own and operate Río Oso Farm, Inc at its word headquarters in the town of Heber City, Utah.

I'm an engineer for a small electronics company that specializes in real-time embedded Java.

I am a member of the Utah Llama Association and IMpaca! (the Intermountain West Alpaca Association).

For fun I chase balloons at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta every October, brew my own beer, read, and spin from my own carded roving. I enjoy bird watching and have more than 200 species on my life list, nearly 50 of those were observed at the original Río Oso Farm, Inc World Headquarters in Herriman, Utah.

Río Oso Farm is a real place in southeastern Idaho. The Bear River bisects the farm, hence the name.



This web site complies with the grammar requirements of XHTML 1.0 Strict as specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It has been a bit of a journey from non-compliance to initailly compliant with HTML 4.01 Transitional and then to compliance with XHTML 1.0 Strict. Next step is - perhaps - compliance with XML though I'm not yet sure that the effort required to get there will be worthwhile.

Feel free to test me using the W3C's HTML Validator. The W3C icon at the bottom of the menu will invoke the validator for the currently displayed page. If you find pages of my web site that do not validate, please tell me so that I can fix them.

Reference user agents (browsers) for this web site's design are Opera 9.1 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 because they at least attempt to hew to the W3C standards.