Hi!

This picture of me was taken by our Well-Friend and photographer extraordinaire, <mfox> at a well f2f in September 2004. I usually dislike pictures of myself, but this one has a nice feel to it. Thanks to Michelle for working her magic.

I live in Boulder Colorado, (great place--city website here) with my wife, Judy. (Here's her picture, from a hike in February, 2003.) Under the heading of “Why I love where I live,” one of the reasons is because it sometimes in winter looks like this. In spring, it looks more like this.

Breaking News!!

Some pictures of Day Two of the Extravaganza Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Founding of the Rockies Conference can be seen here. Lots of the other participants took lots of other pictures the previous night, including the one above. They’re somewhere.

Sort of New News!!

Son Zack’s House Concert (Backyard Actually), Boulder, CO 12 June 2004.

Old News

Here’s a collection of pictures from our garden project, spring 2003. Very much a rough first draft, so come back later if you want a more polished version.

Our family is getting to that phase where we're spread out all over the country, but here's a picture of our family all together, from Christmas, 2001.

Fire season 2002

We were evacuated from our house overnight on July 20. Here's a picture of the fire, which came to within a half mile of our house. I borrowed this one from the local media, but at 1:00 am it looked very much like this from the deck outside Caitlin's room. Miraculously, no houses were lost to this four-hundred acre grass fire along the first hogback of the Front Range. We were back in our house the next morning, watching helicopters mop up by carrying huge buckets of water up the hill from Wonderland Lake.

Where is Everyone?

Zack is a budding musician, living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Here's a picture of him sitting at the piano in our music room. His personal web page is here. He graduates in May 2002, from Macalester College, and will be off into the world to start his musical career. Caitlin is a sophomore at Stanford. She looks like this, and her website is here, where she has more pictures of our family, as well as of her college scene. Many thanks to her for the family pictures linked above. Stephany goes to high school in Boulder, Colorado; here's a picture of Stephany with Caitlin. [another big file]

Perhaps More than you Want to Know about Me

(But after all, you did come here for some reason.)

I work as an energy economist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). I'm an economist. Many people ask what that means I do. (There are whole websites full of economist jokes, which I will not link you to ;-). The short, and probably unsatisfactory answer is that I help develop renewable energy and energy efficiency projects with partners in developing countries. This is an immensely satisfying kind of work, particularly because of the people I get to work with. I have worked several parts of Africa: North (Egypt and Morocco), South (South Africa and Botswana), and West (Ghana, and as of this writing about to visit Nigeria).

Want to know what the current weather is at my house? NCAR has kindly provided information from their Boulder Laboratory, just a mile or so east of my place. If you're planning on visiting me, you might rather see a forecast.

We have good libraries here in Colorado. If you want to check out their catalogs, and a lot of others, you can visit the CARL home page Here.

Adventures on the Net

I have been online at the WELL since 1990. The WELL is where I made a lot of my first online friends. I'd been fascinated with the net since discovering that there was such a thing as the world wide web, long before I figured out how to get my hands on a browser. When it really hit me that there were big changes going on was in 1991, when someone on the well posted emails from a fellow in Jerusalem, with reports about what he was thinking about in his air-raid shelter during the Scud missile attacks. Eventually I even sent an email to him, just to let him know I was reading his reports and thinking about him. In an hour, I had an answer back from Jerusalem. Amazing! (Of course these days, it's taken for granted that you can email people all over the world, and it radically increases the pace people expect you to keep when working with people overseas. I can tell you, though, that email does not always get through to Africa.)

Another wonderful place that we discovered in our early net days was Cyberion City. Howard Rheingold was kind enough to write about my experiences there in Wired magazine. Howard deserves a plug for that, so if you're interested, you can visit his home page here. The article that talks about my family can be found Here. (Thanks to Wired for permission to post it here.) Wired's home page is Here. This is probably be fairly dated stuff, since nowadays kids have these whiz-bang animated online shoot-em-up games they can play. I'm not really sure what's happening at Cyberion City these days. I bet Aslan does, if you’re really curious. I'll leave it here as a pointer to the good old days.

THANKS FOR VISITING

Hope you enjoyed it here. If you want to get in touch with me, you can email me at

kline@well.com