About me - Paul Ivanov - Павел Иванов ===================================== .. include:: shortbio.txt You can read more about my scientific interests on the :doc:`research/index` page. I was born and raised in Moscow, moved to the US with my family at age 10, and have lived all around... the SF Bay Area ever since (Tiburon, Novato, Redwood City, Mountain View, Davis, Berkeley, and Albany, in that order). My name(s) ---------- Though my legal american first name is `Paul`, it is actually just the english version of my legal russian first name `Павел`, which is `romanized`_ as `Pavel` and pronounced ``PAH-vel``. Some of my college friends know me as Pavel, because my livejournal username was `pavelthegeek` and I introduced myself as Pavel and spoke with a faked thick russian accent when we met. It also made it easier to disambiguate me from my english namesakes. Additionally, those familiar with Russian often forgo the formal Павел in favor of the diminutive `Паша` (`Pasha`, pronounced ``PAH-sha``) and its variants. My last name, Ivanov, is pronounced ``ee-va-NOFF``, with stress/emphasis on the last syllable. It's a common mistake for english speakers to pronounce `Iv-` as the english words 'eye' or 'ivy', instead of the more appropriate 'eve'. Remembering that 'EyE' is spelled with an `E`, you can catch yourself from making the mistake. This applies equally well to the russian name Иван (`Ivan`, as in The Terrible, or Denisovich, or Drago, etc), which actually sounds almost like `Yvonne`. .. The only other thing to note is that the stress on the last syllable is particular to the russian and bulgarian version of this surname. Though spelled the same, pol I don't have a middle name, so my initials are just ``pi``, which makes my preferred uid the same as the mathematical constant. I usually sign letters and postcards with π (the Greek symbol) ) so it's fair game to call me that, too (at work, most people in the office call me "pi"). But as I've said hundreds of times before: I don't care what you call me, just as long as you call. ;) .. _romanized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian More context ------------ Here's my resume_. I have a blog which I call my journal_. It doesn't get updated as often as I'd like. I do post on twitter_ with some regularity, though. Here's a mirror of my `old site`_. .. add more from davis site - like maybe the ECS 142 Ode on here On delicious_, I tag websites of people I know as `friends`_. Even family members are tagged as friends, but I thought I'd include specific links to them here: - `My mom's Etsy shop`_ - she's a total DIY hipster. - My brother `Dmitri Ivanov's web design studio page`_ - My brother `Alex Ivanov's various`_ sites_ (kind of old) - he has a new iPhone app for kids (`AtTheZoo`_ and `@AtTheZoo`_), and is `on twitter`_ - My brother `Mike Ivanov's DavisWiki page`_ and `his twitter`_ .. _AtTheZoo: alex_ .. _@AtTheZoo: alextwitter_ .. _My mom's Etsy shop: mom_ .. _Dmitri Ivanov's web design studio page: dima_ .. _Alex Ivanov's various: graphmax_ .. _sites: statomatic_ .. _Mike Ivanov's DavisWiki page: mike_ .. _his twitter: miketwitter_ .. _friends: deliciousfriends_ .. _on twitter: alextwitter2_ .. twitter_, github_, bitbucket_, launchpad_, goodreads_, and flickr_ activity. .. stackoverflow_, serverfault_, lastfm_, As a first pass, here's just the goodreads_ widget of books I've recently read, though I've only recently started using the site a few months ago. Click the book to read my review/rating. .. include:: goodreads_widget.txt Other widgets ------------- .. raw:: html Happy and proud to be an Eatwellian! Enjoy in NeuroDebian [FSF Associate Member] US FIRST Robotics Alumn Support CC - 2007 created with Vim Ohloh profile for ivanov

When I used it - these were my most listened to according to last.fm
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