User:Andy Tycho

Your average reader.

Occasionally correcting typos, inconsistencies, factual incorrectness, out of date or stale bits and bobbles, and translate & upsert pieces of information from/to other languages.

Registered mostly to comment here and there and represent a tad more than a meaningless IP-address, as one tells nothing of a person behind it. Especially considering wide-spread VPN availability these days.

Languages:
 * native: English (well, a rather wacky mix of Australian, South African, Singaporean, Irish, and what not)
 * decently fluent (though still occasionally make mistakes and bring forth awkwardness): Russian, Ukrainian, German, French
 * able to communicate, albeit limited vocabulary: Polish, Spanish, Italian
 * able to make sense of: Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese

Occupation: Software Engineer. I was supposed to be a politician, but in the end I just don't feel like it. It requires too much lying and sneakiness, abundance of verbiage, circumlocution, and logorrhea. The subtle art of "how to say nothing in 70 pages" & "how to say 'fuck you' and make them love it". It's just not my cup of tea. Esp when it may occasionally have some polonium in it. Software engineering, on the other hand, is something absolutely opposite of that - non-dubious, exact, precise, clear, and (mostly) straightforward. I like.

Interested in: IT, physics (nuclear, electrical), history, politics.

Raised and established for in about 20 different countries and cultures (my parents' occupation imposed quite a lot of traveling). Citizen of 3 countries and a product of multiple cultures, though I don't associate myself with any particular one. That, my parents, and a few people I admire and thankful to, have put a lot of effort in making me capable of a detached and fairly unbiased, neutral view of questions and matters about different cultures and intercultural relations. As a rather amusing side effect, though, representatives of some cultures may occasionally consider me being insensitive. It usually helps to bring up to their attention that:
 * I am straightforward, direct, as unambiguous as possible, and communicate with no hidden/opposite/double meaning whatsoever. (alas, most people of UK origin find it somewhat challenging to perceive and converse in such a way ;-) );
 * putting an effort in making my words have as narrow interpretation as possible;
 * occasionally encourage people to adopt these customs, as I wholeheartedly believe that this way of communication bears only benefits to all parties involved. For intercultural communication - especially so;
 * have no intention to covertly or indirectly offend anyone. In an unlikely event I do intent to offend - I will have it delivered across in a most explicit way possible. Consequently, if my words contain no open and unambiguous offence - rest well assured that there are no hidden nor implied one either.
 * Written communication is significantly curtailed compared to spoken word. If my written communication can be interpreted ambiguously, please, for everyone's sake and sanity, do interpret them in a most neutral and most literal way possible. If you happened to perversely or incorrectly interpret my (or anyone else's) words by instating an unintended meaning or, worse, emotion into them - then this failure to interpret is completely your own fault, and you and only you, solely, responsible for such an interpretation and it's consequences. After all, the curtains were just fucking blue (see here if you have no idea what's this about).
 * And, most imporantly, always, always remember: being offended - is a choice. Well how about we all, for a change, stop being offended instead of being fake?..

''It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.'' — Marcus Aurelius.