Russ W. Knize's Personal Page

You are now entering the odd place that I call my mind. Just remember that I am not responsible for the integrity of yours while you are here.

There is always that special someone in your life. For me, it is my wonderful wife Amy. We got married on Saturday, October 7, 2000. We've technically known each other for about 9 years. To the left is a wedding photo of her at her parent's house the morning of the wedding. On the right is a photo of her on a boat during our honeymoon. She also has her own little spot on the web that she has been working on. Take a look at Amy's Homepage. To find out more about our wedding, you can see Our Wedding page.

On the left is a picture of my family after my graduation ceremony at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. My mother is on the left with my sister and father on the right. They actually made the 6 hour trip along with my grandparents for the ceremony. The following day I left for home for the last time....

Naturally, you can't have a web page with family and not include the pets. Since we do not have pets of our own yet, here are my parents' dogs, Toby on the left and Cody on the right. They are Maltese and are pretty clean dogs (no shedding). Toby has gone to that place that all pets eventually go, but he lived to be 16! Cody is now 2, and is quite the goofy dog.

One of my favorite places seems to be the state of Oregon. Although they get a lot of rain, I find that it is a very beautiful state. A lot of variety in climate all year around and land features that make Illinois look even more boring than it is already. I'm not sure if I'll ever live there, but I know that I want to spend more time there. This is picture that I took of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon during a sunset. This was one of the few we had while I was out there with my parents.

Since it consumes quite a bit of my life, I figured that I ought to mention my job. Well, I am currently working for Motorola, Inc. as a Software Engineer in their High Availability Platform project. If you were paying attention, you'd know that I actually have an Electrical Engineering degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Well, I decided to look into Software Engineering as well as Electrical Engineering because that is area that I also enjoy. I figured that since EE covers a lot of the software realm (helped out by the fact that I specialized in Computer Engineering), I would just go with EE instead of CS.

A couple years ago, I got back into the MOD and Demo Scene since I had been out of it since about 1992. They have come a long way since the Protracker MODs I used to listen to. To find out more, visit my Scene page.

In my spare time, I enjoy working on my cars when it is nice out, tinkering with electronic projects and gizmos, or working on my computer(s). I also enjoy flying radio controlled aircraft and fly an old Sig Kadet Mk. II and a Sig Kougar.

Well I guess that's enough nonsense for now, so if you haven't had enough...too bad, nosey! :)

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Updated on 07/01/2001