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furlan

linuxguy

About Me

Hello, World! I am a computer bum and avid reader. I like music (see elsewhere on this page). I run GNU/Linux by choice and Windows when forced to do so. I am fond of Mexican, Thai, Indian, Chinese and Japanese food. I have been known to ocassionaly drink Margaritas, Glen Livet & Guinness, usually whilst enjoying the above foods.

While GUIs are fun I am of the opinion that the best way to get yr machine to do things is to throw language at it.

My Interests

Books, philosophy, magic (especlially close-up), music (see music entry), photography, art, and backgammon.

I'd like to meet:

People who share similar interests. Tom Robbins fans and anybody who likes any of the music listed in the music section.

Music:

The Dead, John Cage, Brian Eno, Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Elaine Elias, Diana Krall, John Zorn, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Bang on a Can, Jeff Beck, Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton, Basia, DJ Spooky, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Charlie Parker, Shakti, Zappa, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, M.I.A., Bill Laswell, Pat Metheny, Karen Kosowski, Stockhausen, Schoenberg, Mozart, Beethoven, David Torn, Ralph Towner, Bela Fleck, Dylan, Trane, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Garcia, John Oswald, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Dave Brubeck, The Residents, Husker Du...

Movies:

Office Space, Somethings Gotta Give, BladeRunner, PI, A Beautiful Mind

Television:

I rarely watch TV.

Books:

I don't know where to start, Sir Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, Douglas Hofstadter, Eugene Burger, Borges, Robert Anton Wilson, E.E.Cummings, George Carlin, Raymond Smullyan, Martin Gardner, William Gibson, and let's not forget Dave Barry.

Heroes:

Most of my heroes are either dead, deranged or on their way to being either.

My Blog

Cancelled...

Today I logged onto my GMail account to find an email from MySpace stating:==================================================== ====MySpace has deleted your profile because we received a credible compl...
Posted by furlan on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:03:00 PST

An invitation

Today I created a MySpace page for my music:PRIMUSICDo have a listen, there are 4 pieces uploaded.It is my intention to change to music periodically so as to give you something different to check out....
Posted by furlan on Mon, 08 May 2006 06:22:00 PST

Mayday

Hooray, Hooray, it's the first of MayOutdoor fucking begins today!(All thanks to Mr Bill):-PWTF, as usual it can't find music that I am listening to at the moment, which is Vossabrygg by Terje Rypdal ...
Posted by furlan on Tue, 02 May 2006 05:24:00 PST

Morning

It's is almost 4 AM and I can't decide if I just want to make a cup of tea and stay up or go back to bed.Maybe I'll do both...It looks as if the search for books/music is rather fuxored @ the moment, ...
Posted by furlan on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:58:00 PST

My Bulletin Space

It seems like My Bulletin Space recently is filled with stuff about getting on a 'train' or whatever. I wonder if there is a Greasemonkey script for dealing with those types of entries as they appear...
Posted by furlan on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:55:00 PST

One of those days

On my walk to my local bakery this morning I overheard a woman talking on a cell phone whilst entering her van, "I am am having a fucking bad morning..."I guess it is all downhill from there,
Posted by furlan on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:48:00 PST

Björk

A nice piece about Björk's Medulla.A very good friend refers to it as "(Viking) Orgasm Music", which, in a way sort of describes it, after a fashion...(waiting for the bakery to open)...
Posted by furlan on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:32:00 PST

The Greatest

Yes! :-P
Posted by furlan on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:13:00 PST

IE Fixed

Not really, the only way to REALLY fix it is to switch to another browser that works like Firefox, Opera, &c. and today I fixed a long standing visual fuck up when viewing flprim.us under Internet Exp...
Posted by furlan on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:12:00 PST

About the music listening

While it is a nice feature that you can list what you are listening to while posting I just realized that one can only list that which shows up in the dialog and then you can only list the album/CD, n...
Posted by furlan on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:50:00 PST