confessions of a passionate moderate

I hate filling in these things. They're kind of annoying -- what in the world do I say about myself, something that describes myself without being logorrheic? Normally, I don't want to say much of anything, but the blank space here begs to be filled.

In any case, I'm putatively one or more of the following: a punk-rocking half-person/half-ex-economist grad-school dropout; a software engineer; a professional dilettante without portfolio; an amateur photographer who sometimes dabbles in film; a curmudgeonly armchair economic historian; a public policy analyst; a data fiend; a putative geek; an occasional runner; a breakfast-chaser par excellence; an occasional sysadmin and impromptu IT specialist; a former metalhead; a sometime (though not often enough!) radio DJ.

So, yeah. That's enough, I guess.

I'm not much of a writer, at least in public. I'm not much of a reader either at this point (though I keep current with academic journals).

Requisite quotations:

It is a sin not to know why you are sinning. Pointless sin must be avoided. -- Edward Leamer

Would you rather have a Lexus, or justice? A dream, or some substance?
A Beemer, or necklace, or freedom? -- dead prez

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. You may suspect me of proposing another theory in its place, but I hope not, because I'm sure it's wrong too if it is a theory. -- Saul Kripke, on the cluster theory of reference