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So, who am I?
That’s a good question that I sometimes ask myself.
My name’s Steve Caruso, and I live in Highland Park, New Jersey with my wife Nayla, our wonderful daughters, Eli and Abigail, our black cat, Tober.
What do I do for a living?
I translate Ancient Aramaic (the language of the Babylonian Empire, Jesus of Nazereth, and the Talmud) professionally for Aramaic Designs as my day-to-day vocation, and do Aramaic language-related IT consulting and grant work (right now working on the CAL and the Mandaic Book of John) and tea blending on the side.
What are my hobbies?
Speaking of strange tongues, I’m fluent in several major programming and markup languages (yes there is a big difference) including HTML, XML, Javascript, Java, PHP, MySQL, LSL and others. Computers and the study of Religion are lifelong passions of mine.
I’m also an amateur mycologist with a rapidly growing amount of experience (living on the edge of the Kilmer Ecological Preserve). You’ll find that I use this blog most often as my mushroom journal. Why mushrooms? They make up a significant portion of my fall and winter diet, and they’re rather beautiful (kinda like bird watching, only they don’t tend to move around as much).
I’m also obsessed with oak trees and acorns (as I find them fascinating and tasty respectively — I guess that would make me an amateur quercologist?).
What’s my education?
In formal education, I have a BA in Information Technology and Informatics (aka. ITI; for those who aren’t familiar with the field, in my opinion it’s best summed up as “the sociology of human-computer interaction”), and I hold a Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Rutgers University, a terminal degree in the field of Library Science.
My Wikipedia profile is here,
but I’m a bit flustered with Wikipedia as of late so I only edit sporadically, anymore (and the profile page is horribly out of date).
My Facebook profile is here,
which I update occasionally.