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Folsom

We are located in Folsom, California, at the edge of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on US Highway 50 northeast of Sacramento. Before we came to Folsom, a friend told us "It's a nice place if you like rocks." We did not know what he meant. But as we were going down highway 50 we saw very high piles of mine tailings on the north side of the road (where Gold River is now) and suddenly we knew. We live across the Rainbow Bridge from central Folsom.
Folsom was the eastern terminus of the first railway in California. Once the railway opened it was for a time the western terminus of the Pony Express. It is the home of Folsom Prison, the 1895 Folsom Powerhouse (a national civil and mechanical engineering landmark), and Folsom Dam.
Folsom is also the home of the Folsom High School Marching Band and Color Guard, Jazz Band, and Jazz Choir and the Folsom Jazz Festival.

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Biographical Information

A lifelong Californian, I lived in Hollywood and Long Beach until we moved to Garden Grove when I was four. Following several years as a programmer, department computer center manager, technical assistant, and manager of system programming at the University of California, Irvine, I joined Intel Corporation in San Jose in 1978 as a system programming manager. Following various management and senior technical assignments, I retired in early 2008.

So far as I know, none of the computers for which I did assembly language programming are still being produced (unless one counts the IBM System 360, to which the current IBM mainframes bear a certain resemblance). My first computer program was written for the Recomp II computer in April, 1964, which is also the date of my first bug. The Recomp II was notable for being small enough to fit inside an airplane. It had a hardware square root instruction, but no assembler. My favorite computer (for assembly language coding) was the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10, the machine where a SKIP never skips, a JUMP never jumps, and a no-op is called JFCL. My hobbies include reading, music, camping, history, and beta testing.

My interest in Argentina, reflected in the number of links below, originated in my service there as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other interests include Scouting and music. My wife Monica was long-time uniform manager (I called it the uniform dictator) for the marching band. You may contact me to get email addresses for David, Rachel, Gregory, or Edward. Daniel would have been 34 on 29 January 2009.

We originated the Folsom Music Boosters site, and hosted it from 1995 to 2003. We host the Folsom Music Archive, a "scrapbook" of the original site to 2003.

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I'm looking for ...

Stanley Holloway CDs that have music on them. I have the monologues.
Tom Rees
A nice male quartet arrangement of "See, Amid The Winter's Snow"

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Some websites that I have enjoyed

All links on this page are working as of 9 April 2009, except as noted.

Argentina

Clarín Digital - My favorite Spanish-language online newspaper
Córdoba Tourism - This site is less useful than it used to be
La Voz del Interior - The newspaper my Argentine in-laws read
Newell's Old Boys - Our favorite Argentine fútbol team. My wife's father played for them briefly, but mostly for other teams in Rosario

Other

Bolsa Grande HS Class of 1967
Gargoyles and grotesques
Great Dickens Christmas Fair - This is an enteretaining event that we have attended many times since 1988
KFAC - About the fomer commercial classical station in Los Angeles
Spurs - Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, my favorite English side, the 2008 winners of the Football League Cup. My grandfather was from Tottenham
Pilgrimage to Abydos - Tour of the Abydos temple in Egypt. Not sure I'll make it there in person

Best dead site

Art in the Argentine Ministry of Economy - Perhaps was the only finance ministry on the Web with an on-line art gallery. Went dead in spring 1998, but perhaps someday...