Kim's (very slowly) Evolving Home Page

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A (no longer so) recent Time Magazine cover speaks of "Evolution's Big Bang," a very short, very early, time period that witnessed a staggering explosion in the quantity and variety of life forms. The last couple months on the Internet have felt pretty much like that to me, so I drag my own emerging form out of the primordial cyber-ooze to offer this initial pseudopodic home page.
While it doth not yet appear what we shall be, we hope for increasingly refined and beautiful features as we continue to learn and evolve.

As a brief introduction to me and mine, here are a few references and graphics:

Family
A Picture of my siblings and me. (21K) We have a wonderful mom, too. Maybe we'll get her in the next picture.
More pictures of nieces, nephews, mom, self, etc. in my little on-line photo album.
I've created a site for the Seattle gang, which we will all work on enhancing over time.
Personal Web Stuff
The Blog of my trip to Romania/Hungary/Slovakia with nephew Michael
My exciting new TruthSquad site
My home-brew Blogging Site
My passwords
My contacts
Recent Additions
My dementor act at local Harry Potter Book 6 release party
Work
For many years I worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. After some years, I found myself working on the LiveBoard, a computer with a huge display, for group interaction. Eventually "MotherX" decided (most uncharacteristically) to turn our little project into an actual product. Thus was formed LiveWorks, Inc, where I toiled happily until StepmotherX decided she was tired of losing money on us. We were "transitioned to closure", but the engineering team was invited to stay intact and start up a new venture capitalizing on Xerox display technology and research into document usage. Thus was formed Uppercase, Inc, designers and implementers of the eCase, a prototype "tablet computer" or "digital briefcase," where I enjoyed plenty of opportunities for productive labor as "Manager, Application Development" until Xerox (having grossly mismanaged its core business and needing a quick fix for the Q4-99 bottom line) decided to indulge again its prediliction to fumble the future by selling our assets (quite prematurely) to Microsoft. So Uppercase is going away, and I get to look for the next exciting adventure. So I've prepared an actual resume for the first time in my life.
Meanwhile, I'm playing around. Check out my new Applet/Servlet Boggle game.
Hobbies
Contradancing, wonderfully defined by Gary Shapiro.
Travel. (16K)
Sometimes enjoy Cooking.
Other Interests
Stuff I've written, mostly on Mormon topics.
Enjoying learning Web programming. Currently exploring a Web-based email app, so that I can read and respond to email on the road.
Hava a secure connection applet to create ssh connections to servers that support it.
One Phenomenally Beautiful Picture
Gaze in awe at the Orion Nebula, as captured by the Hubble Telescope. (44K)
Favorite Sites and Web Gleanings
Working on a site telling the stories of Women and War
Big fan of NPR. I'm often moved by Scott Simon's commentaries.
Or give your tastebuds a wake-up call by checking out Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish.
Great quotes and poetry I've found on the web and cached locally.
Just starting to build a whole list of favorite sites.
Personal Archives -- web storage of stuff I don't want to lose or to which I want remote access.
Secret Passages
Here's where special friends and relatives can go to find treasures (well, maybe) I've left especially for them.


Well, we'll hope both for more content and for more inteteresting layout in future stages of development.

Send me a note to tell me you visited here (and how you coped with my pretentiousness).

Thanks for visiting,
Kim McCall