Personal Details about Roedy Green

Roedy Green
taken 2008-05-24

Roedy Green is an independent computer consultant with 46 years experience available for speaking, consulting or contract programming work on socially significant projects involving Java, Abundance, Assembler or the Internet.

Contact and Identification	Dash 30 Dash
Rates	TV Shows
Interests	The Backyardigans
Salient facts	Equipment
Loves	Preferences
People I Would Like To Meet	Family
Formal Education	Links
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Contact and Identification

	Internet email:	feedback for publication:I am swamped with mail. I am years behind in answering. please don’t take offense if I don’t respond immediately.
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	address:	Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products #101 - 2536 Wark Street Victoria, BC Canada V8T 4G8 Latitude N+48°25’00” Longitude W-123°22’00”
	telephone:	(250) 361-9093 (please use email in preference to telephone)

born: 1948-02-04 shortly before midnight, age 61 years and 4 months.

marital status: attached but not married.

name on birth certificate: Munroe Frederic Compton Green.

nickname: Roedy which rhymes with Cody, pronounced Rho-Dee accent on the first syllable. This is a nickname derived from Munroe, my school days name.

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nome de plume: Gaius. Gaius speaks for planet earth, through me as a channel and translator. Transcribing Gaius’s thoughts is much like playing charades. The name Gaius is rich with associations in the Pagan, Roman and Christian traditions.

Rates

I usually work on a fixed price for a contract. The price depends on how long I think it will take and how interesting I think the work will be, how useful I think the work will be to the planet, and how busy I am. I am happiest to tackle small challenging problems, the parts of a project you can’t solve yourself. I ask for half the money up front and half on completion to your satisfaction. All bug fixes are included, no matter when they are discovered, and get top priority. You can pay by PayPal to my email account, or by cheque. Sorry I no longer accept credit cards.

I also work on a hourly basis for consulting, brainstorming, coaching, trouble shooting etc. Again, there my rate is based on your ability to pay and how valuable the work is to the planet. I usually charge charities $25.00 CAD per hour, individuals $50.00 USD per hour and businesses $60.00 USD per hour.

Interests

Planetary consciousness — think globally, act locally. Optimize globally. Plants and animals have just as much right to the planet as humans. Man is the caretaker of earth, not its master. We must reduce the number of humans without resorting to war, pestilence or violence.

This includes in roughly descending order: Ending the Iraq war. Removing Republicans from power. Protecting the environment. Fair treatment of the third world. Relaxing the taboos that are holding our populations too high. Communication with cetacea and other animals including humans. Pranging (stunts that break people’s conditioned patterns or addictions). Writing essays. Frogs. Africa. Tropical reefs.

My whole life, starting in childhood has been mainly about various causes: in roughly the chronological order they came to my attention:

reducing pesticides
animal cruelty
nuclear disarmament
gay lib
eliminating dogmatic religions
ending war
protecting the environment, protecting forests, water pollution, air pollution, garbage recycling.
protecting whales and dolphins
ending hunger
universal health care
global warming
fair treatment of domestic animal
impeaching George Bush
homelessness

Right now, global warming and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are at the top of my priority.

Salient facts

loves speaking to large audiences.
Uses humour to gently introduce revolutionary ideas. Talks in metaphors with hidden meaning. Actively implementing plans to reshape the world.
I prefer contract work in Java, Abundance or assembler. I’d also be interested in working with Smalltalk, but I don’t have experience with it yet.
donated his fully paid for house to charity in the spring of 1985 to help out with the Ethiopian famine.
started Gay Lib in western Canada back in 1969. This has lead to spirited battle ever since with the Kristians.
HIV+ since summer of ’85 (the AIDS rabbit died, but I’m still alive.)
Wrote an article in ’86 October Byte Magazine on Abundance. It is a computer language that can jaunt (run forward and backward in time). Its philosophy is radically different from the mainstream. You can download the public domain compiler.
Wrote the public domain BBL (Big Black Lady) 32-bit Forth compiler. JPL told me they used it as a base for their compiler to control unmanned space craft.
Worked with John Lilly at the Human Dolphin Foundation. Wrote an electronic Etch-A-Sketch controlled by delphinic whistles. Took dolphins on their first tour of the human world using an video camera and underwater video monitor. Worked on project Janus. Present at the first experiment in 1979-11. Swimming with the dolphins was something else. This is not how I did it, but you could try any number of places to arrange a swim.
Wrote Optow - a program that designed most of the transmission lines in BC and Brazil. It was the first time I discovered the whole was more than the sum of its parts. It had a "style" and "personality" I had no intention of programming in — it just emerged out of the low level detail.
Types with a Kinesis Classic keyboard in DSK.

