Personal Interests:
(Besides the copious amounts of time I sink into my research)
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- I have a one year old chihuahua, Gypsy. You can see more pictures of her on my pictures page.
- I used to play in a band by the name of Burnout. The songs we wrote and played over 4 years at Caltech are among my favorites. Here's a picture of us playing in Old Town Pasadena. More recently I've learned to play a little guitar. The drums will come back out of the closet once I find someplace to play!
- I enjoy playing basketball, as well as watching UCLA's perennial quest for the Final Four. Here's a picture from my freshman year of college, when I played on Caltech's NCAA Division III team.
- I definitely enjoy swimming in the ocean during the summer. Zuma and Huntington Beach are my favorites, although I'm less than five miles away from Santa Monica. Here's a cool picture of me in the ocean.
- I have been known to write science fiction stories in the past, and I have recently restarted that hobby.
- This picture sums up rather succinctly my academic experiences at Caltech. Students at Caltech in the 1970s had time to do this to the Hollywood sign, but I spent many hours taking course after course in physics and mathematics covering everything from Quantum Field Theory to contour integration to Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics and so on. Despite all the work, I still had a lot of fun.
- Finally, for some miscellaneous hobbies of mine - I enjoy web programming (can you tell?), reading science fiction, collecting coins, and following science and technology news. More recently, I've started volunteering instead of watching TV. I go see a lot of movies, play games on my Playstation 2 every once in a long while, and I'm not afraid of the outdoors. I've got a lot I like to do, and I only wish I had more time to do it (who doesn't?).
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