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Who is Scott Ventura?

At Play

I sing with the Chorus of the Genesee, a barbershop chorus. That also makes me a member of SPEBSQSA, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. "It's great to be a barbershopper!" I'm also singing in a quartet called Fever Pitch.

I derive a great deal of enjoyment from driving, pinball, and roller coasters. I've got a few sims on my machine, but nothing compares to the real thing. For year-round rollercoaster-esque enjoyment, I've now got a Chaos Tower.

I have an unhealthy obsession with good web implementation. I wanted to be a web mender, someone travelling the country making the suggestions that push web sites from junk to not junk. It hasn't worked out as a business venture, so it's time to try a blog. See ramblings on imperfect sites at WebMender.com.

And because enough of my friends were doing it, I started keeping a LiveJournal. I particularly enjoy the cross-blog tools and the comment system, which would be quite difficult to implement on my own site.

For a few years, I was a big movie buff. I wrote up a few hundred movie reviews during that phase. I don't watch movies nearly as often any more, and most of my writing energy goes elsewhere.

I also enjoy unusual clocks. I've got three clocks from Chronoart, and I'm usually on the lookout for other artistic ones to add to my collection.

At Work

I'm employed by Xerox, working in the Wilson Center for Research & Technology. I'm doing software coding for an image compression system, turning lots of dots into a few bits. I could tell you more, but then they'd have to fire me.

A Brief History

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, and lived there through high school. I spent my undergraduate years at the University of Rochester in Rochester NY, majoring in the then-new Computer Science program. I graduated in May of 1997, and never left town.

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