Personal Details about Roedy Green

Roedy Green
taken 2000-10

Roedy Green is an independent computer consultant with 44 years experience available for speaking, consulting or contract programming work on socially significant projects involving Java, Abundance, Assembler or the Internet.

Contact and Identification	Dash 30 Dash
Rates	TV Shows
Interests	The Backyardigans
Salient facts	Equipment
Loves	Preferences
People I Would Like To Meet	Family
Formal Education	Links
Non-Military Use Only

Contact and Identification

	Internet email:	feedback for publication:I am swamped with mail. I am years behind in answering. please don’t take offense if I don’t respond immediately.
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	website:	http://mindprod.com
	address:	Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products #101 - 2536 Wark Street Victoria, BC Canada V8T 4G8 Latitude +48" 25’00"N, Longitude -123" 22’00"W
	telephone:	(250) 361-9093 (please use email in preference to telephone)

born: 1948-02-04 shortly before midnight, age 60 years and 3 months.

marital status: attached but not married.

name on birth certificate: Munroe Frederic Compton Green.

nickname: Roedy which rhymes with Cody, pronounced Rho-Dee accent on the first syllable. This is a nickname derived from Munroe, my school days name.

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nome de plume: Gaius. Gaius speaks for planet earth, through me as a channel and translator. Transcribing Gaius’s thoughts is much like playing charades. The name Gaius is rich with associations in the Pagan, Roman and Christian traditions.

Rates

I usually work on a fixed price for a contract. The price depends on how long I think it will take and how interesting I think the the work will be, how useful I think the work will be to the planet, and how busy I am. I am happiest to tackle small challenging problems, the parts of a project you can’t solve yourself. I ask for half the money up front and half on completion to your satisfaction. All bug fixes are included, no matter when they are discovered, and get top priority. You can pay by PayPal to my email account, or by cheque. Sorry I no longer accept credit cards.

I also work on a hourly basis for consulting, brainstorming, coaching, trouble shooting etc. Again, there my rate is based on your ability to pay and how valuable the work is to the planet. I usually charge charities $25.00 CAD per hour, individuals $50.00 USD per hour and and businesses $60.00 USD per hour.

Interests

Planetary consciousness — think globally, act locally. Optimize globally. Plants and animals have just as much right to the planet as humans. Man is the caretaker of earth, not its master. We must reduce the number of humans without resorting to war, pestilence or violence.

This includes in roughly descending order: Ending the Iraq war. Removing Republicans from power. Protecting the environment. Fair treatment of the third world. Relaxing the taboos that are holding our populations too high. Communication with cetacea and other animals including humans. Pranging (stunts that break people’s conditioned patterns or addictions). Writing essays. Frogs. Africa. Tropical reefs.

Salient facts

loves speaking to large audiences.
Uses humour to gently introduce revolutionary ideas. Talks in metaphors with hidden meaning. Actively implementing plans to reshape the world.
I prefer contract work in Java, Abundance or assembler. I’d also be interested in working with Smalltalk, but I don’t have experience with it yet.
donated his fully paid for house to charity in the spring of 1985 to help out with the Ethiopian famine.
started Gay Lib in western Canada back in 1969. This has lead to spirited battle ever since with the Kristians.
HIV+ since summer of ’85 (the AIDS rabbit died, but I’m still alive.)
Wrote an article in ’86 October Byte Magazine on Abundance. It is a computer language that can jaunt (run forward and backward in time). Its philosophy is radically different from the mainstream. You can download the public domain compiler.
Wrote the public domain BBL (Big Black Lady) 32-bit Forth compiler. JPL told me they used it as a base for their compiler to control unmanned space craft.
Worked with John Lilly at the Human Dolphin Foundation. Wrote an electronic Etch-A-Sketch controlled by delphinic whistles. Took dolphins on their first tour of the human world using an video camera and underwater video monitor. Worked on project Janus. Present at the first experiment in November 1979. Swimming with the dolphins was something else. This is not how I did it, but you could try any number of places to arrange a swim.
Wrote Optow - a program that designed most of the transmission lines in BC and Brazil. It was the first time I discovered the whole was more than the sum of its parts. It had a "style" and "personality" I had no intention of programming in — it just emerged out of the low level detail.
Types with a Kinesis Classic keyboard in DSK.

