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Aaron Mavrinac was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is currently working on his Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Windsor, working with visual sensor networks.
[edit] Random Facts
- Aaron drives a 2005 Smart Fortwo.
- Aaron's favourite X-Men are Beast and Nightcrawler.
- Aaron's favourite song is "Emerald" by The Tea Party.
- Aaron still thinks Han shot first.
- Aaron first connected to the Internet in 1993.
- Aaron's heroes are David Suzuki, Carl Sagan, Nikola Tesla, Richard Feynman, Noam Chomsky and Bertrand Russell.
- Aaron uses NetBSD and Gentoo Linux.
- Aaron has all 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD.
- Aaron has played Star Wars RPG (original), Shadowrun and Dungeons & Dragons.
- Aaron's first game console was the Magnavox Odyssey², bought for $1.
- Aaron likes MIPS and SPARC.
- Aaron can't get enough of Christopher Walken.
- Aaron thinks Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger are the best video games of all time.
- Aaron has never had a MySpace or Hotmail account.
- Aaron's favourite Prime Minister was Pierre Trudeau.
- Aaron has never even come close to beating NetHack.
- Aaron has been as far west as Los Angeles and as far east as Quebec City.
- Aaron's favourite fiction authors are William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman and Guy Gavriel Kay.
- Aaron hopes a correct theory of everything will be formulated in his lifetime.
- Aaron has climbed several hundred trees in his lifetime.
- Aaron owns a metal detector.
- Aaron shares a birthday with Jon Stewart, Anna Nicole Smith, Lexington Steele, Styles P and Paul Shaffer.
- Aaron used to play a Gnome Rogue in World of Warcraft.
- Aaron is what Willis was talking about.
[edit] Favorite Quotes
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
- --Bertrand Russell
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
- --Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- --Benjamin Franklin
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- --George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
- --George Bernard Shaw
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- --Abraham Lincoln
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- --Mahatma Gandhi
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
- --Noam Chomsky
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
- --Mahatma Gandhi
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
- --Frank Tibolt
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
- --Bertrand Russell
"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."
- --George Bernard Shaw
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