What’s that smell? Oh, that would be me burning out moments after we launched. Ouch.

As a booby prize, I was given BountyQuest’s web servers when the thing wound down. I’m putting those to use in developing my next startup… Sweet.

For this company I took a (now permanent) leave of absence from the Ph.D. program at Brown.

We were doing podcasting in 1999 by scraping MP3.com and assembling full-length sets from their audio files and play lists. It started as a project that I led while a grad student at Brown University.

I’m grateful for everyone who took part in this.

College wasn’t doing it for me, so I took a break after freshman year to help create Virtual Reality Fitness Equipment! Woo hoo!

CyberGear merged with Tectrix Fitness Equipment, which was in turn bought by Cybex. Nice.

Thatcher (who was the lead programmer at CyberGear) maintains a page about the company.

First-hand experience tells me that cleaning pools for $25/hr is better than counting dirty cans at a recycling center for $3.80/hr or working a cucumber field for $8.00/hr.

No, I had never heard of the Internet. Yes, I had to walk uphill both ways to and from high school.

My parent’s phone was my phone, and for years after I left home my parents would get calls from people looking to have pools opened/closed/cleaned.