On average, about 149,608,900km from the centre of the sun.
Personal Motto
Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina
Interests
- Engineering (particularly geotechnical),
- Physics,
- Mathematics,
- Formal logic,
- Philosophy,
- Adorable things (especially ponies, cats, bunnies, and grey ducks),
- Collecting/accumulating various aesthetically pleasing oddments,
- Collecting/accumulating various interesting antique miscellanies,
- Collecting/accumulating various second-hand dictionaries/thesauri,
- Collecting/accumulating various nifty and often archaic vocabillularary words,
- Finding and categorising various forms of genetically mutated daisies,
- Making things up on the spot (intellectual ad-libbing is my forte),
- Owl City, Pentatonix, & chipper chiptune music,
- Reading Sir Terry Pratchett & Brandon Sanderson novels,
- Reading C.S. Lewis' classic theology books,
- Reading the surviving observations and deductions of various ancient philosophers and scientists (e.g., Da Vinci, Aristotle, etc.),
- Lego (great for modelling simple engineering problems),
- Minecraft,
- 8-bit games,
- Irony,
- Being interesting.
She wanted me to give her 'The Talk', so I happily obliged:
Spoiler
"Atoms make up all that we generally consider matter. They are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons, the former two types of particle being made up in turn by quarks. . ."