Asher Abrams

ABOUT ME.

Asher Abrams - LinkedIn profile

I am in the job market for a position in the computer/IT industry utilizing my experience in the office services, clerical, and administrative fields.

My past experience includes professional office and administrative support services, legal photocopy, document scanning, data entry, reception, and other administrative work in a corporate environment. My education includes undergraduate courses in Physics and American Literature at Portland State University, and coursework in C/C++ programming and UNIX. I recently completed training for CompTIA A+ certification. I am scientifically and culturally literate, have an excellent work ethic, strong problem-solving skills, and get along well with people. Currently I provide end-user support in computer fundamentals, software installation, basic blogging, and use of consumer software applications. My base of operations is downtown San Francisco.

I was born in Connecticut in 1963. In summer of 2007, I moved back to San Francisco after seven and a half years in Portland, Oregon.

I've served ten years in the military, including four years in the US Marine Corps (1989-1993). I've been in the Hasidic section of Jerusalem during the Jewish holidays; volunteered as an English tutor for Asian immigrants, and as a care provider for AIDS patients; lived in Izmir, Turkey for two years.

Favorite books: Lao Tzu - The Tao Te Ching; Encyclopaedia Britannica; OED; CRC Mathematical Tables; Shakespeare; the Feynman Lectures on Physics; the Sefer Yetzirah; Stuart Kaplan's Encyclopedia of the Tarot; Irshad Manji; Mary Cheney; Tammy Bruce; Kalonymus Kalman Shapira; Ursula K. LeGuin; Octavio Paz; Azar Nafisi; Isaac Asimov; Samuel R. Delany; Alastair Reynolds; Jeanne Cavelos; Audre Lorde; Jorge Luis Borges; N. Scott Momaday; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Robert Frost; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Marc L. Kutner - Astronomy: A physical perspective.

Tristam Needham - Complex visual analysis.

Roger Penrose - The road to reality.

Robert Zubrin - Entering space.

Richard P. Feynman - Lectures on physics.

Favorite movies: Mulholland Drive; Ghost in the Shell; Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence; Serenity; 2001; Blade Runner; Stranger Inside; Three Kings.

Favorite music: Philip Glass; Alice Coltrane; The Doors; Joy Division / New Order; Tchaikovsky; Cesaria Evora; the Psychedelic Furs; Bach; Jeanette Alexander; West African traditional and pop; and I have an embarrassingly comprehensive collection of 70s prog rock and German techno.

My name is not Lisa.

ABOUT DREAMS INTO LIGHTNING.
The weblog "Dreams Into Lightning" provides news and views from a culturally liberal, politically neoconservative viewpoint.

Fan of: Irshad Manji, Natan Sharansky, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Phyllis Chesler.

Not a fan of: Pat Buchanan, Noam Chomsky, Jesse Helms, George Galloway.

Title and tagline.

I turned your dreams into lightning
Ain't that enough
I held the world back for you
Ain't that enough
- Melissa Etheridge, "Enough of Me"

"It is not really responsible behavior. It is not well brought-up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet."
- Jacques Chirac, on Eastern European nations supporting the United States

Picture - "Queen of the Space Unicorns".
It's a reproduction of one of the series of six medieval tapestries known simply as the "lady with unicorn tapestries" now in the possession of the museum at Cluny, France (not to be confused with the seven-piece "Hunt of the Unicorn" series now held by the Met). The work dates from around 1500 and was discovered in 1841. Art historians offer varying interpretations of the symbolism, but most agree that the six pieces represent the five senses plus love. This one is "touch" with the lady touching the unicorn's horn.

Content.
Mostly world events, with a strong focus on the Middle East, Israel, Iraq and Iran, the Arab and Muslim world, and the freedom movement. Women. Liberalism and its future. Neoconservatism; neoconservative politics. Lesbian, gay, feminist, and gender-related topics. Spirituality, religion; Judaism and Islam. Science and science fiction. America.

Homepage.
The new homepage URL for Dreams Into Lightning is http://asher813.typepad.com/dreams_into_lightning/.
Alternate URLs are:
http://asher813.com/
http://dreamsintolightning.com/