Rick at rest
On the verge of joining the circus, Ricky lives in Chapel Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia with his wife, Karen, his son, Xander, his daughter, Claire, and a rascally West Highland White Terrier named Random.
When he visits the dentist, he enters a zen-like state approaching total relaxation, which is the only reason he bothers going for a regular check-up. Although you wouldn’t know it from reading many of the articles in this weblog, Ricky can be quite blunt when the moment calls for it. As far as he knows, there are only two people who can really get under his skin (he loves them both deeply), and when they do he resembles a rapidly deflating balloon in terms of sound and locomotion. Thankfully, this happens only once a year or so. His roles as a parent of young children and an author of scientific publications means he is in the habit of speaking about himself in the third person. He is socially liberal and leans towards free markets with a few pragmatic caveats. He therefore considers himself to be a classical liberal, but not a conservative, which makes it difficult come election-time. Sometimes Ricky sports a scruffy beard, sometimes he doesn’t.
Ricky holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Queensland, and he works at NICTA, Australia’s ICT Centre of Excellence, where he performs a mix of research, customer development, government liaison and, of course, software engineering.
Likes: football (the round ball kind, in case clarification is needed), Devonshire tea, caramel latté (hey, don’t judge me!), The Cat Empire, travelling, fast food, slow food, all food, the news.
Dislikes: political correctness, irrational fear, green eggs and ham.
Ricky is @rickyrobinson on Twitter.
