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I'm a graduate of the University of Idaho, with a BS in chemical engineering and a minor in Writing. I enjoy Role Playing Games, especially Hero System.
I do enjoy Photography a little bit. Here are a few of my pictures:
Favorite Quotes
[edit]You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
— Randall Munroe
"My country, right or wrong," is like saying "my mother, drunk or sober."
— Daniyal Mueenuddin
Johnson promised he'd never send young boys to die in Viet Nam, Nixon promised he'd make America safe for law and order, Ford promised he'd never pardon Nixon, Jimmy Carter promised he'd Whip Inflation Now, Reagan promised Morning In America, Bush 41 promised a `kinder, gentler America,' Clinton promised he'd restore dignity to the Oval Office, and Bush 43 promised `a humbler America...that will not engage in nation-building.
— Anonymous
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
— Niels Bohr
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
— anonymous
Build a man a fire, and you will keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life.
— Terry Pratchett
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
— Clarke's law, juxtaposed
The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.
— Einstein
A life spent making mistakes is not only more useful, but more honorable than a life spent doing nothing.
— G.B. Shaw
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
— Mark Twain
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be attributed to ignorance. Never assume someone else is ignorant until you are sure it is not you.
— My version of Hanlon's razor
The great religious leaders of the world such as Mohammed, Confucius, and the Reformers, as well as philosophers including Socrates, Plato, and others, received a portion of God's light. Moral truths were given to them by God to enlighten whole nations and to bring a higher level of understanding to individuals
— First Presidency Message, 1978
I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him--to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; My doctrine is His doctrine. My Commission is to do what He wants done; To say what He wants said; To be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling!
— Bruce R. McConkie
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Being afraid of large monolithic organizations especially because they have computers is like being afraid of large angry gorillas especially because they are on fire.
— Bruce Sterling
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
— Article 11, Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, 1796, Authored by Joel Barlow, Signed by John Adams