User:Wikivek

 Some things about my mind:   May not be completely clear on the distinction between biography and encyclopedia as it    applies to a user page. I have a PhD in applied math Speak some French and some Tswana Programming in C, Sql, Java, etc. My Myers-Briggs type seems to be INTP My intelligence level seems to be in the top 5 percent, not the top 1 percent though Used to play chess - now I play scrabble instead Solved Rubik's Cube without any guide! Also I like to play Civilization II - do not like the other versions! Interested in politics, current events, history, religion I like science a lot - physics, bio, chem, cosmology, etc. Not that much into literature My aptitudes (Johnson O'Conner Research) are: Inductive reasoning; Objective personality; Deductive Reasoning; Ideaphoria; 3-Dimensional Visualization; pitch discrimination slightly more than rhythm or timbre; high vocabulary; and that one where you learn new words. <LI>Aptitudes I lack are foresight, abstract thinking (antithetical to three-dimensional), and observation. </UL>

<BR> Politics <BR> In politics I can appreciate some conservative impulses and some liberal ones. I define conservative as preserving existing structure. In elections I vote for liberals, although I got confused and voted for Zell Miller once. One year I voted for the Green Party. <BR>

Some books I have Read <BR> <UL> <LI>In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan <LI>Raspberry - describing some 60's communes <LI>On the Road, by Jack Kerouac <LI>Harriet the Spy <LI>Harry Potter series <LI>Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak <LI>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins <LI>Open Mind, by Dawna Markova <LI>Working Identity, by Herminia Ibarra <LI>WLT, by Garrison Keillor <LI>Godel, Escher, and Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter <LI>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards <LI>Word Freak, by Stefan Fatsis <LI>Everything Scrabble, by Joe Edley </UL>

<BR> Places I have lived in - mostly American cities, and one African town. <BR> <UL> <LI>Collegeville, Pennsylvania <LI>Detroit, Michigan <LI>Pleasant Ridge, New Jersey <LI>Ann Arbor, Michigan <LI>Indianapolis, Indiana <LI>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania <LI>Maun, Botswana <LI>Atlanta, Georgia <LI>Marietta, Georgia <LI>Austin, Texas </UL>

Places I have visited in other countries <UL> <LI>Paris, France (and Bayeux and Normandy) <LI>Cairo, Egypt <LI>Lamu, Kenya <LI>Malindi, Kenya <LI>Shakawe, Botswana <LI>Francistown, Botswana <LI>Molepolole, Botswana <LI>Bulawayo, Zimbabwe <LI>Johannesburg, South Africa <LI>London, England </UL>

American places visited <UL> <LI>Austin, Texas <LI>Reno, Nevada <LI>San Francisco, California <LI>Colorado Springs, Colorado <LI>Albuquerque, New Mexico <LI>Chicago, Illinois <LI>Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania <LI>Yellowstone Park, Wyoming <LI>Everglades National Park, Florida <LI>Princeton, New Jersey <LI>Boston, Massachusetts <LI>Washington, District of Columbia <LI>Mystic Seaport, Maine <LI>Wisconsin Dells <LI>Knoxville, Tennessee <LI>Bloomington, Indiana </UL>