Executive summary: Daniel J Gallagher, Olin College class of 2007, geek of the blogosphere, harbinger of evil, hacktivist, engineer, music buff, aspiring didactician, overall mental case.

Politics: pro [civil liberties], pro [information freedoms], pro [user-friendly government], pro [making the world a better place], anti [organized stupidity]. Apparently, this makes me a socialist.

Personal beliefs:

• We will never truly understand the universe.
• If we ever do manage to understand the universe, it will then be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. This may already have happened one or more times.
• Attitude without aptitude is useless posturing. Aptitude with poor attitude means being alone, and will never problems on the scale of the modern world. Be who you are, and be it well. Respect competence but also the will to learn and improve.
• Love and supply-side economics both run on the flawed principles of anti-gravity; love, however, succeeds in breaking physics where supply-side economics fails, mainly because god is more suspicious of economists than of lovers.

Synopsis:

I’m a twentysomething Bostonite engineer, native to the capital region of New York State. I attended Columbia High School, a fair-to-middlin’ suburban public school, in the midst of the biggest computer systems overhaul in the district’s history. After flirting with both arts and sciences, I decided to pursue engineering in college and was accepted by a little-known and at the time quasi-existant school by the name Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

5+ awesome years later, I’ve got a place of my own and am bouncing between engagements with local tech firms. I’ve settled into something of a niche with transformative Web technology. But I’m always excited by the prospect of a push beyond the comfort zone.