User:Jscearce

This page is intended to describe my interests in a general way to the Wikipedia community, without disclosing my exact identity, for privacy reasons.

I work as a professional computer services person in a large company on the West coast of the United States. My interests include literature, language, film, aviation (especially private pilot-type aviation, known as "General Aviation"), science and space exploration, travel, and a few types of generally solitary sporting activities, including swimming, running and (recently) triathlon competition. I like to learn about interesting places to travel and the history that shaped those places. I follow politics and news, but don't find much comfort or pleasure in those topics. I like to read good books, and like Mark Twain, who once said "A man who does not read good books has no advantage over a man who can't read them." I am embarrassed about the low intellectual achievement and self-serving moral bias of many average Americans, but comforted by the high intellectual and moral achievement of the best Americans. When hope for achievement of our shared dreams overtakes our fears, we become better people in the process. So I guess I also have an abiding interest in some personal version of moral philosophy, though I claim no special expertise. I look forward to contributing here and there to the Wikipedia project to remove errors of fact and logic, or add new information where I can. Jscearce (talk) 22:43, 27 December 2013 (UTC)