I have been a lifelong intellectual, spiritual and cultural explorer, driven by the quenchable spark of Curiosity and the Sense of Awe. Genealogy, history of science, classical music, comparative religion, films, reading, philosophy, and antiquities are among favorite interests. My special interest is in modeling the population of ancestors by generation. It's good to see "the Forest" more clearly.

City of Yuma Engineering Department was my last employer prior to retirement in 2009, but the longest span of Employment was with Baltimore County, Maryland, in areas of operations, tech support, and administration of IBM and HP computer systems.

Education: B.A. , but learning is a daily, lifetime venture.

Myers-Briggs type: INFP

DNA Haplogroups: H4a1a3 (mt); R-A9872 (paternal).

Heroes: Heraclitus, Epicurus, Hypatia, Goethe, Bahá'u'lláh, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Campbell, James Lovelock, E.O. Wilson, Karen Armstrong, and a host of others.

Politics: I view it all as a combusting rubbish heap, pretty much. I'm trying to be kind, here. ;) The grandest folly of paper Constitutions is in the common failure to firmly separate the roles of Head of State and Head of Government. That cannot end well, really! Sweden and Switzlerland may have the best societies that humans can accomplish; the percentage of incarcerated citizens seems to accord with that notion.

I have been a lifelong intellectual, spiritual and cultural explorer, driven by the quenchable spark of Curiosity and the Sense of Awe. Genealogy, history of science, classical music, comparative religion, films, reading, philosophy, and antiquities are among favorite interests. My special interest is in modeling the population of ancestors by generation. It's good to see "the Forest" more clearly.

City of Yuma Engineering Department was my last employer prior to retirement in 2009, but the longest span of Employment was with Baltimore County, Maryland, in areas of operations, tech support, and administration of IBM and HP computer systems.

Education: B.A. , but learning is a daily, lifetime venture.

Myers-Briggs type: INFP

DNA Haplogroups: H4a1a3 (mt); R-A9872 (paternal).

Heroes: Heraclitus, Epicurus, Hypatia, Goethe, Bahá'u'lláh, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Campbell, James Lovelock, E.O. Wilson, Karen Armstrong, and a host of others.

Politics: I view it all as a combusting rubbish heap, pretty much. I'm trying to be kind, here. ;) The grandest folly of paper Constitutions is in the common failure to firmly separate the roles of Head of State and Head of Government. That cannot end well, really! Sweden and Switzlerland may have the best societies that humans can accomplish; the percentage of incarcerated citizens seems to accord with that notion.