Half-baked ideas, rapidly shifting focus, projects unstarted and unfinished. That's what this site is about, and I have them in spades.
Ethics, computing, public policy, aikido, and other martial arts, too.
Cooking, cats, culture, and current events. Bicycling, blimps, and the future, sometimes.
My name is Michael Cornelius, and this is my site, my blog, my rantspace. Welcome to it.
michael pts/1 2008-01-15 21:31 (:0.0)
I'm married to my highschool sweetheart, Barbara, who is the now the Head of Library Technology and Archivist at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Together, we're involved in neighborhood organization and activism. I am currently serving on the Lincoln Lancaster County Planning Commission.
My daughter is in high school, and we share an interest in Japanese language and culture, though we might come at them from different perspectives.
I've been an vegetarian for over a decade.
My day job is developing software, a CAD package for the structural steel industry, and managing other developers working on the system. I enjoy working on software projects, personal and open source, outside work to, dating back to the Lunar Lander game I put together for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer, like, 1000 years ago. I grew up to be a 'N*x user.
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Get Up 8?
In Japanese, there's a yoji-jukugo (four-character idiomatic phrase): 七転八起, shichiten hakki.
It means, roughly, If you fall down seven times, get up eight
times.