Born July 7, 1957. Janine's husband. Rebecca, Michael, Daniel, and Jonathan's dad.

If you are searching for a Dave Parker (or David Parker, or David B Parker, or David Blair Parker), then I may be the person you are looking for if you know of me in connection with: James Logan High School, Churchill County High School, Stanford University, SLAC, MIT, artificial neural networks, backpropagation, assembly language, AcroSpin, DPGraph, or Flaming Thunder.

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Updated June 27, 2009.

Some of my favorite music/video/audio links:

Al Yankovic, "White & Nerdy"
Eminem, "Lose Yourself"
Graham Nash, "Our House"
Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"
Laurie Anderson, "O Superman"
Mariah Carey, "Without You" by Pete Ham/Tom Evans (Badfinger)
Michael Jackson, age 11, with the Jackson 5, "I Want You Back" by Berry Gordy/Freddie Perren/Alphonzo Mizell/Deke Richards
Paul Potts, "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot" by Giacomo Puccini/Giuseppe Adami/Renato Simoni
Randy Rhoads (guitarist), "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads/Bob Daisley
Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called To Say I Love You"
Susan Boyle, "I Dreamed A Dream" from "Les Misérables" by Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil
Trans-Siberian Orchestra, "Wizards in Winter" by Paul O'Neill/Robert Kinkel, lights by Carson Williams
Virtual Barbershop, no video, binaural audio, wear headphones
Ysgol Glanaethwy, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("O Fortuna") from "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff

Some of my favorite photographs:

1983. We stopped at the Grand Canyon on our way from California to MIT for the start of Janine's graduate work in physics.

 

1984. The happiest day of my life. The demurest day of Janine's life.

 

Janine's parents Sheldon & Barbara, my parents Annette & Morgan, 1984. Janine and I were married by our parents, who served as judges, jury, and elocutioners.

 

Me, Becky, 1985. Babies are little miracles; they are even balder than we are.

 

Me, Becky, Janine, Michael, 1987. Becky running away from home after learning about genetic inheritance.

 

Michael, friend Taina, Rebecca, Janine, 1987. Janine dropping a tarantula down Taina's shirt.

 

1988. Daniel discovers subatomic particles in Janine's ear.

 

1989. Becky, me and Michael seeing how long Daniel can hold his breath.

 

1989. Janine, mountain woman, carrying a freshly-killed towel.

 

1989. Milo of Croton.	Venus de Milo of Croton

 

1991. Late-night buddies. While Janine got some sleep, I got lots of work done and Jonathan reenacted great moments in boxing history.

 

1993. Our life is full of drama.

 

Daniel, Michael, Jonathan, Rebecca, 1993. The secret to cute kids is to have their father cut their hair.

 

Grandmother Nana, 1993. Nana required powerful meds.

 

Janine, Rebecca, friend Jane, 1997. The ladies enjoying an outing at the NY Met.

 

Top: brother Phil.
Bottom: father Morgan, sister Deb, camera glare, brother Jay, mother Annette, 2003.

 

Rebecca, me, 2007. Beck left some photos on a camera that she lent to me; I discovered that great minds photograph themselves alike.