Profound Effects
	I write special effects software. That's so cool.
Skydiving
	Check out what I do on the weekends!
Juggling
	Check out what I do on the weekends in the winter!
Audi A4
	Ah, I love my car. It goes zoom.
Computer Graphics
	Ever since I was an undergraduate, computer graphics have held my interest. At the University of Illinois, I was a member of the ACM@UIUC SigGraph organization, and helped start the Sounds and Visions electronic music and graphics concert series. JugIt Virtual Juggler was another project I've worked on - it's a unique blend of graphics and juggling, seasoned with a good ray tracer, some physics simulation, and a mathematical notation called siteswap for describing juggling patterns. Matt Reeves and I did a presentation for the SigGraph student chapter on computer animation techniques. Here are the slides. I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, but hopefully it will help someone to grasp the fundamentals of animation, or to prepare a similar presentation of their own.
Other Activities
	Although not active interests, at points in the past I've played guitar (campfire-esque, Harry Chapin-ish stuff) and bass (blues mostly), done research in parallel file I/O and parallel music synthesis, and developed cryptographic application software.

So what's with Rasferet's Hideaway ? Rasferret is a character in Matt Ruff's excellent novel, Fool on the Hill. The book is set at Cornell University, and I chose the name as my handle while I was spending 2 very unusual years there. The character in the book is an evil creature with telekinetic powers. I, of course, am not, thus the different spelling of the name.

And if you really care, you can read about my personality traits: at the core I'm an INTJ, with some contributing elements of INTP and ISFJ, and even a bit of ISTJ thrown into the amalgam. Check out more personality information at sunsite.unc.edu, or take the personality tests at keirsey.com.

And now, a small look at where I've been for the past few years:

• Profound Effects, 2001-present
• Raven Software, 2001
• Hypercosm Incorporated, 1999-2001
• Compaq Computer Corporation, formerly Digital Equipment Corporation, 1996-1998
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1996
  • The Department of Computer Science
  • The Computer Music Project
  • NCSA CAVE virtual reality environment
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • The Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (now at UCSD)
  • The Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter
• The University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1993-1994
  • The Computer Sciences Department
  • Cold Soldered - The Undergraduate Projects Lab
• Cornell University, 1990-1992
  • The Department of Computer Science
• The Linworth Alternative Program of the Thomas Worthington High School, 1986-1990