Geek Girl Appreciation Thread... - Page 6

Love this redhead! Don't suppose you caught her name.

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That was the intent--thanks! I love imagefap. But as many great free pics there are, it has a horrible key-word search engine.

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Dr. Oksana Katsuro-Hopkins is my wife. The good news/bad news you already announced here is that she is married...just wanted to confirm this.

Notwithstanding this factotum, the thread is so tasteful I thought it safe to share a photo or two with you and admit [brag] I'm pretty proud of my wife, both the smartest and most gracious person I've ever met! I agree with Dusty above, the hot babes here with extended portfolio's, posed and exposed skin, while probably as described, very brainy, kind of bring down the Geek Girl image. My wife is also one of the geekest women I know, and very shy. If she knew I was putting photos here and writing she'd be definitely embarrassed and probably peeved.

How geek is she? Total. Her original thinking in her PhD thesis broke ground (she humbly protests) in the fusion energy field (ITER/Tokamak), and involves design of feedback controls on the plasma magnetic containment field, and thus electronic circuitry. But until I found a few resistors and capacitors to show her, she didn't have a clue as to what they looked like or even how they physically work; her work, her circuits are all done in mathematics. For me, a high school graduate, circuits was a hobby with a soldering iron.

In any case you guys sound like a polite and appreciative bunch, so I'll try to paste in a few shots...and when Wired runs another Geek Girl contest, please get out the vote!

By the way, I own a small, "ultra-luxury" men's fragrance atelier which has sold exclusively to Bergdorf Goodman for 15 years, Prastara. 1. Please bug BG to carry us again (new buyer problem), and 2. I'll send a bottle of one of our scents to two entries here that best wraps this all up...my wife, Bergdorf's folly, etc. Looking for humor, comment, originality to keep this neat thread going.


The first shot here is a bonus: The "Physics Girls". These are friends/colleagues of Oksana's, each PhD's in physcis who scribble equations on napkins at dinner. One worked with Hawking and all three would blow you away! And as you can see, they aren't showing off, other than a little direction from me (20 year ex-fashion photog) to vamp it up a little.



(Foto doesn't seem to show up. Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/DouglasH...03485441040306)

A mug shot of my wife in our living room:

http://picasaweb.google.com/DouglasH...59015790473570

One of my favorite photos of my wife:

http://picasaweb.google.com/DouglasH...86487720932658

Wife & Liliana at graduation:

http://picasaweb.google.com/DouglasH...89608052008898

A snapshot of my wife in Russia when we first met...in my book, this is hot tamale geek for sure:

http://picasaweb.google.com/DouglasH...87488448312642

Thank you.

Look forward to your comments.

Douglas Hopkins


[quote=JoeWoah;1065061]Hot PhD Oksana Katsuro - Hopkins:

Nuclear engineer from Obninsk, Russia. In August of 1999, the beautiful Ms. Katsuro moved to New York and on November 6 of that year, she and Hopkins were married. She obtained her PhD in fusion physics from Columbia University and their daughter, Liliana Christine, was born in 2004

Well (if true) this is one of the strangest things that's ever happened here. I need to move to Russia. I'm in school for optical physics right now, and I've certainly never seen any girls from school that look like that.

I took lots of science in university and the babe quotient was intolerably low. It's considerably higher in classics.

It really is a beautiful love story. You are one lucky man, sir. Last January, when Oksana Katsuro first encountered Douglas Hopkins, she was living and working in Obminsk, Russia, and dreaming of an escape. Ms. Katsuro, who is 26 and nearly six feet tall, with butterscotch-color hair, was earning the equivalent of $20 a month designing computer programs to track nuclear materials at a government institute. She occupied a tiny dormitory room there, and like most people she knew, she barely scraped by financially. ''I mostly ate potatoes from my mother and my sister's gardens,'' she said. ''Sometimes, my mom went to the forest and picked mushrooms and marinated them.'' Eating in a restaurant severely stretched her budget. Starting a family was out of the question. ''Even my girlfriends who are married don't have children because they can't afford it,'' she said. At the institute, Ms. Katsuro spent a lot of time exploring the Internet, sometimes conversing with Americans on One & Only, an international matchmaking Web site. Then she began corresponding regularly with Mr. Hopkins, who was fascinated to find highly educated Russian women on the site, including a laser physicist and a lawyer. ''Tens of thousands of Russian women are on the Internet trying to leave and better their lives,'' observed Mr. Hopkins, who at 53 was eager to marry and settle down. In person, he is reed thin, beautifully spoken, Old World in his tastes and unorthodox. He switches careers often and gracefully, having worked as a fashion photographer in New York and as a volcanologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, climbing and measuring erupting volcanoes. Ten years ago, he started Douglas Hopkins & Company, a perfume maker based in his wood-panel duplex on the Upper East Side. Many of his products are inspired by remedies dating back centuries and are packaged like perfumes in a Parisian apothecary. (He describes his perfume Zazou as ''the California scent with a hint of sanity.'') By e-mail, Ms. Katsuro and Mr. Hopkins discussed aromatherapy, computers, volcanoes and her former marriage, which ended in divorce three years ago. ''Sometimes, I got six letters from Doug a day,'' Ms. Katsuro said. ''I spent all my weekends reading and writing.'' While he said her messages were funny and full of ''the proverbial Russian soul,'' he imagined her as ''in her 40's and rather drab-looking.'' ''Beautiful women generally have an ego, and there was nothing like that in her letters,'' he said. ''Then, one day, she very modestly asked if I wanted to take a look at her home page. I was shocked! It was like opening a Ford model book. So I lost no time at all. I went to Russia as quickly as I could.'' Many people tried to talk him out of going. ''My whole family thought I was nuts,'' he said. ''My father said, 'Mark my word, someone will do harm to you in the Moscow airport.' '' The couple spent four days together in Russia in April. On the second day he proposed marriage, and she accepted. On the third day, they kissed for the first time. In June, he went back with an engagement ring. ''Russians have no hope,'' he said. ''They really don't believe in tomorrow at all. But when I gave Oksana the ring, I could see in her eyes that she believed.'' In August, she moved to New York, and on Nov. 6, they were married in a civil ceremony in a friend's antiques-filled Manhattan loft. The bride, who wore a white dress as short as a tennis outfit, hopes to become a mother soon. ''I'm proud of myself, that I managed to do this, that I had the energy and courage,'' she said. ''My father, who died a year and a half ago, taught me that we are born in order to bring up our children and give them all the knowledge and education we can. So, for me, it's like I'm doing what I was supposed to do. I'm on the right road.''

I freakin' love the internet

Word.

Veronica Belmont. Does tech reporting for different outlets.

^^^Good choice.