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...oh wait, it's the other way around. Aahzgud Bean Kattfud is a strange alias created by Darrick Wong. You see, way back around 1997, all these web sites got the idea that they could track visitors' usage by requiring them to sign up for free services; that usage data could be sold to marketers! Therefore, Darrick decided to throw foil in their radars and create a number of false aliases. After watching a Mr. Bean episode where Atkinson dressed while driving, "Mister Bean" became a digital alias for Darrick. Later, after reading Wayside Stories from Wayside School, Darrick picked up the name Osgood from one of the three Erics. Aahzgud is a mutation (cancerous?) of that name. Finally, Kattfud...well, that doesn't require explaining.
But the marketers caught on. They are now attempting to make me schizophrenic and loony. About once a month, I get mailings addressed to "David" Wong. Uh-oh! If you want to restore the author's sanity, send comments, praise and congratulations to DarrickWng@hotmail.com. Send complaints to /dev/null.
If you haven't left this page by now, that means you might actually be interested in what I'm really like. Darrick is a senior at Menlo School in Atherton, California. During the summer of 1999, I worked for VIT, a Palo-Alto based supply chain analysis company. I helped them to create a cooperative web site management update process and a HTTP logging service for customer support. Martha Mendoza wrote an article about how Silicon Valley teens such as myself are spending their summers programming instead of flipping burgers; you can access the abcnews.com and the Yahoo! articles from this site.
This last summer, I also found a collection of old music on 78rpm records. After dubbing them onto tapes, I published the list of music here .
The summer before that, I was a journalist, covering the remodeling and retrofitting of Douglass Hall, a large mansion in the middle of the Menlo campus. I have created this site to host everything that I have done since matriculation in high school.
During the school year, I spend probably too much time doing computer work and not enough time doing schoolwork. I've managed to get myself wrapped up in many, many clubs on campus; this year and last, I have been the editor of The Polyglot, Menlo's foreign language journal. I also have some strange connection with Menlo's Literary Magazine...official "strong silent type"?
On the more nerdly side of things, I've been a part of The Neighborhood, Menlo's math/nerd club. Once or twice a year, we do AHSMEs and other such math competitions; in past years, we have also sponsored the Menlo Obfuscated Code Kontest (M.O.C.K.). Last year, I happened to be one of the judges for the contest! I have never seen more poorly written code... For you physics types, I am also a member of The Engineers at Menlo (T.E.A.M.) Last year, we won 1st prize in the state and 3rd in the nation for the JETS competition! We're hoping to have a repeat performance at this year's contest.
Well, that's all for now. Look at what showed up on this site on my 17th birthday. I wonder what will happen for my 18th? Probably nothing...
Yes! We Have No Bananas! Get 'em here!
Oh...Nick Casey wrote a NY Times article spoof entitled "Mozart's Clarinet Quintet Declared a Hoax. Then, I wrote a nice little rival article entitled Fake English Teacher Declared Hoax. The best part was that I actually got some English teachers to switch places! I posted this article around campus, and...