I can actually, and I mean like actually, rock a pair of circle lens sunglasses

I not only won the genetic lottery in terms of being in the top 99th percentile of humanity for almost all metrics one could use physically or mentally, I have also become a jack of all trades, and a master of a few.

I did lose the lottery by “picking up” ADD, and ODD upon character creation. That shit hasn’t made anything easy.

My mother in law said I’m a really good dad. Like not even on father’s day, just like randomly once.

I can cook better than at least half the people I know (and im being humble). I can cook nearly anything, with the capability to pull complex recipies off in the first go. My only limitations are ingredient availablity.

some people are bakers, some cooks. Im both. Im not great at cake decorating though, but it’ll taste great at least

I wanted to learn hardware design by designing a basic risc-v processor, ben eater style, kind of like a 1970s minicomputer, with expansion slots for new isa extensions and CSRs. But obviously using real breadboards for experimentation would be too slow when designing a 32 bit processor. I had never touched an hdl before.

So I sat down and started writing my own simulator and netlist generation dsl from scratch. It only works at the gate level, no behavioral synthesis, but flexible enough to write components modelling, for example, 74 series chips. It does vhdl-like delta cycle simulation using 8-valued logic, but without vhdl’s signal forwarding footgun.

I then implemented an rv32i processor with full m-mode support, and a risc-v emulator in rom to trap and silently emulate any missing extension instructions. When a new expansion board is plugged in, those instructions are simply not trapped and are accelerated in hardware.

I then learned just enough systemverilog to faithfully transliterate the generated netlist into structural verilog, and it actually synthesized and worked perfectly on an fpga.

I am now in the process of very slowly designing boards to hopefully one day manage to build the whole thing out of discrete 74hc series logic

I’m incredibly humble.

I’m great at getting dogs to trust me. I work at an animal shelter and we have a ton of strays, neglect, and abuse cases that get brought into our shelter (only a few in our podunk county). These animals are usually fearful and greatly distrusting of people, especially men. I get these dogs to trust me and not be so fearful fairly quickly, and in the short time I’ve been working here I’ve become the goto guy for dogs that are emotionally shutdown. It helps that the shelter I work at is run by great people who have put together a great team that really cares about all our residents. I get to take my time working with these dogs and am not pressured to get it done faster.

• I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
• I beat depression and anxiety.
• I have a fun job that pays well and I’m good at it.

My body is a machine that turns Vietnamese supermarkets into Mexican food for my lovely wife. I do not feel pain, or remorse, or pity, & I cannot be stopped unless I am killed.

The horrors persist, but so do I.

I have bipolar and addiction issues. I’ve been sober and stable for 8 years. With a lot of work and therapy and meds I’m down to 2 episodes a year and stay very stable outside of those. I’ve also started a program in my city for addicts with mental health issues, for half the month it’s a peer support group, the other weeks we bring in local therapists to run free workshops on DBT skills and principles. This is often the only time many of my regulars can access mental healthcare. For someone with a major mental illness and low education I feel so proud of myself

I still exist, despite fighting depression and dissociation and suicidality my entire adult life. I have been homeless, I have moved across the country to a place that is safer for people like me because where I lived no longer was, leaving me alone in a place where I knew no one, and I am still here.

I am okayish at learning and understanding languages. I have a personal language with a couple thousand words in it that I have been using for twenty years.

I am a quiet person and try my best to be humble and small and hurt no one. I often fail at this, but damn it I try.

I’m an awesome physicist. I’ve created valid solutions for a variety of problems the community thought impossible, as well as solved problems that nobody else was aware of. My first major solution was for the diffraction of waves through an aperture. As part of that solution I even improved upon Bethe’s solution. Bethe was a Nobel price winning physicist.

I solved a data science issue with working with a collection of arbitrary data sets in a systematic manner. That open source software is pysat, python satellite data analysis toolkit.

I invented a new neutral wind instrument for satellites called SANDS that also measures composition and temperature. It is smaller, faster, more robust, and requires less power than previous attempts. In fact the solution is a differential equation rather than a ‘simple’ formula. The reason is the instrument operates too fast to simplify the math.

Most recently I solved another impossible problem in plasma physics. Previously the community couldn’t correctly calculate the distribution of electric potential around the globe because they thought the magnetic field was too complicated. I can. My software solution also produces visual art though it was explicitly designed for physics.

I also invented a new class of musical instruments called photonic musical instruments. These instruments use the resonance of electricity and light to create music in the same way acoustic instruments use the resonance of vibrations in wood. Photonic instruments create music we can’t hear using colors we can’t see. I created a software plugin that authentically recreates photonic musical instruments but in a way that we can hear. I’m currently trying to market the plugin and my art which is proving to be quite the challenge.

I am a really good earthmover, heavy equipment operator. My machine of choice that I run daily is a motorgrader.
Other equipment I am very skilled with; bulldozers, scrapers, and loaders. Fair on excavators. Skid steers and loader backhoes I am average.

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