About dumpendebat
Data
- Age: 37
- City of Residence: Pittsburgh, PA
- Profession: System administrator (UNIX)
Areas of interest
- Politics (my own are left-of-center; see “Liberal credentials” below)
- Information technology (particularly UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems)
- Languages (I am able to read French, German, and Modern Standard Arabic, and have dabbled in Spanish, Latin, and Esperanto)
- Linguistics
- Cinema
- Literature (20th-century in particular)
What does Dum pendebat filius mean?
Latin: “While the Son was hanging.” It’s from a hymn entitled Stabat mater. It’s also something of a dirty joke which only those who have read Anthony Burgess’ novel Abba Abba (1977) are likely to “get.”
My liberal credentials
From The Political Compass:
- Economic Left/Right: -4.25
- Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.97
