If you've come here, I assume it's because you want to know more about me than you can find on the main page of my site. (Or you want contact information, in which case you can avoid a lot of long rambling digressions by jumping down to the "Contact" section of this page. Go ahead. Jump on down.)
I'm a web application developer by profession and a writer by vocation, living in Iowa City, Iowa, USA with several domesticated mammals of various sizes and a few pots of hydroponic herbs. I'm a classic INTP, which means I love systems and details; I didn't go into Lingusitics because of the job prospects*, I went because playing in grammar and word formation were hella exciting fields. Yes, I am that much of a nerd.
I'm a lifelong learner. There's an Oppenheimer quote which goes:
One thing that is new is the prevalence of newness, the changing scale and scope of change itself so that the world alters as we walk in it, so that the years of man’s life measure not some small growth or rearrangement or moderations of what he learnt in childhood, but a great upheaval.
That's the great thing about the age we're in. The sphere of what we know is expanding at an astounding pace, and the sphere of what we know we don't know is expanding even faster. We're constantly on a new frontier. How cool is that?
Fields I love to learn in include languages (human and computer), psychology (especially the psychology of motivation), changing standards of communication and narrative, social construction of race, ability, and gender, and the entire realm of speculative fiction.
*That's a joke, if you're wondering.
Contact
- EMail: an@owomoyela.net
- Blog (personal): magistrate.dreamwidth.org
- Blog (writing): an-owomoyela.dreamwidth.org