Recent versions of Firefox and Chromium oversaturate this photo horribly.
Konqueror displays it properly, the way I exported it from RawTherapee.
So do my local photo viewers, including the Gimp.
Maybe one day I’ll figure out how to convince Firefox to display it properly.
In the meantime, feel free to download it to your machine
and view it in a local viewer or editor.
With an editor you can even draw silly moustaches under my nose.
Legal Name: John E. Perry, III, Ph.D.
(Il?)legal name: Jack
Organization: The Perry Disorganization
Role: Father and Husband
Responsibilities: Torturing the teenagers, worrying the wife,
insecuring the income
Typical reviews on performance evaluations:
- “You’re a horrible human being.”
- “I hate you.”
- “Go away.”
Other positions held:
- Present Position: Cog in a soul-devouring machine, Level II (computer programmer)
- Agile, Continuous Integration, Continuous Development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, …
- C++, Java, Rust, Rust/C++ interoperability
- Timesheet entry
- …and other cool buzzwords
- 2005-2021: Cog in a soul-devouring machine, Level I (Associate Professor of Mathematics)
- Teaching: usually Calculus I, Modern Algebra, Number Theory, Mathematical Computation (a programming class)
- Research: roughly 10 papers over a 15-year career
- multiple international co-authors
- two papers authored with undergraduate students
- top-cited paper in the Journal of Symbolic Computation for a short while
- multiple internally- and externally-funded grants
- Service: too much; the less said, the better
- When a colleague took over my duties and realized how much work it was, she asked for an additional class release beyond what I’d had (and received it).
- 2005-2015 or so: Gear in a soul-devouring machine (AP Calculus Reader, Consultant to another standardized test)
- 1993-1995,1999-2005 Matter fed to a soul-devouring machine (Graduate student)
- 1995-1999 Quitter (High school math teacher, Catholic seminarian)
- 1985-1989 Overachiever (Salutatorian, Fast food, Newspaper Delivery)
- not fitting in
- writing much but saying little
- surviving on a lot less sleep than I should be having (like, uh, now)
- entertaining myself for hours or days at a time, then wondering where everyone went
- a handful of languages, with a wide range of ability (from fluent to cringe-inducingly bad)
- utilizing the Sacrament of Confession (you wouldn’t believe what I confess even if I told you)
- voting for a losing candidate in 7 of 8 presidential elections in a row — don’t blame me; I voted for the other guy — no, not that other guy, a different one
- independent, uh, “thinking”, if it can be called that
- finding places to visit in Europe where absolutely no one speaks English
- making people smile, most of all my wife
(this is hard for me to do on purpose)
(though I’m pretty sure God laughs at me a lot) - three children who haven’t disavowed me… yet
- resurrecting an old research problem, then killing it again
- a proof that led someone else to prove something else that I failed to prove
- helping several students who had given up make it to graduation and sometimes to advanced degrees
- declining a grant award that would have been a dream opportunity — and declining it for the right reasons
- I still can’t believe some people love me — to be fair, that’s more their accomplishment than mine
- successfully cooking pizza, tiella, lasagna, babà al rum, sfogliatelle, птиче молоко, bread pudding, banana pudding
- teaching myself Modula-2, C, Eiffel, Java, C++, Python, Modula-3, Oberon, Kotlin, Ada, Rust, … probably others
- writing a program that legitimately required roughly 1,000,000 times as much data as available on the computer I had growing up
- learning gratitude (though I’m not very good at it)