My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
-[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) along with partner
+[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
-I think the web is way too picture-oriented these days, but if you're really
-curious, there are some pictures of me on my
+I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
+but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
[bio page](bio/), and associated with the
[Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're
a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to
in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in
my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old
movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored.
-My current such toy is a 1988 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
+My current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of
digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. I am
-pleased to now be working on the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
+pleased to now be the working on the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
[Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program.
If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750
with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one
-machine up until the fire in 2013 (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
+machine up until the [fire in 2013](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html)
+ (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux
particularly the [Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org)
distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of
[tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)...
In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
-small and large model [rockets](http://www.gag.com/rockets). I now hold a
+small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
"Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of
low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest
motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed
projects / web / gag.com / blobdiff