This blurb was last updated 1996 November 1

Roedy Green
Canadian Mind Products
POB 707 Quathiaski Cove
Quadra Island, BC
Canada V0P 1N0

(250) 285-2954 home phone.

S.I.N: 706-511-227
name on birth certificate: Munroe Frederic Compton Green
Internet Roedy@bix.com

born 1948 Feb. 4.  Male 6'4" 225 pounds. Pronounced
Rho-Dee accent on the first syllable. This is a nickname
derived from MunRoe, my school days name. Size 39 pants.

INTERESTS

Planetary consciousness -- think globally, act locally.
Optimize globally.  Plants and animals have just as much
right to the planet as humans. Man is the caretaker of
earth, not its master.  We must reduce the number of
humans without resorting to war, pestilence or violence.

This includes in roughly descending order: Protecting the
environment.  Relaxing the taboos that are holding our
populations too high.  Communication with cetacea and
other animals including humans.  Pranging (stunts that
break people's conditioned patterns or addictions).
Writing essays.  Frogs.  Africa.  Tropical reefs.

I am available for contract work.  I prefer to work in
Java, C++, Forth, Abundance, Delphi or assembler.  I have
proficiency in dozens of computer languages. I'd also be
interested in working with Smalltalk or Perl, but I don't
have experience with those yet.

SALIENT FACTS

- loves speaking to large audiences.  Hint hint.

- Uses humour to gently introduce revolutionary ideas.
Talks in metaphors with hidden meaning.  Actively
implementing plans to reshape the world.

- donated his house to charity in the spring of 1985.

- started Gay Lib in western Canada back in 1969.

- HIV+ since summer of 85 (the AIDS rabbit died, but I'm
still alive and kicking.) I am keen on spreading the
techniques to which I ascribe my longevity and high
energy.  Because of poor health, I resigned my job in
December 1994.  In December 1995, I had an amazing rally,
that collapsed the day I found out my T cell test results.
This hints to me that AIDS is largely a psychosomatic
disease. For my health I have moved to a rural environment
with quiet, clean air and low population density.

- Wrote an article in 86 October Byte on Abundance.  It is
a computer language that can jaunt (run forward and
backward in time).  Its philosophy is radically different
from the mainstream.  I implemented a compiler and put it
in the public domain.

- Wrote the public domain BBL (Big Black Lady) 32-bit
Forth compiler. JPL told me they used it as a base for
their compiler to control unmanned space craft.

- Worked with John Lilly at the Human Dolphin Foundation.
Wrote an electronic Etch-A-Sketch controlled by delphinic
whistles. Took dolphins on their first tour of the human
world using an video camera and underwater video monitor.
Worked on project Janus.  Present at the first experiment
in November 1979.

- Wrote Optow - a program that designs most of the
transmission lines in BC and Brazil.  It was the first
time I discovered the whole was more than the sum of its
parts. It had a "style" and "personality" I had no
intention of programming in -- it just emerged out of the
low level detail.

- Types with Northgate Omnikey Ultra Dvorak keyboard,
instead of QWERTY.  The idea is most common characters are
in your home row, and the least common in the bottom row.
I could not touch type QWERTY without severe wrist pain.
With DSK I can type for hours a day at up to 100 WPM
without discomfort.

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- wants to learn new languages including Esperanto,
Chinese, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic and an African
language.  I am most interested in grammar and how
language determines what you _can_ think.

- Past president of Apples BC.

- There are some interesting new projects coming down the
pipe.  I am somewhat overcommited just now.  I am still
trapped in poverty consciousness, but I somehow need to
fund these altruistic projects. This is where the money
from shareware registrations goes.  I need skilled people
to implement the details. Projects include:

1. Stay in Touch database so friends can always find you
no matter how often you move or change Internet providers.
It subtly encourages people to support children in the
third world by publicly displaying the names of children
supported. I already have about 50 completed
questionnaires.  Available as Web search engine, ASCII
file, paper subset, or structured database incremental
download for off-line browsing. Could also be used by
schools to track people for the next reunion

2. BusTel: way of rapidly full-duplex exchanging
name/address/credit information during a voice call.  This
fits in with the "Common Phone" design contest (see BIX
telecomm.tech/phone.co) which will implement the BusTel
protocol in desk phones. You tap the heart/trust key to
exchange names/addresses.  You tap twice to exchange
credit card info.  You tap three times for direct debit
exchange.  This project has potential to generate big
bucks.

3. Web site to distribute master copies of everything
(software and essays) CMP (Canadian Mind Products, nee
Consolidated Moose Pasture) has ever written.

4. Tools to automate software sales/rentals, discourage
piracy and lower software prices. This is also a potential
big money maker, but it requires more initial funding than
the other projects.

5. Registry to help you find your ideal lover using
principles from Hendrix, Keyes and Vialogos.  You fill out
a VERY detailed HTML questionnaire and get a list of the
best matches. It is an exercise in inner and outer
honesty.  Scanned photos too.  I have already been doing
this manually for gay people.

