Welcome to Jack's Homepage


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My name is Jack Mizerak. I live in Lexington, MA. I am a sophomore at Lexington High School. I like to play soccer and swim. I also run cross country and track. I am into origami and computer art. I often fiddle around with computers. I read an HTML manual and made this web page. It was not hard (for me)...

This is me building my first computer. I was 11 years old. It took me months to research how to build it but only about a day to put it together. It's very customizable; By that I mean that you can put new parts in it to make it run better. I have a printer, a 21 inch screen and a DVD drive. AND a great speaker system with a SUBWOOFER. AND a joystick for video games. AND a killer video accelerator card! I am running two operating systems; windows and linux. It is not hard to build a computer; if, you do the proper research!

Jack building computer

Here's the moment of truth when my computer first booted up in BIOS.

Jack building computer


A few of years ago I started learning Java. It is a great language to learn if you want to put cool things on the WWW, like the spaceman dude at the top of my page. If you follow in my footsteps and the code looks confusing at first, keep in mind that Java is meant to be understood by human beings. So stick with it. For starters I recommend the book Java Programming for Dummies. Here is an awesome applet from the book. It is a Rubik's Cube that was written by Karl Hornell. Solving Rubik's cubes is another hobby of mine.

Some words from Karl: I tried to make the user interface as simple and obvious as possible. Twist or rotate by pointing and dragging in "natural" directions.
Press s to scramble and r to restore while positioning the mouse cursor somewhere in the applet region.


Picture of Jack running

In track I run the mile.


playing soccer

I also play soccer.

downfield

I play midfield and forward.


Eiffel Tower

I went to Paris last spring. Here I am standing in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Notre Dame

Steven Binzel and I are eating lunch in front of the Notre Dame cathedral. The towers have excellent gargoyles.


Knorr

Here I am standing in front of the Woods Hole Research Vessel Knorr.


007

Here is an interesting cloud formation that was in the sky over downtown Lexington one Saturday morning. Someone up there knows that I am a James Bond fan.

thunderbirds

And here are the Air Force Thunderbirds flying over my brother's little league game.


Last updated: August 29, 2004, 2:10 PM EDT