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Radu Luchianov`s
Home Sweet Page
"Follow your bliss."
--Joseph Campbell [The Power of Myth]
Happy people follow that advice. I try to be one of them. Here's who I am.
This web site is following a deceptively simple visual cue paradigm described here. On all my pages, the site menu is hidden (or available at the bottom of each page). To open it, click on 'Arthur le fantôme' (the little ghost floating on the left side of the page:
).
There are lots of thanks I owe to many people. One of the links in my site menu leads to a "thanks, folks!" file of the people who helped me evolve spiritually.
So what am I up to these days? Mostly taking care of Christopher and when I'm not... I used to do many things at once, and generally got torn between them. Now I'm going to keep to strict priorities: kid, health (mens sana in corpore sano), money, then everything else. Thus:
- Since we came to Calgary we're still looking for a good Karate dojo for my kid and me (two years ago, in Ottawa, we went each Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, for a whole year - which might have pushed it a bit). In the meanwhile, I push some weights at home every now and then, and of course, the warehouse work is always a challenge. We also cycle. Going up on the slopes of Nose Hill Park is always fun, as we expected when we chose this spot to move to. Trying to get my kid rollerblading too (rather than walking with rollerblades on)... We frisbee. Play badmington, when the crazy winds allow us - which is not often. Work our brains in a little DS game called Brain Age 2. And taking care of a little rescued kitten:
Poof-Poof.
- That's the general stuff, but what do we do for fun? (because as much involvement as the above require, I do indulge in several forms of entertainment
)
- In buses (or waiting for them), in the bathtub and in any odd moment when I can't do one of the above, I read. Right now, finished reading through Frank Herbert's Dune series, I went on to the Prequels, then the Legends trilogy and now I'm finally reading the last book so far, Sandworms of Dune. For my kid, we're slowly making our way through the Acorna books (currently we're in the fifth book of the series - Acorna's Search). But homework, and recently the Nintendo DS version of the Star Wars saga have pushed poor Acorna in the 'wait' bin.
- I try to keep my Neopets alive and I develop Sylkrion's battledome stats. Join me if you want (Click on Sylkrion, the Cloud Eyrie to create a Neopet of your own)
- Playing computer games in general seems to take more of my time now that my kid got a taste for it. Hey, at least he gets to have fun spelling words for himself, solving logical puzzles and learning to add and substract in a really practical way (stats, gold, skills, ingredient quantities, etc.) Spore
is a great science and moral playground on which we study hands-on silly biology and politics. We're also learning to touch-type, MavisBeacon-style.
- We're doing all that much more often now that we are TV-free; the shows I used to watch kept being cancelled, so we dropped the boob toob...
- In buses (or waiting for them), in the bathtub and in any odd moment when I can't do one of the above, I read. Right now, finished reading through Frank Herbert's Dune series, I went on to the Prequels, then the Legends trilogy and now I'm finally reading the last book so far, Sandworms of Dune. For my kid, we're slowly making our way through the Acorna books (currently we're in the fifth book of the series - Acorna's Search). But homework, and recently the Nintendo DS version of the Star Wars saga have pushed poor Acorna in the 'wait' bin.
- My web pages are (still) in dire need of a spring cleaning; I'm playing with the idea of doing them up for now as a wiki, but when? Donno.
- My studies in Cognitive Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Canada are left behind, with 1 credit left to take and the prospectus of my dissertation on hold. I hope not on definitive hold. I still watch my co-workers using various tools, thus gathering data for my applications and refining the MonDoc principles, but the actual job of distilling the principles into a consistently modular pattern language, with abstraction/application level-bounds well defined... will have to wait.
Though there's not much development expected for a couple of years, the few people who help me test MonDoc-related projects or my site in general, should go here first; the good news is that I am about to spend more time on refining my MonDoc presentation.
Why is the Monicsoft site about its owner rather than about the company?
On May 13, 2005, Monicsoft finally became a registered business in Canada, and these pages were about to change. However, that didn't pan out (my goals and my ex-wife's goals seemed at the beginning to go the same way, but they turned out irreconciliably different, which led to our separation and my focusing on mental rather than material life). So I'm still keeping only my personal pages here.
Drop me a line if you have a comment about my pages or their content. I like to hear other people's opinions, so the little note (
) under Arthur, present on every page, is a quick email link.
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