6. Child abuse database.  Tracks suspicious incidents, in
themselves not conclusive, but when viewed in totality
show a picture of imminent danger.  This is the brainchild
Alexander Investigations run by an ex-cop/private
investigator.  It has stalled for lack of funding.

LOVES

Inspiring people to take a stand for planetary
consciousness, sex with black guys, giving massages,
hearing about people's human relationship problems, Woody
Allen (especially Sleeper), early Roberta Flack, CBC Radio
(especially Leon Cole, The Royal Canadian Air Farce and
Double Exposure), Bach, Walter/Wendy Carlos, the movie
"Something For Everyone" with Michael York and Angela
Lansbury, clean air, clean water, consciousness workshops,
new efficient, secure computer architectures and new
computer languages that make life easy for both programmer
and user.
 
MY MACHINE

I have a 90 MHz Pentium, PCI bus.  1 GIG Futjitsu SCSI
Disk. 16 MB RAM.Turbo Cool power supply.  ATI video card
that will remain nameless to protect the guilty., Alps
Allegro 500 dot matrix printer, NEC Silentwriter 95 Laser
printer, Sony 17se monitor. HP 2 gig DAT drive. Omnikey
Ultra DSK keyboard.  Logitec bus mouse.  USR 28K modem.
Toshiba 4x EIDE CD ROM.  Hewlett Packard 3C colour
scanner.

I run both OS/2 warp and Windows 95. Both have many
shortcomings.

MY HEROES

Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Robbins, Woody Allen, Superman
(Chrisopher Reeve), Martin Luther King, Gandhi, John
Lilly, Ken Keyes, Stephen Gaskin, Carl Sagan, Nelson
Mandela, David Suzuki, Paul Watson (we both stayed at the
same frat house back in the early 70s), Jay Vanderbilt, St
Francis of Assisi (For his guts to confront the pope with
his hypocrisy, though I think he overdid the poverty
thing), Kent Brothers (no he's not Joyce's husband, he's
the author of VP Planner and the most intelligent person I
have ever met -- a genius with a social conscience -- a
Bahai.)
 
PEOPLE I WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET I HAVE NOT MET YET

In roughly desired chronological order: Jerry Herman,
Anthony Robbins , Woody Allen and friends, Patrick Stewart
(Captain Jean Luc Picard), Oprah Winfrey, Julie Andrews,
Christopher Reeve, Hillary Clinton.

DASH 30 DASH

The "-30-" at the end of my posts is a newspaper
convention meaning "the end".  If you have a listing, it
confirms all was printed properly.  In a modem
transmission it confirms nothing was chopped off.

FAVOURITE QUOTES

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
draw back, always ineffectiveness.  Concerning all acts of
initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid
plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.  All sorts of things occur to
help one that would never otherwise have occurred.  A
whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising
in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance which no one could have
dreamed would have come their way.  Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power,
and magic in it.  Begin it now."

from "Notes on the Scottish Himalayan Expedition" by
William H. Murray.  The last three sentences beginning
with "Whatever you can do..." is a quote from Goethe.

There is no end to what can be accomplished if you don't
care who gets the credit.  
-Art Rennison.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed
citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing
that ever has.  
- Margaret Mead

Think globally; act locally 
- anonymous

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by
incompetence.  
- Roedy

All great programmers are paranoid 
- Roedy

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world
blind.
- Gandhi

We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it
wasn't a fish.
- John Culkin 

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
- Kikuyu Proverb

Make something beautiful for God 
- Mother Theresa

Face your fears
- Barbara Green (my Mom)

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you 
- The Golden Rule

Be the planetary citizen you want everyone else to be. 
- Roedy

Imitation is the sincerest flattery 
- Gandhi 

The penis is mightier than the sword 
- Roedy

Love your enemies.  Do good to them that persecute you.
- Jesus

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to
fully communicate my deepest feelings since hiding in any
degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from
other people:
- The Seventh Pathway from Handbook to Higher
Consciousness by Ken Keyes

I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating
addictions create my illusory version of the changing
world of people and situations around me.  
- The Second Pathway from Handbook to Higher Consciousness
by Ken Keyes

I am perceiving everyone, including myself as an
awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright
to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love
and oneness. 
- The Twelfth Pathway from Handbook to Higher
Consciousness by Ken Keyes

You are the people.  You are this season's people -- There
are no other people this season.  If you blow it, it's
blown.  
- Stephen Gaskin

Enlightenment is getting off your tail and doing
something.  
- Stephen Gaskin

One should strive not to lie in the negative sense by
remaining silent.
- Leo Tolstoy

FINANCIAL STATE

Since December 1994, I have been too ill with AIDS to work
full time and now my savings are all but exhausted. As of
today there is $300 left in the bank. To conserve money, I
have turned off the heat in my cabin, and live primarily
on home made bread. Happily, thanks to the new drugs D4T
and 3TC, and my rural environment, my health is improving
and my ability to work is returning.  I would greatly
appreciate any support by registering any of my software
that you find truly useful.  I would also greatly appreciate
any contract programming work you could direct my way.

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