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I'm antitheist, have no particular sexuality (I sleep with whom I want), despise postmodernity in philosophy, espouse evolution by natural selection, and deny anything supernatural on principle.

"...sometimes by the time you've gotten an actual line of reasoning out of someone on the internet it feels like you just gave them a handjob and paid them for it." -- Me

James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Ian McKellen, Roger Penrose, and, more recently, Daniel Dennett are some of my heroes. I'm also fond of Jonathan Miller, and, though somewhat less of a celebrity, the MIT professor Gil Strang (whose course in Linear Algebra is fun to watch). While I'm at it, you should learn differential equations from Arthur Mattuck, get some lessons in Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, and Periodic Motion from Walter Lewin. When I've lectured, I've largely borrowed and stolen from their formats.

I'm currently attached to a certain person, though I will likely never marry--marriage being a social prison, I think. Honest love needs no such cage.

I've got some random degrees (BS English Lit.; MA Pure Maths) and a Ph.D. in theoreticalmathematical (yes, the registrar retroactively changed the name of my degree; I am not flattered) physics (which is more like applied mathematics, I suppose), but that's neither here nor there (nor yon).

I work in a coffee shop, where I put extra covariant components into each cup... noone knows. In my spare time I work on developing threaded CUDA applications for relativistic simulations and getting a job doing something relevant and payful. I'm good with C++ and Javascript, as well as pretty much any language I pick up, if anyone out there wants to hire a programmer on a project-to-project basis.

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