Hilary Chan
Short Bio
I am now living in Seattle, taking classes at the University of Washington and learning various foreign languages. Just finished an intensive 2nd year Uzbek summer program there. Before that was some 3 years of Russian. Will start 1st year Arabic in a month, I hope.Yes, folks, this is my third career -- that of a linguist, sort of. I'm mostly interested in how to leverage the computer and the Internet for language learning, and mostly just the written language. So I enroll in various language classes to learn how people learn. Doing field research, the way I see it, with myself and my classmates (and sometimes my professors) as the guinea pigs.
So... my first career as a computer programmer ended in 1989/1990. Last job was writing device drivers for a PC graphics card company. Second career as an artist/sculptor ended in about 1996 or 1997 -- however, I continue to make and sell pottery, which I consider "craft" not "art". Well, not the gallery or museum kind, anyway.
By the way, I have an interim website up at www.hilarychan.com mostly with photos of my paintings, sculpture, and ceramic pieces. But maybe you'd be more interested in the pictures of *me* (ah sadly yes old man I have now become...) at www.hilarychan.com/who.html or perhaps even the little movie clip of me dancing the Russian/Ukrainian Kazachok (Cossack dancing, you know, squatting down real low and kicking your feet out...) at www.hilarychan.com/old (yes old man can dance too! -- for a few seconds before he falls on his butt, that is.)