My research focuses on computers and composition. My dissertation examined online social networks such as MySpace and Facebook and their impact on the writing classroom. I am also interested in peer-to-peer music networks, video games, and Japanese anime.
We have four crazy cats, Mephistopheles, Faust, and Jalep(No!). Mephy and Faust obviously go together and are a testament to my background as an English literature major as an undegraduate. What can I say? I also had pets named Dante and Milton at one point along with a passel of hamsters named after anime characters (Ranma, Yokho, Akira ...) Jalep(No!) has the most interesting name of the cats and he is named sort of after the jalepeno pepper. It's a long story, actually. Ichi is named after the movie "Ichi the Killer"--thus named because he is so small and cute, he doesn't look like he could (or would) kill anything ... and yet appearances can be deceiving!
I ride a 2001 Suzuki SV 650 and I drive a small 1991 Mazda Miata. Both are red(dish)--the Suzuki is burgundy and the Miata is red. Oddly enough, my previous rides were both blue: a Kawasaki Ninja EX500 and a '77 VW bug. I guess I'm a believer in matching one's motorcycle to one's car.
In my spare time, I love to cook and I'm particularly intrigued by the field of molecular gastronomy. Maybe someday I will whip up some liquid nitrogen ice cream.
Right now I'm getting into homebrewing. My first two beers were a Hefeweizen and a Witbier. They turned out well! The next project will be a mead.
Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
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This above all: to thine own Ondine be true.
Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?
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