David S. Cargo's (Escargot's) Home Page
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Welcome to Escargot's home page, that is, the home page of David S. Cargo.
Just it time for the holidays, I have added a wishlist, which contains things I'd like for Christmas, birthdays, etc. Just to give people ideas.
This is an evolving attempt at a home page, with more links, graphics, and photographs anticpated in the future. (Sorry the wait has been so long.)
The photographs include:
Currently, I use
Skypoint
for connecting to the internet through a DSL connection.
According to the listings provided by Switchboard there are nine people named "David Cargo" in the U.S., but I am the only "David S. Cargo". Additionally, I'm the only David Cargo living in Minnesota. I used to be the only Cargo living in Minnesota, but a distant relative moved to the NW corner of Minnesota last summer.
I was born in Washington state on May 3, 1951. During my early years I lived on the Olympic Peninsula. I lived in Port Angeles and Port Townsend on the Olympic Penninsula. I graduated from Port Townsend High School in 1969. (My mother now lives in Sequim, which also has a small web site of its own, as well as a mention in Dan Youra's Official Olympic Penninsula Guide.)
I graduated with a degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1974. (Sometimes you can see Mount Rainier in the U of W homepage, if the weather is clear.) I worked for the U of W as a computer operator and systems programmer to earn money for school. I was eventually a full-time staff programmer, but since this was before I graduated, I usually skip this on my resume.
I moved from Seattle to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1975. (Another link for Seattle, Seattle-Area Info. For my personal list of favorites for Seattle, click here.)
I have worked for Honeywell (1975 to 1989), Cray Research (1990 to 1995), StorageTek (formerly Network Systems ) (1995 to 2001), and Marix Technologies (2001 to 2002).
My career jumped a track, and after a sabatical year I started working as a baker at Trotter's Cafe and Bakery. It has been fun showing my friends all the things I have baked there behind the retail counter. Stop in some time for muffins, sweet rolls, bars, and breads that I have made myself.
If any of my former schoolmates or coworkers find this page, I would be more than happy to get e-mail from you.
Most recently I completed a CSCI 5110: User Interface Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.
I have also taken a Java class at St. Paul Technical College.
Judie Ann Cargo Cilcain and I have lived in the Highland neighborhood of St. Paul since 1990. She and I were married in the fall of 1996. For our honeymoon, we went to Washington State and visited serveral places, including some bed and breakfast places around Seattle and Puget Sound. We stopped and visited several of my relatives.
I was back there about seven weeks later. I wasn't quite so sick, but going there seemed like a wise procaution.
On Thanksgiving evening, I stopped back there and left a plate of Rice Krispie Treats as a thank you. People in emergency rooms don't often get any thanks; I felt that it was the right thing to do.
I think I made two ER visits in 1997, and none since.
The University of Minnesota had a noncredit class in pinhole photography that I took in 1996. I built a pinhole camera out of an old 120 box camera and took several rolls of film, mostly T-Max 400 or 100. My ambition is to take a 20-minute exposure of Minnehaha Falls. (I have had two of my pictures published in the Look AHEAD calendars for 2003 and 2004. My submission to 2005 did not get accepted.)
After Spring Quarter, 1997, I decided to give up teaching community ed, at least for now, because it has prevented me from taking classes at the University of Minnesota.
I keep a copy of my old Netscape bookmarks here. I have created a "key word in context" index of the headings of my Netscape bookmarks file, so that you can look for headings more easily. (I once received e-mail from a person in Brazil who told me he downloaded my bookmarks to use to find places on the web; apparently I'm a mini-Yahoo!)
I have started using the Noweb system for literate programming (see the The Literate Programming FAQ).
