zhurnaly

About me

Gender Male
Occupation Physicist ... Ronin ... Ultrarunner
Location Silver Spring, MD, United States
Introduction "I learnt how to obtain the best I could when I could not obtain everything; instead of being indignant or dispirited because I could not have entirely my own way, to be pleased and encouraged when I could have the smallest part of it; and when even that could not be, to bear with complete equanimity the being overruled altogether. I have found, through life, these acquisitions to be of the greatest possible importance for personal happiness, and they are also a very necessary condition for any one, either as theorist or as practical man, to effect the greatest amount of good compatible with his opportunities." — John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, Chapter 3
Interests physics, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, ultrarunning, self-referential humor, ...
Favorite Movies Joe Versus the Volcano, Big Trouble in Little China, Fight Club, Snatch, Stark Raving Mad, ...
Favorite Music Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Counting Crows, Tracy Chapman, Cyndi Lauper, John Darnielle, ...
Favorite Books MidSummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare), Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Meditations (M. Aurelius), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), True Names (Vinge), ...