Ken’s Page

Interests:

When I can find the time, my hobbies include: coaching my daughters in basketball, watching the Denver Broncos fall short of expectations, watching movies in my home theater, reading Stephen King (and sometimes lesser novelists), converting our old photos and negatives to electronic format, camping in our pop-up camper, and sitting on the deck in our backyard — next to warm fire in the chiminea, watching the sun go down over the Rocky Mountains.  My biggest passion right now is the development of software programs for distribution as charityware via my pseudo-company Spitting-Image Software.  After taking piano lessons for a couple of years I found it more interesting to create music than to play it.  I’ve written a couple of pieces and you can check them out for yourself, here.  I’ve also gotten involved in the OLPC effort (both Kallie and Ellie got XOs a couple of Christmases ago) by starting my own activities page.

My  twenty favorite movies (in no particular order) are:

  1. The Crying Game
  2. Aliens
  3. The Matrix
  4. Memento
  5. My Life as a Dog
  6. Lemon Sky
  7. GoodFellas
  8. American Beauty
  9. Magnolia
  10. Kill Bill (vols. 1 & 2)
  11. Sling Blade
  12. Deep Impact
  13. Quest for Fire
  14. Bully
  15. Training Day
  16. Silence of the Lambs
  17. Fight Club
  18. Planet Terror
  19. Deliverance
  20. The Exorcist

I work as a systems engineer at Avaya Communications.  That means that I write documents that describe in detail what a piece of telecommunications equipment should do and how it should look.  I’m also responsible for communicating that vision to the people who create these combination hardware/software products and to the potential customers in telecommunications companies around the world.

Favorite Web Sites:

Spitting-Image Software – the host for our family web page and the reason for so many late night hours in front of the computer.
The “amazing” James Randi Educational Foundation
The International Shark Attack File
Near Earth Objects – Dynamic Site
Government Links
Other Links
American Humanist Association

Fun Links:
Miss Cleo – the phone psychic
Why tall people make more money…

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Utilities:

  • Xcel Energy
    • report a broken, burned out or flickering street light by calling (800) 895-4999 or fill out this web form

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The Internet:

  • GetNetWise – The Internet offers kids many opportunities for learning, constructive entertainment, and personal growth. At the same time, parents are concerned about the risks kids face online. The challenge for parents is to educate themselves and their children about how to use the Internet safely. GetNetWise can help.
  • Guarding your financial privacy
  • The Anti-Phishing Working Group – Phishing attacks use ‘spoofed’ e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers are able to convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them.
  • Don’t be hooked by the Internet’s biggest fraud – Phishing
  • National Do-Not-Call List

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