
More than you want to know.

Distractions . . .

Occultations & Eclipses (Member of IOTA)
Astrophotography
The Weather
Star Trek (TOS and TNG only - DS9 and Voyager SUCK!)
Babylon 5 (Greatest space soap opera ever!)

Things you want to know.
Things you don't want to know.
Things you thought you knew.

Flying - (Single Engine Airplanes that is.) PP/SEL/IR (Member AOPA)
Paintball - A great way to exercise those aggressive male hormones .

 

Bad Habits . . .

Smoking
Poker
Guns - for personal defense and marksmanship (AZ CCW permit).
Bacardi - (151 perferred)
Gratuitous sex with three breasted alien females from Zeta Reticuli-2.
Hanging out with other nefarious Amateur Astronomers

Quotes of the Damned:

"To err is Human, to really foul things up requires the Root Password."  Anonymous

"Managing Programmers is like herding cats."   Unknown.

"You can get more out of someone with a kind word and a 2 by 4 than you can with just a kind word." Marcus

"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."  Unknown

"What's the best way to accelerate a Macintosh?   -   At 9.8 meters per second squared."  Unkown

"Time is the fire in which we all burn." Soren

"You're born in pain, you live in fear, and you die alone."   Old Irish saying

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