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| Carl Dean Wilson Dec. 21 1946 - Feb. 6 1998 |
About Me
The Early Years
My ancestry is Swedish & Norwegian (on my Mother's side) and German & Scottish (on my Father's). I was born in 1960 in Bay City, Michigan. In 1965, the family moved to Claremont, California. After a stint in Rialto, California, I moved back to Claremont, where I went to High School. In 1978 I left for college at University of California, Santa Cruz. If you knew me back in High School or college, get in touch with me! I'd love to hear from you.
Beliefs <><
I converted from atheism to Christianity in November of 1974. For the whole story, see my testimony (coming soon). I'm a non-denominational, charismatic, born-again evangelical type of Christian. Since 1989, I've been a member of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of the Peninsula. I am also a progressive/liberal Democrat. If you think this is contradictory, perhaps you need to get out more ;). My church has midweek homegroup meetings. Our homegroup is called ihopppp.
Marriage and Family
My lovely wife Nina & I were married in 1985. We have 2 sons, Caleb and Jacob. Here is the requisite photo gallery.
Interests and Hobbies
I've always had way too many interests than is good for me, and not enough time to pursue them. Right now one of my main interests is the web, working with HTML, Java and JavaScript. One of my life-long interests has been games, of the board, role-playing or computer variety. Long term, I'd like to write some multi-player Java games for the web. If you are a venture capitalist and you want to give me a bunch of money so I can dedicate my life to this pursuit, let me know.
Another one of my life-long interests has been cartoons. The greatest cartoon strip of all time is, of course, Pogo. A number of years ago I tried without success to launch my own comic strip. I may try again one of these years...
I have no musical talent, but I love to listen to music. Among my favorite bands are DÄ/Swirling Eddies and Value Pac.
I am interested in foreign languages and other cultures. Anything Swedish or German is interesting to me. I used to speak German reasonably well, aber jetzt bin ich sehr röstig. I've been trying to learn Swedish in my spare time, of which I have none... Someday I plan to visit these places in person, for now I just surf there on the web...
Work History
In the summer of 1979, I worked at Disneyland. If you get an opportunity to do the same, I highly recommend it!
My first major software endeavor was Rogue, which I worked on in college and used in lieu of a degree to get my first job. Other programs I've worked on that you may be familiar with are Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and Quicken.For 5 years, I worked at Intuit, Inc. as a software designer and project manager. Now I'm working at a cool new start-up called UpShot. Our first product is almost complete, and we are growing nicely. Send me your resume if you want to join us.
I don't yet have any full-fledged Java games, but hopefully they'll be coming when I get more time to work on them. In the meantime, I do have a couple of fun Java "Toys" that you can play with. Pre-game is basically a demonstration of the game architecture I've built, dealing with rules for player movement, collisions, etc. FlagMaker is a fun little toy that just allows you to design your own flag. Flagmaker would work better if it weren't for a bug in Netscape Java. (Details available for propeller-heads [coming soon]).
In the early 1980's on UNIX computers on college campuses all over planet earth, thousands of students wasted hundreds of thousands of hours playing a computer game called "Rogue". Recently, Digital Entertainment magazine in Tokyo asked me to recount for them how the whole thing came about, since I have firsthand knowledge. To find out how we came up with the game, read my Brief History of Rogue. If you want to know more about the game, check out the semi-official Rogue Home Page.
Six Degrees of Separation
It has been demonstrated that you can get from yourself to anybody else in the world in 6 steps or fewer by going through people you know (The "six handshakes" or "six degrees of separation" theory). Here are links to the web pages of everyone I know personally who has a web page (as far as I know). If everybody did this, you should be able to get to anyone in the world in 6 clicks or less.
Web Rings
No matter what else may divide us, the Holy Spirit unites all who have accepted Jesus into their hearts. A few of us followers of Jesus are united by this Web Ring on the internet.
Last Updated
This page was last updated around April 27th, 1998
