Welcome to Jack Harich's personal page
Here's our latest Christmas card
Hi there. I'm pretty much a Jack of all trades, changing
careers every 5 or 10 years to keep from getting too much
moss under my feet and neo cortex. You can see the telltale
footprints of my evolution at these links:
1. My current life as a dedicated sustainologist since
2001, working on helping to solve the
global environmental sustainability problem. Solving
this problem is rather important to the very survival of
Homo sapiens.
2. My former life as a Software
Artist for 6 years, consulting on process, productivity,
arcane techniques, and occasionally some real coding. Solving
problems is enjoyable and sharpens the mind.
3. My former, former life as a Furniture
Artist for 8 years. There are also some photos of The
Tower, one of my life projects. Creativity is perhaps the
raw essence of problem solving, the will-o'-the-wisp that
must be caught so that one knows what he or she was reaching
for. Here is a map to the Tower.
4. Before that the long road of life found me dabbling
in computers for 3 years, small business consulting for
6 years, running Jumping Jack Flash and Diversitech for
6 years, and simultaneously taking a leisurely 13 years
to get my bachelor's in Industrial Systems Engineering
at Georgia Tech. But such wonderful times must remain a
universal mystery of imponderable depth, because no web
pages exist for them.
5. For the curious, here are some Harich
Family photos. I was fortunate enough to grow up on
a 200 acre farm in Southern Maryland, with three brothers,
and for a year, a foreign exchange student from Germany.
6. After an 11 year courtship, Jack and Martha recited these Wedding Vows which we wrote ourselves. We were alone on The Island on the Tallapossa River, Alabama, on the sweetest day of the year, February 14, 1992. My cousin (who among other things is a minister) and his wife were on the bank. We performed the ceremony at dawn. It was foggy and often we couldn't see each other. But his voices and ours rang out and pierced that fog (and our hearts) with our own vows, followed by the legal ones. Afterward, two were one. Here's a printable version of The Island and the Wedding Vows.
7. Here are some photos of a 2004 trip
to Lithuania.
8. Here is the Comparative Pain Scale, developed in 2002 when my own Pudendal Nerve Entrapment (PNE) was a bit of a pain. This is the original version of the page. Not a single character has been changed. Most of the links are now broken.
9. Here's an article on How to Eradicate Kudzu Safely. Although it was written for a single case, a backyard full of kudzu in the Atlanta area, it applies to all similar cases.
10. Here is Jack's eulogy video for JC Dollar's Celebration of Life, held in Kansas City on January 4, 2025. JC was Jack's favorite cousin for a long, long time.
See you on the road,
Jack