My Web Pages My Music Page My Art Page My Humor Page "Combinatorics of the I Ching" What is this Thing? Family History Compensated Banjo Bridges How to View 3D Images Goodbye, Caddy

My Banjo Projects How I Built a Gourd Banjo - III How I Built a Gourd Banjo - II How I Built a Gourd Banjo - I How I Built a Goltone Maple Classic How I Built a Flesher Minstrel

My Blogs Thingamablog Blog Nothing Happens At Ten

Favorite Web Pages I Read Reading Art Association There, I Fixed It.

Emails briankimerer @ yahoo.com bkimerer @ gmail.com

As you can see from the photo, I am a banjo player. I make and play banjos as a hobby. I also paint pictures as a hobby. I am a software engineer by vocation, and a musician and artist by avocation. This web page contains links to my work on the World Wide Web as well as some words about me and my personal history.

Another of my hobbies is writing. On occasion I simply enjoy writing up some bit of humor or a strange mathematical treatise. There are links on the left side of this page to those meanderings under the headings, "Combinatorics of the I Ching", "Compensated Banjo Bridges", and on my Humor page in general. This is all amateur stuff, which is why it is published on the web and not in books.

I design my own web pages from scratch, entering the HTML tags with simple text editors. I like to keep the pages graphically simple as a contrast to all the vibrant noise that papers the web in general. I have a bunch of links to my various pages in the box under the photo.

I have just begun to get involved in blogging. There is a link to my very first blog in the list on the left. Characteristic of my strange sense of humor, the blog concerns the details about the tool that I use to write the blog. It is mostly full of the esoteric trivia of the particular tool I use, which is called "Thingamablog". If you are not interested in the cruft of web technology, it will probably hold little interest for you. Feel free to visit it anyway.

As for my personal history, I was born long ago in the state of Oklahoma. I don't remember much about my birth because I was very young at the time. I went through grade school, junior high school, high school yada yada yada, blah blah blah, and ended up with a B.S. in Physics. At that point, our own Uncle Sam called me into service, and I spent 6 or so years as a Pilot in the USAF.

I departed the Air Force and went back to graduate school where I procured a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering. Then the real fun began.

I have spent the last 31 years working as a software engineer in various markets including Semiconductor Capital Equipment, Factory Automation, and database engines. In most of those jobs I concetrated on the design and development of Graphical User Interfaces. This was a unique opportunity to satisfy my interest in technical areas as well as my aesthetic interest in the graphical world.

I am currently working at a job which requires me to write programs that demultiplex telemetry data sent down from a missile. I guess that makes me a "Rocket Scientist".   =:O   It keeps me on my toes.