In the summer of ’95 I was a contractor for Microsoft working on Direct X video drivers. I wrote about that before.

Randy, a fellow contractor and video driver writer had a band, The Swine, as well as a show on public access cable television. A couple of Randy’s bandmembers wrote a song about our experience. Mister Bill’s Machine (WMA, 1.52 MB) does a fairly good job of capturing my summer of ’95.

Some other time when my inhibitions are much, much lower from lack of sleep or something I’ll explain how I ended up on the cover of their CD album in a camo poncho with an SKS rifle in my arms: