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I grew up pretty much in the middle of nowhere, actually you went to nowhere and took a left, then went 1.9 miles up the holler. A little dot on the map, Rocky Gap, VA, Population - less than 7,000. 7,000 is for the entire county, the town has around 300-400 residents. To this day, there is still not one red light in the entire county. Here is a nice link that talks about the place. It was a great place to grow up, this is the house I grew up in (the one on the left),  and this is what we drove,  Just kidding, this picture came out of South Carolina. It's not everyday you see something like this. Hobbies In my spare time I like to fish, ride motorcycles, woodwork, travel, contemplate the world, sleep, and read books. Here is a list of books I have or am currently reading: 1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (304 Pages), Malcom Gladwell. 2. The Wisdom of Crowds (336 Pages), James Surowiecki 3. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (400 Pages), Nassim Nicholas Taleb 4. Fool by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (368 Pages), Nassim Nicholas Taleb 5. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (256 Pages), Chris Anderson 6. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart (272 Pages), Ian Ayres. 7. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (304 Pages), Chip and Dan Heath. 8. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World (272 Pages), Tim Harford. 9. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (288 Pages), David Weinberger. 10. The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads (173 Pages), Ervin Laszlo. 11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (336 Pages), Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. 12. The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! (288 Pages), Tim Harford. 13. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (304 Pages), Dan Ariely. 14. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (224 Pages), Ori Bradman 15. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (400 Pages), Peter L. Bernstein. 16. A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (227 Pages), John Henry Clippinger. 17. Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (274 Pages), Keith Sawyer. 18. The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less (288 Pages), Barry Schwartz. 19. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (172 Pages), John H. Holland. 20. The Starfish and the Spider (208 Pages), Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. 21. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants’ Brains, Cities, and Software (234 Pages), Steven Johnson. 22. Emergence: From Chaos to Order (248 Pages), John H. Holland. I would recommend reading some of them if you get a chance. Photos Here are some photos of me and my family and friends I have taken over the years. Rocky Gap Student of the Week - 1991 Dare Graduation - 1989 ISA Competition - 1997 Favorite Sites Here are some websites that are worth checking out. As you can tell, I like open source. If you are not familiar with open source, it is free. This means you can equip your computer with just about any software you need for free. Think about it, all of the software on your computer is free! http://www.locode.com http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.gimp.org/ http://camstudio.org/ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ http://www.naturalreaders.com/ http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ http://orange.blender.org/ http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator http://www.virtualdub.org/ http://www.getgnulinux.org/ Youtube Videos Here is my small contribution to the world. It's not much but hopefully it helps some people. Here is another video of a project I am working on. |
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