David Callahan:  

Where have you been since high school? Mentally and emotionally, I left high school in 1963, my sophomore year when I was accepted into a few first tier colleges. My father refused to allow me to go to college despite it was a free ride. He said that I was too young, he was correct, but I didn¿t know that then. I was never really free until I went to Cornell University. I started as a math and chemistry double major and was a starter for the Ivy League Championship team. I had to drop the sport due to a HS injury. While in college, I fell in love with the fine arts and architecture, a pure arts and science profession. For fun, I started to do ¿stand-up¿ comedy. Also, in 1965, because I could not spell, I wrote a ¿teco¿ (text editing character oriented) program on the computer. My introduction into the world of computers is a fun story by itself. In 1969, I graduated in South East Asia Studies (SEA). Since I only sleep four to six hours a night, I had a second life of ¿sex, drugs and rock-an-roll. I had a lot of fun and near trouble. During summer of 1968, I was in SF-Berkeley- Haight-Ashbury. My experience was incredible. Since I sing like a ¿bull frog being impaled on a dull stake,¿ R&R was out, stand-up was my key. A member of the ¿Flying Circus¿ invited me to visit them during the summer of 1969, which I did. Lots of sex and drugs¿ Now that I am much older, I can only do one of the three things, no drugs or R&R. After college, the Government offered me a job opportunity that I could not refuse. You might be surprised how few people know SEA and computer visualization. While positioned near Princeton, on my off hours, I did stand-up comedy in some small cafes in NYC and NJ. Travel: I bicycled across the US from Norfolk, VA, to Ithaca, NY to San Francisco, CA. It was therapeutic. I¿ve been to Asia, (China and SEA), Europe, a tiny part of South America and the Cari...Expand for more