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| Gender | Male |
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| 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), ... |