Jeremy Bojczuk

Pronunciation

In case you were wondering, it is pronounced ‘boy-chook’, rhyming with ‘look’, not ‘luck’.

Biography

At the last count, there were three Jeremy Bojczuks in the English-speaking world. This web page is about this one, not the other two.

This Jeremy Bojczuk was born more than a decade ago. When last heard of, he was still alive.

Educational History and Achievements

Jeremy Bojczuk was educated from an early age. He attended educational institutions, and has taught himself various things, including the skills necessary to build this web page.

Intellectual and Sporting Achievements

Jeremy Bojczuk has achieved things: intellectual, sporting and otherwise. Like most people’s achievements, they aren’t of much interest to anyone else, or even to him.

If he had to choose his greatest achievement, it would be acquiring the ability to read. For as long as he can remember, he has been amazed that an incomprehensibly complex, electrically charged, chemically dynamic lump of meat inside his skull is able to create meaning out of a series of two-dimensional squiggles, and that a similar lump of meat inside someone else’s skull is able to create pretty much the same meaning from the same set of squiggles. Like most people who have given any thought to the matter, he is curious to discover more about the connection between thought and matter.

Successes and Failures

Jeremy Bojczuk has succeeded in doing some things, but has so far failed to do others, such as translating the Encyclopedia Britannica into Mayan hieroglyphs, scoring a hat-trick in the FA Cup final, and winning an Olympic gold medal.

Travels

He has travelled widely, on foot, on a bicycle, on a motorcycle, in an airliner, in a light aircraft, in a helicopter, in a single-decker bus, in a double-decker bus, in a car, in a car inside a train, in a single-decker overground train, in a double-decker overground train, in a single-decker underground train, in a double-decker underground train, in a cable car, in a tram, on a ferry, in a rowing boat, in a hovercraft, and probably in or on several other mechanical devices that he can’t think of at the moment.

He has not yet travelled on a horse, on an ostrich, on a surfboard, on a skateboard, on skis, in a farm tractor, in a chariot, on a unicycle, or in an interstellar space craft.

Employment History

Jeremy Bojczuk has been employed. When last heard of, he was associated with Lab 99 Web Design.

Wise Sayings

Jeremy Bojczuk has uttered several wise sayings and pithy bons mots, such as: “If you can’t stand the heat, don’t put all your chickens in one kettle of fish.”

Interests and Hobbies

Jeremy Bojczuk has had interests and hobbies. Like most people’s interests and hobbies, they aren’t of much interest to anyone else, or even to him.

Personal Details

He is aware that once you place your personal details online, you lose control of them. Every piece of information you place online is stored on computers controlled by other people. These other people, mostly acting not as free individuals but instead as the servants of authoritarian social institutions, have the power to retain, delete, copy, alter, combine and share those pieces of information, and in almost every case there is nothing you can do about it. As the old saying goes: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the chicken.

Nevertheless, the following personal details have been made available, although readers are warned that at least one of them is untrue: