Posts for Politics

Jun 09

Fixing the American Healthcare System

I was prompted recently to write a bit of an essay on how to fix the broken American healthcare system. It was for a Facebook group, and the bloody site doesn't allow comments of this length (because I guess Facebook assumes everyone has the attention span of a cat ... oooh, shiny!), so I'm posting it here. Enjoy, and feel free to comment here if you like (though group members on Facebook should probably still just use that wall post for this discussion). Read on for more...

May 16

Women's Rights? Who Needs 'Em (in Kansas, Anyway)?

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I'm a 35-year-old software engineer and author. I work for a small research and development company in Orlando, Florida in modeling, simulation and gaming.

I am an atheist, and a secular humanitarian. I firmly believe in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments (including the firm conviction that its principles, especially the separation of church and state, trump any modern-day commercial, political, or religious interests). I support and prefer open source platforms, tools, and languages like Linux, LibreOffice, Eclipse, and C/C++/Python, and believe closed-source companies like Microsoft and Apple are destroying genuine innovation in computer science, at least in the United States, with constant patent trolling and litigation instead of competing on merit. I oppose software patents. I donate to worthy causes and I vote. I call people out in public for bad behavior, including displays of bigotry, racism, homophobia, and the many other flavors of hatred I find offensive.

My hobbies include photography, writing, gaming, computer science, and this little slice of the web.

Honors and Awards

  • Dean's List, Valencia College (3.5 GPA, Fall 2011)
  • Dean's List, Valencia CC (3.5 GPA, Spring 2011)
  • President's List, Valencia CC (4.0 GPA, Fall 2010)
  • ΦΘΚ Int'l Honor Society Valencia CC (Inducted Nov. 7, 2010)
  • Dean's List, Valencia CC (3.7 GPA, Summer 2010)
  • President's List, Valencia CC (4.0 GPA, Spring 2010)

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Projects and Contributions

  • LCDproc (original developer, 1999-2001, contributing developer, 2001-present)
  • PyKaraoke (contributing developer, 2005-2006)
  • SEDRIS (core team, developer, 2010 to present)

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