Gary Given:  

Life Well..I went to UCONN and studied Engineering and then worked at GE Pittsfield for 4 years as a firmware engineer..and then I started travelling..first to Europe for a year in 1990 then after working 2 more years as C programmer in San Jose Ca, I took the world trip to Australia through Asia MidEast in 1992 with a year of Surfing in Hawaii thrown in for good measure, Hawaii might have been the high point so far in my life the waves were thunderous and inspirational...came back and started a Masters in English/Comparative Literature which was actually more my thing rather than Physics, didn't finish though..I learned to speak 4 languages mostly French, German and Spanish..but don't let anyone kid you, once you learn one language the others fall quickly..fascinating though the relation between Swedish and German.. Software was a lot of work, so I taught Mathematics for 4 years interspersed with sojourns to South America and Venezuela, I also taught a year in the rain fo...Expand for more