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{dew?} Welcome to my homepage. My name is David Emmanuel Weekly, hence the "dew". I also drink a lot of Mountain Dew. When I was working for atWeb, I stacked a few hundred cans around my cubicle, which caused my coworkers to start labelling me "dew." I had used "dew" as an online handle before, but I thought that just being known as "dew" in real life was catchy. It was fun. But whatever. Oh, and yes, I do all of my HTML with Emacs. I blow my nose at you and your silly graphical interfaces



I'm a 19-year-old (will be 20 on October 26, 1998), born and raised in the Boston area, except for a three-year stint at the Christian Military Boarding School From Hell (aka Grenville Christian College) that was in southern Ontario. I'll rant about my joys of being plonked 420 miles away from home at the age of 11 later. I've been playing with computers since I was five years old (copying BASIC code off of the backs of National Geographic World and running it on my trusty Apple II/c), so they're kind of my thing. I have been specializing in computer graphics, but have decided to shift my focus a bit more towards digital audio for the coming year. Why? I've been involved...

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{where?} I am now living in a dorm room on Stanford campus. If you're interested, it's Lantana 219, the second door on your right when you walk up the main stairs. You can call me at 650.497.0955 when you so please. (Just not in the morning) If you'd like to email me, feel free. [email protected] works. I like people, and would generally be jolly happy to chat with you about any keywords you have in mind.



At the beginning of this quarter, Fall 1998, I signed up for five classes: Taking Quantum Mechanics turned out to be a bad idea. Finding myself very pointedly the only undergraduate in the small class, I found myself unable to seek peership with the stolid electrical engineering grad students surrounding me and the course material was getting thick fast with no signs of letting up. Explaining to my professor that I was having difficulty with the material only succeeded in getting him to tell me I was stupid.

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and the class was no more, thanks to web-based class (de)registration. Quantum shall wait for another day.

In the meantime, Gymnastics is fantasically fun and neat, the NII course is starting to get juicy with talk about monopolies and how technology and society play off each other. Music is looking to get very fun (see my idea), and Networking...well, Networking is going to be easy.

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{consulting} Silverdew Consulting (web) is the name of the gig I'm with now: myself and fellow Stanford student Eric Silverberg (cool guy). I listed myself on mySql's home page and got a call from a law firm on the east coast. I completed the session in 15 minutes and made $100. [grin] That's $300/hour. Damn. I grinned as I ran out the door to my class -- if only I could make that on a sort of regularized basis and code free software the rest of the time, everything would be cool!

That aside, I am working on a big project called Start@Stanford. Non-Stanford machines won't be able to get in, but if you are coming from Stanford, it's here. This is a project to provide students with a cutting-edge database driven web system for events, calendars, forums, email, etc. and to put a nice interface on it. Our goal is nothing short of subverting the whole campus network. [grin]