About Kevin St.Onge
I am a 28 year old college student, studying at Central Connecticut State University to become a science teacher.
Interests
I love learning. I enjoy all subjects, but my favorite subjects are the sciences. Science reveals the overwhelming beauty and complexity of the universe and our planet. I often wonder how so many people can claim to dislike science, what is there to dislike? Granted, science in school can be boring and tedious. Instead of learning about the beauty of the natural world, students are often forced to read books full of words they do not know and conduct experiments that they do not understand with common materials like salt and water. I hated science in high school. I got a D in high school biology and today biology is my favorite subject! This is one reason that I want to be a science teacher, I want to make science interesting and exciting for students.
I love technology. I especially enjoy the Internet. The scale, complexity, accessibility, and practicality of the Internet are incredible. I feel truly fortunate to be alive as the Internet continues to evolve. The Internet is proving itself incredibly valuable, and it will continue to outperform itself as time progresses. Not only is it useful for society, it can be very useful for personal entertainment!
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 this question during my natural lifetime! This is as far as any respectable theological discussion with me should need to go.
Web Presence
Below is a small list of websites on which you can find content related to me!
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)