User:wikivek

Some things about my mind:

• May not be completely clear on the distinction between biography and encyclopedia as it

  applies to a user page.

• I have a PhD in applied math

• Speak some French and some Tswana

• Programming in C, Sql, Java, etc.

• My Myers-Briggs type seems to be INTP

• My intelligence level seems to be in the top 5 percent, not the top 1 percent though

• Used to play chess - now I play scrabble instead

• Solved Rubik's Cube without any guide!

• Also I like to play Civilization II - do not like the other versions!

• Interested in politics, current events, history, religion

• I like science a lot - physics, bio, chem, cosmology, etc.

• Not that much into literature

• My aptitudes (Johnson O'Conner Research) are: Inductive reasoning; Objective personality; Deductive Reasoning; Ideaphoria; 3-Dimensional Visualization; pitch discrimination slightly more than

  rhythm or timbre; high vocabulary; and that one where you learn new words.

• Aptitudes I lack are foresight, abstract thinking (antithetical to three-dimensional), and observation.

Politics

In politics I can appreciate some conservative impulses and some

liberal ones. I define conservative as preserving existing structure.

In elections I vote for liberals, although I got confused and voted

for Zell Miller once. One year I voted for the Green Party.

Some books I have Read

• In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan

• Raspberry - describing some 60's communes

• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

• Harriet the Spy

• Harry Potter series

• Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins

• Open Mind, by Dawna Markova

• Working Identity, by Herminia Ibarra

• WLT, by Garrison Keillor

• Godel, Escher, and Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards

• Word Freak, by Stefan Fatsis

• Everything Scrabble, by Joe Edley

Places I have lived in - mostly American cities, and one African town.

• Collegeville, Pennsylvania

• Detroit, Michigan

• Pleasant Ridge, New Jersey

• Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Indianapolis, Indiana

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Maun, Botswana

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Marietta, Georgia

• Austin, Texas

Places I have visited in other countries

• Paris, France (and Bayeux and Normandy)

• Cairo, Egypt

• Lamu, Kenya

• Malindi, Kenya

• Shakawe, Botswana

• Francistown, Botswana

• Molepolole, Botswana

• Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

• Johannesburg, South Africa

• London, England

American places visited

• Austin, Texas

• Reno, Nevada

• San Francisco, California

• Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Chicago, Illinois

• Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania

• Yellowstone Park, Wyoming

• Everglades National Park, Florida

• Princeton, New Jersey

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Washington, District of Columbia

• Mystic Seaport, Maine

• Wisconsin Dells

• Knoxville, Tennessee

• Bloomington, Indiana