About Me
- About Me: "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail Godwin
Movies
- Favorite Movies: The Matrix, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Time Changer, Pamela's Prayer, To Catch a Thief, Operation Petticoat, The Grass Is Greener, Luther, Amazing Grace
- Favorite Actors: Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman, Cary Grant
- Favorite Genre: Science fiction, drama, Cary Grant movies
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "How do you know you're not in the Matrix?" Okay - I guess that one isn't word-for-word.
- Movies I can watch over and over: The Matrix, since it's a great illustration of the problem of skepticism in philosophy; older Cary Grant movies - look at the way men and women used to respect each other!
Books
- Favorite Books: The Bible, Desiring God (John Piper), Always Ready (Greg Bahnsen), Reforming Marriage (Doug Wilson), Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder), Meditations On First Philosophy (Rene Descartes), An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume), The Copernican Revolution (Thomas Kuhn), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn), the Veritas series (Frank Peretti), Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki), The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)
- Favorite Authors: Also: John Frame, Gary North
- Favorite Genres: Apologetics, theology, philosophy, history and philosophy of science, history of technology, science fiction, investing
- Favorite Quotes: "Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him." Matthew Henry
- Recent Reads: http://www.GaryNorth.com
College
- School Name: Stanford University
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 2004
- Attended: 2001 - 2004
- Degree type: Masters
- Major(s): Chemistry (Organic - Pd catalytic methodology)
- Greek: ΑΓΩ
- Organizations: Freethinkers' (Atheists') Club
High School
- School Name: Northgate High School
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1996
- Attended: 1992 - 1996
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Thai, Indian, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Country/American, Navajo
- Best meal ever: The ones I ate in New Mexico while on mission trips
- My Original Recipes: Use taco seasoning to make fish. It's good!
- Favorite Restaurants: Most anything with lots of food for less than $7
- Foods I hate: Pickles and most other foods with lots of vinegar. Vinegar is what you get when fermentation goes beyond the alcohol stage. Basically: Rotten food.
Television
- Favorite Shows: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek series, Twilight Zone (original series), Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Favorite Channels: The History Channel, AMC, CNN, Spike, Nick at Nite
- Favorite Reruns: Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi - these shows comment on the problems American society was struggling with in the 70s
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Yuck! How can you watch that stuff?
- Favorite Theme Song: Star Trek: Voyager
Travel
- Places I love: Palo Alto/Stanford, Berkeley, Walnut Creek (CA), Continental Divide/Prewitt/Gallup (NM), Flagstaff (AZ), Oklahoma City
- Places I've been: California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado
- Dream Vacation: A quiet cabin, good weather, and a pile of great books
Music
- Favorite Artists: The Beatles, Steven Curtis Chapman, Chris Rice
- Favorite Albums: Rubber Soul and Abbey Road (Beatles)
- Favorite Genre: Contemporary Christian, praise and worship, classic rock, oldies, jazz, blues, classical
- Favorite Songs: Something (Beatles), Gymnopedies 1 (Satie), Eine Kline Nachtmusik (Mozart), I See the Lord, Speechless (Steven Curtis Chapman), God of Wonders (Caedmon's Call), Welcome to Our World, Hallelujahs (Chris Rice)
- Songs for Roadtrips: Lead of Love, The Great Adventure
- Songs I hate: Free Will (Rush)
Style
- Where I shop: Amazon.com, CMFnow.com, Target, Sears
- Brands I love: Target
- I like to wear: Something that looks nicer than it actually cost
- Can't live without: A warm jacket and a book
- Prized Possessions: The data on my computer's hard drive and whatever is inside my head
More About Me
- Nationality: Second-generation Chinese-American
- Religion: Christian (Protestant/Reformed) - Jesus' work on the cross is the only way we can be forgiven for the things all of us have done to disobey God. Read the book of John in the New Testament.
- Heroes: Jesus, Paul of Tarsus, Greg Bahnsen, Gary North
- Interests: Christian apologetics, philosophy, education, economics
- Occupation: Middle school teacher
- Website: http://www.PlagiarismChecker.com
Video Games
- Games I Play: CashFlow 202, SimCity 4
- Consoles: None
- Servers I Play On: None
- Proudest Achievements: Getting out of the Rat Race for the first time in CashFlow 101
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- Country: United States
- Member Since: 8/20/2005
Chatboard (3)
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Ha ha, yes, I've accepted my fate: nerd for life =) UCLA requires 3 semesters of teaching. Once I fulfill that, I'm hoping to continue teaching at a JC part-time if I'm not too busy. I think you'll do GREAT, too. Keep me updated! -
(oops, I just posted this on my own chatboard =P) That's great, Darren!!! I can totally see you doing that. My prayers are with you. I'll be working with Prof. Ken Houk (computational chem). He's collaborating with my old Merck co-workers on a project I worked on before coming to CAL. As
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It's great to hear from you, Darren! Wow, it looks like you're going through a lot of changes, too! Congrats on Texas A&M!!! What kind of work will you be doing? I actually already applied to UCLA last Fall because the prof I want to work for is there. I'm moving down in a month!
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