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I'm a student (who happens to be employed as a
Teaching/Research Assistant at a beautiful univ.). More specifically, I
am a graduate student. I am a Chemical Engineer.
I design processes which pollute or reduce pollution. I'm the necessary evil,
who has made life for others simpler and better.
I'm a system administrator or I like to call myself one
because I maintain my 3 machines [mella (Powermac 7300/180, Linux: in my lab
now), malina (P3-450, OpenBSD), magda (P4-1.3G, Win2k/MacOS/Win3.11)] and my
workstation [ marisa (Sun Blade 100, SunOS 8)] in our lab. I am also sysad for
GSU webhost - www.gsu.nd.edu. The short
definition of a system administrator is "someone who makes computers work for
other people." This is not just a hobby; it's a mindset. It's an
acknowledgment that I know how computers work and think, I know how to make
them do things, other people don't, and that it's my pleasure (and
responsibility) to teach both the computers and the people how to work
together. (Focusing on changing the computers is often a mistake. They're
much easier to change, true, but they're also far less important.)
I'm a reader. Fiction, non-fiction books, technical books, short stories,
Usenet posts, mailing lists, private e-mail, song lyrics, magazines, web
pages, cartoon books and a wide variety of other media too varied to mention. More
fundamentally, I'm a listener, and a student. I want to learn. I know
that in order to learn I have to both listen and think. Few books that I read
after coming to US is available.
I'm a scientist. Please read Value of science as explained by Richard
Feynman (a brilliant teacher, physicist and man).
I'm a seeker. I follow no religion. I follow all
religions. I am an individual human being attempting to follow my
personal path to knowledge of my Creator, which happens to lead through
knowledge of myself. I believe in my spiritual viewpoint with all of my
soul and fully expect to change it tomorrow and name that progress along
my path.
I'm a libertarian, for the simple reason that I believe
that only through free will can humans ever reach their God. I believe
in personal responsibility and attempt to exercise it whenever possible.
I am not a Libertarian, and in fact am rarely interested in traditional
politics at all. I believe that libertarianism must be an internal
matter before it can be an external matter, and that dealing with
democracies, societies, and voters rather than individuals, no matter
how necessary or important, is fundamentally a distraction.
And finally, and most fundamentally, I'm a builder. I
construct and maintain things. Systems, stories, computers, social
structures, processes, documentation, characters, software programs -- the
fundamental aspect of building is the same. I like to build a lot of
different things. I like to try a lot of different things. I think one
of the best ways of testing ideas, including ideas I don't agree with,
is to build the systems they describe and see how well they function. I
respect builders, maintainers, contributors, and constructive critics.
Welcome. The rest of this web site describes a number of things I've
built. I hope you find some of them useful, informative, or enjoyable.
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