No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.

Turkish Proverb

This is the true
measure of love,
When we believe
that we alone can love,
That no one could ever
have loved so before us,
And that no one will ever
love in the same way after us.

Goethe

Note that my name used to be different - marriage can do this to you. By marrying the wonderful Andrea C. Dusseau, I (and she) have gained a new part to our last names. So now we are the bearers of the unfortunately difficult but clearly unique name of Arpaci-Dusseau.

Click on INFP and ENFP to find out more about my personality. I'm a little bit of both... or so the little test I took said.

I also like to collect quotes. Click here to check some of them out. As W. Somerset Maugham said, "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." (!)

Here are some poems I like.

Here is some music that I wrote.

Once in a rare while, I conduct Internet-based polls. So far, I have two: people guessing my age, and people picking random numbers between 1 and 10. The results can be found here.

Finally, writing little Tcl/Tk programs is a hobby of mine. Check out my football video game if you have some time to waste ....