About

Tuesday, Jul 15 2008, 13:00 EDT

What?

A place that lets anyone so inclined partake of my musings in human and machine language. The premise is self-gratifying, but then so is anyone’s existence.

Do as suits your fancy.

And if you want to drop me a line, you can do that, too.

If you’re wondering about the hostname: it’s a remnant of my past gaming years. It also appeals to my fascination with astronomy and astrophysics. And it’s German both because I naturally used to frequent German gaming servers and because it feels more right for this name.

Who?

Name: Αριστοτέλης Παγκαλτζής (Aristotle Pagaltzis)
Born: February 1977 in Germany
Location: Cologne, Germany, Europe, Terra, Sol, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo
Languages: Greek, German, English, Perl. All of them fluently.
Persona: Observer rather than participant. INTP. Serious, never – earnest, always. Obsessed with expression. Right next to Mahatma Gandhi on the political compass. Militant non-smoker. Mealtime-only drinker. Cat person. Skeptic. Astrophysics nut.
Hacker: Perl, XSLT, Javascript, SQL, a bit of C (but my interests range far and wide, and these are just the languages I chose to become proficient in). Functional programmer. Refactoring zealot. Libre software partisan.

Where?

Or, where else you’ll find me.