Pete Apple:  

Howdy! Ok Here We Go! Life Story! I've got 20+ years to cover here, so it might take a bit! 84-88: Purdue: B.S. in Computer Science School was ok, but I spent a great deal of my time working for the computing center and hanging with friends. Truly, I was in the right place at the right time as my University job got me a job right out of college on the west coast. Highlights: Lots of late nights and Mountain Dew. Played lots of computer games, DnD, and board games. Lived it up. 88-92: Oregon: Worked for a computer company in Portland. My GF from college came out 6 months later and we shacked up in a house there. I grew my hair out and grew a beard. I learned about various activities people on the West Coast do. I followed the Grateful Dead during two summer tours, just because some friends were going. I learned about even more interesting activities people on the West Coast do there. Hightlights: Expanded Horizons, got a new hairstyle. 92-Now: Moved to Seattle to work with/for Microsoft. GF went south to the bay area. I've been working with/for Microsoft since that time. I met my future wife at a trade show in Vegas in fall of '92. We got on quite well from the start. Married my wife, Jennifer, in 1994 and later adopted her two kids so they're official "Apple"'s. Cut my hair (for the adoption) and learned how to run a baseball league and sell Girl Scout cookies. Kids are now 23 and 19. The 23 year old is married and has a son as of 8/08. So I'm a Grandpa! Let me see, interesting things. Obviously, I'm still big on the computer, just like in High School. It's worked out ok for me. I have lots of friends in the "industry". Since '92 I've worked at the Microsoft campus on various flavors of Windows. Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and all the server versions. So if you're using a PC right now, the soft...Expand for more