Ben Goetter

HOW IS IT I EXTRACT STRENGTH FROM THE BEEF I EAT?

Education

Mountain Brook High School, Mountain Brook, Alabama: Class of 1982
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Class of 1986. Music major.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: SEASSI 1993

(You'll find no picture here until I find a photograph more flattering than this one.)

Profession

Computer software developer: medical informatics; local area networking; electronic mail; programming languages (I particularly like Scheme) and their runtime environments. Will hack Lua for food.

Avocations

Music: I came to music relatively late in life, then abandoned it for many years in the face of professional time constraints and occupational tendonitis; now I'm attempting to recover the chops that I never had. Currently I'm playing a 1973 Grotrian-Steinweg Model 220, serial #99903, beautifully rebuilt by Darrell Fandrich; a Yamaha P-80 electronic pseudo-piano, capable of withstanding environmental extremes that would destroy any real piano; and an inexpensive Deering banjo.
Skiing: Nordic, both performance and backcountry. My winter obsession.
Other outdoor activities: Running, hiking, scrambling, marksmanship, hunting, ad hoc forestry. What I do when I don't have snow.
Food and drink: Gluttony is the sweetest sin.

Family

I am married to the long-suffering Kathryn Hinsch, athlete and scholar. Three hardworking cats complete our household.

Politics and Religion

I find political and religious tirades on web sites very tedious, so I'll here spare you my own curmudgeonly viewpoint. Use your imagination. (Hint: I find Canadians even more menacing than fluoridated water.)

Other destinations

Of recent interest: A small link farm, hidden on a separate page to reduce clutter here. For dedicated voyeurs only.
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Last modified: 10 July 2002

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