Facts: - residence: los angeles - birth date: 1960 - name: thomas scoville - birth place: newport beach , ca - occupation: technologist and author Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thomas scoville .
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thomas scoville -lrb- b. california 1960 -rrb- .american humorist , programmer , technologist and author who chronicled the rise and fall of silicon valley during the dot-com boom .two works render a silicon valley insider 's perspective based on two decades as a software engineer : the satirical silicon valley tarot published in 1998 and '' silicon follies '' , an online serial novel running on salon.com in 1999 , eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by pocket books and a television pilot by ron howard 's imagine television .scoville also wrote technology essays including '' howl.com -lrb- with apologies to allen ginsberg -rrb- '' , '' the elements of style : unix as literature '' , and '' martin luther , meet linus torvalds '' as well as perspectives on open source software for o'reilly media .two minor works demonstrate playful collisions of popular culture and occult spirituality : '' the metrosexual tarot '' , published in 2003 , burlesqued urban male narcissism and consumer culture , while '' the comic bardo thodol '' , published in 2008 , recast the tibetan book of the dead in comic book form using imagery from mass-market entertainment .