| | Tachyon Labs is now 25 and 12 years old
 In 1984 I was working at a computer-store- slash-add-on-board-manufacturer doing computer repair, programming, tech writing, training, and so on, and as part of my continuing education my boss encouraged me to use the state-of-the-art search engine of going through Byte and other computer magazines circling "bingo card" numbers for new hardware and software products I was interested in learning more about.
I filled out those bingo cards using my home rather than work address, and I thought I ought to have my own company name as well, to sound more respectable to all these businesses I was wanting to send me stuff. "Tachyon Labs" was the name I came up with, which seemed supremely capable of containing multitudes and covering everything -- whether you needed programming, art, mad science, writing, baking, what have you, Tachyon Labs could get the job done!
I've continued to use the name happily ever after, and registered the domain tachyonlabs.com on February 27, 1997.
My children Sam and Arthur are now 20 and 14 years old
When I first started putting up web pages back in spring of 1995, I immediately made pages about each of my children and featuring their creations, interests, and accomplishments. And immediately afterward I found out how quickly such pages get out of date -- seriously, if you, say, put up a page about your baby that seems to you like the most beautiful page in the world, before you know it your "baby" will be years older and that beautiful page way out of date.
 In that vein, the pictures to the left show me with my children Sam and Arthur when they were almost nine and almost three, and although you can still see the pages I was lovingly maintaining for them at the time here and here (plus our similarly-seriously- outdated games page), they have since gone on to running more of their own online lives/presences. These days among many many other places Sam can be found on LiveJournal and the Jazz Jackrabbit Community Forums, and Arthur on BoardGameGeek and flickr.
4 and 20 blackbirds web pages
I probably do have at least four and twenty web pages here sorely in need of a good overhaul, but here are some of my more up-to-date pages:
- For nine years I ran the Pyrzqxgl BBS, a tree-structured discussion board in Santa Cruz, California. As Tane is the name of the Polynesian god of forests and trees this seems appropriate.
- For eleven years I've gotten around town on a BikeE recumbent bike.
- My Fender/Squier Venus, Martin Backpacker, and Epiphone Flying VeeWee guitars all have their own web pages, and I also have an in-process Guitar page which includes info on jam sessions in Santa Cruz.
- In spring 1992 I did a picture book, My Dog Carmel, as a project for two classes.
More coming soon!
 Back in the day, just like everybody else I made just no end of different "under construction" signs for my web pages. It wasn't even very long after that before such signs became very much frowned upon, but I've continued to leave my "Rosie" one up anyway because it's become kind of a symbol for me. (BTW, check out Rosie promoting women jazz artists, encryption rights and unions -- she gets around!)
Copyright © 1995-2009 Tané Tachyon
Last updated June 15, 2009
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"... as purple as a love that would last forever" - Julius Lester "'There's no records of anyone called Tachyon anywhere,' said the woman, her voice suggesting that this was a major criminal offense." - Terry Pratchett
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