My Home Page - Captain Oblivious</a> <style type="text/css"> body {padding: 0; margin: 0; background:#7799aa;} .hdr1 {font-size: 28pt; text-align: center; padding: 5pt; color: white; background:#5e5945} .hdr2 {font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-align: center; padding: 3pt; color: white; background:#8d8870; } h4 { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12 ; text-align: center; border : thin solid; background:#80795f; margin: 3pt} .left {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12 ; text-align: left; margin: 3pt; text-decoration: none} a.left {color:#223344;} a.left:visited {color:#335566} a.left:active {color:#335566} a.left:hover {text-decoration: underline;} .center {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt ; text-align: left; margin: 3pt; color:#335566; margin-bottom: 9pt} .ac-javascript {background:white;} .ac-item {font-size: 12; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: white; width: 130px; border: 1; margin: 3px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 3px; } </style> </head> <body> <table width=900 height=100% align=center bgcolor=#ffffff cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr valign=top> <td width=15 bgcolor=#335566> </td> <td width=2 bgcolor=#223344> </td> <td align=center> <div class=hdr1>The Captain Oblivious Home Page</div> <div class=hdr2>aka, The Michael Cruse Home Page</div> <table height=100% width=100% border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr valign=top> <td width=150 bgcolor=#dedaca> <h4 align=center>My Other Sites</h4> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.coastergeek.com>Coaster Geek</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.gladthing.com>Family Web Site</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://turbulntlobster.livejournal.com>My <i>LiveJournal</i> Blog</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.librarything.com/profile/michaelcruse>My <i>LibraryThing</i> Page</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_oblivious>My <i>Flickr</i> Page</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.friendster.com/223018>My <i>Friendster</i> Page</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.classmates.com/cmo/user/profile/index.jsp?regId=4318044>My <i>Classmates</i> Page</a><br> <a class=left target="_blank" href=http://www.43things.com/person/captainoblivious>My <i>43 Things</i> Page</a><br> <h4 align=center>My Link Tags</h4> <div class=left> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/tags/captainoblivious?count=33;flow=list;size=10-32;color=0000ff-000066"></script> </div> </td> <td> <img src="captain_oblivious_3.jpg" border="1" style="float:right; margin: 3" width=35%> <p class=center>Well, here we are at my home page. At the moment it's more for my convenience than yours, so don't be expecting too much. Mostly I want a central location for links to all the other web sites with information about me or the stuff I do. For example, <a href="http://www.coastergeek.com/coastergeek.htm" target="_blank">roller coasters</a> or pictures of my family.</p> <p class=center><b>Why 'Captain Oblivious'?</b> As John Belushi so eloquently put it, "<Belch> Why not?"</p> <p class=center><b>A few words about the family.</b>There's the <a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g285/bulldoglafitte/6-19-20054-32-21PM_0001.jpg" target="_blank">three of us</a>: Brett, whom I married in 1991, Taylor, who came along in 1997, and me. We live in a house, have a dog and a cat and a couple of rabbits. Very suburban, American dream stuff. There's a whole bunch more pictures of us over <a href="http://www.gladthing.com" title="GladThing" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p class=center><b>Some personal history.</b> As my sister puts it, we come from a family of migrant white-collar workers. I was born in Pittsburgh, PA, which explains why I am rabid Steelers fan. When I was 5 we moved to Connecticut, first to Glastonbury and then West Hartford. In between 10th and 11th grades we moved again, to San Antonio, TX. The culture shock was everything you coul imagine it to be, and more. After graduating from John Marshall High School I went on to college at Stanford University in California, where I got a degree in Mechanical Engineering.</p> <p class=center>After college I went back to Texas, which I found to be a lot nicer place to live now that I had a <i>car</i>. Got a job as an engineer at Southwest Research Institute, running computer simulations of fuel injectors and things that went "Boom!" for no obvious reason. I also convinced my friend Brett that dating me might not be a completely bad idea. After about a year she even agreed to marry me, in the summer of 1991. We bought a house, got some cats and dogs, and then in 1994 I got laid off. Bummer. So I went back to school, this time at the University of Texas in Austin. Brett stayed in San Antonio, and I came home on weekends.</p> <p class=center>1997 was a big year for us. In March Taylor was born, and then that summer I got a Masters Degree, again in Mechanical Engineering. Shortly after that I started working for a small engineering firm on Long Island, New York, again doing computer simulations of fluid flows. New York was not our favorite place to live, but we found ourselves a nice house, made some new friends, and settled in to the business of raising Taylor.</p> <p class=center>Things changed again in 2006. My company had grown to the point where it was setting up regional offices around the country, and it was time to put someone in the Texas office. Since I'd requested that slot nearly three years earlier, that someone was me. So we found ourselves a new house in Round Rock, close to work and schools (Taylor was just finishing 3rd grade at this point), and got to go through the hell that is moving. But we got through it mostly intact, and now here we are.</p> </td> <td align=center width=150 bgcolor=#dedaca> <h4>Some of My Photos</h4>  <style type="text/css"> #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #000000} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;} </style> <table id="flickr_badge_uber_wrapper" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0"><tr><td><a href="http://www.flickr.com" id="flickr_www">www.<strong style="color:#3993ff">flick<span style="color:#ff1c92">r</span></strong>.com</a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0" id="flickr_badge_wrapper"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?count=5&display=random&size=s&layout=v&source=user&user=41695711%40N00"></script> </table> </td></tr></table>  <h4>Some of my Books</h4>  <table><tr><td> <small><small> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src=" http://www.librarything.com/jswidget.php?reporton=michaelcruse&show=random&header=1&num=6&covers=small&text=all&tag=alltags&css=1&style=1&version=1"> </script> </small></small> </td></tr></table>   <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.allconsuming.net/person/captainoblivious/js/all/5"></script>  <br> <br> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width=2 bgcolor=#223344> </td> <td width=15 bgcolor=#335566> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>