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Welcome to my Web Page! I hope you enjoy the following personal trivia.

On Work:

When I'm not pursuing leisure activities I work at The Great-West Life Assurance Company in the Information Services Division. I am currently the Chief Technical Architect for the corporation. You can email me there at krst@gwl.ca if it's related to work. If you are a vendor, try not to send me a message; I get plenty already. Personal messages should be sent to kerry@gatewest.net. You might be interested in checking out my "experimental" web page.

On the Planet:

I live in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. From a geographic point of view, it's very centrally located, although quite distant from other major cities. My home houses not only myself but my wife Catherine, son Eric and daughter Miranda. Caution: they grow continuously, so their web pages may not match their current sizes.

On Personal Dimensions:

Highest elevation: 19,000m (58,000ft) aboard BA Concorde, mid-Atlantic, May 1984.
Lowest elevation: 25m below sea level, off Johnson's Point, south of Antigua, Jan 1990.
Most Northerly point: 64.1n 51.4w near Gothab, Greenland, April 1991.
Most Easterly point: 51.7n, 1.2e near Dover, UK, June 1984.
Most Westerly point: 21.3n, 158.0w near Waialua, Hawaii, Jan 1988.
Most Southerly point: 14.0n, 61.0w near Castries, St. Lucia, Jan 1990.
Highest Temperature: +44C (+111F), near Bismarck, ND, USA, July 1988.
Lowest Temperature (absolute): -42C (-44F), Winnipeg, MB, Canada, on several occasions.
Lowest Temperature (Windchill): -74C (-100F), Blizzard, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, January 1985.
Highest Velocity: Mach 2.03 aboard BA Concorde, mid-Atlantic, May 1984.
Slowest Velocity: 0.00 km/h, on couch watching "The Simpsons", numerous occasions
Worst Chinese food dish eaten: Oily shredded Sea Cucumber with Soupy Bean Cake, May, 1987.
Most Dangerous Place Visited (natural): Inside Soufrieres volcano crater, Montserrat, Jan 1990.
Most Dangerous Place Visited (man-made): Being squished in a ticket line, Apr 1972.
Safest Place Visited: Marriot Marquis NYC, during Police Convention, May 1997.

On Claims to Fame?

Almost won the flight final in 1970's Canadian TV quiz show, "Reach For the Top" (missed by 10 measly points...)
Had breakfast with Dr. James Gosling, inventor of JAVA. (Yes, *AFTER* he was famous!);
Crossed the Atlantic on the QE2 (a mistake - everyone else on board was at LEAST 80 years old!);
Have appeared on local radio and TV on many occasions;
Met Knowlton Nash, former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation National news announcer;
Waited for a taxi with Davy Jones, former 1960's Monkee singer;
Scuba'd deep below the Caribbean sea a few times;
Ran a half-marathon and lived;
Met Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on the moon;
Personally escorted a pair of female Russian attack helicopter pilots for an evening (and Yes, they were BOTH grandmothers too!);
Carried a dead 3m Boa Constrictor around town for a night;
Coaxed a smile from Diana Ross in Chicago's O'Hare airport;
Stayed two doors down from Hari Belafonte at a Jamaican resort;
Was abandoned in a NYC cab in the middle of a Bronx street when the cabbie took off! (left the driver door open as he ran away, too...);
Had dinner at the table next to Academy Award winner Marvin Hamlisch at a London Algerian restaurant.
Well, it's not me, but my sister has met Boy George and Jean-Claude Van Damme!

Notable Quotes Encountered:

``YOU ARE ALL ENTIRELY FREE TO CHOOSE WITHOUT THE COERCIVE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVE EVIDENCE.''-- Anonymous UFO fanatic
``Well you know, C isn't that hard, void (*(*f[])())() for instance declares f as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return void... I think"-- Sigurdur Asgeirson
``Windows 95 n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system orginally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.''
"We were eating some shrooms and it seemed like a good idea" -- David Matson
``It used to be brand-spanking new, but I'm not really sure if one is allowed to say spanking on campus these days without feeling the wrath of the ahhhhhhhhh...''-- Tom Dubinski

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This page was last updated: December 27, 1997 by: kerry@gatewest.net>