Jim Bumgardner / jbum.com

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I've moved to a new website, KrazyDad.com. Check it out! I'm leaving these pages up for historical (dis)interest, but I am not actively adding things to this website anymore.

I am now working for Topspin, in Santa Monica, having recently left Yahoo. I am not currently teaching Flash classes at Art Center, in Pasadena, but may resume at some point, if my schedule permits it.

All jbum, all the time

Hello, I'm Jim Bumgardner, a software technologist, teacher and devotee of recreational programming (e.g. that swirly thing on the right). I am the inventor of The Palace, a mid-90s avatar chat system. I am the proprietor of KrazyDad, the website where I give away a few of the hundreds of software toys I make every year.

This is my personal website, I've been dumping stuff here since the mid-90s so it is somewhat cluttered and disorganized. The main sections can be reached by clicking on the links on the upper-right of this page.

I have diverse interests which aren't easily categorized. You can read about a few of them by clicking on the links below.

Computer-generated Art Flash & Actionscript Kaleidoscopes
Computer-aided Magic Computer Chess Information Theory
Artificial Life Tunguska & Shamanism Lexicons and Language
Music Birds Books
Fun with Flickr

If you would like to send me an email, address it to jbumnull@nulljbum.com. I have been using this same email address since the mid-90s, so it gets a LOT of spam. Try not to make your email read like spam and hopefully, my over-enthusiastic spam-removal system won't trash it.