I'm John Passaniti. Well, one of them. I'm the one in Rochester, New York. Well, actually it's a lovely suburb of Rochester called Brighton. I live there with my husband Phil (see how in your face I am?) and three cats: CJ the femme fatale, Fluff-Fluff the shy girl, and Sylvester the cuddle boy.
For roughly the past 31 years, I've worked as an embedded systems software engineer. Most of those years have been spent working on digital audio signal processing and control systems for the music and sound reinforcement industries. I've also spent time working on industrial carrier-grade Ethernet switches, machine vision systems used in medical laboratory automation, software-defined radio for military applications, and most recently, a bunch of other random stuff for an engineering services company.
By my estimate, there are roughly 3.1415 gazillion websites in the world, 62% of which at some level involve videos of cats and laser pointers. This site currently lacks such video content, but you're welcome to enjoy the following until it does:
- Yes, I have a profile on LinkedIn, which is all professional and stuff.
- Yes, I'm on Facebook too, so I can keep up on what my friends have had for lunch.
- Here's a collection of random junk that I've left for other people.
- Need my email address? Here you go:
Finally, here's a demonstration of one of my best character flaws:
For the record-- and because it continues to annoy the hell out of him-- symtab still sucks (and sucks for completely objective, measurable reasons). The author has had several years now to prove his goofy claims with a simple benchmark that should take seconds to execute but refuses to do so. And it amuses me to no end that even after all these years, he was so upset by me pointing out the obvious that he still continues to reference me.