Me, Myself, and I

Me, me, me . . . all about me

Some details about me and my interests

Name Sheldon

Gender  cis male (Pronouns he, him, his)

Age varies year to year

Birthday 16th October

Hometown Pacifica, CA

Occupation

Industry Education

Occupation substitute teacher

Subject Mathematics

School Boston Public

Location Boston, MA

Favorites

Quote Tolle lege, tolle lege.

Novels The Secret History, Wuthering Heights, Pride & Prejudice Persuasion, Far From the Maddening Crowd, American Psycho, Cryptinomicon

Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, James Bond (the non-Craig ones), Enigma (2001), Gosford Park, PCU

TV Shows Doctor Who, ('Classic series' and the Next Re-Generation series up through Capaldi) Star Trek (only the pre-Enterprise series), Paradox, Mission: Impossible, Probe, Dark

Composers Bach, Wagner, Philip Glass

Music genres Classical, techno, soundtracks & film scores, World beat esp. Arabic and Indian

Sport Rugby

Among my passionate interests include Garfield (the cat), fountain pens, the Romantics (Wordsworth, Coleridge), and reading Ancient Greek (in the original, of course) Aristotle and Euclid, and playing around in Virtual Reality.

A recent side interest I have picked up as an outgrown of my VR escapades is doing things in Unity, the game engine. Here are some projects built following an online course.

I do not expect going into software engineering or game development, I have cut my proverbial teeth on programming decades ago with BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, and Assembly. An oft quoted line is 'writing is rewriting.' In similar vein, programming is debugging. I did not enjoy programming then; I do not enjoy it now. But knowing Unity affords me possible career options.

Speaking of careers, my previous work experience included teaching, IT/tech support, customer service, and audio engineering (the guy behind the glass in the recording studio).

According to the results of the the Jung/Briggs-Meyer topological test, I am in the same company as Newton, William F. Buckley, Jr., Stephen Hawking, and Ayn Rand.

Diagnosised once as having Asperger's Syndrome, now under revised labeling, I am (high functioning) on the Autism Spretrum.