About Camz

http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~zimmerm/about-camz.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)

About Camz

Camz is not an alias, or a handle, or anything of the sort. It is in fact, my initials... C. Arthur Martin Zimmerman, I'm still waiting for my mother to give me a decent explaination as to what the C was for. I usually sign my email with my initials, and since they are somewhat pronouncable, people began to call me Camz instead of Martin; now I answer to both. :-)

I am a Programer/Consultant living and working in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I specialize in the QNX operating system, and have over 7 years of experience with QNX 2, and several months with QNX 4.

I have an incredible girlfriend that I just happened to meet while voluntering for CUUG's helpSIG. She's got her own home page here.

I am one of the WEBmasters for CUUG, and I also do some WWW page design as well as custom cgi scripts for WWW.

When I am not in front of a computer you can usually find me down at LPSC (Lindsay Park Sports Center). I can be found on the track trying to sweat my gut away (it is getting smaller I swear!) or more often than not in the weight room training for diving. Of course, I spend most of my time at LPSC in the dive tank practising my dives or working with my coach.

I've been learing how to dive competetively now for about 7 months, and I still have a fair amount of training and a ton of practice to go. I hope to eventually be able to compete in one of the Masters competitions. I do most of my work on the 1m springboard, and occasionally some work on the 3m springboard. I have not done any real platform diving, but that can wait until I get better on the springboards!

For those of you that can "speak" diving, here are the dives I have managed to learn so far:

Front dive straight and pike (I could do it tuck, but prefer these).
Front dive with 1-1/2 somersault pike and tuck (prefer pike).
Back dive pike (well, I can do it striaght, but not very well).
Reverse dive pike.
Inward dive pike (this is probably my worst dive, needs much work!).
Front dive with 1/2 twist. This is the only twister I have learnt so far, but I expect my coash to be scaring the wits out of me with more soon!