Marty Cawthon's Home Page
Happy Trails...
Exploration of Japan on foot:
walking the beach from Kawa Minami northward to Tsuno
Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu
photo by Fujino Takashi 2008-01-12 15:42
Welcome!
I enjoy meeting people, especially "face-to-face".
But that is not always possible, so this homepage is a way for you to know about me.
Besides, even if we meet face-to-face there is not enough time to say all of this.
I hope you enjoy browsing around my homepage.
Quote
"The only writings that I trust are Fiction and Editorials; I know the former is a story and the later is an opinion. As for History and News... if you show me a 'true history' or 'unbiased news', then I say 'you have just identified your own bias'" - Marty Cawthon
Past Activities and Future Goals
SnapShots
These are photos of my experiences.
Mostly they are of "everyday life".
"Everyday life" is interesting to me - especially everyday life of people in other countries.
My plan was to post (publish) a different SnapShot each day.
One day I got sick with the flu, and did not get that day's SnapShot posted.
After I recovered I "fell out of the habit" of posting a SnapShot.
I must "get back into the habit"!
- *.Cawthon
Photo of "Cawthon Clan" on 2000-01-02. This is a special photo as it was taken five months (to-the-day) before Shirley died from cancer.
- List of all SnapShots of Japan
Converted from static html pages to 'ChipChat SnapShot Server' - but many photos must be added to the database.... 2008-01-19
- List of all SnapShots of America
A different photo published each day (usually) of Marty Cawthon's experiences in America.
Must convert to 'ChipChat SnapShot Server' - until then the pages might not render properly in your browser.
Talks and Speeches
- Machizukuri Forum in Koga
Text of a speech delivered via Live Internet Video from ChipChat Headquarters in Dearborn Michigan to a conference in Koga, Fukuoka, Japan on 2001-01-21.
- Yokakusa Koga: See the World but Live in Your Hometown
Text of a speech delivered with Etsuko Inoue (Nihon-ChipChat) at the Global Conference of The Internet Society
in Yokohama, Japan on 2000-07-21
- GNU/Linux, Unix, & BSD in Plain English
Web-page based on a lecture written and delivered by Marty Cawthon to an audience of corporate computer professionals in Chicago on 1999-05-06.
- Some Experiences with ChipChat in Japan
Text of a speech delivered at the IBM OS/2 Asia Pacific Reception at the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on 1995-11-15.
- PC-to-PC: From Personal Computers to Program Colonies
"Prediction of the future" type talk about computers of the future running mulitple "software robots" (your computer becomes a "colony of software robots")
and the importance of networks.
Given to a meeting of Ungermann-Bass (network equipment manufacturer) in Florida about 1989 or 1990.
When I find my original materials I will post something here.
Things I Like to Do
- Great Highland (Scottish) Bagpipes
- Player, historian, maker.
- North American Champion in 1968
- New England style Country Dancing
- A derivative of English, Scottish, and Irish country dancing, this form flourished in New England towns and villages in the 1700s and 1800s.
- Running, Roller skating
- During good weather I like to run, typically 2 miles, and roller skate with in-line skates.
In cold or rainy weather I enjoy going up and down stairs to music (real stairs, not a stair machine).
- Judo
- From 2001-06 my "home dojo" is the Ann Arbor YMCA Judo Club
- Go Kyu (5th level) Green Belt, 1999-12
- Roku Kyu (6th level) White Belt, 1999-09
- Learning Japanese Language
- I wrote a Java applet which helps you to recognize Japanese characters: Hiragana and Katakana.
It is called ChipChat Japanese Training
I continue to struggle with Kanji, and plan to expand my Java applet to help people learn Kanji.
- Geology and Earth Science
- Bonsai & Gardening
- Member of the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society
Things I have Done, and Other Interests
- Great Lakes Sailing
- I used to co-own a sailboat, a Tartan-30 called "Five Pipers".
We sailed it on Lake Erie and other Great Lakes.
It was a great experience but there are other things that I'd rather
do with the time (and money!) "the second-happiest day in my life was
when we bought that sailboat; The happiest day in my life was ..."
- Antarctica
- I visited the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic in 1986/87 as part of an expedition from Stanford University.
I would like to visit again, someday.
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