User:Infinoid

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So, I'm supposed to write a self-centered blurb about myself here, right? Well, here you go.

I'm me. Obviously. :)

My name is Mark. I'm an embedded software engineer by trade, focusing mostly on embedded Linux.

I do several things in my spare time, notably I race sailboats. I usually crew on other folks' boats; rarely am I the skipper. It's just easier that way. I also enjoy just cruising, though it is often difficult to organize regular cruising events. I also enjoy volunteering for Race Committee work.

Generally I can be found in the summer, racing on Lake Tahoe on an Olson 30 or Express 27, and in the winter, racing on the San Francisco Bay on the same boats.

As you can see, I am completely obsessed with air-based locomotion. I once tried land sailing on a Manta Twinjammer, hoo boy was that fun. They tend to go 2 or 3 times the speed of the wind. As you can imagine, that does astonishing things to your apparent wind.

Someday I hope to try hang gliding, paragliding and scuba diving, and to build my own submarine. I saw a paraglider outside my office window recently, who did a vertical 360 flip. I didn't know that was possible for those things, it looks awesome.

Building my own Moon or Mars colony would also a fun spare-time project.

I also involve myself in various Open Source projects. At the time of writing, most of my projects are Perl-related. I'm working on evolving some real AI with the AI::Evolve::Befunge module, I'm an active contributor to the Parrot virtual machine project, and I've always got a few other tools I'm always working on (some released, some not).

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