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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed...
  Carl Jung
  
• Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations.
  Robert A. Heinlein
  
• Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
  Alexander Pope
  
• Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don’t throw them at me.
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• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
  Confucius
  

That's me in the chair. This summer, after an awesome three-year run at Microsoft, I'm switching coasts to go to grad school at UMD. My interests in technology and politics led me to their phd program which, despite the "abject poverty" thing, I'm really excited to start in a few weeks.

As for this site, it's my hope that it'll be an idea sounding board. I love discussion and (civilized) debate. I want to put my thoughts out there and hear your thoughts back. Just don't say anything that contradicts me. I'll flip out. No, but seriously, as soon as I'm done freaking out I'm generally a good listener.

Oh, one more thing. Feel free to send me blog ideas if you have them. Though the cranial circumference in my picture clearly suggests otherwise, there's only so much my brain can do on its own. (Which is to say I hit that 12% a lot faster than I anticipated, so kindly send me suggestions should they pop into your head!)