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About Me

Good god, life's crazy.I just got married in September and moved to St. Charles, IL.I'm currently working as a developer, doing C++ programming for a hedge fund here in Chicago . Lately, I've also picked up some Java/Documentum projects, too.I've now officially mowed my own lawn. As in, a lawn, part of house that I own, had grass growing on it, which required trimming, and I, being said owner, embarked on a mission to push a wheeled engine with spinning blades over every part of the aforementioned lawn.I'm told house-owners must do this on a regular basis. Wicked.

My Interests

polymorphism , word wrangling, python , crunchy guitars , sequencer gymnastics , travel, sushi , nihongo , go , things with big sharp pointy teeth , chicago , whiskey

I'd like to meet:

You. (everyone else wants to meet you, so I do too)

Music:

Tori Amos, Radiohead, Spiritualized, Joseph Arthur, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Arvo Part, Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Rasputina, VAST, Morphine, Twinemen, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, G Love, Common, Gorillaz

Movies:

Pi, Run Lola Run, Fight Club, Monsters Inc., The Princess Bride, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Swingers, Fantasia, Brazil, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

Television:

Books:

Dubliners , Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Heroes:

Becky Harks, Ben Kasper, Cliff Stoll

My Blog

Code Poet.

One thing that inspires me in a strange way is when I open up a copy of XEmacs on my computer and point it at some source code. It's like a canvas to a painter or a pile of loose-leaf to a writer; it'...
Posted by d.w. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST