- Things I Like to Do
- Bicycling (
activism,
bikeways,
commuting,
touring,
HPVs,
skiing,
mountain biking,
Tandems
Folding Tandems)
- Canoeing
- Cross-country skiing
- Reading to my daughter (until she got too old)
- Politics, too: my U.S. Senators are
Edward Kennedy
and
John Kerry,
and my Congressman is
Stephen Lynch.
- Reading too many magazines and
my complete collection of
Doonesbury books
while listening to the
radio
- Going to movies
...when I can find the time
- Listening to Celtic music
-
Developing and using astronomical software
(It's my job, but I enjoy doing it!)
- Where I've Come From
- I grew up outside of Dundee, Illinois,
- attended
Parkview Elementary School in Carpentersville, IL,
Dundee Junior High School (It was where the parking lots are in this picture)
in Dundee, IL,
and Dundee Community High School
(Class of 1969) in Carpentersville, IL
- went east to MIT to study
Planetary Science graduating in 1973
(masters in 1974)
- helped
discover the rings of Uranus
while working at
Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York
- returned to
Cambridge, Massachusetts
to work first at MIT and for the past 26
years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
- I've lived in the Roslindale
neighborhood of Boston for 22 years.
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