I'm a grad student in physics at Boston University. Originally from the suburbs of Detroit, I graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with majors in physics, (European) history and math. My main historical interests are the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the history of socialism, anarchism and communism.
I spent the summer of 2005 working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, preparing programs to determine the mass of the top quark as part of the ATLAS experiment. At BU I'm focusing on computational physics, supported by an NSF/IGERT fellowship through BU's Center for Computational Science.
I spend whatever free time I have on political activity, playing around with computers and programming (I'm fond of Slackware Linux, even on laptops), sporadic reading, writing and music.
If you're hungry for something more formal and stilted, you can find a slightly dated Curriculum Vitae here (.pdf file).
About This Site
I first created a webpage in the summer of 2003, when I had a lot of free time and a desire to learn how to use Dreamweaver. My first, primitive drafts quickly gave way to something a little more sophisticated (since erased). Now the cycle (hopefully) repeats itself as I incorporate CSS and scripts and other wacky stuff in the summer of 2004.
To be honest, this Web site doesn't really have a purpose. I created it so I could play around with Dreamweaver (now vi and screem, as I have made the move to Slackware Linux), HTML, JavaScript, CSS and the like. It was not constructed for any particular audience, though some (particularly stalkers, I imagine) may find useful tidbits.
Also in the summer of 2004, I set up a short-lived blog, mainly in order to get some more elaborate CSS set up. It was pretty quickly fried by an update to the College's servers, which increased security and restricted database access. Meanwhile, I sporadically update another blog-like entity known as a plan.
In the fall of 2003, the site was temporarily shut down for hosting emails exposing criminal activity and incompetence at Diebold, electronic voting machine manufacturer (more information). At any rate, Diebold eventually backed down in the face of concerted nation-wide pressure, though their products remain widespread and dangerously flawed.
This site was designed for Mozilla Firefox.
