Blog Entry #0: Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?

Everybody has seen Full Metal Jacket, right? Good. Kubrick is a psychopath genius.

Hey! Here's me interacting with a computer:

So there I was: sitting at my New Student Conference, listening to some joker introduce himself as a sixth-year senior, thinking, "That'll never be me!" And now here I am, on my twelfth and final semester, God willing. When I was signing up for classes, I realized that a) I didn't want to take robotics, b) I needed one last course in this track to satisfy my elective requirements, and c) I really like interacting with computers and wanted to learn how to help others interact with them more effectively. That's not a joke; hence, I'm in this class. I have experience with good coding style and good grammar, and I feel that I have a latent ability to recognize a good design when I see one, though creating one for myself still takes a little work.

And now, if I might speculate a bit:

• In ten years I hope to have at least three kids, a flourishing career, and two-thirds of a house with this lady right here:

• The next biggest technological advance in computing science will be the full native parallelization of all applications.
• I would take a time machine back to meet Aristotle. I maintain that he was the greatest philosophical mind of all time. What would the Christian, and especially the Catholic theological and scholastic traditions be without his metaphysics?
• The Mexican mustache has to be the most awesome mustache because it's a solid 'stache, not too imposing but definitely confident.
• I wish I were fluent in Gaelic. Everyone's got a little Irish in them, and it's part of my history if not really my heritage.

Last but not least, there's something you should know about me. I have an addictive personality coupled with never-diagnosed-but-probable ADD, and as such I have a "Flavor of the Week" as far as my interests go. Most recently, I've been into the penny whistle, photography, long-boarding, off-roading. I'll keep you updated as to "The Next Big Thing."

Tune in next time, when we'll discuss sequential art and comic books, and how they relate to learning effectively about physics and other such things.