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Proto

I'm crushing your head!

About Me

Often aloof and with a keen appreciation for the sublime, I am a harbinger of the tangent thoughts most people pay no attention to. At times I am a loyal friend, disorganized, late, thoughtful, geeky, random, witty, peaceful, patient, impatient, and usually a bit goofy. The most stress I ever experienced was buying a house, until I tried selling one. I sometimes admire from afar because that's just the kind of guy I am. I would probably drink sake all the time if I knew how to make it and I tend to do better with chopsticks over sporks on a given day unless sake is involved. I try to live my life based on what I read in The Onion . I adore Fruit Roll-Ups and orange vodka. I like scary moves, particularly bad ones, and it is my belief that every movie could use at least one zombie cameo appearance. I was a band geek in high school. I make a dandy living as a sysadmin for an Internet security company, in other words I make the Internet a safer place for pornography. I love love LOVE music and play around with turntables and synthesizers from time to time. I have ten fingers and toes each. I can count to at least twenty in Japanese. I think fractions are a conspiracy of the government. I miss having a functional need for a Trapper-Keeper. I try not to take things too seriously under the guise of being a responsible adult.
I also like scratch-n-sniff stickers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, educational filmstrips regarding holocaust readyness a la " Duck and Cover ," and porn on Betamax.

My Interests

slack, music, Mensa, SubGenius, sleep, games, randomizers, gadgets, Dragon Con, radio theater, goofing-off, introspection, questioning, learning, teaching, thinking in general, empathizing, being a swell guy, sporks, stop-motion animation, cartoons, cats, polynomials, anagrams, anecdotes, human psychology, binary, Mad Libs, the Slinky, the Illuminati, irony, humor, subtle humor, tasteless humor, toilet humor, the humerus, the tibia, the fibula, and those crazy metatarsals!

I'd like to meet:

The atypical, free thinking, pocket intellectuals of the world. Ninjas are cool too, as are current or former astronauts. Animators, turntablists, gamers, writers, witty sticker designers, voice actors, anybody who plays pinball, geeks, hipsters, dreamers, and robots.

Music:

When I'm bored, I spin

Groove Armada, Coldcut, Thievery Corporation, DJ Food, Nightmares on Wax, Amon Tobin, The Starseeds, BT, Fatboy Slim, Bjork, Orbital, Blur, Fila Brazillia, Hooverphonic, Hybrid, Banco de Gaia, Oingo Boingo, Urusla 1000, Leftfield, Dee-Lite, Bonobo, Dangermouse, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Sasha, Beck, Thunderball, The Herbaliser, The Wiseguys, Mazzy Star, Devo, The Dining Rooms, Gus-Gus, Rehab, Underworld, Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Soul Coughing, ANYTHING 80's

Movies:

Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton films, Indiana Jones, The Evil Dead series, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Momento, Office Space, Legend, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Star Wars, Better Off Dead, Pi, Cannibal: The Musical, The Matrix, Back to the Future, anything MST3K-approved

Television:

Monty Python, Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Family Guy, Futurama, The Venture Brothers, Sex in the City, Firefly, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, the Kids in the Hall, Doctor Who

Books:

Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Principia Discordia, Lamb, The Onion, the Yellow Pages, nutrition information labels on cheese-spray-in-a-can

Heroes:

my mom

My Blog

laundry part deux

1) Never try to hook-up a washing machine when drunk2) If you do hook-up a washing machine while drunk, at least have the common sense to monitor it while its runningI neglected to adhere to the above...
Posted by Proto on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST

laundry

So my neighbor Murray moved-out today, destined for an apartment in better places. Why am I bothering to write about it? Because he was too lazy to move his washer and dryer, so he sold them to me on ...
Posted by Proto on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:20:00 PST

The Chocolatte Sessions

So I've been going to a particular coffee shop for the last three years. It was right across the street from my house at the time, and isn't too far from my apartment now. The staff there is the best,...
Posted by Proto on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:41:00 PST

July 4th pictures are up

So it appears I'm the latest one to the party with these, but I finally posted my pictures of the 4th of July fireworks extravaganza over at  the_colombian's house. I think I'm starting to get a ...
Posted by Proto on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:35:00 PST

5 quotes never made in conversations never had

...and with the insignificance of words lost in the ether, I write a digital drop in a sea of electric diatribes that may one day be recovered by deep data mining in a world of informational impulses ...
Posted by Proto on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:10:00 PST

the nice-guy trait

People (generally) call me a nice guy. My nature is very altruistic, just like my mother (in the most noble of altruistic professions, nursing). Today I found a study from the National Institutes of H...
Posted by Proto on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

new songs posted

So I'm starting to work on my music again and I've posted two new works-in-progress over at my alter-ego site, The Echo Ranger. Look for the TESTPILOT recordings, Interstate and The Ruckas Room.I...
Posted by Proto on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:46:00 PST

new (old) pictures up

So I found some older pictures from the annals of my history and have posted the good ones here. They involve a fun-filled day at Piedmont park and just hanging around my old house. Enjoy!
Posted by Proto on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:30:00 PST