More Than You Wanted To Know About Roedy Green

Roedy Green
taken 2000 October

Roedy Green is an independent computer consultant with 41 years experience available for speaking, consulting or contract programming work on socially significant projects involving Java, Abundance, Assembler or the Internet.

Contact and Identification

	Internet email:	email 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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	address:	Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products #327 - 964 Heywood Avenue Victoria, BC Canada V8V 2Y5 Latitude +48" 25'00"N, Longitude -123" 22'00"W
	telephone:	(250) 361-9093 (please use email in preference to telephone)
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born: 1948 February 4 shortly before midnight.

marital status: attached but not married. Hoping to add a male lover.

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.

Islamic name: Kemal.

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. Appropriately, Gayus Guyus R us.

internal name: babe. When I talk to myself, I call myself "babe" or sometimes "roed", and less frequently "you idiot".

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: Protecting the environment. 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.

What I Think About

The things I think about most are posted all over this website. However, one thing I worry about I have not mentioned elsewhere is I get a lot of flack from people for offending them. I don't know if it is because I am an inconsiderate bastard or if it is because that is just what you have to put up with to do a job that has to be done.

Salient facts

loves speaking to large audiences. I like travelling. Hint hint.
Uses humour to gently introduce revolutionary ideas. Talks in metaphors with hidden meaning. Actively implementing plans to reshape the world.
I am available for contract work. I prefer to 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.
HIV+ since summer of '85 (the AIDS rabbit died, but I'm still alive and kicking.) I am keen on spreading the techniques to which I ascribe my longevity and high energy. Because of poor health, I resigned my job in December 1994. In December 1995, I had an amazing rally, that collapsed the day I found out my T cell test results. This hints to me that AIDS is largely a psychosomatic disease.
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 pubic domain compiler. the public domain.
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 Dolphin Spirit 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.
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.
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.
Co-chairs the Q&A session each month at VPCUS the Vancouver PC User society.

Future Projects

There are some interesting new projects coming down the pipe. I am somewhat overcommited just now. I am still trapped in poverty consciousness, but I somehow need to fund these altruistic projects. This is where the money from shareware registrations goes. I need skilled people to implement the details. Hoping that others might tackle these projects too I have outlined them in a list of suggested student projects.

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, Christopher Reeve, Hillary Clinton.

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 year 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 the software I write is marked, for non-miltary use only with the exception of U.N. Sanctioned Peacekeeping Missions. The way I look at it, if a nuclear war kills all six billion of us, the 10,000 people who had any hand in it however indirect, each killed 600,000 people, dwarfing Timothy McVeigh's crime. I want absolutely no part of such criminality.

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 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.

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 have heard many different explanations about how the convention got started:

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.
In longhand 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.
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.

Ongoing Customers

BC Civil Liberties Association
H.I.E.A.C. (Serving It Right/Foodsafe)
Health Action Network Society
The Hunger Project in Sweden
Immuexa. Tim Falconer, the president of Immuexa, is much like me, thinking big about the future. He is one of my favourite people on the planet. Here are the 9 Principles of his company.
The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation
Vancouver Talmud Torah School

Links

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.

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