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I was born Suresh Jayakumar to parents Preethi and Vivek Jayakumar in
Philidelphia PA, 1966. Later I changed my name to 'Alphonso' after
being given a spiritual name by my guru Bill Gates in the early 1980's
- after my guru switched to the dark side in 1984 by creating Windows,
I again switched my name to 'Jason' which means 'bringer of light'.
I studied biology at California Institute of Technology and graduated
with a BS in 1988.
I went to graduate school for Biology in Sweden from 1990-93. I was a
bad biologist. I quit.
I went to graduate school for Computer Science at the University of
New Mexico from 1994-1999. During this time the great apostle RMS
converted me to the one true church of FOSS, and I have been an
apostle ever since. I got along better with computers than bacteria -
they gave me a PhD in computer science and told me to leave the
country.
So I came to India in 2000. They let me in and fed me dosas and idli -
very nice people - so I stayed.
In 2005 I met Dinesh from Servelots. I wanted to install Pantoto on my
powerpc linux laptop. It wouldn't install. I was sad. So I thought I
would help the nice people at servelots by debugging the installer - I
was a fool. Two weeks later I learned why I liked Perl better than
Java - but it was too late - I had read too much Java and now I
couldn't write Perl code anymore. So I gave up the side of truth and
justice and decided to help improve Pantoto by writing Java - besides
it looked good on my CV.
The people at Servelots where very nice to me - they laughed at all my
jokes, they fed me nice food everyday at lunch, I even got two tea
breaks every day, they took me hiking in the hills around bangalore,
and eventually we made a lot of technical improvements in the core of
pantoto, besides now I get to write all kinds of extra cool things on
my CV like Hibernate, ORM, WebMacro, I18N, Model2, MVC, SVN, ant -
wow, after Java my CV is twice as long!!
Then I left bangalore and went to visit Auroville. The people here are
very nice, so I stayed. They feed me chocolate croissants for
breakfast, I still get two tea breaks every day, and sometimes I get
idli on the weekends if I've been a good boy. I still lend
intellectual and spiritual support to the Pantoto project. Some people?
even call me 'godfather'.
PS. Actually I was born Jason E. Stewart to Joann and Randall Stewart
in Lancaster Pennsylvania, in 1966. The bit about bill gates being my
guru was made up... everyone knows Dinesh is my guru.... the rest is
true
I was born Suresh Jayakumar to parents Preethi and Vivek Jayakumar in
Philidelphia PA, 1966. Later I changed my name to 'Alphonso' after
being given a spiritual name by my guru Bill Gates in the early 1980's
- after my guru switched to the dark side in 1984 by creating Windows,
I again switched my name to 'Jason' which means 'bringer of light'.
