I was born and lived the first 18 years of my life in West Virigina, most notably in its highest incorporated town (pop. 600). Just before enrolling at St. John’s College in Annapolis, I was able to travel around the US for six weeks and I am proud to say that I have been to 42 states and counting. After one year at St. John’s, I transferred to the University of Chicago, where I worked in a neurophysiology lab and later a particle detection lab. I graduated with a major in Physics and a minor in Classical Studies, and soon after expatriated to South America. I spent three months in Chile, working on a computational investigation of the Jarzynski Equality, but I found the weather much more agreeable in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where hI spent another 8 months. I was recently recalled to the land of the free and the home of the brave to start working for Wolfram Research after informing Dr. Wolfram of a terrible premonition I had in my sleep.
I am also interested in Philosophy, Neuroscience, History, Computing, and Music, though I don�t know very much about some of them. My favorite book is an atlas, though my favorite work of fiction is the Iliad. My favorite band is Medeski Martin and Wood, whom I have seen live 9 times, and whose bootlegs I have around 50. The beginning of my favorite joke is �What is brown and sticky?�.
You should also take a look at my failed run for the presidency. The Amercian people spoke their minds by ignoring me, so I�ll have to improve the world some other way.