Marty Cawthon's Home Page

Happy Trails...

Exploration of Japan on foot:
walking the beach from Kawa Minami northward to Tsuno
Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu
photo by Fujino Takashi 2008-01-12 15:42

Welcome!

I enjoy meeting people, especially "face-to-face". But that is not always possible, so this homepage is a way for you to know about me. Besides, even if we meet face-to-face there is not enough time to say all of this. I hope you enjoy browsing around my homepage.

Past Activities and Future Goals

• Resume
• New Years Resolutions
• Favorite Homepages

SnapShots

These are photos of my experiences. Mostly they are of "everyday life". "Everyday life" is interesting to me - especially everyday life of people in other countries.

My plan was to post (publish) a different SnapShot each day. One day I got sick with the flu, and did not get that day's SnapShot posted. After I recovered I "fell out of the habit" of posting a SnapShot. I must "get back into the habit"!

• *.Cawthon
  Photo of "Cawthon Clan" on 2000-01-02. This is a special photo as it was taken five months (to-the-day) before Shirley died from cancer.
• List of all SnapShots of Japan
  Converted from static html pages to 'ChipChat SnapShot Server' - but many photos must be added to the database.... 2008-01-19
• List of all SnapShots of America
  A different photo published each day (usually) of Marty Cawthon's experiences in America.
  Must convert to 'ChipChat SnapShot Server' - until then the pages might not render properly in your browser.

Talks and Speeches

• Machizukuri Forum in Koga
  Text of a speech delivered via Live Internet Video from ChipChat Headquarters in Dearborn Michigan to a conference in Koga, Fukuoka, Japan on 2001-01-21.
• Yokakusa Koga: See the World but Live in Your Hometown
  Text of a speech delivered with Etsuko Inoue (Nihon-ChipChat) at the Global Conference of The Internet Society in Yokohama, Japan on 2000-07-21
• GNU/Linux, Unix, & BSD in Plain English
  Web-page based on a lecture written and delivered by Marty Cawthon to an audience of corporate computer professionals in Chicago on 1999-05-06.
• Some Experiences with ChipChat in Japan
  Text of a speech delivered at the IBM OS/2 Asia Pacific Reception at the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on 1995-11-15.
• PC-to-PC: From Personal Computers to Program Colonies
  "Prediction of the future" type talk about computers of the future running mulitple "software robots" (your computer becomes a "colony of software robots") and the importance of networks. Given to a meeting of Ungermann-Bass (network equipment manufacturer) in Florida about 1989 or 1990. When I find my original materials I will post something here.

Things I Like to Do

• Great Highland (Scottish) Bagpipes
  • Player, historian, maker.
  • North American Champion in 1968
• New England style Country Dancing
  • A derivative of English, Scottish, and Irish country dancing, this form flourished in New England towns and villages in the 1700s and 1800s.
• Running, Roller skating
  • During good weather I like to run, typically 2 miles, and roller skate with in-line skates. In cold or rainy weather I enjoy going up and down stairs to music (real stairs, not a stair machine).
• Judo
  • From 2001-06 my "home dojo" is the Ann Arbor YMCA Judo Club
  • Go Kyu (5th level) Green Belt, 1999-12
  • Roku Kyu (6th level) White Belt, 1999-09
• Learning Japanese Language
  • I wrote a Java applet which helps you to recognize Japanese characters: Hiragana and Katakana. It is called ChipChat Japanese Training I continue to struggle with Kanji, and plan to expand my Java applet to help people learn Kanji.
• Geology and Earth Science
  • Member Geological Society of America since 1998. I participate in GSA field trips and enjoy learning more about Geology.
• Bonsai & Gardening
  • Member of the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society

Things I have Done, and Other Interests

• Great Lakes Sailing
  • I used to co-own a sailboat, a Tartan-30 called "Five Pipers". We sailed it on Lake Erie and other Great Lakes. It was a great experience but there are other things that I'd rather do with the time (and money!) "the second-happiest day in my life was when we bought that sailboat; The happiest day in my life was ..."
• Antarctica
  • I visited the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic in 1986/87 as part of an expedition from Stanford University. I would like to visit again, someday.

Books that I am Reading Now

• Tsunami The Underrated Hazard
  by Edward Bryant.
  About Tsunami (sometimes called "Tidal Waves" or "Harbour Waves"): Big Waves that cause destruction. 2001-10