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Jay's Journally Journal

Created on 2004-03-09 17:49:51 (#2460841), last updated 2009-11-24

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Name:	Jay
Location:	Danville, California, United States

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Jay.B.Hann+LJ@gmail.com

Bio

I have grown up working on with an education in the sciences (Biotech) and majored in mathematics at Cal Poly. Abstraction is a powerful tool and I enjoy being able to definitively prove propositions.
I am not a party'er and I do not drink. If you think that makes me sound boring then you obviously haven't tried doing the same.

I am at Santa Clara University School of Law,... study Intellectual Property rights, conduct proteomics research while working as a patent attorney, create better mathematical models for proteins and other biological systems, cure cancer and the common cold... and anything else I can do.
Somewhere in there I would also like to make politics more REASONable.

"There are two kinds of political oratory, one of them is pandering and base claptrap; only the other is good, which aims at the edification of the souls of the citizens and is always striving to say what is best, whether it be welcome or unwelcome to the ears of the audience. But I don't believe that you have ever experienced the second type." Plato in Gorgias

I have been described by others as: "harsh realist" and "most analytical guy I've ever met", both of which I consider synonymous to "characterized by skepticism and analytical rigor." Something I am very proud of.

Here are a couple sayings in no particular order:

Always state the obvious first, it is not always obvious.
Expectation is a powerful thing. The power of suggestion is the most powerful tool of persuasion; however, proper timing is important.
Expectation is a powerful thing. Placebo's can have startling effects. If you can find a good placebo, stick with it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Ghandi
Expectation is a powerful thing. Nobody can read your mind and thus nobody can know what your expectations are unless you tell them. Happiness is communication. Communication first requires that you know what you want to say. Knowing what you want to say requires for you to understand your goals. If it seems your goals are frequently changing you should be asking yourself: "Why?" Were those really goals or were they just something you thought would accomplish much broader goals? (E.g. Know thyself)
"If you find something to be impossible, check your premises." Atlas Shrugged (corollary to proof by contradiction)
Nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it themselves. lol
Everything is a priority, just some things have a higher priority than others.
To a man who only has a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So watch where you're swinging!
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences." (Because, as Ben also said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.") Benjamin Franklin
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change." Robert Kennedy, 1966, Day of Affirmation, South Africa

Some Favorite Books (Not all):

RAMA by Arthur C. Clarke, Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Larry Pournelle, The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Larry Pournelle, Dune by Frank Herbert, Princess Bride by William Goldman, Hard Sell by Piers Anthony, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, Shogun by James Clavell, Noble House by James Clavell, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, The Hitchikers guide series by Douglas Adams, The Incarnations of immortallity series by Piers Anthony, Ringworld by Larry Niven, Beyond Fear by Bruce Shneier, Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, Poisson Wood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, King Rat by James Clavell, Code: and other laws of cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Medea by Euripides.

Self-serving promotion of xkcd

And just because,..
Littany Against Fear
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
From Dune by Frank Herbert

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