The idea of Dvorak is the most common characters are in your home row, and the least common in the bottom row. I could not touch type QWERTY without severe wrist pain. With DSK I can type for hours a day at up to 100 WPM without discomfort.
IBM told me that I was at one point the youngest computer programmer in the world. This was back in the days when having access to the white coat and locked computer rooms was like being a child astronaut.
wants to learn new languages including Esperanto, Chinese, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic and an African language. I am most interested in grammar and how language determines what you can think.
Past president of Apples BC.
I was known across Canada for my monthly column in The Computer Paper in the early days of personal computers explaining the technology in layman’s terms.
CMP used to manufacture custom computers and custom software. Some of the more interesting projects were reverse engineering the controls at Woodwards Department stores replacing an IBM Series/1 mini with an AT to schedule the lights and fans, writing a program to match lost and found cats for the Humane Society, managing bond sales for the State of Israel, managing financial records for Talmud Torah School and tracking all the testing and licensing of all 120,000 liquor servers in BC. Mostly though we did donation tracking systems for charities. CMP now is more involved with the human biocomputer.
I used to co-chair the Q&A session each month at VPCUS, the Vancouver PC User Society.
In 1985 I had a conversation with the head of Tata, the General Motors of India. He was Gandhi’s godson. we talked about Gandhi. We also talked about India’s future as a software giant. He later left me to explore his private museum of Gandhi memorabilia. Since then, Tata has become a software giant in its own right. I like to think my ebulliant conversation about India’s future helped give him confidence to pursue that tack.
In 1995 I started the notes for the Java glossary. It has since grown to a useful resource to the entire planet to learn Java.
Starting in 2000, I started writing about American politics, the crooked election, 9/11 and the Iraq war, attempting to derail the Nazification of America. If my work cuts the war short by even a day, I have not lived in vain.

Loves

Inspiring people to take a stand for planetary consciousness, giving massages, hearing about people’s human relationship problems, The Royal Canadian Air Farce, Bach, Wendy Carlos, African music, Caribbean music, clean air, clean water, consciousness workshops, new efficient, secure computer architectures and new computer languages that make life easy for both programmer and user.

I love watching Takahiko Kozuka and Jeffrey Buttle skate. I find most figure skating too campy.

People I Would Most Like To Meet I Have Not Met Yet

In roughly desired chronological order: Jerry Herman, Anthony Robbins, Woody Allen and friends, Patrick Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Julie Andrews.

Formal Education

I started my first year at Malvern House, a British-style Christian boarding school in Victoria BC. That’s probably where I picked up my slight English accent and schizophrenic attitude toward religion. I attended elementary school in West Vancouver at Cedardale for grades 2 and 3 then later Westcott for grades 4 through 6. I attended Hillside secondary and later West Van High. I was always the first, second or third student in my class in all subjects except physical education. I started school a year early, then later went on an accelerated program, so I graduated from grade 12 two years early. I went to UBC and studied honours chemistry and mathematics. I got a BSc in Math in 1968. I took all the courses for my Masters degree, but gradually lost interest in mathematics, because it was so far removed from practical application, and because I had an exploding interest in computers and gay lib. I never did write a thesis. I fantasize I will receive a posthumous honorary doctoral degree for some of my work such as Abundance, scids, or quantum theory.

Dash 30 Dash

The "-30-" at the end of my posts is a newspaper convention meaning "the end". If you have a listing, it confirms all was printed properly. In a modem transmission it confirms nothing was chopped off. I picked up the habit originally from newspaper editor friend of mine. I have heard many different explanations about how the convention got started:

30 was part of the old 19th century Phillips telegraph code for “finished”.
In longhand news stories, authors used X to indicate the end of a sentence, XX for a paragraph end, and XXX for story end. XXX is the Roman numeral for 30.
The maximum length of slugs that a typesetting machine could cast was 30 ems, so 30 meant the end of a line at story end, to separate it from next story.
According to one story, the convention originally started back in the 1920s or 30s as a solidarity signal requesting a raise to $30.
Supposedly, the first telegraph (in the Civil War) to a press association, was 30 words, and the sender ended it with that number, the word goodnight, and his name, and the 30 stuck.
The maximum number of messages each member of the Associated Press could send was 30, and this marked a quota.
Some claim a reporter named Thirtee sent a story with his name and the operator changed it to a number.

TV Shows

Here are the TV shows my partner and I sometimes watch.

