BerthaYankee66668
Tagged
Something told me when Lif got tagged that it''''d be me soon... here you guys go
1. I guess I''''ll start off with what I do... I''''m currently a graduate student in Missoula, Montana, United States studying computer science. Specifically, my research involves using computers to create simulations of glaciers and ice sheets in Antarctica.
2. I am a huge nerd in a lot of ways. For starters, I run Linux (and do all of my photo editing on it too, no photoshop for me!)
3. I love classical music. And not just Bach/Mozart/Beethoven, I mean everything up to and sometimes including 20th century experimentalists. It would be impossible for me to name some favorite pieces, I could go on for pages (but if you''''re looking for something neat and super obscure, might I suggest Tviett''''s 4th piano concerto ''''Aurora Borealis''''?)
4. Despite that, I still sometimes feel the need to crank the Zeppelin.
5. I like singing, and have been a tenor in several high school, college, and church choirs.
6. Though not a "hardcore" videogamer, I do enjoy playing them every once in a while. One of my favorite recent (though not that mainstream) games has been Braid just because of its creativity. I also recently enjoyed Bioshock and Mass Effect, and every once in a while I pick up a plastic guitar...
7. I read a lot of hard science fiction. One of my favorite sci-fi books is "Manifold: Time" by Stephen Baxter. My favorite nonfiction book is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. This might have something to do with being a computer scientist.
8. My current favorite movie is The Fountain, followed by Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others). This will probably change quickly.
9. My parents learned how to make sushi from a Japanese exchange student years ago and now it is one of my favorite foods.
10. I went to New Zealand my freshman year of college because it looked so pretty in the Lord of the Rings films (and yes, I did tramp around looking for things like the exact tree that the hobbits used to hide from the ringwraith or the part of a river that was used as the Ford of Bruinen)
11. That was one of only three times I''''ve been out of the US to somewhere other than Canada (so far, I''''m working to bump that number up a bit!). The other two have been less than a year ago, and are reflected in my photostream.
12. I still remember the first time I used a camera. My parents let me take pictures of mountains on a camping trip when I was four.
13. I shoot with a Sony SLR that I got a year ago for Christmas. It''''s the first SLR I''''ve used. It''''s also the first camera that I''''ve owned rather than borrowed from someone else when I wanted to photograph something. That includes camera phones.
14. As of a year ago, photography is my primary hobby.
15. I have had appendicitis.... twice.
16. I got married last summer in my aunt-in-law''''s back yard.
Tagged
Something told me when Lif got tagged that it''''d be me soon... here you guys go
1. I guess I''''ll start off with what I do... I''''m currently a graduate student in Missoula, Montana, United States studying computer science. Specifically, my research involves using computers to create simulations of glaciers and ice sheets in Antarctica.
2. I am a huge nerd in a lot of ways. For starters, I run Linux (and do all of my photo editing on it too, no photoshop for me!)
3. I love classical music. And not just Bach/Mozart/Beethoven, I mean everything up to and sometimes including 20th century experimentalists. It would be impossible for me to name some favorite pieces, I could go on for pages (but if you''''re looking for something neat and super obscure, might I suggest Tviett''''s 4th piano concerto ''''Aurora Borealis''''?)
4. Despite that, I still sometimes feel the need to crank the Zeppelin.
5. I like singing, and have been a tenor in several high school, college, and church choirs.
6. Though not a "hardcore" videogamer, I do enjoy playing them every once in a while. One of my favorite recent (though not that mainstream) games has been Braid just because of its creativity. I also recently enjoyed Bioshock and Mass Effect, and every once in a while I pick up a plastic guitar...
7. I read a lot of hard science fiction. One of my favorite sci-fi books is "Manifold: Time" by Stephen Baxter. My favorite nonfiction book is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. This might have something to do with being a computer scientist.
8. My current favorite movie is The Fountain, followed by Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others). This will probably change quickly.
9. My parents learned how to make sushi from a Japanese exchange student years ago and now it is one of my favorite foods.
10. I went to New Zealand my freshman year of college because it looked so pretty in the Lord of the Rings films (and yes, I did tramp around looking for things like the exact tree that the hobbits used to hide from the ringwraith or the part of a river that was used as the Ford of Bruinen)
11. That was one of only three times I''''ve been out of the US to somewhere other than Canada (so far, I''''m working to bump that number up a bit!). The other two have been less than a year ago, and are reflected in my photostream.
12. I still remember the first time I used a camera. My parents let me take pictures of mountains on a camping trip when I was four.
13. I shoot with a Sony SLR that I got a year ago for Christmas. It''''s the first SLR I''''ve used. It''''s also the first camera that I''''ve owned rather than borrowed from someone else when I wanted to photograph something. That includes camera phones.
14. As of a year ago, photography is my primary hobby.
15. I have had appendicitis.... twice.
16. I got married last summer in my aunt-in-law''''s back yard.