Who am I? I'm a Buddhist Quaker, born in 1970 and raised in Virginia. The best way to descibe my education is that I effectively have a bachelor's in linguistics, with minors in artificial intelligence, philosophy, and comparative religion, and a master's degree in statistics. I am currently working in Maryland as a mathematical statistician for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. However, it would be more correct to describe my job as an overpaid clerk who sometimes does a little database programming. My main hobby these days is Chess, but I still love programming Python.