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Image of Randy Kaltenbach. p.s. I've lost the moustache now

Randy - I am a graduate of the University of Alberta and graduated with a B.Sc.(Eng). I've often wondered what became of many of my classmates but I heard from a few of them recently. Curtis Sparrow is a businessman and consul for Costa Rica. Brian Zerb is senior project manager for zed.i solutions. "Crazy" Kernighan is taking a long-term vacation in Mexico. Ernie Romanow is a hiking guide in British Columbia. If any of the rest of you are out there, let me know!

Before that, I attended Archbishop O'Leary High School in Edmonton. Likewise, many of my friends have drifted away. Where are you Ihor Gowda, Dante Scanga (a doctor in Spirit River, Alberta I think - quite a change for that city boy!)?

As you can tell, I love glassblowing. I play hockey year round and have coached soccer.

A few of my favorite quotes:

"A well-structured web site is like a quiet, comfortable cafe; most, unfortunately, have more in common with reform school cafeterias."
- Gregory V. Wilson No Engineers Were Harmed in the Production of this Book, Dr. Dobb's Journal, November 1998

"I have no trouble with schizophrenia. I understand that people get sick. I got no problem with that. I just wanna know one thing. How come the voices in their heads always say 'Kill your mo-th-err...kill them aaalll...'? How come they never say 'Get a jooobbb...'?"
- unnamed New York City detective in an article by Patricia Pearson Death Becomes Her, Saturday Night, December 1998

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan

"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up in teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
- Petronius Arbiter (circa A.D. 60)

Lorie - I am a graduate of the University of Alberta and graduated with a B.Ed. Before that I attended Archbishop O'Leary High School in Edmonton. I am a teacher of a Grade 4 class and enjoy ceramics and gardening.

David and Lisamarie really didn't want to appear in my website ;)

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