I’ve been going by the username Jomegat on the Internet for a long time. Jomegat would be more properly rendered J Omega T, but I always just jam it all together.
Here are a few things about me:
- I am the director of the Central New Hampshire Flames Pathfinder Club.
- I am the primary editor the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book hosted on Wikibooks (Wikipedia’s little sister).
- Pathfinders is an important part of my life and soaks up most of my free time.
- I take a lot of pictures of wild flowers, and then log the times I find them in bloom at Wikiversity’s Bloom Clock.
- Most people would classify the flowers I photograph in the “weed” category.
- I also take pictures of other things I find in nature, including mushrooms, moss, lichen, slime molds, gastropods, insects, frogs, trees, animal sign (tracks and scat) etc. Most of these things have Pathfinder (aka Adventist Youth, or AY) Honors associated with them, and sometimes the photos make it into the Answer Book.
- I serve as an Elder at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Concord, NH.
- My wife’s name is Virginia
- We have three children:
- Jonathan: 17
- David: 14
- Beth: 6
- I have a Border Collie named Penny.
- I work as an engineer at a small electronics firm writing embedded software for signal processing. Some of it is cool. You have probably never seen any of the products my software is in.
- I have used Linux as my main operating system since 1995 (before Win95 was released even).
- I probably cannot fix your computer. You are probably having an issue with some version of Windows which I avoid like the plague.
- My yard is full of fascinating weeds. I do not fertilize it, but I do mow it sometimes.
- I built a canoe in 1998. I love to paddle it, especially in whitewater (though I don’t often get that opportunity).
- I also love to camp, hike, and go backpacking.
- I like math. I envy my sons who are taking math classes.
- Sometimes I get to do math problems at work. Those are good days at the office.
- My sons are home schooled. Or rather, they are enrolled in a “distance learning” school.
- My daughter is a student at Capital Christian School, a K-8 we helped to open at our church. Beth is a charter student.
- Beth loves school. She finished all the kindergarten work they had for her before the end of December. In January she started first grade and finished that before the school year was out. She gets to start second grade this fall, but we can’t say she “skipped” a grade since she did all the work.
- I teach Sabbath School to the “Juniors” (ages 10-13). I’ve been teaching that age since 2001. Before that I taught “Primary” (ages 7-9).
- I moved to New Hampshire from Northern Virginia in 2004. I love it here.
- I like woodworking, especially using hand tools and techniques perfected in the 19th century. It’s very difficult to cut your finger off with a handsaw, but not that hard with power tools. Zing! gone.
- My favorite hand tool is a bench plane. I love planing so much that I accidentally reduced the thickness of my canoe hull to zero when I was smoothing it. I had to replace a few planks.
