About Brendan

(Last updated 18 January 2008)

I'm 28 years old and I graduated from Bridgewater State College a few years ago with a mathematics degree and computer science minor. I'm a hard-core computer geek, and you'll find several useful programs and articles on my site. I work as a programmer on the internal web site for a big policy research company.

(Photo copyright © 2005 Jamie Taylor Novak.)

Here is my resume.

I often use the handle “Proginoskes” in various places on the Internet—sometimes shortened as “Progo” like in my AIM handle. This comes from the book A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle. Proginoskes was a weird character who, when he materialized, looked like a drive of dragons. The sketch to the right was done by my sister Erin and based on the picture on the front of the paperback edition of the book. The following is a description of him as it appears in the book:

Yes. Charles Wallace's drive of dragons [which he thought he had seen before] was a single creature, although Meg was not at all surprised that Charles Wallace has confused this fierce, wild being with dragons. She had the feeling that she never saw all of it at once, and which of all these eyes could she meet? merry eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing, looking at her, looking at Charles Wallace and Calvin and the strange tall man. And wings, wings in constant motion, covering and uncovering the eyes. When the wings were spread out they had a span of at least ten feet, and when they were all folded in, the creature resembled a misty, feathery sphere. Little spurts of flame and smoke spouted up between the wings; it could certainly start a grass fire if it weren't careful. Meg did not wonder that Charles Wallace had not approached it.