Prestojam

Hi, I’m Kingston, but I go by some variations of prestopy /ˈpɹɛstoʊpi/ on the internet (prestopy, daprestopy, daprestopie, etc.). You know how curiosity killed the cat? If I had to guess how I would die, it would be like that. As a child, I would spend hours observing the world around me, trying to understand how things work. In fact, for a surprisingly long time when I was around five, I became obsessed with double-acting spring hinge doors (the kind of doors that could open both ways). I would sit there and stare at people passing through them, mentally piecing together the mechanism that would allow such a door to work.

ASIDE: People tell me I have a very particular writing style— apparently I go on tangents. You know that joke about having seven trains on four tracks, and all the conductors are just screaming? Yeah, that’s me. You can imagine how annoying this becomes when I’m trying to write an academic or more formal piece of writing. The tangential thinking just does not work out. At all. I hate those forms of writing so much I even wrote an entire article about how essays suck for me.

I really enjoy programming, reading, blasting music, watching the intros for movies, and believe it or not, touching grass. Sometimes I run, though I’m not very good at it, but most of the time, I just take a nice, scenic stroll. Some good books:

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (it sounds cheesy, but its good)
The Fault in Our Stars
Every Falling Star

An image of Westerlund 2 from the Hubble Space Telescope

I would list my favorite songs but my music taste is all over the place— I genuinely don’t have a single genre or artist I really enjoy. You can check out the things I’ve created on the homepage of this site!

me, myself, and i