John Bent

LAST UPDATED IN 2005

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I currently work at los alamos national lab where my office phone number is 505 606-1493.
I was a cs grad at uw-mad.
My thesis, my list of publications.
My old research and other projects, my old home network, some old software, the class I used to teach.
I served here as a pcv.
I'm working on an online Palau-English, Palauan English Dictionary.
My sister is cooler than your sister.
The Palaun card game hanahuda is ridiculously complex.
I first played with a Rubik's cube when I was 7 years old. 27 years later, I know how to solve it: Rubik's Cube Solution.
My book ratings.
At Amherst, I played with these guys. If you're one of them, proceed to story collection. In Madison, I played a little with these guys. My summer in Berkeley I really enjoyed playing touch with these guys. As of 2006, I'm playing with these guys. Read about my wallop.
I once worked for this personal injury lawyer. Before that, I worked in the Broadway location of this chicken factory.
Dr. Evil in a Patriots helmet.
Remliik's snow-fort and his soccer-team.
Three daily random words.
The Iramk Family Webpage
The Bent Family Webpage

Guilt , you may be thinking warily. Isn't that what we're supposed to feel? But guilt doesn't go anywhere near far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame--shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on--when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently--then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The "working poor," as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high.
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Someday, of course--and I will make no predictions as to exactly when--they are bound to tire of getting so little in return and to demand what they're worth. There'll be a lot of anger when that day comes, and strikes and disruption. But the sky will not fall, and we will all be better off for it in the end.

-- from Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich