About Me

  • About Me: I am a component of the universe trying to understand itself; striving inexorably for self-actualization, disciplined intellect, understanding the large picture and generalized concepts in lieu of immediate gratification animalism. I also like dark beer.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Industrial/Electronic/Ambient: Frontline Assembly, Noise Unit, Delerium, Synaesthesia, Enigma, Dark Territory, Conjure One, Haujobb, Decoded Feedback, Velvet Acid Christ, Juno Reactor, Dismantled, Skinny Puppy, Suicide Commando, Wumpscut, KMFDM, Collide, Nine Inch Nails, Mankind is Obsolete. Rock: Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Bush. Acid Jazz: Thievery Corporation, Rip Rowan, Jamiroquai, Four80east, Massive Attack, Portishead
  • Favorite Genre: Industrial, AcidJazz/Triphop

More About Me

  • Nicknames: you-don't-want-to-talk-to-that-guy
  • Religion: Atheist
  • Heroes: I prefer antiheroes. Nobody deserves that kind of pedastle.
  • Interests: Physics, Astronomy, industrial music, cooking exotic healthy food from scratch, debating issues over a drink, proud member of America's most distrusted minority.
  • Expertise: I'm working on a project to discover or discount the existence of the Higgs Boson. It's existence would confirm our understanding of why all other fundamental particles are able to have mass and not contradict special relativity.
  • Occupation: Particle Physics Grad. Student Slave
  • Website: http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jnett/nettHome.html

College

  • School Name: University Of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Status: Grad
  • Attended: 1999 - 2009
  • Degree type: PhD
  • Major(s): Particle Physics