About

I'm Jim McCann. This is TCHOW, the home of my various non-research projects. For research stuff, check out my Carnegie Mellon page, or my very short Adobe page. For character-limited witticisms, see my account 1x on Twitter.

Contact

I'm quite widely contactable. Consider:

• IM: I'm mainly on Google Chat these days -- ix at tchow.com.
• EMail: ix at tchow.com is, again, your best bet. But I'm also likely to respond to jmccann at [cs.cmu.edu or umich.edu] or try ix at [cmu.edu or umich.edu]. If you don't want your email read, use whohasstolentchow at gmail.
• IRC: Rarely, I may be found as Chicken1 in #tchow, #mesh, and #pspdev on freenode.
• Skype: Yet more rarely, I may be found as whohasstolentchow on skype.

TCHOW

People often ask why my web page is called TCHOW (also, tchow, if the capitals become too glaring). The name comes from "The Chicken's House of Wacky" -- which is a fictional organization (designed by myself) that was useful to me during my formative middle- and high- school years. The mascot of the group was, of course, the Chicken, a comic character resembling death (and some far side cartoons, though not intentionally).

Very little of the original moral content of the group remains, but I keep the name (and, occasionally, the handle Chicken1, though I am more often, now, using ix).

'ix', by the way, is not a reference to one of Mallarmé's pseudonyms. It is simply a nice, snappy, and short name.