User:Equilibrium007

There's not much of a story behind the user name. I picked "Equilibrium" because:
 * The word sounds cool.
 * The movie was decent, even though I thought the ending was dumb and some of the political/philosophical points and subtexts were silly.
 * One of my majors was economics, which means I'm fascinated by economic equilibria and Nash equilibria.

Someone else had User:Equilibrium already, so I needed some numbers to tack on to the end.

Other things:


 * Programming. It's been a hobby of mine for a long time. My favorite languages to program in these days are ActionScript and Python because they let you leverage things so easily. I have, however, programmed in C++, and not just in C++ but with DirectX, and it was the most labyrinthine, painstaking thing I have ever had to do in programming. I might have listed the languages that I have experience in, but it occurred to me that - more or less - once you have a grasp on one language, you can pretty easily get a grasp on the others in a day or two even if you aren't immediately "Pythonic" or what have you.
 * Politics. I'm most interested in political and economic stuff. I used to (when I was 16 or so) fancy myself as something of a socialist but I was never really committed to the idea. A PBS documentary based on the book Commanding Heights warmed me to the idea that markets weren't so bad and I became an economist and something of a pragmatist.
 * Education. I majored in economics as an undergrad, but if I had it to do again I would have studied finance and chemical engineering.