Thomas Aaron Insel

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History

If you're reading this, you probably already know me.

If not, you should know that I was born in 1973, graduated from Bloomington High School and the University of Illinois, then tried to learn lots about complex function theory and generally hung out at U.C. Berkeley. I dropped out in 2000 and became gainfully employed at Gracenote, where I beat Unix computers into submission.

In my spare time, I sleep, eat, and feed my Aloha shirt addiction. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Content

You might be amused by my pages about:

Computers

My computer files page has stuff that I've worked on, including:

• CDTOOL. Utilities for playing and cataloging audio CDs on a CD-ROM drive,
• TARTAN. A Java applet to draw tartans, together with a CGI-based database of common tartans,
• and some introductory Unix documents that I wrote for the Berkeley math department.

If you like CGI scripts, you can read a random quote from my random file of random quotes, vote on my facial hair, or control my hubcap light from the convenience of your computer.

Coordinates

Should you, for some strange reason, want to contact me, you can find me electronically as tinsel@tinsel.org and audibly at (510) 526-5384. Visitors with beer are almost always welcome.