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About meNow five grandchildren: 1/19/08, 11/12/11, (son's son and dau) and 4/24/08, 7/16/10, 11/22/12 (daughter's daughter, son, dau).

recently retired six year technology trainer for Fidessa, a UK-based stock trading software supplier.

holding a chair (where's that photo) as continuing education instructor in web development at Union Co College (NJ).

My seven-second resume: rural MN, MIT, DOD, FACC (Ford), PC, ATT, Nokia, BA, UK.

Our (wife Pat) three grown children have all found the public sector: Chip -- WNET, NYC; Maura -- HS Band Director, NJ; Katie -- StoryCorps.Net, NPR outlet, all of whom we couldn't be more proud.

prior to the retirement job, daughter Maura assured me "we can offer you a challenge teaching here in NJ -- you don't need the NYC Teaching Fellows". She was right. I took the fidessa job in the summer of '06 out of a deal with my wife. She basically "financed" my job at BA, and was needing a break from her commute to the DC area!

About my libraryNow it's non-fiction, WW II. Inferno, Unbroken, Kindly Ones (fiction, but), Making the Atom Bomb, ...
Recent interests in fiction: dystopia. J G Ballard after Oct 09 Harpers; Margaret Atwood's new book. after seeing a Larriue bros film at the TIFF.

Two things I've learned since Nov '06:
I arrived in Cambridge MA on the day eecummings died, and
My first half-birthday was on the day the US bombed Dresden "back to the stone age". And so it goes.

Groups50-Something Library Thingers, Dystopian novels, Philosophy and Theory

Favorite authorsSinclair Lewis, Louis Menand, Robert B. Reich, Philip Roth, William L. Shirer, Robert Wright (Shared favorites)

Homepagehttp://martymcgowan.tiddlyspace.com/

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Real nameMarty McGowan

LocationCranford NJ

Emailmcgowanalum.mit.edu

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Member sinceApr 12, 2006

Currently readingThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie
The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam
Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Brontë
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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