Dear Diary,
I haven’t even written about the neat stuff in our 2.0 release, and now I’ve got a new project to keep me busy. I can’t talk about it.
But I do want to note that I feel like I’ve been looking forward for a long time to a particular — yet somewhat ill-defined — exciting trip. Now all of a sudden I’m going, and I realize I’m not packed!
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About Stearns
Howard Stearns works at High Fidelity, Inc., creating the metaverse.
Mr. Stearns has a quarter century experience in systems engineering, applications consulting, and management of advanced software technologies. He was the technical lead of University of Wisconsin's Croquet project, an ambitious project convened by computing pioneer Alan Kay to transform collaboration through 3D graphics and real-time, persistent shared spaces. The CAD integration products Mr. Stearns created for expert system pioneer ICAD set the market standard through IPO and acquisition by Oracle. The embedded systems he wrote helped transform the industrial diamond market. In the early 2000s, Mr. Stearns was named Technology Strategist for Curl, the only startup founded by WWW pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. An expert on programming languages and operating systems, Mr. Stearns created the Eclipse commercial Common Lisp programming implementation.
Mr. Stearns has two degrees from M.I.T., and has directed family businesses in early childhood education and publishing.
It’s OK. Where you’re going, clothes are imaginary.
Have a nice trip!
And when you get there, have an imaginary umbrella drink on an imaginary beach for me!