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About Me

hi. i'm dan. i live in seattle. i grew up here and moved back here after spending some time in the bay area and overseas. it's one of those cities that you don't realize how much you miss it until you come back. i'm eagerly awaiting the summer. summers in seattle are really just something else....
i'm a giant nerd. i play around with computers all day. well, i used to. now it's work, so i don't really consider it playing anymore. it's one of those things where it used to be fun until it became a job... i'm friendly and open minded. i listen to a lot of music - pretty much anything, but i'm really a rocknroll kid at heart. i read - primarily fiction - but really not enough these days. i watch far too much television, but everyone is allowed a few cheap pleasures. i love monkeys. if you get me drunk enough, you may be lucky enough to witness my monkey impression some day.... i'll ask completely random questions to make people think and keep them on their toes. you can learn an awful lot about people from their answers to a question completely unexpected...
i was trying to take a picture a day and put it on my website ( tumbiri.com ), but that's just gone downhill. there are lots of fun pictures there though. i've kind of been going crazy with the uploading the last few days....

My Interests

music, travel, food, drink, literature, film, art, skipping (who can help but only be happy when they're skipping?), air guitar and air drumming, sleep, dancing in bed (get your mind out of the gutter! you should try it, it's fun), whistling, things with blinky lights, and things that go fast

I'd like to meet:

anybody with something interesting to say...

Music:

the gorillaz, fountains of wayne, pink floyd, mozart, berlioz, the grateful dead, hip-hop, 80's, barenaked ladies, the postal service, ben harper, beautiful south, the eels, men without hats, paul simon, ben folds, air, beta band, beatles, maceo parker, deathcab for cutie, sonny rollins, charlie parker, mike doughty, nin, the decembrists, the mountain goats, say hi to your mom, mates of state, architecture in helsinki, the streets, modest mouse, stellastarr*, harvey danger, john coltrane, gogol bordello, run-dmc, morphine, keane, super deluxe, nirvana, louis armstrong

Movies:

the princess bride (perhaps the best movie of all time), fight club, the usual suspects, heathers, the breakfast club, pump up the volume, top gun, the matrix,office space, true romance, clueless, kevin smith, goodfellas, the city of lost children, amelie, bottlerocket, rushmore, memento, the limey, rear window, the birds, thumb wars, kids, romeo&juliet (the baz lurhman version), mulan, anything with jack ryan (patriot games, etc), 12 monkeys (who doesn't like to see brad pitt a tiny bit psycho?), the saint (or val kilmer a tiny bit sane?), deconstructing harry

Television:

family guy, six feet under, arrested development, knight rider, the sopranos, monk, sex in the city, coupling (the uk version), the boondocks, the office (the uk version), trading spaces, while you were out, the simpsons, cosby show, three's company, graham norton (the uk version), the kumars at no. 42, house, bones, grey's anatomy (ah, guilty pleasures), the west wing, law & order, the iron chef (the japanese version), oh there are so many more.. if only i had more time...

Books:

tom robbins, j.d. salinger, kurt vonnegut, nick hornby, j.r.r. tolkien, voltaire, j.k. rowling, dostoyevsky, david eggers, orson scott card, tony parsons, richard russo, camus, david sedaris, paulo cohelo, madeleine l'engel, christopher moore, haruki murakami, augusten burroughs

My Blog

the end of evolution...

so i've come to the conclusion that as humans, we've reached the end of our evolutionary chain.not because we're perfect. because we're far from it.as a society we find the need to coddle and control...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:59:00 PST

language...

so again i get stuck in one of these odd quandries... i don't actually have anything interesting to say.anyways. i babysat my nephew today. i only spent a few hours with him tonight before he was r...
Posted by Dan on Sun, 21 May 2006 05:56:00 PST

the dawning of the age of aquarius....

the topic of the day is hair. no, not the 1970's musical, rather the stuff that grows on our bodies. in this case, i'm talking specifically about facial hair. mine, in particular. i've been experi...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:08:00 PST

boo

my camera broke. i'm sad. it's still under warranty, but i think i damaged it more trying to fix it which will give them a reason not to cover it...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:22:00 PST

bubbles...

so somehow sparkling wines got to be reserved for celebrations... i'm not sure how, but it happened. it's too bad, really. sparkling wines are the only wines that are truely suited for any meal of ...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:53:00 PST

have you ever noticed...

... that telekinesis is a lot harder than they make it look in the movies?wouldn't it be cool to be able to manipulate objects in space with only a thought? it seems to easy on the screen, but really...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:57:00 PST

something i never understood...

so today is easter. it's really an interesting holiday if you think about it. i mean, it's the day that jesus supposedly rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. but somehow it's been secularized...
Posted by Dan on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:13:00 PST

a lost art...

so i was thinking about this today... look at the direction things are going. people are rapidly adopting new communications technologies. email use is growing exponentially, instant messaging is b...
Posted by Dan on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:38:00 PST

can't sleep

why can't i sleep?
Posted by Dan on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:32:00 PST