William Tracy

William Tracy

According to IMDB, William Tracy was born on December 1, 1917. Before and during WWII, he starred in several low-budget comedy movies. He is best known for playing the lead role in the film adaptation of Terry and the Pirates. He died in 1967 at age 49.

Apparently there is more than one person with the name William Tracy. Who knew?

William grew up on a diet of Star Trek: The Next Generation and library books. (He was fond of Janet and Isaac Asimov’s Norby series.) He assumed he would grow up to work in some field of the sciences. His mother suspected he would grow up to draw comic books.

He wound up at California Polytechnic State University, and while there he spent a year as vice-president of the Cal Poly Linux Users’ Group. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, which he figures falls under the broad umbrella of “science and engineering.” He now works at Cisco Systems, a company that makes boxes with blinking lights that make the Internet work.

His spare time is consumed with plans to fill his apartment with aquariums, launch a webcomic (eventually!) and conquer the world with Open Source software. He occasionally wonders whether writing on the Internet is really the best way to meet women.