🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been nominated as a possible Director of the Toronto Free Net,
and am proud to be part of the group assembled by Dmytri Kleiner to
run in this election.  I would appreciate your support.
 
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Biographical Sketch:
 
53 years old, divorced (amicably), long term relationship with Joahna.
Two daughters, one in first year computer science at University of New
Mexico, the younger a high school student in Boulder, Colorado.
 
Education:
 
Primary, Lycee Francaise de Londres, London.  Secondary, Upper Canada
College, Toronto (on scholarships).  University of Toronto, political
science and economics, and happy-go-lucky good times, 1961-65;
commerce and accounting, 1985-87.  BA in Accounting (not a BComm,
because of all the arts courses.)  While at university the first time
was editor of The Gargoyle, 1964; Chair of the New Democratic party
Club, 1963; worked 40 hours a week as a machinist some years, wrote
free-lance radio and television a fair bit.  The second time around I
spent more time on my classes, but was also elected student rep on the
Economics FAculty Curriculum Committee, and served on the Board of the
Economics Students' Association.
 
Employment:
 
1965-66, Research staff, This Hour Has Seven Days, CBC Public Affairs
TV.  Printer, This Magazine Is About Schools.  Wrote several radio
reports on the "Quiet Revolution" in Quebec, and was one of the few to
predict the defeat of Jean Lesage.
 
1966-72, I thought that as a Canadian I ought to see what I could find
out about the States.  Travelled and worked in 33 states.  Main jobs
were, with some overlaps, Conference Coordinator, US Student Press
Association; ran conferences and seminars for student newspaper
editors, nationally, in Washington and Valparaiso, Indiana, and at the
state level all over the place.  The one in Valparaiso was a summer
national Congress; Valparaiso was chosen to make it convenient for
450+ student editors to attend the subsequent Democratic Convention...

Then, Washington office manager, "The Commons, an Institute of the
Independent Sector,"  an attempt by the major Protestant churches, the
ACLU, National Welfare Rights Association, NAACP, the Committee of
Heads of Major Jewish Organizations, etc. etc. to form a Rand-like
think tank.  (The attempt later failed.)  During this period took part
in several interesting projects, including the negotiation between the
North Slope (of Alaska) Natives Association and the oil companies,
where we helped fund the Natives' professional help; and the founding
of the Tallahatchee County Farmers cooperative in Mississippi, where I
wrote the articles of incorporation.
 
Attempted to get to Japan by driving west.  Got married, to the
excellent Susan Schmidt, helped Frank Oppenheimer in a minor way to
get The Exploratorium started. (I helped put the Mathematical
Serendipity exhibit together.)  From Japan, where I had applied for
machinist jobs in the auto plants, possible now, but unreal then, I
recieved the reply "Why you not get foundation grant?"  Went to work
for American Heritage as Assistant Editor on Horizon.  
 
From there, took a "six month assignment" writing legislation for the
House Select Subcommittee on Education, 93rd Congress.  This turned
into a two year stint on the Professional Staff of the 93rd and 94th
Congresses, until the legislation I wrote was passed, followed by a
six month consulting job with the Administration, putting it into
effect, creating the National Institute of Education, which evolved
into the present Federal Department of Education.  (In one draft of
this legislation, H.R. 5606, I suggested that ARPAnet, as it then was,
be transferred from US Air Force to National Institute funding.  This
almost, but ot quite, made it through House mark-up, which is why I
sometimes joke that I am one of the few people who has ever tried to
steal the entire I-Net.)  During this latter period I also served as a
consultant to Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert at the Artificial
Intelligence lab of MIT, commuting weekly by plane, and helped them
re-align the lab to civilian funding sources.
 
And then, what I had intended all along after the US, off to Japan:
 
1972-85: Initially toured japan, giving seminars on information
technology at the America Centers operated regionally by the US
Department of State; studied Japanese science and technology for a
peper paid for by the National Science Foundation and distributed to
its Educational Staff Seminar.  Learned the langage fairly well.  Then
fell into business: from 1972 to 1984, first built a coin laundry for
my own use with my own money, about $22,000 invested, $20,000
borrowed.  This was the first Western-sytle coin laundryin Japan, in
Kokubunji, in the Western Tokyo suburbs, and people lined up down the
block to use it.  I then built ten more on my own hook, and then over
the next nine years built 376 more, all over the country, for other
investors.  This brought the industry into existence, which mans I can
claim that 19th-Century-sounding title "industrialist."  Whereas it
took me about ten years to build 400 stores, it took Sanyo and Sony 18
months to build 7500 in 1982-84, and with that the industry matured
out.  I wrapped things up, my shareholders did nicely and everyone was
paid.  I retired, and went back to school.
 
1985-87: Accounting student, UofT.  1988-90, Chartered accountancy
student, Thorne, Ernst & Whinney.  Served on the Board of Chartered
Accountancy Students Association of Ontario.  1991-93 (after Thorne
Ernst merged with KPMG/Peat Marwick, and the Japan unit of which I was
a member vanished) Comptroller, Enviromelt, an experimental and
developmental foundry in hamilton, attempting to pioneer a new
technology in cast iron production.  1993-95, President, Central Brake
Technology, Ltd., a failure as a manufacturer of brakes.  1986 to
present, President, David A. Lloyd-Jones & Associates, Inc., my
personal holding company, which undertakes various projects.  Main
activity at present is the speculative development of a hybrid media
CD-ROM for the 1.5 million economics students in North American
universities.  Targets are a trial distribution of 40,000 disks for
the summer semester next year, then full distribution in the fall and
winter of 1997.  My major activities right now are studying the
relevant technologies, scraping up a consulting job now and then to
pay the rent, and two unpaid jobs in Cyberspace: Treasurer of the
Toronto Free Community Network (the developing backbone organization),
and Moderator of the sci.econ.research newsgroup on Usenet.  This
latter, which I run with a certain amount of pepper and ginger, is a
functioning and professional information exchange for a few thousand
professional economists around the world.  It occupies me a couple of
hours every morning, every day for the last 13 months, and is great
fun.
 
That's enough bio.  In the next message I shall list what seem to me
my qualifications, and what I thing ought to be done if I am elected.
 
                                -dlj.