Ryan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My name is Ryan. I'm a surly IT worker who used to be a real live system administrator before he moved to Massachusetts. As it is, I'm already hands-deep in servers and work for one record company, teir merchandising arm, one VOIP start-up, my own side-lined consulting gig, and a ginormous software company. I'm doing ok for 25.

I like to cook (to the point of being a kitchen snob) and I like to read comic books. I am, in fact, a walking panoply of modestly obscure comic book trivia. I am strangely proud of this...

When describing me, I feel it important to tell you that I have taken a solemn vow to never work another job which requires me to wear shoes, slacks, a collared shirt, or a tie. There will be no loafers, hush puppies, or patent leather anything in my professional future. My daily work attire is dirty jeans, dirty sneakers, a disheveled t-shirt and a zip-up Diesel Sweeties skull hoodie.

I was not joking about my vow. Seriously.

I recently moved out of my life-long hometown to take a job with a relatively large software company in Natick, MA. I find myself living in "scenic" Worcester, where the townies pronounce it "Wis-tah". I call it "Little San Juan," because approximately half of the town seems to be Puerto Rican. That's ok. They're my people.

That's also not a joke.

Everything in Massachusetts is really weird. Pedestrians don't know their place, people don't know how to take left hand turns, and they call the sprinkles on ice-cream cones "jimmies". It's got a real "Stranger in a Strange Land" sort of vibe to it. Except minus the water sharing, sexual proclivities, and Martian super-powers. The juxtaposition between the strong liberal bent and the fierce regulation and taxation is probably my favorite thing about the place.

I am loquacious, sesquipedalian, and opinionated. If you didn't have to look up the first two adjectives, I probably want to be your friend.

For the record, if I don't know you, I'm probably going to deny your random friend request. I probably don't like your band. I almost definitely don't like your friends.

My Interests

Computers, cartoons, comic books, rock and roll, bicycling, music, literature both fine and crude, photography, and pornography (strangely unrelated). Contents volatile and subject to change at will.

I'd like to meet:

Comic book geeks, math nerds and other assorted people who are good times.

Kids I used to be friends with until we moved are also sort of rad sometimes.

I absolutely don't want to meet the Hardcore/Indie Scene kids anymore. You're all really frigging weird and I don't want to be weird by association. Same goes for 16 year old girls from like, Little Rock or the Ozarks or wherever the fuck they breed your kind free-range.

Music:

Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Shai Hulud, Zombie Apocalypse, WAR, Elvis Costello, Lifetime, Harvest, Archers of Loaf, Charlotte Hatherley, The Blood Brothers, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dillinger 4, That Dog, Al Hirt, Louis Prima, Alkaline Trio, The Hope Conspiracy, The Suicide File, The Swarm, Fishbone, Johnny Cash, Curlupanddie, Coheed and Cambria, Blondie, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Neko Case, Rilo Kiley, The Slackers, The Toasters, The Pietasters, The New Pornographers, The Pixes, The Mars Volta, The Sick Lipstick, Network, Turbonegro, The Black Heart Procession, Sex Positions, Converge, Bad Religion, Snapcase, Black Flag, The Stooges (With Iggy), Poison, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, et cetera ad infinitum.

Movies:

AI, Fight Club, O' Brother where Art Thou?, Blade Runner, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Pulp Fiction, Dolemite, The Big Lebowski, Psycho Beach Party, Clockwork Orange, Logans Run, Hellboy, Dr. Strangelove, Adaptation

Television:

I'm not big on tv, outside of Sunday night Adult Swim runs and " Penn And Tellers Bullshit! ". That's some good TV right there. I miss Arrested Development and Animaniacs .

Books:

Too many books; let's go with authors. K. Vonnegut, G. Orwell, R. Descartes, Plato, S. Lem, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Moore, R. Heinlein, R. Bradbury, A. Clark, F. Nietzsche, D. Adams, T. Pratchett, N. Gaiman, J. Irving... If you feel I am missing something or someone, please suggest it.

Heroes:

Walter Kovacs , Carl Brutananadilewski, Dr. Thaddeus J. Venture, Brock Samson. But no, seriously, Don Herbert (you might know him as Mr. Wizard ) , Bill Nye, and Alton Brown.