Channel	Network	Day	Time	Show
15	FOX	mon	0:00a	House
20	CBC newsworld		0:00a	Planet Earth
4	PBS		1:00a	Life of Birds
19	PBS		2:00a	Poirot
105	KVOS		2:00a	Dead Zone
12	A Channel		5:00a	First Wave
9	CTV		1:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
2	CBC		8:00p	Little Mosque on the Prairie
8	GLOBAL		8:00p	House
15	FOX		8:00p	House

2	CBC	tue	1:00a	Miss Marple
9	CTV		1:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
4	KNOW		7:00p	Secret World of Gardens
19	PBS/KCTS		8:00p	Nova
15	FOX		9:00p	House
19	PBS		9:00p	Frontline

19	PBS/KCTS	wed	1.00a	Nova
9	CTV		1:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
2	CBC		8:00p	Miss Marple
8	GLOBAL		8:00p	Lie To Me
15	FOX		8:00p	Lie To Me
8	GLOBAL		9:00p	Bones
13	CITY		10:00p	Murdoch Mysteries

4	KNOW	thu	3:00a	The Life of Birds
9	CTV		1:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
20	CBC newsworld		5:00p	Planet Earth
19	PBS		8:00p	Doc Martin
15	FOX		8:00p	Bones
2	CBC		8:00p	The Nature of Things
4	KNOW		8:30p	Design e²
19	PBS/KCTS		9.30p	Doc Martin
20	CBC newsworld		11:00p	Planet Earth
19	PBS		10:00p	Frontline

20	CBC newsworld	fri	1:00a	The Nature of Things
9	CTV		1:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
20	CBC newsworld		5:00p	Planet Earth
4	KNOW		8:00p	Poirot
20	CBC newsworld		10:00p	Planet Earth

4	KNOW	sat	0:00p	Sherlock Holmes
4	PBS		1:00a	Life of Birds
20	CBC newsworld		6:00p	Planet Earth
4	KNOW		7:00p	National Geographic
106	CW		8:00p	Boston Legal
4	KNOW		8:00p	Heartbeat
13	CITY		8:00p	Murdoch Mysteries
4	KNOW		9:00p	Midsomer Murders
106	CW		9:00p	Boston Legal
16	ABC/KOMO		11:30p	Monk

105	KVQS	sun	2:00a	Dead Like Me
24	PBS		2:30p	Miss Marple
20	CBC newsworld		5:00p	Planet Earth
13	CITY		6:00p	Murdoch Mysteries
4	KNOW		7:00p	National Geographic
4	KNOW		8:00p	Inspector Morse
19	PBS		8:00p	Sherlock Holmes
15	FOX		11:00p	House
16	ABC/KOMO		11:30p	Monk

Partner’s favourites are House, Boston Legal, Bones and Monk. They are not always available. My favourite is Midsomer Murders, a British murder mystery.

Click on network to see TV listings page. Click radio button and fill in box to search TV station website.

Additional channels 165 Frame, 400+ music channels.

The Backyardigans

Oddly one of my favourite TV Shows is targeted at pre-schoolers. It is called The Backyardigans. It is about five cartoon animals, Tyrone a laid-back moose, Austin a shy kangaroo, Pablo an excitable penguin, Uniqua a feminist pink spotted animal, and Tasha a slightly bossy yellow hippopotamus. They have adventures of imagination in their common backyard. Watching this show puts a huge smile on my face and a generates a gentle euphoria. Part of what pleases is that I thoroughly approve of this show to indoctrinate the young. Its characters are curious, kind, considerate, positive and supportive — excellent role models. Each episode highlights a different musical genre with amusing original singable songs, a song parody and some simple dances. The 3D animation is smooth and at times super real, e.g. moving water, or tiny horses, with plenty of loving detail. The actors who do the voices are reasonably accomplished child singers. This show does not patronise kids with silly, pretending-to-be-stupid, shrill adults masquerading as children.

Preferences

colours: yellow, orange, lime green.
music: classical.
flatware: Oneida Paul Revere pattern.
dinnerware: Denby Energy pattern in dark brown and light green, unfortunately now discontinued.
clothes: Tilley Endurables: durable, plain, solid colours.
Keyboard: Kinesis DSK Classic QD.
food: stir fry, low fat, low salt, low sugar, pretty well anything but sushi.
fruits: mangoes, oranges, tangelos, pears
cold drink: all juices, non-alcoholic.
hot drink: black coffee, light roast, fair trade.
comedy: Dana Carvey, Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen, John Morgan.

Family and Friends

I don’t talk much about my family and friends because of the death threats against them. I don’t want to make it easy for nutcases angry at me to hassle them. I am the eldest of five children. I have three younger sisters and a younger brother. I have relatives across Canada, in the USA, and in New Zealand. My nephew is a local TV star. They are a very supportive bunch. Both my parents and all my grandparents are dead. Dad was in charge of all electric power generation in the province for many years. My Mom founded North America’s first food bank called the Free Food Stall. My dad’s father was the Surveyor General. If you got back far enough, there was a female ancestor with a major role in the French revolution, so I came by my rabble rousing honestly.

It is not important that you agree, but that you think the issues on this website through for yourself. I’m often wrong and I’m eager to hear the correct answers.

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