Who's Alien Bill?
Alien Bill, the round running alien eyeball,
has been Kirk Israel's signature sketch since 1990.
Why an Eyeball?
The all seeing alien, always in motion,
looks straight into your karmic aura....
Not really. Mostly he was a good way to end
quick notes in highschool, an aesthetically balanced
'guy', sometimes running, sometimes holding up signs
containing quick commentary. (He hasn't got a mouth,
you see.)
Why 'Bill'?
When it came time to give him a name, Bill seemed
like a fairly typical, inoffensive name, the kind
you might find anywhere. It has nothing to do with my
uncle or the head of any really big technology company
with monopolistic tendencies-- if I had it to do again,
I might use Alien Bill's little known last name, Jones.
History
1990: First sighting of Alien Bill (distant cousin of zinger the clown, both being letter signoff mascots.)
1993: First use of "Alien Bill Productions" for a software project
1993: Creation of the 'Blender of Love' as attempt to have a non-generic
homepage, based at http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~kisrael/romance
1996: Establishment of www.alienbill.com, loveblender moves here.
1997: Establishment of www.loveblender.com
1999: Establishment of www.kisrael.com as a seperate vanity site.
Today: Alien Bill continues to create many spiffy software projects
for a variety of platforms (Java, PalmPilots, Windows) and
the Blender of Love remains as the focus of a growing community
of writers and readers.
