My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general to bring myself to believe that there is nothing wholly in our power except our thoughts. And I believe that herein lay the secret of those philosophers who, in the days of old, could withdraw from the domination of fortune and, despite pain and poverty, challenge the felicity of their gods.
—René Descartes, Discourse on Method.
Welcome to astoundment.com, my personal web site. I'm Samuel Scarano, and I can be reached at .
I uploaded some of my photographs to my Smugmug photo gallery.
You may also see some of my travel pics from India and southeast Asia.
In 2007, I was contracted by Harvard University to create NetLab, a system for conducting psychology experiments over the web. There is a NetLab demo page here.
I invented a mechanical puzzle in 2004.