User:Talkingtomypocket

What does your username mean?
Reference to a line from "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen, Album: I'm Your Man

Captures the simultaneous connectedness and alienation that is modern life.

Full lyrics here

Who are you?
Although I could be a highly intelligent dog, I claim to be:

- A 51 y.o. male American, working in the computer industry.

- I have a graduate degree in the biological sciences, although immediately after graduate school I started working in computing.

I am interested in:

- the computer industry and the history of computing

- the teaching of science in the schools, particularly the teaching of evolution and the attendant controversies

- space exploration

- the wireless industry and gadgets in general (cell phones, handheld computers, GPS)

- politics, particularly efforts to counter the influence of the religious right in the US