About Kevin St.Onge
Education
I am a 29 year old college student, I graduated from Manchester Community College with an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts and Science in 2006, I am currently studying at Central Connecticut State University to become a high school science teacher and I expect to graduate in December.
Interests
It is impossible for me to ignore the fact that I live in a universe of unimaginable size and complexity. If you look around the edges of this website, you will see hundreds of galaxies, each containing billions of stars. This is only a small fraction of the number of galaxies in the observable universe. Our planet, even our entire galaxy, seem completely insignificant in comparison to the vastness of the Universe. To be aware of the enormity of the Universe is to feel a great sense of disorientation and wonderment. Sensing the bewildering beauty of the Universe, it is impossible not to ask questions about it and science seeks to answer those questions.
One of the reasons that I want to teach science is because I cannot believe how painful science was for me in public school. I almost failed high school biology. Science should not be about memorizing vocabulary from a textbook, it should be about asking questions and being motivated by curiosity to find answers. I hope that as a science teacher I can teach science to my students in a way that captures and enhances their curiosity.
Personality
I am an introvert. This means that although I like people, I am usually quiet around others and I sometimes get bored or frustrated quickly in social situations. Boredom arises because I have many intellectual interests in many fields of knowledge, few of which ever come up in common social situations. I have very little interest in the redundant 'small-talk' that saturates most social gatherings, leading me to become exceedingly bored and frustrated. Further frustration arises because I like to think carefully before I speak and because I over think my dialogue; I often do not get a chance to say anything at all. Unfortunately, my introversion is often misinterpreted as me being impolite or disinterested. For more on introversion, I suggest reading Caring for Your Introvert or The Introvert's Personality Traits
Religion
I am an agnostic. From Merriam-Webster, an agnostic is "one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god." The way I explain agnosticism is that when it comes to anything theological, I confidently proclaim, "I don't know!" This is my theological mantra; I do not know if there is a god, I do not know if there is an afterlife, and I do not expect to learn the answer to these questions during my lifetime! This is as far as any respectable theological discussion with me should need to go.
Web Presence
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Comments
Your comments about the internet made me smile. I thought back to one of my first computers, which was measured in MHz,125, if I remember correctly. At the time, over 30 million people were using AOL, which we thought, WAS the internet. Thought I was a big shot by having a second telephone line put in dedicated to accessing the net.
Good luck to you.
Btw, I found your website by being a contributer on the Google Chrome help forum.
- Tom. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. 9:07pm (-05:00 GMT)
Thanks Tom!
I think I have you beat when it comes to old computers (although it was technically my father's), my first computer was a Commodore 64 clocking in at about 1 MHz with 64 KB of RAM. I too was an AOL user (OMG), and my family struggled through the days of dial-up with only one phone line which was particularly painful when AOL needed to spend 45 minutes installing updates every other day.
Thanks again, and happy Chroming (??) :)
- Kevin. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. 9:42pm (-05:00 GMT)
Hi Kevin!
I saw your Speak&Spell emulator! Very well done except for the font. If i send you an other font, could you change it in your swf file?
Thanks very much!
- Marc. Monday, April 27, 2009. 5:23pm (-05:00 GMT)
Hi Kevin,
Am from India but I fondly remember my old learning toy that dad got me all the way from a foreign land. Speak and Spell and the nostalgia attached to it just doesn't seem to fade away. My old Speak and Spell no longer works :( (saved in the attic somewhere) I had the original 1978 version with round buttons.
I was surfing the net when I came upon your brilliant little emulator. Everything is perfect except for the fonts (not that I am complaining! :)
Even funnier, while fooling around with this during office hours one of my senior colleagues hearing the noises came running to my desk! Almost shat on my pants :) ... Best part ---> she happened to own a speak and spell as a kid and she wanted the emulator!
Fond memories saved my arse I guess :))
Brilliant stuff. Thanks bro!
Jim
- Jeemutbahan Roy (Jim). Wednesday, April 29, 2009. 9:38pm (-05:00 GMT)
....I like your definition of "introvert" ---- you've described me almost totally accurately..... Many people consider introversion as "self-centered" which I, definitely, am not.
- tina. Saturday, July 11, 2009. 5:02pm (-05:00 GMT)
Tina, thank you for your kind comments! Its always nice to be reminded that there are other introverts out there; sometimes it can be difficult to maintain our self-confidence in a world dominated by extroverts.
- Kevin. Saturday, July 11, 2009. 5:06pm (-05:00 GMT)
Kevin,
What a wonderful website. It is nice to know that even though your an introvert you can speak out on behalf of them. My husband and you clearly are one of a kind. Miss ya Judy
- Judy. Sunday, July 12, 2009. 6:11pm (-05:00 GMT)
Hi, I found you on a page helping someone wanting to change font size etc in google chrome. You said for them to use the edit text to document and settings etc. I'm not very computer saavy. Where do I find this?? The text size and the background white are killing my eyes :)
Thank You
Dianne
- Dianne Kieffer. Saturday, October 3, 2009. 10:36pm (-05:00 GMT)
Hi Kevin,
Interesting to hear and use the speak and spell. I sampled it! I cant wait to get my reverb and delay all over it.
If you are interested in science and religion - and you may already know - I recommend reading Richard Dawkins' Books 'The God Delusion' and "The Greatest Show On Earth'. The latter is the one I'm reading at the moment and its based on evolution. I'm finding it truly fascinating at the moment. And I totally agree with you in that I don't like to participate in small talk either. Well said!
Simon Revill
- Simon Revill. Friday, December 4, 2009. 12:27pm (-06:00 GMT)
I've always wondered this, but what's the deal with people having "St." in their last names? Are you an actual descendant of this St. Onge fellow or what? How does that work? Have any of your family members ever explained this to you cuz I'm pretty curious? It seems quite odd to have "St. such and such" in your LAST NAME, let alone your first.
- Brandon. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. 11:34pm (-05:00 GMT)
Brandon, that is a good question. Nobody in my family ever explained it to me. My independent research revealed that St.Onge was the name of a town in Canada from which some of my ancestors probably took the name. The town is no longer named "St.Onge" and it is hard to find any information about the town or the name.
- Kevin. Wednesday, April 7, 2010. 5:06am (-05:00 GMT)