Richard Wesley's Home Page

4652 1st Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105-4804
Telephone: (206) 632-4536
E-mail: hawkfish@electricfish.com

Welcome to my home page! No pointless graphics here! I find that the web has far too much glitz and not enough content. In addition to my home page, I also have a news page that I read every morning with links to Macintosh industry news and other fun stuff (like comics).

People, Places and Things.

Owen Ewald. Ph.D. candidate in Classics at the University of Washington.
Aaron Logue. A fellow black belt at my school. Nice guy with a somewhat bent sense of humor.
Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle. A wonderful church if you're into that sort of thing. No one telling you what to think, but many friendly people interested in exploring spirituality using the Christian contempletive traditions and drawing energy from that to reach out into the community with compassion. Part of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. Also, check out the new Canterbury program home page.
Phi Tau Co-Educational Fraternity. Where I hung out as an undergraduate at Dartmouth. Not your average fraternity, and has links to many other college friends of mine.
Westwind Computing. The best Macintosh repair people in Seattle; they also sell equipment and set it up.
Metro's Riderlink Page. Online Seattle Bus Schedules and routes. All they need now is to have a web client on the buses...On a related note, the Seattle Freeway congestion page is also really useful.
Bartlett High School. My sweetie's high school in Anchorage, Alaska. Looks better than my school's page.
FedEx Airbill Tracking Form. One of the most gratifying web pages I know. Just type in the tracking number for your package and you can trace its entire route from sender to your door.
ACM RISKS Forum. An onging discussion of why you should be very paranoid about technology.

Random Personal Information

Where are you from?

Well, that's kind of complicated. I was born in Britain of English parents, so that means I'm from England. I moved to the US when I was about 4 because my father worked for IBM (which in the 60's stood for "I've Been Moved") I grew up in upstate New York until about age 14 when I was packed off to boarding school. I then spent about 12 years in New England being educated (passive verb) before I decided to leave and come out to Seattle. I've been here since 1989 and as long as the US remains socially stable (a dubious proposition) I intend to stay here as it is a nice town. If things start to degenerate further, I think I will keep going west. At the current rate of progress (8 time zones/33 years) I should be able to die in England at about age 99. Its nice to have a goal.

What do you do for a living?

Basically, I'm a geek: I write software for a living. Its an souless trade, but someone has to do it. More specifically, I'm a Macintosh programmer, which in Seattle is kind of like owning a Honda body shop in Flint, MI. Recently, I've started a company with my friend Dav Lion called Electric Fish, Inc. and we would be happy to talk to you about doing Macintosh development.

What do you do for fun?

For the last 16 years I have been studying Tae-Kwon-Do, a traditional Korean martial art in which I have a third degree black belt. My instructor is Sixth Dan Ms. Nhumey Tropp, the Head Instructor at Seattle Martial Arts in Greenwood.

My other regular activity is singing (first tenor) in my church choir. My voice isn't too great, but I spent my adolescence trying to sing along with various squeaky rock stars, so I stretched my upper range pretty well.

Sex, Politics and Religion

Straight, but not narrow; Christian Anarchist; Episcopalian.