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AbstraKraft

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About Me

It's come to my attention recently that I end many sentences with ellipses... Perhaps this reflects my tendency to trail off in aural communication as well, or maybe it reveals an interpretation of life as one long stream of consiousness. Now where's that confounded verb!?

Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!

My Interests

Music, academic pursuits (mathematics, computer science/engineering), analog synths, biking (moto), emergent systems, and improvisational waveform analysis

I'd like to meet:

People who know that the Black Crowe's Amorica is the greatest album cover....ever.

Music:

Mr. Bungle, King Crimson, Tool, Yes, Gordian Knot, Jeff Buckley, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Mars Volta, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Free, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Government Mule, Black Crowes, King's X, Tea Party, Dream Theater, Soundgarden, Debussy, Spiritual Beggars, Bob Dylan, Queen, Kyuss, Canvas Solaris, Deserts of Traun, Clutch, Iron & Wine, Don Caballero

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, most anything the Coen Brothers have done (Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy), and I know I'll never hear the end of this from any male friend of mine, but I think it's a modernist masterpiece of pop culture: Moulin Rouge

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, House, and of course, that pinnacle of the sitcom genre: News Radio

Books:

From Dawn to Decadence, Computability Complexity and Languages, The Sun Also Rises, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Radiotron Designer's Handbook (4th edition), Feynman's Lectures on Computation, The Great Shark Hunt, Foucalt's Pendulum, The C Programming Language

O, my kingdom for the time to again read leisurely.....

Heroes:

Batman, Paul Erdos, Johnny Knoxville, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Feynman, Andy Kaufman, Howard Hughes, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin

My Blog

The Tomato Bet

This here blog exists for the purpose of documenting The Tomato Bet.I have wagered $100 that I can subsist on, for the duration of one week, nothing but tomatoes, water, 3 multivitamins, and some as y...
Posted by AbstraKraft on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:40:00 PST

Solar Droid Bassline

Corrected.  Don't know what I was thinking - there are no triplets in this thing.31/8 section(---------------)---(---------)->--(----------)-(---)(------G#-F#-C#--F#----E--G-C-Db-Bb-Ab-F b--B-A-D-...
Posted by AbstraKraft on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:00:00 PST

Insanity

Feeling the onset of a sinus infection this afternoon, and never being one to shy away from a test of mettle, I decided to try the sinus cure I discovered several years ago (that's another story entir...
Posted by AbstraKraft on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:02:00 PST

Chapman Stick

Anyone with a passing aquaintance of yours truly will know of my recurrent obsession with the Chapman Stick.  For the uninitiated, here are a couple of links describing/depicting its bodyless awe...
Posted by AbstraKraft on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:57:00 PST