Dave Miller - on the edge...

[Click for larger picture]

Mr. Miller comes from a long line of Appalachian Mountain Folk. He is one of Daniel Boone's many great great great great great grandchildren. Dave 's father was born in a cabin in West Virginia, then later delivered U. S. Mail on horseback. Dave's mother shot the dinner if it got too close to the house.

For health reasons, his parents moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where Dave was eventually born with the aid of electricity and running water. After Dave, their firstborn, they promptly stopped having children.

Dave has lived in Arizona, Utah, Georgia, the Bay Area (Sunnyvale, California), and finally settled for life in the Portland, Oregon area. So far, he has visited 48 of the fifty states and is waiting for a good reason to visit Hawaii and New Hampshire.

Dave has worked in the computer industry for over 25 years. His specialty is operating system design for heterogeneous, embedded, multitasking, multiprocessing systems. Dave is currently looking for an opportunity in the Portland area. Please see his Professional Page.

Click here for Dave's travels in South America in 2002.

Dave has had a lot of hobbies and interests. His passion is the study of comparative religion -- eastern and western traditions. (His personal philosophy leans toward Advaita Vedanta.) He has a pilot's license with a glider rating. He has been a member of a caving club, and has performed magic (read about the toasted phonebook). He has enjoyed book collecting, writing, travelling, lockpicking, bookbinding, ham radio (KJ7UY), shortwave listening, photography, and public speaking. He enjoys camping, backpacking in the rain, and getting his four-wheel drive into places that make his passengers remember the Lord's Prayer. He loves target shooting and is an NRA Certified Instructor. Dave has recently discovered that rolling a kayak is a good way to stay cool in hot weather. When stuck indoors, Dave enjoys getting on the Internet and reading English-language foreign newspaper sites.

Dave has been involved in various volunteer activities. For a while he helped answer a hotline and performed public speaking for the Center against Sexual Assault in Phoenix, Arizona. He has also worked with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Multnomah County Jails in providing religious and counselling services to inmates.

What happened to "Randy"?