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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. – Benjamin Franklin

About Me


I am tired of getting friend requests from spam accounts, so you now have to enter my last name or email when sending a friend request. My email is myspace.com AT samuraighost.com.
“'Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing -- is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?' Juanita shrugs. 'What's the difference?'”
-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
“It is very much possible to regulate the internet. You just have to be ninja enough to keep people from noticing. Because once they notice, they get angry, and once they get angry they like to ctrl-a,c,v all over the place.”
-Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.
“Maybe we are anti-matter and what we think is anti-matter is actually matter.”
-10scott10 in reply to Where has all the antimatter gone? on digg.
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“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
–Brian W. Kernighan
Strange Crystal
Darsh Ranjan '05
Perry Vona
Homeless computer repairman in NY. Main.Vein
Invader.Fractal (click to destroy Invader)
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What do you think this device does? Video Games:
Nintendo:
Sega Genesis:
Super Nintendo:
Sony PlayStation:
N v1.2:
Click to Play

My Interests



Running
gym
mountain biking
lifting weights
martial arts
swimming
climbing
SCUBA
kayaking
outdoors
fire
sportbikes
Anime
Japan
Japanese language
Serial Experiments Lain
Ghost in the Shell
The Matrix
video games
RPGs
Squaresoft
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy
emulators
DOOM
lan parties
expiremental electronic music
art
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher
Boards of Canada
expiremental photography
nature
beach
ocean
forests
explosives
paintball
Urban Exploration
abandoned places
exploring
night
philosophy
libertarian
lucid dreaming
psychology
science
applied mathematics
physics
chemestry
engineering
Learning new things
computers
overclocking
sci-fi
kung fu movies
reading
Linux
assembly programming
Python programming
open source software
FPGA Programming
hardware hacking
microcontrollers
building electronic devices
robotics

Images uploaded to Flick r .

I'd like to meet:

Anyone.

AIM- mogwai7777
Yahoo- mogwai7777
ICQ- 66919382
msn- [email protected]
jabber- [email protected]
IRC- mogwai on irc.rizon.net

Music:

Ken Ishii - Extra

Aphex Twin
Square Pusher
Múm
Video Game Music:
-OCRemix
-Vorc.org
-8bitpeoples.com
-micromusic.net
Bit Shifter
Stereolab
Kraftwerk
Metamatics
Autechre
Matmos
Señor Coconut
Secret Frequency Crew
Nobuo Uematsu
Schematic
Future Loop Foundation
Glenn Miller
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
DJ Spooky
Billie Holiday
Benny Goodman
Two Lone Swordsmen
Future Sound of London
Orbital
BÔA
Santana
Lupe Fiasco
Console
Explosions In The Sky
Speedy J
Arovane
Solvent
Ayumi Hamasaki
Rammstein
Phonem
Boards of Canada
Photek
CoLD SToRAGE
They Might Be Giants
Dice Man
Bjork
Kid606
Twilight Electric
Protman
Mesu Kasumai
The Orb

Movies:



Vampire Hunter D
The Matrix
They Live
Scarface
Evil Dead
Soylent Green
Bladerunner
Total Recall
Battle Royal
Terminator 2
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Lord of the Rings
Underworld
Sin City
Donnie Darko
2001:a Space Odyssey
Five Deadly Venoms
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Shaolin Soccer
The Seven Samurai
Videodrome
Old Boy
Suicide Club
Ghost in the Shell
Requiem for a Dream
V for Vendetta
Dark City
Pi
Scanners
A Clockwork Orange

Moving Illustrations of Machines (2000) by Jeremy Solterbeck

Television:



The Boondocks
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Adult Swim
Samurai Jack
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aeon Flux
Dexter's Laboratory
Teen Titans
Ninja Turtles
Ren and Stimpy
Family Guy
The Simpsons
StarTrek:TNG
Robot Chicken
Futurama
Mythbusters
Monster Garage
Junkyard Wars
Serial Experiements Lain
Key the Metal Idol
Wolf's Rain
Full Metal Alchemist
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Tenshi ni Narumon
Inuyasha
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Vampire Hunter D
Lupin the Third
Monty Python
Red Dwarf
Doctor Who

Books:

Lots of technical engineering books that you probably would not understand.

Heroes:


Delia Derbyshire

Hero of Alexandria

My Blog

Mini Hydroelectric Power Plant.

I had to build a little power plant for one of my classes. Here are the photos:Yes, thats 5 volts. I take 300 watts from the wall, throw some water around, and get 2 watts out. Who needs efficiency...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

Marathon Training (updated 2006-09-14)

I am training for a marathon. (26.2 miles) I am following the schedule here. This is a log of my progress. Day 1 (sunday) on the chart is Thursday the 17th, so the weekdays are off.W1D1 (2006-08-17...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:03:00 PST

Survey/Tests

Random surveys and tests that I thought were accurate:..>Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical IntelligenceYou are great at finding patterns and relationships between things.Always curiou...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:11:00 PST

Marvin Heemeyer

Marvin Heemeyer"...52 year old welder Marvin Heemeyer lived in Grunbee Colorado fixing vehicle mufflers. His small repair shop was located near a concrete factory called Mountain Park. To Marvin and h...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:30:00 PST

Workshop (updated 2006-08-23)

I've been working on and off on creating a workshop in my garage for quite some time. Now I am determined to get it done before classes start on the 28th.Day 1 (2006-08-18)My garage is full of crap:I...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:18:00 PST

South Florida Tattoo Expo '06

This weekend the South Florida Tattoo Expo was running in Coral Springs. A friend of mine who is a tattoo artist, REMO, was working at a booth there. I wanted to go and take pictures...only problem ...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:15:00 PST

FIU Engineering projects

The summer semester finished last Friday. As always on the last day there are lots of projects being presented. :) This semester a group built something that I have been thinking of building for a w...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:21:00 PST

Triple head displays

People are now throwing out their CRTs to get LCDs it seems. I found some Trinitron tube monitors, so I put them to use. :) Triple head is much better than dual monitors in my opinion, since both lef...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

Information wants to be free

AOL releases 2 million searches by over half a million users for research then later apologize and take it down.http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/2022244 It's too late. The cat's out of ...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:41:00 PST

Abandoned Military Facility

According to this site, this place is a Nike Missile site. I found it on google earth and went to check it out at around 1am thinking nobody was going to be there. When I arrived I was alone. I walked...
Posted by SamuraiGhost" on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:17:00 PST