Russ has been computing since 1972 when he traded in his slide rule for an HP41c. His first Mac was an SE (which still works) and he has been making Macs shine since 1989 when he became an Apple Certified HyperCard Developer.
In addition to being an eyewitness to and participant in Apple's innovations over the years, Russ uses his Macs to research and document the mining and economic history of our American West through text, images, sounds and artifacts. He is not only a computer god but a subject matter expert on western American history and historiography, including the life and works of Hubert Howe Bancroft.
Russ has a JD from the University of Idaho and a BA in History (with an emphasis in the oral history of the mining frontier) from Cal State Fullerton. He has taken courses in geophysical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, as well as in Recreation and Park Administration at Cal State Sacramento. He is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society.
He attended and explained how to computerize oral history at the first World Records Conference in Salt Lake City.
Russ has spoken before thousands of people on a variety of topics and enjoys educating and enlightening audiences of all sizes, as a author/publisher, family historian, tax auditor, attorney, associate city prosecutor, photographer, and fearless visionary. Most recently Russ has begun to blog and record his insights and observations in Flipboard magazines, several YouTube channels and as Bkz. He is a tireless advocate of the digital distribution of gigalinked hypertext.
Russ started MacHackers because he understands that technology is just the tool you use to build your vision/legacy/happyplace. Apple products are quite simply the most efficient and reliable path to scan, index, review and create your voice.
He enjoys learning how others use their Macs in the pursuit of creativity and in helping people maximize their creative uptime.
His interests include writing, iphoneography and ivideography; mineral diversity, the four quarters of life, 3z, Bkz, SIRC, Rvwz, the Maker Movement, remembering the past in order not to repeat it, the taxonomy of history and the history of taxonomy, texting at 30,000 feet, travel, Chinese cooking and digitizing family legacies for multiple generations of children and grandchildren.
Current projects
The Prospector and the Burro
HHB
Beyond Bancroft
Bkz
Digitizing Dad
Recipes
Affiliations
GRE
Mindat
Rockpick Lapidary School of Arts
Society of Mining Law Antiquarians
http://www.mininglawhistory.org/
WFFP
Shapeways
mINERS
archive.org
Hart3
UGA
BYU Studies
Republican Party
LDS
POV
Soloing in a sailplane over the California Desert
Texting at 30k feet in an Airbus A320
1200 feet underground collecting smithsonite
Jeeping and off-roading the deserts and mountains
Sampling world cuisine from Queens to Korea
Cruising the world on Carnival
Living in the shadow of the everlasting hills above Sandy, UT.
Pontificating about conservatism
Evangelizing tech 3D Video and 3D printing AR/VR Drones serious hypertext Multi touch books
Apologetics and Mormon theology
Studying and researching at libraries and museums worldwide.
Speaking before groups on the distribution of gigalinked hypertext
Sponsor of annual Hartill blind root beer taste test
Connesour of Kung Pao and shattered egg crisps
Curating the 70s
Developing MinePunk
