Currently I live in the Greenmeadow community which is in the city of Palo Alto, California.
Author: glenn
Where I Worked
I am now retired. Previous employers: Roku working on testing automation for set-top boxes and streaming sticks, smart TVs and speakers. Apple working on testing the Maps application. Lab 126 (a subsidiary of Amazon) where I worked on the Kindle, Fire Tablet, and the Echo. VMware where I worked on test automation for the Volume Manager. VERITAS where I worked… Continue reading Where I Worked
Professional Associations
Association of Computing Machinary Bay Area Chapter IEEE Computer Society Bay Area Chapter Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Software Development Forum Bay.Net
How to Contact Me
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Mathematics, Music, and Emotion
Copyright © 2010, Glenn Story I begin with a warning: this is going to be technical, both mathematically and musically. My hope is to explain a complex subject clearly. I remember once being in a movie theater in Japan and laughing along with the audience even though I hadn’t understood the dialog. Perhaps you’ve experienced… Continue reading Mathematics, Music, and Emotion
Do Animals Love?
Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story Before I address the question of whether animals love, let me say what I don’t mean, lest there be any confusion on the subject. Certainly all animals experience sexual desire. If a species lacked that quality, they would swiftly die out. So I’m not talking about sexual desire. Nor am… Continue reading Do Animals Love?
Bike Ride
Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story The weather is warm — hot in the direct sun. But once I start riding the breeze created by my movement is cooling and refreshing. This is the shortest of the normal courses I ride. I ride past the abandoned HP facility — jobs all gone to India. Through an… Continue reading Bike Ride
PC Boot Sequence
This collection of pages describes how a PC boots. “Booting” is the process of loading and starting the operating system, the fundamental piece of software that in turn loads your applications. The boot sequence consists of these steps: Initiating the boot sequence. Power on Reset or Other Basic Input Output System (BIOS) Power On Self… Continue reading PC Boot Sequence
Impressions of Bangalore
Copyright © 2008, Glenn Story Saturday, January 26, 2008 The waiting area in the Frankfurt airport, where I changed planes en route to Bangalore, India, was full of nerdy young men. I was to be on a 747 full of software engineers; I feared my experience of Bangalore would be disappointment at the dilution of… Continue reading Impressions of Bangalore
American Dream
In the early days of the 20th Century, in the southern part of China, was born a boy named Chow Sun Ho. His family called him “Ho”. The region in which he was born was called Jung San, which means “central mountain”. It was near the Portuguese colony of Macao, and less than a day’s… Continue reading American Dream