APLaconic

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Technology
Occupation Middleware Architect
Location Chicagoland, United States
Introduction APL is one of the earliest programming languages, and my first one! Laconic simply means terse or concise-- marked by few words, which is how APL (A Programming Language) appears to those unfamiliar with its laconic syntax and structure.
Interests NFL/college Football, Clojure, Music, Model Railroading, Group Theory, Quantum Mechanics Relativity or Loop Quantum Gravity, Rescuing stray cats, Linda Evangelista, algebraic topology, pneumatology, eschatology, theology
Favorite Movies 2001 A Space Odyssey, Hellboy2, Bringing Up Baby, Fail Safe
Favorite Music Fusion, Bebop, Jazz, classical Masses, Russian Opera, tone poems, acid Rock bands of the late 60s & 70s
Favorite Books Agamemnon, Enchanted April, Homesick, Beauty by the Book, ESTHER, I-PETER, REVELATION

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

On Triton, of course! (Moon of Neptune) because her nitrogen geysers are so beautiful enough to stop me from going anything further, and because this magnificent Solar system body is, at times, the farthest away of all!