Tom Gryn's Homespace

Background

• Ph.D.(ABD) in Sociology, Ohio State University
• M.A. in Sociology (Population Studies), Bowling Green State University
• B.S. in Sociology, Penn State University
  Hello. I'm originally from a suburb north of Philadelphia . I am currently an employee at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington D.C. Previously I was employed as a substitute teacher in the William S. Hart school district in Santa Clarita, CA, and as a research assistant at the Center for Human Resource Research at OSU, where I worked on various aspects of the NLSY79 dataset. My academic concentrations are in family demography and applied demography.

  Hobbies/Interests

  Reading, jogging, Philadelphia Eagles football, Godzilla movies, science fiction, and military history.

  Another of my hobbies is gardening. My favorite herb is comfrey, though it's rather difficult to find in the USA. Here is a good article about gardening in an arid climate, and here's an article about growing herbs and vegetables in a deer-infested area.

  Favorite music: Vas(RIP), Julia Ecklar, Heather Alexander, Neil Young, Dead Can Dance, Chris de Burgh, George Winston , Toto , Michael Hedges(RIP), the Alan Parsons Project, Icehouse, and classical music (espec. Strauss and Schubert). I can especially recommend the soundtracks to the PBS series "The Way West" and the Disney movie "The Black Hole".

  Favorite books:2081 ( Gerald K. O'Neill), From the Holy Mountain( William Dalrymple ), The New Thinking Man's Guide To Pro Football ( Paul Zimmerman), Hyperion/Endymion ( Dan Simmons), Garden of the Brave in War ( Terence O'Donnell), Bad Land ( Jonathan Raban), The Rising Sun : The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 ( John Toland), the Starfire line of books ( David Weber & Steve White), What Do You Think?(Darrell Sifford)

  Some of my favorite radio & TV programs are:

  My Other Places in Webspace

  • My hotlist
  • Internet Resources for Demographers
  • Philadelphia Eagles Out-of-Town FAQ list
  • Eagles Salary Information Page
  • A Vas fan page.
  • "Things That Aren't There Anymore"
  • Front Page Sports Football Pro file repository
  • Personal collection of images & sounds
  • Centralia, PA 1999 trip
  • Tom Gryn's Musings (personal blog)

  
  E-Mail: tagryn-atsign-hotmail.com

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