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Basic Account Created on 5 January 2005 (#5661380) Last updated on 16 April 2009 Gift
Name:
jurph
Birthdate:
3 May 1978
Location:
Schools:
- Lord Baltimore Elementary School - Ocean View, DE (1983 - 1989)
- St. Andrew's School - Middletown, DE (1992 - 1996)
- Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD (1996 - 2000)
Delawarean born and bred. Went to the high school where Dead Poets' Society was filmed. I wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger, and some of it was pretty good - but some of it pretty much sucked. I went to Johns Hopkins for a Mechanical Engineering degree, and the Air Force figured they'd make me a rocket scientist. That was a lot of fun. Then they told me to manage satellite sensor contracts by day, so I did, but I also studied for a graduate degree in Systems Engineering by night. Now I work for the Applied Physics Laboratory doing missile defense threat systems analysis.
I continue to be amazed by the little things in life.
I continue to be amazed by the little things in life.
[putting things in brackets], all night diners, allen wrenches, alternate escape routes, autumn, ballistic missiles, banjos, barenaked ladies, bass, big words, birds, bittorrent, blowing shit up, bongos, boobies, boundaries, calvin and hobbes, computers, corn pone, creative problem solving, d.h. lawrence, david foster wallace, david ives, delaware, dogs, dolphins, doodling, dr pepper, duct tape, dying trying, e.e. cummings, edges, engineering, everything2, fight club, firefly, firefox, frontiers, getting lost, golden retrievers, group dynamics, haiku, hair, heat transfer, henry rollins, hiking, horns, independent film, infinite jest, james dickey, language, led zeppelin, libertarians, linda pastan, lost, maggie gyllenhaal, mario kart, mary oliver, mental notes, microeconomics, minimalism, monkeys, neal stephenson, penny arcade, perl, phish, pie, pigovian taxes, pirates, polar-orbiting satellites, pretty colors, questionable content, rain, remote sensing, ring-tailed lemurs, ritual, rocketry, sand, sandalwood, scents, sea kayaking, secretary, shaved heads, singing, sketching, skiing, skinny dipping, software engineering, soul coughing, space, st. andrew's school, staying up all night, staying up too late, stockings, sushi, systems engineering, the grateful dead, the ocean, they might be giants, thunder, video games, vocal percussion, w.s. merwin, weather, weather satellites
