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john

monkeys are funny

About Me

i'm just a guy who exists in the world. i'm generally pretty laid back unless i'm driving or building things out of wood. i try not to take things too seriously. i have mastered the arts of slack and applied apathy. i realize that things are complicated, and i embrace that fact. life would be boring without layers of complexity. i'm technically oriented. i have a rockin' geek job. i am fascinated by technology. especially space and robots. i'm an engineer at heart; i like to build and fix things. i like logic problems and real-life math problems. i like realistic fiction and movies. i'm in to efficiency. i have minimal political views, and prefer not to think about politics at all. i'm a music snob, mostly because my music is better than yours. also becuase music is way more important to me than most everything else. my life is frequently like a music video. it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but there is definitely music. and random bits of clarity.

My Interests

music, film, computers, math, typography, programming, security, introspection, science fiction, japanese cartoons, consistency

Music:

ulrich schnauss, the future sound of london, underworld, boards of canada, múm, amon tobin, global communication, lackluster, esem, the clifford gilberto rhythm combination, casino versus japan, manitoba, janah, portishead, the black dog, plaid, röyksopp, i am robot and proud

Movies:

leon, o brother where art thou, the matrix, braveheart, a clockwork orange, fear and loathing in las vegas, the princess bride, the 5th element, donnie darko, memento, training day, antitrust, bowfinger, rat race, airplane, 28 days later

Television:

farscape, family guy, the simpsons, babylon 5, dune, firefly

Books:

the eternal champion series, the mars trilogy, ender's game, gideon bibles, the metamorphosis of prime intellect

Heroes:

hunter s. thompson, seymore cray, donald knuth, larry wall, sam brown, roger williams