My Hobbies
Sailing
I'm hoping to sail more here at Cal Poly, but unfortunately haven't had the chance yet due to practices conflicting with my class schedule.
I mostly sail FJs, but I also love to sail in V15s, 420s, and Lasers when given the chance.
Magic: The Gathering
I'm a certified Level 1 Tournament Judge, meaning that I oversee events and manage the complicated rules & policy interactions that occur in tournament gameplay. I've worked at several events in the greater Seattle area, including two ComicCons and a $20K RCQ / ReCQ at MXP Tacoma. (MXP had over 400 players in each RCQ / ReCQ!)
I’ve also competed in regional and subregional tournaments, and have two top 8 (and one top 16) placements in Modern Regional Championship Qualifiers.
Server Management
I've done most of this work on Minecraft servers; I've managed servers for groups of friends as well as my high school's official Minecraft server. Currently, I am working with Cal Poly ASI to organize and manage a series of Minecraft-based events for Cal Poly Housing. This will include setup, scaling for peak usage and ongoing maintenance to ensure smooth operation.
I usually host these servers on Oracle Cloud infrastructure. This website (the one you're on right now!) is on an AWS EC2 instance.
Sci-Fi
I'm a big fan of the sci-fi genre, especially in literature. Here's some I could talk for hours about:
Text
- Contact - Carl Sagan
- 1984 - George Orwell
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Worm (serial)- John McCrae
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
- Jurassic Park - Michael Chrichton
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Andromeda Strain - Michael Chrichton
- The Three Body Problem (series) - Cixin Liu
Video
- Brazil (1985)
- Primer (2004)
- Looper (2008)
- Inception (2010)
- District 9 (2009)
- Coherence (2013)
- Severance (series) (2022)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Twilight Zone (series) (1959 - 1964)