Journal created:
on 30 June 2005 (#7588992)
Updated:
on 27 April 2013
Name:
gingerdavid
Location:
Cambridge, United Kingdom
At various times, I've been a software engineer, a professional astronomer and a mathematics professor. I didn't plan to be all those things, but they happened anyway.
I've been programming computers since 1980. I remember a time before email and the global Internet. I watched the Web emerge.
I was insatiably inquisitive as a child, and I'm still filled with an unquenchable curiosity about the world around me. I've been a hard-core scientist since the age of about fourteen.
My first unrequited love was a boy in high school. My second unrequited love was a blonde American girl named Lori in my freshman year in college. I followed that with unrequited love for another girl in college, and then with unrequited love for a Canadian girl when I was a graduate student.
I had unrequited love down to a fine art by this time, so you can imagine my surprise when I asked a rather lovely and intelligent American girl to go out with me, and she said yes. She astonished me a second time when she agreed to marry me. We're still together, and we still make each other laugh, often intentionally.
I'm a Rational Humanist Realist Scientist, though I have a special fondness for Zen, because it saved me from going crazy in the summer between high school and college.
We all have depths that other people rarely suspect.
I've been programming computers since 1980. I remember a time before email and the global Internet. I watched the Web emerge.
I was insatiably inquisitive as a child, and I'm still filled with an unquenchable curiosity about the world around me. I've been a hard-core scientist since the age of about fourteen.
My first unrequited love was a boy in high school. My second unrequited love was a blonde American girl named Lori in my freshman year in college. I followed that with unrequited love for another girl in college, and then with unrequited love for a Canadian girl when I was a graduate student.
I had unrequited love down to a fine art by this time, so you can imagine my surprise when I asked a rather lovely and intelligent American girl to go out with me, and she said yes. She astonished me a second time when she agreed to marry me. We're still together, and we still make each other laugh, often intentionally.
I'm a Rational Humanist Realist Scientist, though I have a special fondness for Zen, because it saved me from going crazy in the summer between high school and college.
We all have depths that other people rarely suspect.