The Home Page of Randal L. Schwartz at 15:04:44 30-Mar-2025
Welcome to my personal page. Most of my life is spent doing some of thefollowing:
- Working
- I'm the primary person to blame forStonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
- Hanging out online
- I frequent the Usenet Perl newsgroups,the Perl mailing lists, a bunch of other mailing lists, IRC Perl channels, andthe Perl monastery.
- Writing
- I writebooks andmagazine articles, primarily about Perl.
- Cruising
- I've been on everyGeek Cruise so far.
- Taking pictures
- I've got about40,000 pictures online here, although I'm slowly moving them tomy Flickr account.
Am I related to any other famous Schwartz folks?
Not likely. My grandfather changed his name from Von Schraeder toSchwartz when he came from Germany to the US mid-West around 1900. Mydad thinks it was to avoid any constabulary entanglement. So, I'mstuck with a hard-to-pronounce name that has a consonant-to-vowelratio of 7.0. I'd change it back to Von Schraeder, but that wouldprobably just confuse people now.
I'm a western-European mutt, with about 30% German, and the rest a mixof English, Scot, and Irish.
Mariel and me: twins!
I've discovered that the actress
Mariel Hemingway was born on the same day as me, and only one state over (in
Mill Valley, California).But does she ever write me or call me?
Nooooooooo.Well, at least not until her personal assistant was kind enough topass along my invitation to my (our) 35th birthday party, and Marielreplied by sending me a very niceautographed picture and a postcard (scanforthcoming). Mariel also asked for an autographed copy of my bookin exchange, which I sent. Now to finish editing the video shotat our party...
My travel schedule
For the past 15 years or so, I've been on the road about 20 weeks a year,accumulating over a million frequent flyer miles.See my
plan file,which should contain my travel schedule if I've been following my own plan.
Gogopuffs
I've got the word gogopuffs here just so
Google can find it,and then later I can say "Google for Gogopuffs" and hit my page.
If you don't get that, you've not watched the ads forbreakfast cereal during the Saturday morning cartoons.
Contacting me
You can reach me at
merlyn@stonehenge.com.You can also call the office, but I'd much rather be reached by email.
