- Current Location
College Station, TX
- Hometown
Austin, TX
- Occupation
Undergrad
- About Me
Howdy.
I'm a politically alienated twenty-something. I'm a graduating (hopefully) in May with my BS, and right now I'm trying to figure out where to go to grad school. It's a rough decision; I have good offers from GA Tech, Wisconsin and UW Seattle. I want to do a PhD in electric power systems engineering.
- Colleges
Texas A&M University
- Major
Electrical Engineering
- Student Organizations
Engineers Without Borders
- General Interests
â?¢ Chasing catharsis
â?¢ Wonders, curiosities, and esoterica
â?¢ Stouts, ales
â?¢ Suffering Latinos to converse with me in Spanish
â?¢ Power systems protection, control, and wide area monitoring
â?¢ Realpolitik
â?¢ Wilderness backpacking
â?¢ Lived theology
â?¢ Shooting
â?¢ Authentic ethnic foods
â?¢ FC Barcelona
â?¢ Coffee
â?¢ Worship
â?¢ Clean power
â?¢ American energy policy
â?¢ Public radio
â?¢ MATLAB
â?¢ You
- Hobbies
â?¢ Casually working in coffee shops
â?¢ The standing meeting at my local pub on Wednesdays
â?¢ Consuming lots and lots of news
â?¢ Aggie hoops
- Magazines & Newspapers
â?¢ The New York Times
â?¢ The Washington Post
â?¢ The Guardian
â?¢ The Economist
â?¢ The New Scientist
â?¢ Scientific American
â?¢ IEEE Spectrum
â?¢ IEEE PES Power and Energy
â?¢ Good Magazine
â?¢ Relevant Magazine
- Fine Arts
â?¢ I like beautiful visual presentations of unlikely information.
â?¢ also, this is cool: windfiredesigns.com/ruthfolio_pages/120V_60Hz/ruth_whiting_paintfolio.html
- Who I want to meet
Engineers and the ladies who love them.
- I love
encouraging people, living in community, and not having to drive.
- Pet Peeves
When individuals test certain words or phrases in conversation to gauge your reaction and thereby determine if you are "on their side." Also, the words "hydrogen" and "corn ethanol."
- Places I've been
â?¢ Alaska
â?¢ Chile
â?¢ Guatemala
â?¢ Qatar
- Places I'd like to go
â?¢ Portland, OR
â?¢ NYC
â?¢ Croatia
â?¢ Patagonia
â?¢ The NPR headquarters in DC
â?¢ Glacier Natl Park
â?¢ Yellowstone (at Christmas)
- I'd rather be
outdoors. But I'm probably not.
- Music
Americana alt-folk extra-nashville country bluegrass Texas blues... whatever that is called. I listen to KGSR.
- Movies
The Sandlot
- TV
â?¢ Weeknight fake news
â?¢ Sunday morning real news
- Website / Blogs
â?¢ boingboing.net
â?¢ penny-arcade.com
â?¢ npr.org
â?¢ economist.com
- Best Trends
I'm a fan of women's fashion this year. Leggings are utilitarian and make lots of sense, and the men's ties as hair bands thing is hot.
- Beer
• Spaten Optimator
• Murphy's Stout
• Le Fin du Monde
• Stone Pale Ale
- Favorite Quotes
The culture wars make us stupid.
-The Washington Post
"We must challenge at every step the administration that pays lip service to environmental goals while systematically blocking every effort for substantive progress."
- Morris K. Udall, July 11, 1975
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
Knowledge is power.
By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
And by knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man is strong,
And a man of knowledge increases power.
- Proverbs 24: 3-5
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Social
â?¢ Wonders, curiosities, and esoterica
â?¢ Stouts, ales
â?¢ Suffering Latinos to converse with me in Spanish
â?¢ Power systems protection, control, and wide area monitoring
â?¢ Realpolitik
â?¢ Wilderness backpacking
â?¢ Lived theology
â?¢ Shooting
â?¢ Authentic ethnic foods
â?¢ FC Barcelona
â?¢ Coffee
â?¢ Worship
â?¢ Clean power
â?¢ American energy policy
â?¢ Public radio
â?¢ MATLAB
â?¢ You
â?¢ The standing meeting at my local pub on Wednesdays
â?¢ Consuming lots and lots of news
â?¢ Aggie hoops
â?¢ The Washington Post
â?¢ The Guardian
â?¢ The Economist
â?¢ The New Scientist
â?¢ Scientific American
â?¢ IEEE Spectrum
â?¢ IEEE PES Power and Energy
â?¢ Good Magazine
â?¢ Relevant Magazine
â?¢ also, this is cool: windfiredesigns.com/ruthfolio_pages/120V_60Hz/ruth_whiting_paintfolio.html
â?¢ Chile
â?¢ Guatemala
â?¢ Qatar
â?¢ NYC
â?¢ Croatia
â?¢ Patagonia
â?¢ The NPR headquarters in DC
â?¢ Glacier Natl Park
â?¢ Yellowstone (at Christmas)
â?¢ Sunday morning real news
â?¢ penny-arcade.com
â?¢ npr.org
â?¢ economist.com
• Murphy's Stout
• Le Fin du Monde
• Stone Pale Ale
-The Washington Post
"We must challenge at every step the administration that pays lip service to environmental goals while systematically blocking every effort for substantive progress."
- Morris K. Udall, July 11, 1975
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
Knowledge is power.
By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
And by knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man is strong,
And a man of knowledge increases power.
- Proverbs 24: 3-5