I live in Mountain View, California with my husband John and our 5 year old son Kyle. We live in a circa 1907 house called Ozone.
Live
Code
Writing software is my passion. I do it for money and I do it for free. I've worked on a great variety of things, from Smalltalk, to the Macintosh Sound Manager, to cell phone browsers. I'm currently working at Linden Lab on Second Life. See my projects page for a full list of what I'm up to.
Go
I'm an avid Go player, though I'm not that good (ranked AGA 10kyu, though currently playing at about 8kyu). When I can, I like to play at the Sunnyvale Go Club.
Relax
Some recent books I've read:
- "The Areas of My Expertise"
by John Hodgman - "The Baroque Cycle"
by Neal Stephenson - "Moo"
by Jane Smiley - "Skipping Towards Gomorrah"
by Dan Savage
Some music I'm listening to:
- minilogue's concert of June 2006 at Ostgut / Panorama Bar, Berlin
- "Preludes Airs and Yodels" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Music of Melis, Reich and Szemző, recorded by Group 180
- J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", recorded by Jenő Jandó
Past
In the past, I: Studied electronic music and computer science in college; Worked at Apple for many years (first on Smalltalk, then Sound research); Ran a software consulting business for even longer; Did a lot of rock climbing; And was a stay-at-home-dad for three years.
For everything else there's Google.
e-mail: markl (at) glyphic (dot) com
Updated January 2007