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My name is Joshua Juran. I live in Annandale, Virgina.
I'm playing Harry in MAD Theater's production of State Fair.
I am a thinker, creator, and performer. Analyst, problem solver, philosopher, theologician. Poet and writer, inventor and technician. Singer, speaker, actor, and juggler. Idealist. Artist. Humorist. (Yes, humorist. Go ahead and laugh.)
I used to live just south of Towson with my longtime friend Jason. Now I live in the Tysons Corner area of northern Virginia with my roommate Jim, a new aquaintence through a mutual friend.
There are some important people in my life.
In March 2001 I began working for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), at NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Bethesda. My job is to maintain support of the Mac in NCBI's toolkit libraries. Here's my resume.
I have been deeply touched by reading Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God, which I recommend to anyone who wishes to become clear about his/her relationship with God. Please note -- this has nothing to do with religion. If you're skeptical because this book has the word "God" in the title and you think it will be some religious diatribe against <insert favorite sin here>, then not only are you mistaken but I promise you will find it that much more rewarding. (The book, I mean.)
Writing is a fundamental skill to humans. Many of them learn it to some degree (and some even get a degree), and the rest just sit on their fundaments. My writing takes many forms (so I use a computer to save paper).
The computer field is nothing less than a venue for religion. Heed the prophets who advise you to change your ways; repent, or you shall surely suffer.
Zealotry aside... I'm really not a Mac bigot. I only appear that way if you insist on comparing my interest in the Mac with my contempt for DOS, Windows, Win95, WinNT, and NetWare, which are the main operating systems or shells that I've had to deal with. OS/2 is okay underneath, but IBM can't design good human interface to save its soul. (And the OS/2 NetWare client is buggy, in my experience, although I suppose that's Novell's issue.) Anyway, the Mac OS can't help but to come out smelling like a rose, in spite of every nasty thorn it has, next to the dungheap that DOS and its progeny are.
But the Mac is not heaven -- it's only the Mac. I'd drop it in an instant to run NeXTstep. And despite such barbarisms as the ISA bus, PC's aren't so bad -- they're great as cheap Linux boxes! I should know -- I have one.
In addition to this site I run my own Web server at home, to which I shamelessly link from this page so it will get indexed.
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