Hey, I’m Max. I’ll soon graduate with a mathematics degree from an American university. I reguarly attend Orthodox divine liturgy and follow the liturgical calendar for scripture readings.
I have a fair amount of experience with handiwork and boat repair which, along with my degree, I want to use to pay for rural property.
My Interests
- Touring kayaks and sailboats
- Free bios firmware and GNU/Linux
- Orthodox Christianity
- Farming and simple living
Hardware I Use
As of 2023, I use a Thinkpad t400 as my main computer, which runs a free Libreboot bios and Artix GNU/Linux.
I bought mine used on eBay for $60, reconditioned it with free software, and added a fully-encrypted 1TB SSD.
I’ve used similar Thinkpad models over the past few years, but the t400 hits a sweet spot for me.
My desktop environment
My Personal Library
This is a non-comprehensive list of the books I own hard copies of. I don’t necessarily like or recommend every book in this list (obviously), but I’ve done my best to pair it down to the books I find worthy of discussion. (School textbooks gtho.)
BF-BL: Philosophy, psychology, and mythology
- Pope, Harrison - The Adonis Complex
- De Santillana, Giorgio - Hamlet's Mill
BM-BX: Religion and Theology
- Rustom, Mohammed - The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary
- St. Athanasius Academy - The Orthodox Study Bible
- Hart, David Bentley - The New Testament: A Translation
- St. Ignatius Orthodox Press - Holy Epistle
- St. Ignatius Orthodox Press - Holy Gospel
- St. Ignatius Orthodox Press - Prophetologion
- St. Symeon the New Theologian - First Created Man
- Jewish Publication Society - The Jewish Study Bible
- Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Pocket Book of Hours
- Fr. Seraphim Rose - Soul After Death
- Fr. Seraphim Rose - Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
- Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Prayer Book
- Newrome Press - Orthodox Christian Prayer Book: Travel Edition
- Newrome Press - Orthodox Christian Prayer Book
- Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Pocket Psalter
- Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese - A Pocket Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians
- Dandelion, Pink - The Quakers
C-H: History, geography, and the social sciences
- McKay, John - A History of Western Society
- Faye, Guillaume - Why We Fight
- Gibbon, Edward - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Frank, Anne and Frank, Otto - The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
- McCullough, David - 1776
- Dickie, John - The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
J-K: Political theory and law
- Machiavelli, Niccolò - The Prince and Other Writings
- Wiebe, Robert - Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism
- Kramer, Lloyd - Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
- Plato - The Republic
- Stevenson, Bryan - Just Mercy
PA: Greek and Latin literature
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Oddyssey
- Sophocles - The Three Theban Plays
- Seneca - Dialogs and Essays
- Virgil - The Aeneid
PE: English language
- Strunk, William and White, E. B. - The Elements of Style
PG: Slavic literature
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
PN: General literature
- Dreyer, Benjamin - Dreyer's English
PQ: Romance language literature
- Voltaire - Candide
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - No Exit, and Three Other Plays
- Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy (Musa's 3 volume translation)
PR: English literature
- Chaucer, Geoffery - The Canterbury Tales
- Shakespeare, William - King Lear
- Milton, John - The Complete Poems
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
- Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
- Scott, Walter - The Heart of Mid Lothian
- Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe
- Scott, Walter - The Black Dwarf
- Scott, Walter - The Talisman
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- White, T. H. - The Once and Future King
PS: American literature
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Complete Tales & Poems
- Cather, Willa - My Àntonia
- Frank, Pat - Alas, Babylon
- Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Stoker, Dacre - Dracul
PT: German literature
- Meinhold, Wilhelm - The Amber Witch
Books as of yet unsorted
- Pageau, Jonathan and Pageau, Matthieu - God's'Dog: Monster