User:DoctorW/About

DoctorW has a username that references his Ph.D. in Developmental psychology (see article on theory of sense of community) but not the fact that he might have chosen instead computer science or engineering or perhaps philosophy of science (and he even seriously considered studying the intersection of late 16th century Korean Confucianism and Buddhism); his interest in ballroom dance (national gold finalist) or in guitar (taught on the side at Cornell) or in East Asian thought and religions (he misses the Buddhist temples in Japan and Korea, learning calligraphy, translating the Tao Te Ching); his having written the world's first standard-keyboard Korean word processing program for the Mac ("best looking of any computer-generated Korean," according to prominent Cornell - now Harvard - Korean scholar David McCann); his having been a producer, director, screenwriter, production designer, DoP, Chyron operator, and film editor for American Community Cablevision; the fact that he was born in Hawaii, at age 8 he wrote, produced, directed, and performed in a two-act play, at age 10 his father brought back from Taiwan a Chinese language book, a calligraphy brush, and an ink stick, at age 14 he used descriptive statistics to summarize findings of an empirical research study he designed and carried out (on his own and just for fun), at age 15 he won his game in the team match at the San Diego Open chess tournament, and later that year climbed Mt. Whitney, at age 16 he built a model out of toothpicks and glue of a hypercube with all faces bisected (48 "inner" cubes), based on a projection he figured out himself (also on his own and just for fun), at age 19 he invented a base 12 numerical musical notation for chording (which immediately reveals the music-theoretical relationships among the notes, once again on his own and just for fun), at age 21 he escaped from a knife-wielding assailant by jumping on the hood (bonnet) of a car which sped away to safety, he is tall, he is not of Asian descent, but lived there for 4 years, and more than half of the countries in which his current nuclear family members were born are Asian (say again?), he likes leather-bound books and has a small collection (mostly classics / Great Books, some first editions, nothing rare); his having conceived, designed, and created a 441m2 compass design with his pre-algebra students; his having designed and created more than 1000 web pages; his apparent taste for Faulknerian sentences (is it still a sentence if interrupted by bullets and parenthetical sentences?); or his outstanding modesty (well, you were the one who asked about me). This page is dedicated to Ann Heneghan (talk), who was the first to welcome me when I came to Wikipedia, and who likes semicolons.