Cory Carpenter was born in a small Washington town in 1964. Although a
number of things happened in the intervening years, we'll skip ahead to
1982, when he
took his first class in computer programming at the
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
. He bought his first personal
computer shortly
thereafter. He holds a degree in Technical Journalism from
Oregon State University,
and has won awards for news reporting and technical writing.
He has lived in various small towns in Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, and (feh!) California.
He resides in Aloha, Oregon, a suburb of a suburb of
Portland with his beautiful and brilliant wife, Anne,
who continues to teach him the true meaning of caring, compassion, and
love. Together they are raising their new son, Theodore, the World's
Cutest Boy™.
(They also cruelly
oppress two ferocious cats and a highly sensitive dog, but this will not
last forever. A young
provocateuse has recently joined the cabal...)
Viva La Revolución!
Cory has been employed as a busboy and dishwasher, stockboy in a grocery store, handyman, data-processing department manager, surgical instrument assembler, biological laboratory aide, electronic technician, technical writer, software engineer, software technician, technical writer, and software engineer.
Cory's interests include people with a good sense of humor, classic and new rock, live blues and jazz, wrenching on automobiles, travel, sailing, and pretty much any sort of technology, from metalsmithing to woodworking to aeronautics to circuit design. Why so many diverse interests? This sums it up.
If you've got time on your hands, you can explore Web pages by some of my net.buds:
...has been "off the air" for some time now. Will it ever return?