MADBOT

I am a software engineer in Silicon Valley afflicted with recurring dreams of otherworldly creatures, mysterious alien planets and fantastic adventures. I am the author of several novels. Here is my Amazon page.

I often have difficulty with decisionation. After all, one should consider everything that might affect the outcome, and the ramifications of the post-decision world you are about to create... these calculations take time.

I suffer from a variety of chronic afflictions, including irrational impulses, addiction to dihydrogen monoxide, and involuntary lipid deposition.

I run long distance stay in shape. I used to grapple at Tribull. I like martial arts because it is a type of competition where both mental and physical elements determine the winner.

Many people feel I am slightly on the paranoid side, but I feel that it is only prudent to sleep with edged weapons close at hand. I do travel on the airlines occasionally but I feel it is foolish to clamber into a hollow aluminum tube and hurtle along at hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above the ground.

I think it is important to have goals in every sector of life (health, finance, career, personal) and I try to advance towards those goals every day. Sometimes it is hard to be constructive on days when you are tired or burned out, but it only takes a little each day to move forward in the long run.

Some of my favorite books are "The Forever War", "Starship Troopers" (Novel is better than the movie!), The Elric saga, The adventures of Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser, The Sten series, a lot of books by the team Niven Pournelle & Barnes, The Cthulhu mythos by Lovecraft, and "In the House of the Worm" by George R.R. Martin. And of course many many more.

As for those taboo subjects. I'm not a religious person. The classifications agnostic, atheist or nondeist would all probably be close to the mark. Politically I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. I particularly lament the erosion of our rights and the burgeoning size of the government. When was the last time a bloated bureaucracy could do anything efficiently?