Out of interest of preserving my anonymity, I will not be sharing my name, whether legal or online pseudonyms, at the present time. Doubtless you can deduce who I am from the following information, so have fun with that if that’s the sort of thing you enjoy doing.

I am a student currently (April of 2024) finishing up my undergraduate studies in mathematics, and will be beginning my graduate studies at the University of Washington this fall, in the same field. My academic topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, partial differential equations, combinatorics, and geometry, and the interesections thereof. That being said, to quote Professor S. Steinerberger of that institution, “undergrads don’t know math”: I am well aware that my limited undergraduate education has not necessarily prepared me sufficiently to know what the Dickens I’m going to specialize in once things come to a head, and as such, I remain amenable to the discovery of new and joyous pursuits within my broader field.

I enjoy a great many things in life, much to the displeasure of my wallet when it is compelled to meet the needs of my various hobbies and fleeting interests. I enjoy or have enjoyed comic films, classical music, single-malt scotch, folk songs of the British Isles, fountain pens, various toy franchises such as LEGO and Transformers, history, early 20th century New Yorker essayists, pulp fantasy fiction from that same era, ’80s mecha anime and culture, tabletop and board games (though not role-playing games, for the most part), World War 2, and innumerable other things: if I catelogued everything exhaustively we’d be here all day, and both you and I are busy people with busy lives.

I am above all these things a Christian, holding the faith which is common to all believers (Titus 1:4, Jude 3):

• The Bible is the complete divine revelation inspired word by word by God through the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21, 2 Tim. 3:16)
• God is uniquely one, yet triune — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (1 Tim. 2:5a, Matt. 28:19)
• The Son of God, even God Himself, was incarnated to be a man by the name of Jesus Christ (John 1:1, John 1:14)
• Christ died on the cross for our sins, shedding His blood for our redemption (1 Pet. 2:24, Eph. 1:7a)
• Christ resurrected from among the dead on the third day (1 Cor. 15:4)
• Christ ascended to the right hand of God to be Lord of all (Acts 1:9, Acts 2:33, Acts 2:36)
• Whenever any person repents to God and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, he is regenerated (born again) and becomes a living member of the one Body of Christ (Acts 20:21, John 3:3, Eph. 1:22-23, Rom. 12:5)
• Christ is coming again to receive His believers to Himself (1 Thes. 2:19)

In short, to borrow the name of a Tom Wolfe novel, I am a man in full, and it follows that my blog will be a blog in full as well: it is often said that if you want to learn to draw, you should draw everything. I believe, similarly, that if you want to learn to write, you should write everything. Ultimately, that’s what will be written here: everything that catches my attention and can hold it long enough for me to bash out a couple hundred words on it. ‘All the news that’s fit to print,’ eat your heart out.

What does Agamnemonics mean?

It’s a portmanteau of Agamemnon and mnemonics. I think, at one point a few years ago when I fancied myself more of a classicist, I thought it was funny. I still think it’s funny: I have a warped sense of humor: I don’t think anyone else would.

What’s with the Goya painting?

Warped sense of humor. Eat the beans.

What powers this site?

Blot.im.