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Personal Heroes

My favorite people are Renaissance men, those who are knowledgeable in many areas and use their intelligence to form an overall big picture of the way life works, or ought to. They are also skilled in expressing their opinions, either in print or through other media. I like people like these because I aspire to be one.

 

Jim Henson: the late great Master of Muppets

Bertrand Russell: mathematician, philosopher, mocker of all that is sacred... also the source of my first name

 
Douglas Adams: You probably know him as the author of the popular "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, but he was much more than that. Doug had a brilliant mind and often gave lectures to scientists and conventions about subjects ranging from the future of computers to evolutionary biology to the meaning of life. Like Jim Henson, he died much too young.

Summary of the most recent events in my life, as of late 2002:

My son, Benjamin Jack Glasser, was born in May. I am 28. Ginny, Caitlin (age 10) and I have been living in Austin for three years. Samantha, nearly 13, lives with her dad in Burleson but visits frequently. Ginny and I are still leading excellent lives together, and we think Austin rocks.

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Russell's background is kind of light blue with a white gloss. The text is black, and the links that you can click on are grey and underlined. But only if you're using a recent version of a standard browser; otherwise, I have no idea what you'll see.

No, the background of Russell's LIFE!

Sorry. Got carried away there.

Russell Glasser was born to humble beginnings in Princeton, New Jersey. He hasn't improved in status since then, but he is definitely not humble anymore. Fortunately, he was spared the indignity of growing up as an Easterner when he moved from Princeton at age five. Unfortunately, he was subjected instead to the even worse indignity of being a Southerner. He lived in Auburn, Alabama from the ages of five to ten, then moved once again to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There he met the powerfully evil and corrupting force of Gilbert Quintana. Unable to fight the evil, Russell succumbed to the influence and was forced to gain an appreciation for hard rock, fine women, and badly scripted action movies. Once again, Russell would like to extend his sincerest thanks to Gil for making life a lot weirder -- and he means that in the best possible way, of course.

For a while, it looked like Russell would finally stabilize in Santa Fe. But NO, when he turned 18 he decided to go to college in San Diego, California. Upon graduation, he took a big step up north to San Jose, a.k.a Silicon Valley, where he spent an ENTIRE YEAR before deciding to pack up and move in with the love of his life, Ginny Griffin. At the tender age of 25, Russell is now apparently getting his life sorted out as he lives in a cute medium sized house in Austin, Texas, with Ginny and her two kids, Caitlin and Samantha, ages 7 and 9.

In his spare time, Russell enjoys irritating people by speaking in the third person a lot. But I think I'll stop that now.

I am a college graduate with a degree in Computer Science from UCSD. Yes, I was a COMPUTER SCIENCE student. You may now begin cringing in horror and running to the nearest sanitary facility. However, I am also interested in the arts, such as theater and music. In school I took acting and playwriting classes any time I could get a break in my schedule; and I have also sung as a second tenor in the La Jolla Symphony Chorus and the San Jose Chorale over the last seven years. Plus, I play guitar (very badly). My ambition is to become enough of a renaissance man to be a convincing multimedia program designer. So don't run away yet, because you may regret missing your opportunity to meet the future Steven Spielberg of the computer game world.

My other hobbies include juggling (before you ask... only THREE clubs or rings, but four balls on a good day), skiing (double black diamond!!), rollerblading, pretending I know how to body-surf, and olympic food fighting.

Currently I am working at IBM, developing a large web-based file and project management system. In my past lives, I've done various other contract work, taught programming classes at the Computer Learning Center, designed virtual reality training simulators at Interface Technologies Corporation, produced an educational game for Smartek Software, and written applications for theoretical physicists at General Atomics.

Want to try and hire me? Check out my resume and then give me a call. No MLM's, please... if you are even THINKING about prospecting me for something like that, better look at my Amway Page, and see what kind of nasty things I might do to you.

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