Russ Schnapp's Personal Home Page

Welcome. You must be exceedingly bored to be spending the time to visit here. I'll entertain you as well as I can, but you really ought to move on to more interesting WWW fare...

I was born in da Bronx and grew up in Flushing, New York. My educational history is:

Grammar school: PS 164 (Kew Gardens School)
Junior high school: Campbell Junior High (this building now houses CUNY's law school)
High school: John Bowne High School
College: Queens College, City University of New York (BA, Comp Sci, 1977)
Postgrad: Princeton University (MSE, EECS, 1978)

Brigid Hom and I married in 1978 and moved to San Diego, where we've lived ever since.

My career included working as a computer scientist/programmer/computer architect/what-have-you, helping design and debug bleeding edge microprocessors at Metaflow Technologies. I followed that up with 20 years of working on ebooks at Softbook Press, eBook Technologies, and finally, at Google.

Hobbies include

Cooking (all kinds, but lately I'm into making fermentation (pickles of various kinds, and sourdough)
Travelling
Reading science fiction, when I get the chance
Watching classic movies and contemporary indie movies
Ham radio (I'm N2BV -- and don't hassle me about not having changed my call letters since moving to CA!)
Viewing and telling folks about sky phenomena, including satellite overflights and especially rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. (See my Sky Lights web site if you're interested.)

If you want (make that need) more information than you can find here , you'll have to ask me yourself. To do so, send me email at rlspwp@schnapp.org.
...and finally, to see something interesting in the sky, check out this link.

Anyway, thanks for visiting, and get on with your life!