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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Engineering
Occupation	Financial Engineer
Location	Westfield, North Carolina, United States
Introduction	Third generation American from families out of Switzerland and Ireland, married for several decades with several grown children, beneficiary of extended formal education (much of which I have since had to unlearn, but much of enduring value too), experienced a life changing encounter with Christ at age 26, and have been working out the consequences of that encounter ever since.
Interests	knowing and being known by God, time management, living productively, music, poetry, history, mathematics, philosophy, theology, economics, literature, drama, natural sciences
Favorite movies	Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, Santa Fe Trail, Glory, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers Once, Russian production of War and Peace, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Matrix, Thirteenth Floor, Dark City, Memento, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Animal House, Blues Brothers, The Apostle, Tender Mercies, The Godfather I, The Road to Perdition, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Terminator II
Favorite music	Mozart, Bach, Handel, Celtic folk music, Simon and Garfunkel, Blue Grass, selected hymnody, Liberated Wailing Wall, selected Southern Gospel
Favorite books	The Bible, Augustine "The City of God", Platonic Dialogues, The Brothers Karamozov, Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Gibbon "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Asimov's Foundation, Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", N. N. Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", Bruce Catton's Civil War trilogy, Carl Sandburg's Lincoln biographical series, "Complicity: How the North Promoted Prolonged and Profited from Slavery" by Farrow Lang and Frank, Thomas Di Lorenzo's "The Real Lincoln", Charles Beard "The Economic Origins of the US Constitution", John Taylor Gatto "An Underground History of Public Education in America", Riccardo Rebonato "Plight of the Fortune Tellers", Susskind "The Cosmic Landscape"