About me
I had a friend in school that once told me the age of the Renaissance man was over. I didn't believe him then; I thought if you worked hard enough it was possible. Well, he was right, you can't know everything about everything, but that doesn't stop me. I enjoy software (programming and playing), reading, yoyos, Rubik’s cube, non-contact sports, and writing.
I went through several different colleges before I finally gave up and quit. I have 23 hours remaining for my Mathematics degree, but spent several thousand dollars learning astro/theoretical physics, various ethics and political science courses. They were all interesting to me, and I could have made a career out of any of them, but you only spin around the earth 26,700 times, so you can't go off in directions you really don't enjoy and/or can't profit from. (After all, it takes money to survive.)
So for now I am a coder for www.telligentsystems.com; I love programming. It makes you feel a little like a god because you are creating a world and giving instructions. I really enjoy creating entities that go and do work for me. Contrary to what most people think, computers DO NOT have free will. If you tell computers to add 2 + 2 and you don't get 4, the hardware is fried and it's time to get a new one. People don't work this way...nor should they.
Free will does not mean you are always right, man has the free will to say that 2 + 2 = 5, but they would be wrong. Right and wrong are real things. I believe truths are a binary proposition. Perhaps that is why I enjoy computers; it is either right or wrong, on or off, male or female.