was born April
20th 1970, in New York City, where I spent the first 18 years
of my life,
attending Stuyvesant High
School for the last 4 of them. That was a long time ago,
so enough on that. Following that I moved to Pittsburgh, to
attend Carnegie Mellon
University, majoring
in Chemistry (with the
Computer Science Track, something mostly like a CS minor).
While there I spent much of my time in the computer clusters,
and much of what was left of the rest I was involved with a
student organisation known
as KGB. Upon graduating,
I had the brilliant idea of continuing there for
graduate school, studying
under Dave
Yaron (studying with Dave was fine, staying in Pittsburgh
was less brilliant). I did a postdoc in Sheffield, England,
working for at the University
of Sheffield (doing the same stuff I did in Grad School),
and one studying combustion chemistry at
the New Jersey Institute of
Technology. I worked for a while as an adjunct professor,
mostly at Saint John's
University
and Brooklyn
College. Now I do sysadmin stuff
for Brandorr LLC (mostly
doing stuff on Amazon Web
Services.On a more personal note, on August 17th, 2014, I married Maria Nedwidek-Moore.