User:Aevans1108

My name is Anthony Evans. I'm a software engineer and hold undergraduate degrees in math and computer science. I was born November 8, 1972 at 12:45 AM in Seattle, Washington. I graduated from Ingraham High School in 1990 and have attended community colleges and universities all over Washington (UW, NSCC, WIAT, LWTC, SCCC), Oregon (OSU, Chemeketa) and New York (Mercy).

My Meyers Briggs personality type is INTJ. Politically, I'm a conservative Libertarian (see http://www.lp.org.)

In my spare time, I meditate (using HoloSync -- see http://www.centerpointe.com), hot tub, and do yoga and strength training (i.e. weight lifting).

I belong to the "raw food cult", though I occassionally cheat with a bowl of popcorn. (You can have my popcorn when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.) I also get regular acupuncture and weight the opinions of my naturopath with the same gravity that I weight the opinions of my primary medical doctor.

Wikipedia helped me finish my math degree. I don't know what I would have done without it. The articles on abstract linear algebra, fourier analysis, fields and sets were particularly useful for me (far more so than those in my text books) and I am greatful both to Wikipedia and the authors of the articles in question for their help.

My spiritual orientation is somewhat ecumenical (if I understand that word correctly). I like some Christian concepts, as well as some Hindu, Buddhist and Animist concepts. To me, religion is just a set of abstract models that we as individuals use so that we can establish a basic framework wherein we analyze and categorize our experiences. I'm very pragmatic in that if something "works", I use it. For example, prayer "works" for me. I don't care why.

Hey: What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness and a Unitarian? Answer: Someone who goes around knocking on doors for no apparent reason. :)

I don't believe that anything is "right" or "wrong" -- only that things either "work" or "don't work" from a personal perspective. Perceptions are inherently subjective. Even when you think you are looking for objective data, you still define that data in the context of what it means to be human - a meaning that is very personal.

That describes just about everything about me that might influence my writing on Wikipedia (i.e. which topics I'm likely to touch and how I'm likely to view them). I don't know how much writing I will do. The only article I've touched is the one on What the Bleep do we Know? and there I've only contributed to the discussion. I may edit this article at a later date.