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Niilo Autio

Uh, just a second there, professor.

About Me

I live and work downtown Toronto. I went to college in Kitchener. I was raised in South Porcupine. I was born in Edmonton. I'm a designer. I ride 200+ km by road bike every week. I watch very little TV. I'm hooked on Vietnamese soup and detective radio programs from the 40s and 50s. I started playing drums when I was 13, and guitar when I was 17. I compose electronic music fused with acoustic instruments and samples. I've read an etiquette book written in 1955. I cuss. I've never left Canada. I've been fired. I know some pretty sweet magic tricks. Middle-aged women have claimed I look like Prince Harry, but never Prince.mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://www.miniclip.com/swfcontent/freegames/acidfactor y.swf" menu="false" quality="high" width="391" height="250" name="acidfactory" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/

My Interests

American Apparel, Freitag Bags, Hennessy Hammoks, APPPPPPPP.

Music:

Air, Andre Duracell, Aphex Twin, Beck, Beta Band, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Crystal Castles, Four Tet, Goldfräppe, Jackson & His Computer Band, Luke Vibert, Lagwagon, Metric, MSTRKRFT, NOFX, Plaid, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Ramones, Royksopp, Savath & Savalas, Stereolab, TV on the Radio, Wagonchrist.

Movies:

A.I., Dazed & Confused, Donnie Darko, Freaked, Fubar, Garden State, Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, Hot to Trot, Lost in Translation, Made, Scrooged, Slapshot, Spinal Tap, Swingers, The Ref, The Wizard, Uncle Buck, Wes Anderson films.

Books:

Fine. Spread it around. I read Harry Potter. I'm reading the Goblet of Fire at the moment. I also maintain that watching the movie before reading the book is highly more fulfilling than the opposite, more traditional order.

My Blog

Math is rediculous, just like English.

Here's one I've never understood:10 (or any number) x 0 = 0I say bullshit. If you multiply 10 zero times, you're still left with 10 because you haven't multiplied it at all. What gives? If I...
Posted by Niilo Autio on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:44:00 PST

It's Cold: Part 1 of 2.

Winter is coming and there is no heat at my place, except for a small propane heater. It looks dangerous. I am happy to report I have not died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Or wait, is this heaven? ...
Posted by Niilo Autio on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:50:00 PST

Promotions & Marketing

Greetings one and all to my second ever blog. Blogging is a bad name for it, by the way. I think we should all adopt the term Internet Journaling! Don't look at me like that...Anyway, just tonigh...
Posted by Niilo Autio on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST