Name: Mark Alan Horvath
Age: 38
Residence: The South End, Boston, Mass
Education: B.S. Physics, B.S. Astronomy, Pennsylvania State University
M.S. Astronomy University Of Massachusetts
PhD, ABD, Astronomy, University of Massachusetts
Profession: . Generally I am described as a "generalist" meaning I solve problems. Right now I'm doing a series of software and security contracts. It's interesting work and lets me forestall the day when I have to decide what I want to be when I grow up. The above picture was taken in Paris which I got to visit while I worked for my last full-time job, CertCo. CertCo stopped being an ongoing concern last winter, except of course to the investors.
Hobbies: Well, other than Bryce... I'm still doing amateur astronomy, weight lifting, and attempting to put myself through a genuine art education.. I occasionally dabble in things like quantum gravity and interstellar chemistry, but only at the dilettante level. I was recently at a party where I was talking about art when one of my former colleagues smirked at the idea. I take this as a good sign since pretty much everything she has ever dismissed out of hand has turned out to be a great idea in the end. ;)
I have also, in my dotage, started playing around at being a Circuit Boy. Unfortunately I am way too fond of Chinese food and chocolate cake to make a good run of it, but it has been fun trying and the music is fun to dance to.
Art Background: Still working on a formal art education. These days it's photo realism, architecture and "classical" art. I still haven't got the hang of abstracts yet...
TV Shows: For better or worse a lot of us define a person by what they watch or don't watch. I knew someone once who told me he would never, ever let his kids watch TV. I asked him why and he said he had seen some shows which offended his moral senses. I nodded and said I had the same experience with a book once and gave up reading let I see an idea I didn't like. He didn't get it.
I only have time to watch about 5 shows on a regular basis. They are not, as they say, intellectually heavy:
The Simpsons, Futurama, Enterprise (which is actually pretty good all things considered), Farscape, and Will & Grace when I can catch it.
Favorite person on the planet: No contest. My son Geofferey. (That's 3 years running now!) At 16 he is finishing his senior year of high school, getting ready for college and in general doing normal teenager things.
At Schipol Airport in
Amsterdam
At the Louver in Paris
