Nice bios
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[edit] What is a bio?
Well, it is "A personal life story" [1]. But it's not always a story, because stories are about what happened in the past. I think a bio can also include what a person is, who a person is right now.
"Who a person is" can include things like:
- Their life story
- What they like to do (their hobbies, pastimes)
- Their convictions, values
- Their interests
- Their friends
- Their favorite things
- What they eat ("you are what you eat" :) )
[edit] Miscellaneous
http://wwc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612067488&pc=1
Favorite Music: Gospel Quartet (think O Brother Where Art Thou)
Favorite TV Shows: Mr. Wizard, 3-2-1 Contact and possibly Bill Nye
Favorite Books: Bible, Make Magazine
[edit] By person
[edit] http://drnicwilliams.com/
http://drnicwilliams.com/about/
[edit] About
Dr Nic Williams loves to write software. For a few years, he was in denial. He tried other things. But even whilst doing those things, he ended up writing software to make them easier.
For a few years he wrote C#.NET applications but faced with the burden of buying new Visual Studio 2005 licenses began looking for a newer, more powerful language and framework.
Fortunately, in mid-2005, Ruby on Rails and Ajax were being bandied around as a powerful pair. It took 6 mths before Nic realized that it was Ruby that was the power behind Rails and he has been in love with Ruby ever since.
[edit] Open Source
He flew from Amsterdam to Chicago for the inaugural Railsconf where he met “the community.” After arriving home, he started creating open source projects instead of hording his code ideas. In the first few months he started helping with the Ajax Scaffold project, created the Composite Primary Keys, Dr Nic’s Magic Models, and the New Gem Generator.
In November, he ported all the TextMate snippets across to RadRails to start a flourish of snippet/template activity for the RadRails IDE. People feel in love with RadRails again, and avoided buying Macs.
[edit] Becoming ‘the Doctor’
Dr Nic got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 2001, and found the best use for it so far was being called Dr Nic.
[edit] http://woss.name/
Graeme Mathieson is a freelance Ruby on Rails developer. He lives and works in Musselburgh, just outside Edinburgh, in that quaint wee country called Scotland. Most of his is spent day staring at the screen of his PowerBook, coding in Ruby, drinking coffee and singing along to whatever iTunes plays him. When he's not at work, he's kept company by his wife, Annabel, and their two cats, Benjy & Jess. Oh, and Musselburgh is not the suburbs. It has ducks.
[edit] Interests
[edit] Other people's interests that I think sound interesting :)
Adam...
causing accidents
checking my mailboxes
falling down (staircases, hills, feet)
throwing random ingredients into a bowl and baking them
arguing with people ("debating")
hitchhiking
watching people
the Dutch, the Vikings, the Incans, the Thai, and other completely random people groups; the Marshall Islands, Bermuda, the Philippines, and other places I've been; pretending to know stuff about computers; and trying to keep in touch with friends
http://www.myspace.com/kristin_elder
flowers
chocolate
sushi
interpretive dancing
painting
art history
trogdor the burninator
sleeping
tuna fish sandwiches
gardening
cryptozoology
number theory
fishes
theoretical physics
the tunnels under Union College
space tourism
birds
skiing, snowboarding (yes both).
anything that has to do with snow including falling flat on my face in it, spending months on a tropical island, teaching, troll fishing, birdwatching, camping/hiking/backpacking, jumping off waterfalls, swimming, bike riding, traveling and spending time with interesting people like Jesus, Jesse, Aliya, my mom, Eliece, grandma everyone in my family and of course Ruwan. The more of these i can mix together the better.
[edit] Article meta
Aliases: Nice about pages; until I split off: Bios, Biographies (in general)
