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David William Carroll, born May 16, 1949 (Taurus) in Portland, Oregon of Florence E. and Cecil T. Carroll. Cecil worked as a street designer for the City of Portland. Florence worked as a secretary for the Bonnieville Power Administration. Florence divorced Cecil and married Russell F. Ames, a non-commssioned officer in the US Air Force in 1957. I have one half-brother, James, Florence's son by her first marriage.
I attended many schools due to my step-father's Air Force career, including elementary schools in Portland, Oregon (Gregory Heights, Rigler); Delake (now Lincoln City) Oregon; Everett, Washington; Mountlake Terrace, Washington; and high schools including Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington; USAF Dependents High School in Chateauroux, Indre, France in the Loire Valley; and I graduated with High Honors in 1967 from James Madison High School, Portland, Oregon.
I was awarded a full scholarship to Pomona College in Claremont, California upon graduation from High School. I was deeply involved with the school FM broadcast station, KSPC-FM, and participated in several campus events.
I also attended school at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) for one year.
Personal: White male (Scotch/Irish) 51 yrs, 6'5, 270 lbs, blue eyes, long blondish hair (thin on top), beard, smile, and great sense of humor. I am a Mensa member, but you might like me anyway. I am intelligent, curious, always learning. I enjoy playing some collectable card games and role playing games (like Magic:The Gathering). I am interested performance and production of film, the theater, television, and radio.
I am researching London, Europe, and Egypt around the turn of the century (1880-1910) for background for one or more historical mysteries. I have written 5 non-fiction books about computers.
Over the past few years, I have been involved in several hi-tech computer/internet projects as a software engineer and architect.
Some of these projects include:
Hobbies: Flying (small planes), riding horses, travel, old book shops, hiking, camping, old movies, jazz/blues, folk, rock, chess, games, reading, writing, photography, video, computers, Internet, creative activities. Occupation: Multidimensional computer wizard extrordinaire, writer, photographer, and nice guy. Quote: "If you think your homework is hard - you should try mine." A. Einstein
I am an avid Sherlock Holmes fan and collector, and I have created a WWW resource called The Baker Street Connection, which features all 54 short stories and the four novels in the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I like most science fiction and mystery novels in general. My favorite mysteries include Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters. I also enjoy hard boiled American detectives like Lew Archer.
I am building a company which provides Web software to schools and businesses and creates custom Web presences. Computer Image Technology in Santa Cruz, CA.
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