John Stracke is a Geek

I always have been. At age 7, I entered the school science fair with Magnetic Dancing Marionettes. The marionettes were pipecleaner figures wrapped around nails. They hung in a cardboard theatre, and there was an electromagnet at the top; when you closed the switch, the marionettes would be pulled up.

I started writing computer programs in 5th grade...care to read the saga? :-)

Geekery stuff I like:

• My own stuff:
  • Isabella: A TrueType font based on the Isabella Breviary
  • Fanorona for GNOME
  • ogg2enc, a simple wrapper script to run oggenc twice, once at low quality and once at high quality.
  • doxml, an open-source XML parser written in pure ANSI C.
  • Adder, a Lisp-1 written in Python, integrated into the Python environment.
  • A compiler bug I found once
  • When GOTO makes sense
• Other sites:
  • Linux
  • The IETF
  • The LBL Network Research Group
  • The Jargon File

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