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I live in Iowa City where they had a rather strange fountain with a crude nickname in the down ped mall and strange artwork in Lower City Park. The fountain in downtown has been replaced with a different version with a different crude nickname, picture coming after I get downtown again when it's running.
I like to take trips, road trips and otherwise. Here is a bunch of pictures I've taken along the way in my Flickr photo gallery.
Here are a series of links and stuff I think are interesting, your mileage may vary.
More information about me ? Who am I?
My name is John Johnson and I live in Iowa City Iowa. Here's a far away picture of where I live. I have been involved with computers for a long time - I have worked with large scale IBM mainframe computers, RS/6000's running AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, PC's running DOS, Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008 and 7 as well as Linux - quite a range. I am currently specializing in Monitoring and Virtualization.
My leisure activities include
- sailing everything from 13 foot FJ's to 28 foot E-scows to a few hours steering a 12-meter America's Cup yacht off of the western coast of Australia
- camping (both summer and winter - have you ever camped in a snow storm?),
- photography,
- science fiction and fantasy,
- Science Fiction
- SF Conventions - look for me at ICON and DemiCon
- micro computers running:
- ESXi (yes, it can be run on a two year old desktop as long as it supports 64 bit)
- Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 & 2008
- Linux
- road (and plane) trips to places like Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, St Louis, Madison WI, Gurnee IL, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Orlando, Columbia MO, Rapid City SD, Devils Tower WY, New Orleans, Toronto Canada, Niagara Falls, London, UK and Perth/Fremantle, Australia
Listening to a wide variety of music
- Alan Parsons Project
- Bach
- Eric Clapton
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Manheim Steamroller
- Pink Floyd
- Romanovsky and Philips
- They Might Be Giants
- Wagner
- ZZ Top
- And of course,
the Grateful Dead
Some of my favorite comic strips include
- Broom Hilda
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Cathy
- Get Fuzzy
- User Friendly
- Dilbert
- Sally Forth
- For Better or For Worse
- Fox Trot
- Garfield
- Hagar the Horrible
- Marmaduke
- Peanuts
- The Wizard of ID
- Zits
Ic-a-rus (1) (ik'ar-as, a as in about) Greek Mythology. The son of Daedalus, who, in escaping from Crete on artificial wings made for him by his father, flew so close to the sun that the wax with which his wings were fastened melted, so that he fell into the Aegean Sea.
Ic-a-rus (2) Astronomy. The asteroid that passes closest to the sun.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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