Eiserlohpp

Background

Peter ran into the wikipedia on 10-May-2004, and has loved it ever since. In fact, he even installed a copy of MediaWiki in a Linux box at work, on a standalone network (not on the internet) for use by himself and co-workers.

He started programing on a HP-1000 mini computer in basic, moved to FORTRAN on IBM 360, and Cyber super computers. Then in 1986 he bought an Amiga-1000, and started programing it in "C", and "Modula-2". At work he used Pascal in a Macintosh, and later the PowerMac, and even a HP-UX unix machine. Back again at home, he discovered Linux and installed it on a PC (386) machine. Currently he runs modern hardware, but for the most part has stayed with Linux, except for one a MacMini, which dual boots into either MaxOS X, or Linux.

Interests

Books

• Childrens Book Series
  • The Great Brain

• Fantasy
  • Harry Potter
  • The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

• Science Fiction
  • Perry Rhodan
  • 1632 series
  • Honorverse

Publishing, Typesetting & Fonts

• Typography & Font Technology
  • OpenType
  • Postscript fonts
  • TrueType

• Typesetting Software
  • LaTeX
  • XeTeX

Science & PsuedoScience

• Engineering & Portal:Engineering
  • Fusor
  • Polywell
  • Integral Fast Reactor

• Mathematics & Portal:Mathematics
  • Clifford Algebra,
  • Hypercomplex number,
  • Noncommutative geometry,
  • Octonion,
  • Quaternion,
  • Spinor

• Physics & Portal:Physics.
  • Afshar experiment,
  • Alcubierre drive,
  • Casimir effect,
  • Einstein–Cartan theory,
  • General relativity,
  • Gravitoelectromagnetism,
  • Heim theory,
  • Kaluza–Klein theory,
  • Loop quantum gravity,
  • Sonoluminescence,
  • Transactional interpretation,
  • Yilmaz theory of gravitation,
  • Zero-point energy.

• Astronomy & Portal:Astronomy , along with Space & Portal:Space
  • Astronomy
  • Spaceflight
  • Space colonization
  • Colonization of the Moon
  • Space habitat
  • O'Neill cylinder
  • Bigelow Aerospace
  • Mass driver

• Cryptography
  • TEA
  • Twofish
  • Advanced Encryption Standard
  • Enigma machine

Technology

Computer Science

• Computer operating systems such as:
  • Linux,
  • Xinu, Minix and Minix3
  • Unix and varients such as FreeBSD, and DragonFly BSD

• Compilers, and computer Programming Languages such as:
  • Modula-2,
  • Objective Modula-2,
  • Modula-3,

• Interpreted Programing Language
  • Lua,
  • Ruby.

Electronics

• Software-defined radio
  • Universal Software Radio Peripheral
• RADAR
• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi
• Telemetry
• RISC-V

Space Technology

• Armadillo Aerospace
• Bigelow Aerospace
• Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket

Languages

• Natural Spoken Languages
  • German

• Artificial or Constructed Languages (Spoken). Peter is also interested in spoken constructed languages such as:
  • Esperanto, and
  • Lojban.

• Wierd languages
  • Aymara language (Artificial language constructed by ancient space aliens? WTF?)

Martial Arts

• Taekwondo,

Martial Artists

The immortal Bruce Lee, who first caught our eye playing Kato, on The Green Hornet.

Television Shows

• Hogan's Heroes
• Heros
• Eureka
• Chuck
• Doctor Who
• Stargate SG-1
• Stargate Atlantis
• The Big Bang Theory
• Iron Chef
• Witchblade
• NCIS

Fraternal Organizations

• Freemasonry
  • York Rite
  • Allied Masonic Degrees
  • Order of the Eastern Star