pstaight

I like organizing things and solving logic puzzles. I try to meet 2.33 new people every day. I have a B.S. in computer science from UC Riverside. I have over 4 years paid work experience writing programs and building databases. I like to program in my spare time. I know all the words to “American Pie” by Don McLean. I occasionally wear a t-shirt that reads “This is what a feminist looks like”. I am an Eagle Scout. I worked in a phone bank to reelect President Obama in 2012. I pay artists to use poems I write as inspiration. I was in the UUA General Assembly march on tent city protesting Arizona’s SB 107

I had a fantastic time at WonderCon Leading up to it, I spent 3 weeks trying to make a list of artists, ordering them from best to least best. It was a three pass process, spending a total of 5 to 20 minutes on each of the 255 artists. My immediate goal was to get a better sense of art. My long term goal is to study quantitative crowd sourcing with application to searching and sorting. This is my first convention doing this.  I hope to do continue to improve. I intend to make an interactive .net MVC website with features for users  to suggest better orderings. I have aspirations of having my ideas integrated into DeviantArt. Here is t

I may need to find a better blog than Deviant Art.  While I spend most of my time here and some Deviants may find my thoughts interesting it's not really the right market. I recently read a post by Aaron Saenz on my Google Buzz about future hot spots for online stock brokers. https://singularityhub.com/2010/12/02/trading-stocks-at-the-speed-of-light-computers-own-finance-next-the-world/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SingularityHub It got me thinking about a bunch of topics: Primarily I wonder how accurately this can be predicted as Technology is always changing. IPv6:  If everyone was using the latest Internet