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.
Aptitudes I lack are foresight, abstract thinking (antithetical to three-dimensional), and observation.

Politics
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.

Some books I have Read

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

Places I have lived in - mostly American cities, and one African town.

Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Detroit, Michigan
Pleasant Ridge, New Jersey
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Indianapolis, Indiana
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Maun, Botswana
Atlanta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia
Austin, Texas

Places I have visited in other countries

Paris, France (and Bayeux and Normandy)
Cairo, Egypt
Lamu, Kenya
Malindi, Kenya
Shakawe, Botswana
Francistown, Botswana
Molepolole, Botswana
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Johannesburg, South Africa
London, England

American places visited

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