Greetings!
I'm a "mad engineer" living in State College, with designs on ruling the world or, alternatively, sleeping in on Saturday. I live with my wife in an lair apartment filled with unstoppable superweapons hobby materials in a fairly natural area of town.
More seriously, I'm a punster, a practicing polytheist, an occasional parodist, a brewer, and an infernal optimist. I work as a Lead Software Engineer, and was trained in Computer Engineering. I like to wear kilts, try new things, and play games. Some of these things are right here on this website; others might be found with a quick Google search.
I like taking personality tests that have at least some science behind them. My Myers-Briggs type seems to be xNFP (hybrid ENFP and INFP) on the Myers-Briggs Scale. Many people who find this out ask how I can enjoy life as an engineer -- but personality isn't always where talents lie.
The more modern and "scientific" OCEAN/Big Five test indicates that I am an O95-C41-E64-A87-N76.
About Usernames: Why Sleeping Wolf?
Back when I was in college, I was interested in participating in a newsgroup centered around spiritual therianthropy, I wanted to have an alias (with associated email account) so that my activities would not be traceable back to myself. (This was just before trolls and spam completely took over the newsgroup in question.) I wanted a name that would reflect my inner spiritual feelings while not being too pompous. In fact, I felt like parodying members of the tribe Wanabee and those Pagans who have read Lady Pixie Moondrip's Guide to Craft Names. I also wanted to indicate that I was by no means highly skilled or fully awake to things magical. All of these came together as sleeping wolf. I used lowercase not to be like e.e.cummings, but rather because I cut my teeth on Unix logins which were usually lowercase.
Actually, at this point, I am beginning to wonder how appropriate the "sleeping" part of it is — am I still the "cute widdle wolfie cub" as a friend of mine described me a few years ago, or have I grown enough that another name is appropriate? It is the closest thing I have to a public magical name (I'm not big on bandying about magical names, personally), but it's also my handle on many an on-line system.
An old nickname: Evil Artie
Evil Artie is a nickname that I managed to give myself. It refers to the similarities I have to a mad scientist — thinking in an odd manner with a strange sense of humor, not to mention the occasional comparison to cinematic Mad Scientists by friends of mine. It only makes rare appearances as a username compared to "Sleeping Wolf", above.
Am I truly evil? No. Sorry about getting your hopes up.