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| User: | motris (9766036) Almost Famous
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| Name: | motris | |
| Bio: | My name is Thomas Snyder and I spent my entire childhood growing up in the suburbs of Buffalo, NY, which means I've developed a thick skin after surviving numerous blizzards, multiple Super Bowl defeats, an obvious forward lateral, and a clear crease violation in triple overtime. I studied Chemistry and Economics at Caltech, receiving my B.S. with honors in 2002. I earned my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard University under Prof. David Liu in 2007 and am currently a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University under Prof. Stephen Quake. I aim in my future scientific career to develop new technologies for studying chemistry and biology and hope to contribute to the transformation of medicine from treating disease to preventing its occurrence. I am a 2-time US Puzzle Champion and the reigning US and World Sudoku Champion and it is rare to find me too far from a puzzle I am either writing or solving (sample puzzles I have written can be found at motris.livejournal.com). I often strive to make an artistic statement with my puzzles, as can be seen in the first puzzle I wrote, a United States Jigsaw Sudoku which was featured as one of Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenges on Google. My first book of puzzles, Battleship Sudoku, a new variation that combines elements from existing Battleship and Sudoku puzzle types, was published by Sterling in April 2008. Additional puzzle projects and books are in the works, and news about them will be in the blog. In my limited free time, I enjoy long-distance running, hiking, playing poker, following my favorite sports teams, and watching a wide range of television shows, typically on DVD. | |
| Interests: | 24: buffalo bills, buffalo sabres, computers, crosswords, games, having fun, high fidelity, hiking, kakuro, kevin spacey films, marathoning, music, new york yankees, nick hornby books, puzzles, puzzling, radiohead, reading, running, singing, sudoku, television, top five lists, wordplay | |
| Schools: | Amherst Central High School - Amherst, NY (1994 - 1998) California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA (1998 - 2002) Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Cambridge, MA (2002 - 2007) | |
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| Mutual Friends: | 49: aarondf, benevg, bramcohen, byronosaurusrex, canadianpuzzler, cantrea, cazique, cuthalion, devjoe, dumble, eightbit, ennienyc, epicureanangel, ivoryvampire, jdyer, jeffford, jiggery_pokery, jrivet, knightwizard, lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us, lardarsegreg, lekahe, lunchboy, meeko713, mlstrm, mrgoodluckbear, nickbaxter, onigame, persona, phatjoe, qaqaq, rpipuzzleguy, saphir23, selinker, shandrew, shouldvesmiled, songbighead, sonyx87, tablesaw, thedan, thepiemansimon, tigupine, tinhorn2, tombodama, wesleyjenn, xsg, zotmeister, ztbb, zundevil | |
| Also Friend of: | 1: sabadash.myopenid.com | |
| Member of: | 2: mystery_hunt, worldpuzzle | |
| Account type: | Basic Account | |
