I am gentle, shy, and compassionate.
My Self-Summary
Total rewrite ahoy!
I'm still a student living in Sydney, thankfully having graduated
one degree at last; now studying towards a PhD in applied maths.
Right now I think I'm going to be classifying orbits of the three
body problem and figuring out by how much a system of three bodies
can rotate even without angular momentum. Fun stuff. Probably more
fun if I understood it.
I've been studying Tai Chi for the better part of a decade now, and
have recently taken up photography. Given such pursuits, I spend
way too much time sitting in front of my computer reading web fora,
web comics or playing Windows Freecell. I also enjoy riding my bike
and climbing. I would climb a lot more, but I'm usually too self
conscious to climb the things I would like to climb if I'm in
civilised company or even by myself.
What I’m doing with my life
Hiding from the real world for at least another three years and
maybe putting a further three letters after my name at the end of
it. Wondering idly ("idly" is the important part) what it would be
like to earn a real income and have a real job.
I’m really good at
Maintaining my autonomic functions. So food at it, in fact, that I
don't even have to think about it!
I guess I'm ok at understating my value...
The first things people usually notice about me
They don't. I'm invisible.
Umm, people don't tend to make it plain what they first notice
about me. I guess the first thing technically is that I'm there and
after that that I am a human, male, probably with messy hair.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
I might add things as I think of them...
The Winter of the World Chronicles.
Dare I admit it, Lord of the Rings.
Most things by Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman or Peter F Hamilton.
District 9 was the last standout movie I saw. I usually enjoy anime
- subtitled, of course. In particular it's hard to go wrong with
Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli.
The Cure, Armada/The Tea Party, Sunwrae, Ben Folds (Five), Massive
Attack, Pink Floyd, Los Amigos Invisibles, Joe Hisaishi, Lamb,
Jesse Cook, Portishead. More, but "meh" to writing them for
now.
I'm a dedicated omnivore. I will try most things and dislike few.
The six things I could never do without
\dot{x} = -J \nabla H (I'll be impressed if OKC has a LaTeX parser.
Moreso if everything I just wrote is valid code).
Quarks and leptons.
Actually, that last one covers most things. A few specific
configurations of quarks and leptons that would make me very
unhappy not to have are food, trees, friends, family, fresh running
water, home, clean air, good tea and decent coffee. Yes, that's
about 50% over budget, but what are you going to do about it?
I spend a lot of time thinking about
"What the hell am I going to tell my supervisor this week? Crap,
I'd better get some work done. Oh, and marking. What's wrong with
those kids? That quiz was simple. Agh!"
Fooooood.
LOLcats. No, that's a lie. If I think about them too much I come to
and it's 2am and I realise I need to be awake and functioning in
less than six hours.
"Ooh, pretty flowers. Damn - the camera's at home. Next
time..."
Sleeping.
On a typical Friday night I am
Not out and about because Tai Chi is at nine the next morning. No
wonder I have no social life.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
That I'm too self conscious to admit to much. No really, you'll at
least have to buy me dinner before I tell.
You should message me if
You don't want to not message me? Well, no... you should only
message me if you want to; there's no point doing it
half-heartedly.