Lowell Gilbert

This page isn't very fancy; it's really just the places I want to visit. I use it as the default page with which to start my web browser. That is, it's really my "home" page. [Actually, by default I skip everything up to the technical links.] Josh can probably skip to his school wiki links.

This page is intended to be readable with any browser. Last I checked, it passed the check in the W3C's validator. I consider this page a tool, and try to limit its contents to meaningful content or useful links.

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[Me] [Tech] [Reference] [Boston] [My Friends] [My Interests]

I'm married and have a child and live in a nice suburb of Boston.

I am an embedded systems programmer, and mostly work on forwarding the Internet Protocol. I am one of the inventors on patent number 6,003,077. In various ways, I've been doing data forwarding in networking devices for a number of years now, at a bunch of failed startups. I'm currently looking for a new position; my resume is here (ask for the password), or a very abbreviated summary that doesn't need a password.

I have a separate page to list places I've been. I also have a Livejournal and a Facebook account, and a LinkedIn account and on and on.

Actual Web content I maintain (as opposed to most of this page, which is merely links):

The family photo album.

A random selection from my personal fortune cookie file.

My computer configuration tricks for FreeBSD, and X-based desktop, as well as some shell scripts I've found useful in that environment.

Various things I wrote.

Technical Links that I find useful:

Reference Material

Boston-area stuff:

Libraries:

[Acton Memorial] [West Acton Citizens] [Minuteman Catalog] [Merrimack Valley Catalog] [Mass. Library Information Network] [Littleton] [Chelmsford]

Schools and classes:

[Acton-Boxborough High] [Acton Public Schools] [closings (via Ch. 5)] [A-B STEM Parent Involvement Project] [Dance Caliente]

Museums:

[Museum of Science] [Discovery Museums] [Harvard Museum of Natural History] [National Heritage] [Children's] [Fine Arts (MFA)] [DeCordova] [Higgins (Armory)] [Industry/Innovation]

Transport:

[MBTA] [Lowell Commuter Rail] [Fitchburg/So. Acton Commuter Rail] [SmartTraveler] [MassDOT Blog]

Public Broadcasting:

[WGBH 89.7, 2, and 44] [WBUR 90.9] [New Hampshire Public TV 11] [New Hampshire Public Radio] [PBS] [NPR]

Favorite local businesses:

• Bookstore: Willow Books and Second Hand Prose
• Bicycles: Pedal Power
• Games: Three Trolls Games and Puzzles (Chelmsford)
• Plumbers: [Frank Gouveia Plumbing 800-650-PLUMBER] [Chuck Foley's "Faucetorium" in Maynard, 978-897-6787]
• Pizza: [Sorrento's] (978-264-9006) and [DiCapri] (978-263-4700)
• Restaurants: [Bella Famiglia] [Sprigs] [Spicepepper Garden]
• Blacksmithing: [Prospect Hill Forge] (Waltham)
• Homebrew Supplies: [Strange Brew, Marlborough] [Homebrew Emporium, Cambridge etc.]
• Archery: [Tepee]

Friends and Ilk:

Hobbies, Interests, and Assorted Random Pointers:

I play a lot of board games, occasionally including the ones in my own board game collection. And (technically not a board game) I own a Twilight Zone pinball machine. The Pinwiki includes advice on handling WPC resets. I also own a Taylor dreadnought guitar, which I bought in the spring of 2000 from the Music Emporium in Lexington, MA.

I used to maintain a Web page for the RiverFolk Concert Series at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, RI, but they do it themselves now. Closer to my current home, there's a list of Boston Area coffeehouses.

Baseball: [Boston Red Sox] [Pawtucket Red Sox] [Lowell Spinners]

Hockey: schedules for: [UMass Lowell] [Boston University]

WWW Virtual Library: Beer & Brewing.
Local Brew stores: [HomeBrew Emporium (Cambridge)] [Beer and Wine Hobby (Woburn)]

The Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and the rest of the amendments.

Science is the political issue of the day. I'm for it. NASA will tell you why climate change is real. The fullest collection is probably the NOAA report.

Radio Theatre from [ZBS], [Full Cast Audio] (Bruce Coville et. al.). SF Story podcasts: [Escape Pod] and [StarShipSofa]. Reviews and links at [SFFaudio].

Shakespeare: [Complete works] [British Library Quartos]

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1898), Francis James Child. The Alan Lomax Recordings.

My collection of SCA and SF (Society for Creative Anachronism and Speculative/Science Fiction) links.

You can reach me at: webmaster@be-well.ilk.org.

last modified: 1:23pm, Friday, 3 May 2013 by Lowell Gilbert.