The idea of Dvorak is the most common characters are in your home row, and the least common in the bottom row. I could not touch type QWERTY without severe wrist pain. With DSK I can type for hours a day at up to 100 WPM without discomfort.
IBM told me that I was at one point the youngest computer programmer in the world. This was back in the days when having access to the white coat and locked computer rooms was like being a child astronaut.
wants to learn new languages including Esperanto, Chinese, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic and an African language. I am most interested in grammar and how language determines what you can think.
Past president of Apples BC.
I was known across Canada for my monthly column in The Computer Paper in the early days of personal computers explaining the technology in layman’s terms.
CMP used to manufacture custom computers and custom software. Some of the more interesting projects were reverse engineering the controls at Woodwards Department stores replacing an IBM Series/1 mini with an AT to schedule the lights and fans, writing a program to match lost and found cats for the Humane Society, managing bond sales for the State of Israel, managing financial records for Talmud Torah School and tracking all the testing and licensing of all 120,000 liquor servers in BC. Mostly though we did donation tracking systems for charities. CMP now is more involved with the human biocomputer.
I used to co-chair the Q&A session each month at VPCUS, the Vancouver PC User Society.
In 1985 I had a conversation with the head of Tata, the General Motors of India. He was Gandhi’s godson. we talked about Gandhi. We also talked about India’s future as a software giant. He later left me to explore his private museum of Gandhi memorabilia. Since then, Tata has become a software giant in its own right. I like to think my ebulliant conversation about India’s future helped give him confidence to pursue that tack.
In 1995 I started the notes for the Java glossary. It has since grown to a useful resource to the entire planet to learn Java.
Starting in 2000, I started writing about American politics, the crooked election, 9/11 and the Iraq war, attempting to derail the Nazification of America. If my work cuts the war short by even a day, I have not lived in vain.

Loves

Inspiring people to take a stand for planetary consciousness, giving massages, hearing about people’s human relationship problems,The Royal Canadian Air Farce, Bach, Wendy Carlos, clean air, clean water, consciousness workshops, new efficient, secure computer architectures and new computer languages that make life easy for both programmer and user.

People I Would Most Like To Meet I Have Not Met Yet

In roughly desired chronological order: Jerry Herman, Anthony Robbins, Woody Allen and friends, Patrick Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Julie Andrews.

Formal Education

I started my first year at Malvern House, a British-style Christian boarding school in Victoria BC. That’s probably where I picked up my slight English accent and schizophrenic attitude toward religion. I attended elementary school in West Vancouver at Cedardale for grades 2 and 3 then later Westcott for grades 4 through 6. I attended Hillside secondary and later West Van High. I was always the first, second or third student in my class in all subjects except physical education. I started school a year early, then later went on an accelerated program, so I graduated from grade 12 two years early. I went to UBC and studied honours chemistry and mathematics. I got a BSc in Math in 1968. I took all the courses for my Masters degree, but gradually lost interest in mathematics, because it was so far removed from practical application, and because I had an exploding interest in computers and gay lib. I never did write a thesis. I fantasize I will receive a posthumous honorary doctoral degree for some of my work such as Abundance, scids, or quantum theory.

Non-Military Use Only

All Canadian Mind Products software is effecively public domain with a non-military use restriction. It is free. Well commented source is provided. You may reuse tho source in any way you please with the exception anything that uses it must be marked to indicate is contains “non-military use only” components.

All the software I write is marked, for non-military use only with the exception of U.N. Peacekeeping Missions. This obviously does not include the Afghanistan or Iraq wars. The way I look at it, the military has become bloated out of all plausible motive for defense. It is a parasite on the planet. I don’t in any way want to contribute to it. The way I look at it, if a nuclear war kills all six billion of us, the 1,000,000 people who had any hand in it, however indirect, each killed 6,000 people, dwarfing Timothy McVeigh’s crime. I want absolutely no part of such criminality.

People often get very angry about this restriction. I find it odd that they have no quarrel with software that restricts its use to non-commercial purposes. I find that baffling. Why would you want to discourage commerce and encourage killing?

The angriest I have ever been in my life was when a military contractor, Rockwell, refused to stop using my RESTORE software to distribute theirs. Their representative asked for special exemption. I said "No He said, Fuck you! we are going to use it anyway.. Some years later, Rockwell apologised and said they would not use it.

People are welcome to include any of my code in their programs. But of course that requires that new code bear the same restriction.

A Zen master presented his student with a valuable box, with the stipulation that it must always face east. The student took the box and placed it in his room. However to place the box east, he had to place the table against the wall on the opposite side of the room. This meant he had to move the bed. This made getting in and out of the room awkward, so he had to move the doorway in the wall. This caused a structural weakness in the house which required…

You may incorporate my code into your own products so long as those products are not primarily for military use. If you used my code in your drafting program for example, and the military used it, you would be ok. If you used it in a drafting program for nuclear submarines, then you would not. You are not required to enforce the non-military use-only clause, just leave it visible in the programs distributed.

People often try to talk me out of my non-military use restriction. How would you feel if you discovered software you wrote were being used to run a child pornography ring? I feel even more revolted by the military. I simply can’t aid and abet that sort of illegal actvity which so many people, especially Americans, consider perfectly acceptable, namely maiming, killing and torturing children. I am baffled that so many people put their creations out into the world with blanket permission to use them for any imaginable or illegal purpose.

