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-This is the base Jekyll theme. You can find out more info about customizing your Jekyll theme, as well as basic Jekyll usage documentation at [jekyllrb.com](https://jekyllrb.com/)
+I’m a systems engineer by trade, a molecular biologist by education and a serial dilettante. Online personality tests tell me I’m an INTP and an enneagram 5w4, if you put stock into that sort of thing - though a buzzfeed quiz I took says that if I was a cake, I would be tiramasu. Make of that what you will.
 
-You can find the source code for Minima at GitHub:
-[jekyll][jekyll-organization] /
-[minima](https://github.com/jekyll/minima)
+Professionally, I'm interested in infrastructure. Designing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and necromancing infrastructure back from the dead. call it systems engineering or site reliability engineering or dev ops, i don't care. i spend hours googling esoteric errors, banging my head into my keyboard only to realize i've forgotten a semi-colon somewhere and for some reason i love it.
 
-You can find the source code for Jekyll at GitHub:
-[jekyll][jekyll-organization] /
-[jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll)
+A list of non-work related topics I’m interested in:
+* engineering failures and disasters (planes, submarines, ships, bridges, buildings, industrial accidents, etc)
+* failure of complex systems
+* infrastructure of cities and the mechanical systems that keep them running
+* adaptation to climate change and the impending collapse of the global biosphere...
+* degrowth and circular economy
+* the wildland-urban interface, city-as-an-ecosystem concept and permaculture 
+* UAPs... seriously, what are they?
+* warfare and geopolitics
+* renewable power
+* mechanical watches, film cameras
 
 
-[jekyll-organization]: https://github.com/jekyll
+Things I do for fun:
+* read about anything and everything
+* accumulate large amounts of useless trivial knowledge
+* accumulate random skills with varying degrees of success
+* write. I recently finished a mystery novel that i'm shopping around to agents, and I'll very occasionally update "my blog"
+* larp as a contractor and attempt various DIYs around the house
+* restore and fix garbage. last project was a 79' CX500 i got for $80 and brought back from the dead
+* collect vintage & failed company swag. Stuff from companies like Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems would be super cool if anyone wants to send me any.
+* rot on the couch as the soul crushing reality of existence sets in
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+Quotes i enjoy:
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+"Specialization is for insects"
+- Robert Heinlein
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+“Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”
+- Chesterton’s Fence
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+"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems."
+- Jamie Zawinski
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+“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
+— Albert Allen Bartlett
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+"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking and exploring itself" 
+- Alan Watts
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+"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" 
+- Richard Feynman 
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+"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race."
+- Calvin Coolidge