Judy Trengove
 I live in Sydney, Australia and have been running my own interior architecture/design company for the past 12 years. |
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | Whilst working for another company, I'd used a non-mac computerbox, with a program called Archisoft. When I started my business, all I had was an amnesiac electronic typewriter, supposedly possessed of some memory, only it was never enough. At the time, I wasn't generating much text when delivering projects. Even my accounts were so basic that I could keep track of them by hand, and I used to draw everything with a felt pen. I was in business for about seven years before I could afford to buy a computer. When I realised that it was time to buy a computer, I chose a Mac because a friend's hugely productive design company had them and I'd tinkered about a bit on their Macs. They were so easy to use. | |
| Status: | Learning all the time. | |
First Mac:
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Mac Quadra 605. | |
Current Mac:
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Mac Performa 5200 CD | |
| When did you get your first modem? | Whilst designing offices for an Australian modem manufacturing company, my client gave me one of their modems to test drive. That must have been about five years ago, 1994. | |
| Who did you call first? | My American computer consultant came to my office one day and noticed the modem still sitting in its box. He had an eWorld disc with him, so he set up the modem and hooked me up to eWorld (the Apple Online Service). | |
| Present Occupation: | I spend most of last year, 1998, travelling the world with my family. We went to Thailand, India, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Belgium and the USA. I'm mounting an exhibition of photographs from the trip. The opening is on May 4, 1999, so that's keeping me busy at the moment. I work online for TalkCity as anaCCConda, writing, editing and running wordgames and online games tournaments. If there's any time left over I still do interior architecture. I consult to a number of companies and am just about to start ripping the guts out of a client's house for a complete interior renovation. The rest of the time I write my travel journal, short stories and dabble in fiction. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Designing the fabulously hip Acropolis Nightclub in North Sydney. Playing bass in the wildly eccentric artschool band, Five O'Clock Shadow. Predicting that all those bands would "unplug" about a year before they all unplugged. | |
| Dream Job: | I'd like to be a travel writer and photographer, and also own a small hotel so that when I wasn't travelling, the world would come to me. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Different?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| Was there ever a time in my life when I didn't think differently? Isn't that what designers are supposed to do? | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| I can type faster. I have an online job that fits into the rest of my life. I have friends all over the world. I'm *so* happy! | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| A New York lawyer whom we meet in the Greek Islands. He's come to stay for a week and is sleeping on the floor. He doesn't eat much, either. | |||
| My passions are: | |||
| Reading, poetry, music and Boggle playing. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| I'd have dinner with travel writer Bill Bryson, and I'd ask him to come with me on an expedition to the centre of Australia. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| I played piano, guitar and bass guitar for a while. I'm not in a band at the moment. It's getting back onto my list of things to do, though, now that the kids don't need me all the time. I still have my Fender and the amp...so, be warned! | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| I am what I wanted to be when I grow up. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Q: What would I put into a time capsule? A: Spare time. |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | When we had our High School reunion, they asked me to make the speech. | Education: | One university degree and an MDIA (Member of the Design Institute of Australia). | |
| Location at Birth: | Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia. | Current Location: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Around the world twice, Indonesia five times, New Zealand twice, Fiji once. Travel is the best thing that you can do with spare money. | Astrological Sign: | Aquarius. Peace, baby. | |
| Available? | I'm making one man unhappy for the fifteenth year running. | Chat Nick: | ananaconda or (in uniform anaCCConda). | |
| Favorite Books: | To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. The Neon Bible, John Kennedy Toole. God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. Anything by Bill Bryson. | Favorite Music or Band: | Nick Cave | |
| Favorite Food: | Indian. | Cat or Dog Person: | Dog person. His name is Woofgang. Woof. | |
| Judy's personal web site: There's one out there somewhere, but I think it's got cobwebs. I'll get back to you on that. | |
| Judy's professional web site: No. It's on my list of Things To Do. | |
| Favorite Web Site: | SLAMM - San Diego's Lifestyle and Music Magazine |
| Favorite Color imac: | Purple fun fur so that I can curl up on it and go to sleep. |
| "Anything begins with A except Boggle. Boggle begins with anything, even A." | |
Created Monday, March 15, 1999; Edited: 3/30/99