 A few favorite quotes: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to Tortoise (in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter) "If the crib's on fire you don't speculate the baby's flame retardant." - Al Gore on global warming "Strike up the klezmer and start acting like a man. You're about to have a truth-mitzvah." - Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report | I'm a software developer and civic hacker based in Washington, DC. "Civic hacking" is creative use of technology to innovate our civic lives, especially our participation in government. My professional affiliations are: CTO of Civic Engagement Solutions, Inc., a new startup venture launching a website in fall 2010. Proprietor of Civic Impulse, LLC out of which I run GovTrack.us an open-source website that tracks what is happening in the U.S. Congress, and GovTrack Insider.com, GovTrack's reporting arm. Director of Software Architecture (or "Developer at Large") for LARSA, Inc., which is a small structural engineering software company in New York. Engineers use it to make sure bridges won't fall down. I also am an A.B.D. graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the linguistics Ph.D. program. My dissertation is on the phonetic realization of [voice] and its acquisition (L1). I did a master's thesis on computational models of OT grammar acquisition. I hope (dearly) to finish in early 2010. Let's see... I'm a locavore and I like things to be orderly. More random bits about me. |