"No one is a failure unless you try."- middle school writing achievement test
do not always trust odd things in my profile... my computer gets hijacked sometimes when Im not watching...
web programming, php, ruby on rails, surfing, skiing/snowboarding, reading at odd hours of the night/morning, not waking up in time for class
The Mars Volta, Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Tool, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Autolux, Metric, Led Zeppelin, Man or Astroman, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Manu Chao, Frank Zappa, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Art of Noise, Muse, Rage Against the Machine, Sting, Audioslave, Herbie Hancock, Pharaoh Sanders, Paul Oakenfold, PI Soundtrack, Swordfish soundtrack, Bach, Mozart, Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arvo Part, Feist, Interpol, LTJ Bukem, soulive, Porcupine Tree, Sasha and John Digweed, The Prodigy, Banco de Gaia, Thievery Corporation, Alizee, Pitchshifter, Jay Chou
Spring Summer Fall Winter... And Spring, The Return, I'm Not Scared, Underground, 3-Iron, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fight Club, The Truman Show, The Dreamers, Cube, The Holy Land, Noi, The Day After Tomorrow, Bad Santa, American Pie, Being John Malkovitch, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The City of Lost Children, Lemming, Cuckoo, The Dinner Game, Donnie Darko, Groundhog Day, Intacto, Just Visiting, The Last Blues, Lilo and Stitch, Live from Baghdad, The Magdalene Sisters, The Man from the Train, The Man without a Past, No Man's Land, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Talk to Her, The Tin Drum, Tito and Me, Tuvalu, Tycoon: A New Russian, Wag the Dog, James' Journey to Jerusalem, Funny Games, Zelary, Shower, About Schmidt, Hukkle, Kontroll, Me and You and Everyone we Know, Buffalo 66, Nobody Knows, The Usual Suspects, El Bola, Late Marriage, Ghost World, Serenity, Paradise Now, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth
Beyond 2000 (the best show ever), lost, arrested development, firefly, battlestar galactica, engineering an empire, and anything on the discovery channel (thats not "EXTREME CAR TUNE-UP" or some stupid crap like that).
The Good Earth, Cat's cradle, (and anything by Kurt Vonnegut), She Plays with the Darkness, Fast Food Nation, The Boy who Invented Television, Blandings Castle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Heart of Redness, Galapagos, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hyperspace, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Flowers for Algernon, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Bell Jar, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Waiting for Godot, Reptiles and Amphibians (golden guide), Favorite Magazines and sources of news:, New Scientist, Scientific American, EEtimes
Ray Kurzweil, Richard Dawkins, Andrew Grove, George Soros, Nikola Tesla, Bill Gates