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About Me

Freelance PHP/MySQL Programmer and Internet Programming Consultant

http://www.lewislacook.org
http://www.abstractoutlooks.com

I believe in modularity and Object-orientation--but always keep in mind that the more abstraction you introduce, the more energy required to process it. Therefore, use OOP when approriate; the right tools for the right job.

I'm fascinated by communication, whether it be among machines or human beings...I see technology as no less natural than the human race...I believe the only defense we humans have in this cold, crazy world is culture...but I also want to find that original face, the one we all had before culture...I am Appollo and Dionysus at once...the luxury of pure architecture...

My Interests

Web programming, philosophy, contemporary poetry and poets, mythology, art, history. cultural theory, ghost stories, the paranormal, crime, physics, scizophrenia, coping mechanisms, cats, empty fields, desolate urban landscapes, progressive politics

I'd like to meet:

you...um, and Rasmus Lerdorf, James Gosling, Clark Coolidge, Charlie Parker (if only I could!), John Coltrane...and myself, someday...

Music:

Belle and Sebastian, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Badly Drawn Boy, the Dandy Warhols, Joy Zipper, Javanese Gamelan Music, Chinese Folk Music, Afghani Folk Music, the Ketjak, Kronos Quartet, Rachmaninoff, John Cage, Sun Ra, Cornelius, Negativland, the Russian Futurists, Stereolab...

Movies:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...Fellini's Satyricon...Redneck Zombies...Naked Lunch...House of Yes...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...Bloodsucking Freaks...Buffalo 66...I Shot Andy Warhol...Basquiat...Alphaville...

Television:

Adult Swim(Did you get that thing I sent ya?)

Books:

Well, I love a variety of poetry...Gertrude Stein is my mama, but Ted Berrigan is my dad...John Ashbury, Clark Coolidge, Carla Harryman...Keats...Coleridge...Philosophy, too...reading D.T. Suzuki's Zen Manual right now...Sartre, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard...Baudrillard...Deridda...Getting a bit into science fiction as well...Gibson, Heinlein....And lots and lots of programming manuals...The PHP Manual is riveting reading

Heroes:

My girlfriend Mary, Aloysha Karamazov, Prince Myshkin, Gotama Buddha, and all children

My Blog

The monolith and the monster ballad

09/11/2007Is it hard to love? The long road on which there shall be no parking at anytime also cannot define gravity albeit denser and more shallow and also spattered with lights. Even in Einstein sit...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:28:00 PST

New Music from The Stack!

New Music from The Stack!Heartworm Diseasehttp://www.lewislacook.org/thestack/heartworm_diseeez .mp3Sticky Starshttp://www.lewislacook.org/thestack/sticky_stars.mp3I Just Had To Tell Youhttp://www.lewi...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:27:00 PST

Strawberry Joint 985246

It's too goddamned quietnow that the kids are in schoolSomewhere outside my windowa calm voice explains calm thingswhile trying to imparta senseof urgencyI'm telling you how I feel about densityin my ...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:37:00 PST

The monolith at the beginning of september

09/02/2007Username and password. Why do you call me sir sir? At the beginning of my day I make enough cigarettes. For. Not until the paperwork is finished. Your heartbeat serrated these prisms of achi...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST

The ghosts at play beneath my skin

The ghosts at play beneath my skinkill all happy thoughts. Children witherdown to sog and blistersout on the street, under my touch.My loving is a black cataclysm;nympholepsy for leper's bread.I've st...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:34:00 PST

I was walking last night

I was walking last nightthrough a city emptied by sleepand I was walking last nightthrough fire blossoms of feetcovered over by vein'd pavementand I was walking last nightthrough the tradition and cru...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:52:00 PST

Switching to Linux

So I finally put my desktop where my mouth is (hmmm, that sounds kinda kinky...LOL).Recently, a friend of mine gave me a box running Debian Linux with the GNOME Desktop Environment. This friend is a L...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:53:00 PST

Both

Both Is it? Oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes it feels as if my fingers lock up, and I'm alone on the bed, cupping my rage like my stepfather did, or sleeping off the annoyances. It's the eas...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:17:00 PST

Icing on the cupholders

I distrust gestalt. Now that we're snowed in for spring, a potential energy snakes through your cold stiff fingers. I doubt that you can even hear me above you, murmuring, venting. ...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:25:00 PST

King's Woods : The A-history of Lorain, Ohio

King's Woodsdata-driven networked hypertextby Lewis LaCook2007PHP/MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScripthttp://www.lewislacook.org/kingswoods/index.htmlKi ng's Woods is a data-driven, networked hypertext poem t...
Posted by Programmers do it while on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:01:00 PST