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I am a software engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. We provide support to the NASA Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope projects.

Scala is currently my favorite programming language.

I am also a writer working on my first novel. One of my goals is to get published and answer questions about my work on SciFi.SE.

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In Back to the Future, why was the speed 88 miles per hour?
Apr 13, 2012
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Why were the Death Eaters so lenient during the fight at the Department of Mysteries?
Aug 9, 2012
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Why did Hermione stay with Harry and not leave with Ron?
Mar 26, 2015
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Where do teachers sleep at Hogwarts?
Jul 9, 2012
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What is the significance of Lily Luna Potter's middle name?
Jun 18, 2012
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Did the witches know that the Wizard of Oz was a fraud?
Jun 11, 2012
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Name of a syfy tv movie about passengers on an airplane
Jul 29, 2015
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What's that 1950s movie where astronauts land on Mars but Martians trick them to thinking it's their Earth hometown?
Aug 2, 2012
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Are the Weeping Angels immune to seeing themselves?
Jan 29, 2013
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Is there a generally accepted critical and/or feminist response to Heinlein's work?
Feb 22, 2013
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I have problems with most Harry Potter questions: what's the point?
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Why was the background color changed to white (or near-white) on the Sci-Fi SE page?
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Should we enforce a "movie" tag on questions about The Hobbit movie?
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Do we want to remove this line from the 'what to ask'?
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Why is the Hubble Telescope in space?
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What is the minimum required content for a valid ePub?
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Clean up converted ebook
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Is there a scientifically plausible faster-than-light communication system?
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What determines the length of a day on a planet?

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