About me...

Profile: Tim Fredrick

  • Facebook Compromise 1/27/11
  • Basic Info
    • Relationship Status: Married to the most beautiful, Sherrie Fredrick
    • Child: Daniel
    • Dog: Rosie (chihuahua mix)
    • Anniversary: September 2, 1996
    • Hometown: Louisville, Colorado
    • Political Views: Global ecological wellness, Demoblican or Republocrat, Radical Centrist
    • Religious Views: Christ as my redeemer (Hillside Church of the Savior)
  • Bio
  • I am a computer administrator supporting Macs, PC's, and Linux systems for the atmospheric chemistry division of NCAR. I'm married and have a beautiful wife and son (see http://www.tefredrick.com). And even though I was "Darth Vader" on the Star Wars Quiz, I am really on the side of good :-)
  • Favorite Quotations "Row row row your boat, gently down the street. Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, life goes down the drain." (Daniel, 3 years old)
    Also: "Daddy Bells, Daddy Bells, Daddy all the way." (Daniel, 3 years old)
  • Work and Education
    • Employers: NCAR: April 1981-Present
    • College: University of Colorado at Boulder '86, dual-major CS, English
    • Technical Education
      • Frontiers of Science Institute (FSI) 1979
      • Usenix LISA Conferences 1998-present
      • Microsoft MSCE Windows 2003 certification
    • High School: Grand Junction High School, 1980
  • Likes and Interests
    • Activities: Genealogy, Film, TV, Woodworking, Running, Travel, Parenting
    • Interests: Technology, Gadgets, Solar Energy, Personal Computing, Operating Systems, Science Fiction
    • Books: Harry S Truman, 1776, John Adams, Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline, Robert Charles Wilson, Connie Willis, Vernor Vinge
    • Movies: The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 12 Angry Men, Cars, Star Trek (2009), WALL-E, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Dark City, The Thirteenth Floor, Blade Runner, Contact, Gattaca, Apollo 13, Insomnia, A Beautiful Mind, Knowing, Fly Away Home, Lawrence of Arabia, Serenity, (many more)
      • Recently Saw: The Social Network, Toy Story 3, Inception
      • Favorite web videos: here
      • Family videos: here
    • Television: Nova, Scientific American Frontiers, House, History Detectives, Star Trek (OS, TNG, DS9, V, E, & movies), Survivors (BBC)
  • Contact Information

Why this Page?
Links

In 2010, Facebook started to use information from my "info" tab to create posts from groups on my wall. Concerned that Facebook really "owns" anything I post to my info page, I decided to go ahead and post it to the site I manage instead:

Tim's Facebook
Time: How Facebook is Redefining Privacy