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I wasn't always a longhair;
in fact I was pretty cute when I was 9 years old
and wore a crew cut. My last real haircut was in 1983.
These days I work at the
San Diego Supercomputer Center in sunny
San Diego,
California,
where I am the designated guru for their numerous
SGI brand UNIX workstations.
In a past life I helped write the Department of Defense Trusted
Computer System Evaluation Criteria, which is better known
simply as the Orange Book (because of its bright orange cover), and
was a principal author of the Department of Defense Password
Management Guideline (a.k.a. the Green Book). Both of these
documents may be found at the
Rainbow Series Library.
I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science from
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
I am a long-standing member of the
Association for Computing Machinery,
and I still know how to use a
slide rule.The proper pronunciation of my last name is MAY-key. There are very few people in the world named Makey, and most of them are not related to my family. In 1893, at the age of 8, my grandfather and his younger brother were abandoned in New York City by their mother. There was considerable confusion about Grandpa's exact name, but during his schooling at the New York Juvenile Asylum he "insisted on spelling it Herman Odlo Makey," according to his autobiography which continues, "I have no recollection of where or how I got this name." It is fairly certain that his parents' name was different, so there is no relation between Herman's descendants and others named Makey.
Coming attraction: the G. A. Gorp home page.
I'm not sure when I started putting the line Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department in my .signature for Usenet postings. I developed the phrase itself when I was in high school, but I had to wait for .signature technology to mature before it would gain immortality.