Dash 30 Dash

The "-30-" at the end of my posts is a newspaper convention meaning "the end". If you have a listing, it confirms all was printed properly. In a modem transmission it confirms nothing was chopped off. I picked up the habit originally from newspaper editor friend of mine. I have heard many different explanations about how the convention got started:

30 was part of the old 19th century Phillips telegraph code for “finished”.
In longhand news stories, authors used X to indicate the end of a sentence, XX for a paragraph end, and XXX for story end. XXX is the Roman numeral for 30.
The maximum length of slugs that a typesetting machine could cast was 30 ems, so 30 meant the end of a line at story end, to separate it from next story.
According to one story, the convention originally started back in the 1920s or 30s as a solidarity signal requesting a raise to $30.
Supposedly, the first telegraph (in the Civil War) to a press association, was 30 words, and the sender ended it with that number, the word goodnight, and his name, and the 30 stuck.
The maximum number of messages each member of the Associated Press could send was 30, and this marked a quota.
Some claim a reporter named Thirtee sent a story with his name and the operator changed it to a number.

TV Shows

Here are the TV shows my partner and I sometimes watch.

Channel	Network	Day	Time	Show
12	A Channel	mon	02:00a	Dead Zone
12	A Channel		03:00a	First Wave
2	CBC		04:00a	The Fifth Estate
9	CTV		01:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
92	Vision		06:00p	Little Mosque on the Prairie
8	Global		08:00p	Bones
8	Global		08:00p	House
92	Vision		09:00p	Little Mosque on the Prairie

9	PBS	tue	01:00a	Rosemary and Thyme
12	A Channel		04:30a	First Wave
9	CTV		01:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
9	PBS		09:00p	Frontline
12	A Channel		10:00p	Grey's Anatomy
8	Global		10:00p	Boston Legal
16	ABC/KOMO		10:00p	Boston Legal

19	PBS/KCTS	wed	01.00a	Nova
12	A Channel		04.30a	First Wave
9	CTV		01:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
2	CBC		09:00p	Fifth Estate
16	ABC/KOMO		10:00p	Men in Trees

12	A Channel	thu	04:30a	First Wave
9	CTV		01:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
12	A Channel		08:00p	Smallville
4	KNOW		08:30p	Design e²
16	ABC/KOMO		09:00p	Grey’s anatomy
10	Global		10:00p	Big Love
9	PBS		10:00p	Frontline

12	A Channel	fri	04:30a	First Wave
9	CTV		01:00p	Sue Thomas F.B.Eye
16	ABC/KOMO		08:00p	Grey’s Anatomy
15	Bones		08:00p	Bones

12	A Channel	sat	04:30a	First Wave
9	PBS		07:00a	Rosemary and Thyme
4	KNOW		09:00p	Midsomer Murders

12	A Channel	Sun	05:00p	Smallville
18	KING		08:00p	Monk

House moves around so much, you pretty well have to just luck out to find it.

Click on network to see TV listings page.

Channel	Network
2	CBC
4	KNOW
6	CH aka CHEK aka E!
7	CHNU: aka OMNI10
8	Global
9	CTV/BCTV
10	M
12	A Channel
13	CITY/CKVU
14	UPN/KSTW
15	FOX/KCPQ
16	ABC/KOMO
17	schedule
18	NBC/KING
19	PBS/KCTS
20	CBC newsworld
21	CBS/KIRO
70	KVOS
92	Vision
	others

The Backyardigans

Oddly one of my favourite TV Shows is targeted at pre-schoolers. It is called The Backyardigans. It is about five cartoon animals, Tyrone a laid-back moose, Austin a shy kangaroo, Pablo an excitable penguin, Uniqua a feminist pink spotted animal, and Tasha a slightly bossy yellow hippopotamus. They have adventures of imagination in their common backyard. Watching this show puts a huge smile on my face and a generates a gentle euphoria. Part of what pleases is that I thoroughly approve of this show to indoctrinate the young. Its characters are curious, kind, considerate, positive and supportive — excellent role models. Each episode highlights a different musical genre with amusing original singable songs, a song parody and some simple dances. The 3D animation is smooth and at times super real, e.g. moving water, or tiny horses, with plenty of loving detail. The actors who do the voices are reasonably accomplished child singers. This show does not patronise kids with silly, pretending-to-be-stupid, shrill adults masquerading as children.

Preferences

colours: yellow, orange, lime green.
music: classical.
flatware: Oneida Paul Revere pattern.
dinnerware: Denby Energy pattern in dark brown and light green.
clothes: Tilley Endurables: durable, plain, solid colours.
Keyboard: Kinesis DSK Classic QD.
food: stir fry, low fat, low salt, low sugar, pretty well anything but sushi.
drink: all juices, non-alcoholic.
comedy: Dana Carvey, Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen, John Morgan.

Family and Friends

I don’t talk much about my family and friends because of the death threats against them. I don’t want to make it easy for nutcases angry at me to hassle them. I am the eldest of five children. I have three younger sisters and a younger brother. I have relatives across Canada, in the USA, and in New Zealand. My nephew is a local TV star. They are a very supportive bunch. Both my parents and all my grandparents are dead. Dad was in charge of all electric power generation in the province for many years. My Mom founded North America’s first food bank called the Free Food Stall. My dad’s father was the Surveyor General. If you got back far enough, there was a female ancestor with a major role in the French revolution, so I came by my rabble rousing honestly.

It is not important that you agree, but that you think the issues on this website through for yourself. I’m often wrong and I’m eager to hear the correct answers.

Backyardigans

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