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Tom

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About Me

I'm pretty into robots and zombies. I'm vegan, a software developer, and a gamer. I like music and movies. I wear an inordinate amount of black, and most of the things you'd infer about me because of that are at least partly true.

My Interests

Vegan baked goods, rock, roll, displacement mapping, zombies, dissonance, recursion, making out, chocolate, syncopation, wave-particle duality, illithids, revolution, and so on.

I'd like to meet:

Whom I'd like to meet.

Music:

Neurosis, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Muse, Coalesce, The Dead Science, Radiohead, The Black Heart Procession, Ladytron, Converge, Blonde Redhead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bright Eyes, Lightning White Bison / Thunder Grey Pilgrim.

Movies:

Brazil, City of Lost Children, Waking Life, Lord of the Rings, Cemetary Man, Duel to the Death, Azumi, The Life Aquatic, Mulholland Drive, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Goonies.

Television:

Alright, alright, I admit it... I like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And now, I watch Lost as well.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson, Murakami, Tolkein, anarchist propaganda, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, The 36 Lessons of Vivec.

Heroes:

Batman clearly has better fashion sense, but I like Gambit's attitude.

My Blog

this is not a test

A while ago I took the GRE's, and today I finally took the GRE Computer Science test.  So, I am officially done with two of the top three annoyances of the grad school application process.  ...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:06:00 PST

bisected

I think I'm having a mid-life crisis.  This sucks for two reasons:A) By definition, I will be dead before I turn 58.B) Having a midlife crisis is stupid and no one wants to deal with someone who'...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

Seattle disappoints me sometimes

There are some towns in this country where people who pass you on the street will say hello or comment on the weather or even briefly stop to engage you in trivial commentary on whatever happens to be...
Posted by Tom on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

Sugar Crash! July 27th!

Sugar Crash is having its second benefit this Friday!  Can you handle it? 
Posted by Tom on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:32:00 PST

Why I Like Computers

Why I Like Computersby Tom Carroll1) Computers are cool.2) You can check your myspace on them.3) First, a definition:  Technology is the means by which mankind has taken control of its own evolut...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:32:00 PST

Vegan Bakery! Sugar Crash!

Every one of you needs to show up and eat delicious dessert tomorrow afternoon! Justin, Katrina, and I have teamed up Voltron-style to create the best vegan desserts that you will ever see or taste. H...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:17:00 PST

Pedantry Club

As much as I do, truly, enjoy discussing how good the synth is in Justin Timberlake's "My Love", or how crazy it is that this person slept with that person, or how food is delicious... I sometimes fee...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:08:00 PST

events shall manifest exponentially faster

Here is a timeline:  On March 1st, I will be moving into Shaboz (on 24th and Union) with Ben and Anna.I concede that this is not really a timeline, and is more a timepoint.Regardless, it is widel...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:58:00 PST

and back

    I just got back to Seattle.  Good times!
Posted by Tom on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:40:00 PST

off and away

    In a few hours, I will be boarding a plane towards New Jersey, where I shall festivate Christmas.  I'll be back in Seattle on the 28th.  If anyone needs to reach me, the i...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:23:00 PST