The first 47 years, what I call the `dry, dull data' period can be covered rather quickly. I was born in Montréal on Easter day way back in `37. At age 17, thinking I knew everything there ever was to know, , I dropped out of school and went hitchiking. My excuse? I wanted to learn English, and I did. Returning from a trip in Florida in early December `54, I ended up downtown Montreal on a freezing (-20F) day, all dressed up for Miami weather. I did the only thing a young, famished and broke patriotic young Canadian could do.... I joined the Air Force! It was shortly after the Korean conflict and the country needed defending.... and I was hungry!

Turned out to be the best move I ever made. I received a good training in electronics and completed my formal education which had been so unwisely halted. I spent most of my career in the educational field, where I taught aerospace engineering to graduates of Canadian military colleges at the Canadian Forces Aerospace School in Borden, Ont. My last assignment was as Base Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Officer at Bagotville, Qué. And that takes care of the first 47 years!

Having said goodbye to the rat race, I moved to the only Canadian area where I could sail nine months of the year and could throw away all snow shoveling equipment.... Vancouver Island. [OK... we got three feet of snow last month! But it hadn't happened since, oddly enough, 1937 and I hope it won't happen again for another 60 years]. I sailed the area within 150 miles from home for the first seven years or so. When not on the water, I can be found at the computer keyboard. I have been involved with computers in one way or other since the early 60's and computers have been good to me. Producing the Omega Connection for the past few years has been my way of paying back to the computer community a little of what I owe it.

If you 'really' want to know more about John, then click here Be forewarned however this other page contains some gory pictures... not for the faint-hearted kind of individual. And it has a photo of sailboat Y-Knot tucked in the corner of a little bay, and....