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I'm a (one-time) Jeopardy! champ. If you want to see exactly how I did, visit my entry in the Jeopardy archive. My winners' blog entry is available both there and on the Jeopardy site. And, of course, I did get my picture taken with Alex Trebek!
Welcome to my home page, now over 15 years old! Back then, I was an academic, but I moved on to be a web programmer at first a startup company and then a big advertising agency/communications holding company, and then back to another startup. Most recently, I went from being a jill-of-all-Microsoft-trades at high-end design/furniture firm to working as a developer in the investment profiles group at Morningstar.
When I'm not at work, I fiddle with a variety of web pages in my spare time (including one for the trip I took with some of my extended family to Lithuania, where both my paternal grandparents emigrated from) and do the homeowner thing in the funky village of Oak Park. As always, my partner in crime is my my wonderful spouse (a.k.a. Don Anderson), who makes everything in life sweeter.
I am a native Middle-Westerner by birth and by temperament, having been born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. I then did the physics geek thing at Carleton College and spent 5 years becoming Dr. Pildis at the University of Michigan. Two years of being an astronomy postdoc convinced me that the time had come to move on and do something else with my life.
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If you're ready to slow down your browser, I have a selection of self-indulgent, bandwidth-sucking pictures:
rachel@pildis.com
