Welcome to Brian Tarricone's website. To the left you'll find navigation links to the rest of the site, including some things about me, and some pages about my work on Free Software.
I have a web journal, an online résumé, and a PGP/GPG key.
I'm an active core developer for the Xfce Project, a lightweight desktop environment for the X11 windowing system. I also work on Xfmedia, a spinoff project, which aims to be a simple, easy-to-use media player.
I've been a Linux user since the end of 1999. I currently run Gentoo on my main desktop machine, as well as on my laptop and HTPC.
I currently live in Sunnyvale, California. No, there aren't any vampires here; nor is there a hellmouth. Check your spelling. I work for Netgear on networked multimedia products. While I'm not getting my ass kicked playing basketball with my coworkers, I'm probably at Stanford ballroom dancing. At the time of this writing, I'm SBDT's webmaster and photographer.
For five years, I lived in Ithaca, New York, spending four and a half of them finishing a Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. For the final half-year, I worked full-time for Cornell Information Technologies, where I had worked part-time for just under three years as a student. I spent most of my time in Ithaca doing the ballroom thing, which is part of the reason it took me nine semesters to graduate. Before I started dancing, I spent two years playing trumpet with the Big Red Marching Band.
Before that, I lived in Ellicott City, Maryland, where I went to school at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, Maryland. I played trumpet and was a huge band geek, basically lived in the music wing of the school for three years. I also sang bass voice in the choir for a year and a half. In an attempt to be somewhat less lazy, I ran with the outdoor track team for a year. Before River Hill opened, I spent a short year at Glenelg High School, where I played backup goalkeeper on the JV soccer team. Essentially that just means I sat on the bench a lot. For two years previously, I attended Mount View Middle School, where I again spent far too much time being musically-inclined.
I was born in Wall Township, New Jersey, and lived fifteen minutes from the Jersey Shore until I was twelve years old. I attended Wall Intermediate School for one year before moving to Maryland. Before that, I went to Central Elementary School for four and a half years (where I started playing trumpet in fourth grade), and Allenwood Elementary School for a year and a half.
I'm not particularly certain what happened before that, but likely it involved a bit of being born, and a lot of sitting around doing nothing and pissing off my parents.
last modified 3 oct 2006 at 12:41.