User:Gilbert

Gilbert Ashley - Amigo Developer

The buck stops here, since I'm the one who started this.

I'm 47, born in West Texas, USA. I spent most of 15 years in Mexico. My Spanish is quite good, but fading. I now live near Frankfurt, Germany, with my German wife and our son, born in April 2004. She works, while I babysit my son. That may explain a little why I need help with Amigo!

I studied programming and computer science beginning around 1979. Never finished school, but I 'shared quarters' for 4 years with a fellow who collaborated at Los Alamos Laboratories and worked on AI projects. I'm still interested in AI and hope that Amigo allows me some time, one day, to join a public AI project at MIT.

I play the guitar, the bass guitar, sing, and used to write songs. I've translated several songs between eng-es es-eng. I'm pretty beat-up physically after a couple of bad accidents and can't really work. I like to do photography of many different kinds. I love to garden and I design low-tech energy-efficient structures and devices. I build my own computers, mostly from stuff I pick up for free.

Amigo keeps me out of trouble -takes every free minute I get!