About Me | Max's Webpage

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.

If you want something smaller and more powerful, I recommend the Thinkpad x220. It can also take a free Libreboot bios, though without being able to fully remove the Intel Management Engine like with the older t400. That said, I’ve had an x220 on the road with me for several years and it hasn’t failed me yet.

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