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Andrew

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About Me


Quote of the Day: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it change your attitude. Don’t complain. (Maya Angelou)
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I'm a stupid ass weirdo nerd. I have friends who prefer the Nintendo 8bit to the XBOX 360. I don't play football or get shitfaced at the local bar. I'm allergic to smoke and can't stand people who don't use their turn signal.
I'm a software engineer for a multi-billion dollar company. I'm a minon who works in a cube.
I know html and don't need a stinkin myspace editor. I read API documentation that is longer than the bible.
Most of the time you can find me under a rock.
I'm a sucker for a road trip, but that mostly revolves around PTO.
I punched out a guys passenger window once, and then licked the blood from my knuckles. He called the police. They told me to pay for his windshield. Ha!
I like the petting zoo too.
I live by the river and have bats in my attic. Can you say histoplasmosis.
My Nikon D70 goes where I go. Megapixel schmegapixel. Get good glass and shut up already.
I have sticking hands.
My Mathy Java Applets
    Java Lamp : Lava Lamp on crack. Sorts through array of 10,000 cartesian points every 10 milliseconds. Calculates color and size based on distance from a moving point. Use the quick keys to mix things up.
    BreakOut 3D : The uncanny 2D arknoid remake with a wireframe 3D perspective. Projection of a 3D (x,y,z) environment onto a 2D view. Makes use of phi, rho, delta, theta for rotation around a point and perspective control. They teach this stuff in Calc III. Too bad it's the only time I applied this knowledge. Hit 'O' to rotate around the axis with the mouse. This is a playable game with multilevels, but I forgot the quick key to start the game; try 'X'.
    Animated Surface Map : I ripped this idea from Maple. Same engine as Breakout 3d except function is based on radians. Click mouse to rotate. 'A' key to animate or cycle through theta. Use the number keys to change the values at the bottom of the screen to see how they affect the view.
    Shoot 'em : Shoot each other. Player 1: 'Q', Player 2: 'P'
    Galguka : This is my answer to a Pascal app coded one weekend on a 386DX C*mpuAdd somewhere between the advent of Martian Memorandum and Oil's Well. Or was it Leisure Suite Larry.

My Interests

Landscape, macro 1:1, good light, sunrise, sunset. swim, run, fly. Road bike, mtb, big loading dock drops, dirt ramps, balfa, specialized, fix bike. all wheel drive or rear wheel drive. taking turns fast. donuts and doughnuts. hiking a trail and not seeing anyone for days. rrg, climbing and rappeling. Kayaking but not canoodling. odd numbers. a good java ide. photoshop and a large format printer. fishing for bass. canyoneering, mountaineering. solid axle articulation. 8 bit synthesis. sidstation. arpeggio. dirty bass. inter-continential flights. road trips. fast packing. qwest outdoors. capalene. gran tourismo 2 & 4. dr. mario & tetris on the snes. cooking, grilling and eating what I cook. ribs, steak and fish. mountain house. chalet in the smokies. the smell of the redwoods. antique furniture. watching the new yankee workshop. watching adult swim. current politics. guiness. nom de plum. ky state fair. thunda. haynes repair manual. pep boys. trail running in cherokee park with my nike air max. tappin that vo2 max. building master grade gundams.

I'd like to meet:

the jackass that stole my jeep and left it for dead on 39th street. 5 minutes, that's all.

Father Time and Mother Nature. The spirit of Yip Chun.

Music:

best of blur. I'm not yeah well. But I do live in the country. modest mouse "we all float on". nirvana bleach. umm, black sabbath. bfamily records and assoc. the advantage. beck. andre 3000, not so much big boi except for "tomb of the boom. Gomez, Matt Costas, ok I'm gettin soft, Jack Johnson, that other guy, Gorillaz, Beastie Boys circa 90's, Rage against the machine, audioslave, mono, radiohead, the cars, the clash, the weird weeds, the white stripes elephant, beatles, zep, squarepusher and muzik and mr oizo and parsec and mouse on mars and old commodore 64 songs played back on my original sidstation, nin circa pretty hate machine and broken and fixed only. al green and ray charles and odis redding. brothers of conquest, vhs or dvd, king horse, blood fart, telephone man and some stupid old endpoint songs that take me back. john cage, kronos quartet, karlheiz stockhausen, music concrete, biggy smalls, lil flip the leprachaun. deltron 3030. method man and ghostdog. pharell w/o the lyris. snoop dog with the lyris. dre. too short.

Movies:

the benchwarmers, nachooooooooooooooooooooooooooo libre, cars, anything will farrell, match point, anything that terrintino reccomends except for night watch cause that was kinda stupid. hostel. kill bill vol 1 and 2. uma makes a better bruce. 5th diagram pole fighter. drunken monkey. jet li and jackie chan's older stuff. x-men, spiderman, batman, superman. indiana jones and the temple of doom. lords of dogtown, 40 year old virgin, the family stone, chumsucker, final destination 1,2, and 3. the hills have eyes is stupid. gizzly man, about the guy who follows grizzlies through alaska and then films himself being eaten by one. sin city with funny colors. brokedown palace. legend, umm, I take that back. shop girl, will smith movies. Woody Allen. The beach is a cool movie even though I think Leonardo is a little biatch. The message. Don't look now.

Television:

entourage HBO, the sopranos HBO, weather channel, cnn, spike on sunday. 38,52 and 218.

Books:

Mostly facts not fiction. DaVinci Code was good. National Geographic Zion Topo. Slot canyon beta. Not really a book though. Mysery Canyon, Pine Creek the Subway and the Narrows.

Heroes:

Bill Cosby, because he invented putting potato chips on a sandwhich.Oh yeah, and Chuck Rubin, since he has the worlds largest closet collection of cameras and will rent you any lens at dirt cheap prices.My little sis'.