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Gabriel

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About Me



My Interests

Modifying, programming, tinkering.

Music:

Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, Van Halen, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Love And Rockets, Prince and the Revolution, Madonna, The Bengals
Green Day, Weezer, Liz Phair, The Cranberries, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, Coldplay, Radiohead
Jeff Mills, Plastikman, Squarepusher, DJ Brisk, DJ SS
The White Stripes, All-American Rejects, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson
Beethoven's P.C.4, Strauss's Vienesse Waltz, Strauss's Metamorphesis, Dvorcak's 9th, Mozart's Requiem, Mozart's 9th, Handel's Messiah, Bach's Oratorios, Bach's Concertos for Oboe

Movies:

films

Television:

30 Rock, The Office, King of Queens, Scrubs, SnL. nothing these days

Afterschool Specials, Dr. Who, Nova, Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact. Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Moonlighting, Night Court, Miami Vice way back when they were transmitted through the air.

Books:

Castle (Macauley), Belgariad series (Eddings), Magic Kingdom For Sale (Brooks), Trinity (Üris), Eye of the Needle (Follët), Rogue Warrior (Marcinko),
Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics (Reiff), Rule of Law(John Austin),
Learning the vi Editor (Lamb & Robbins), sed & awk (Dougherty & Robbins),
The C Programming Language (Kernighan &amp Ritchie), C++ (Bjärne & Straußtrup),Managing Projects with make (Oram, Talbott),Essential CVS (Vesperman), though I've used the PDF Version Management with CVS (Per Cederqvist) more,
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Stevens),Contemporary Logic Design (Katz), Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Patterson and Hennessy), slau49 (ti dot com),
RFC822, Sendmail ( Costales, Allman),
Ajax Bible (Holzner), w3c dot org, php dot net (I made a bad PHP book decision),
Honda 600 Hurricane (Clymer), 1995 Honda Accord (Helms),
BMX Plus, Dilbert( Adams), Tennis, Nuts 'n Volts

Heroes:

Dick Marcinko (everything in Rogue Warrior, except the leaving the wife and mother part), Sen. Pat Roberts (solid CSPAN lead), Rep. Barney Frank (constitutional expert), James Baker (best Ali G interview), Alexander the Great (technically oriented militant during simple times -- which meant he was a king and not a politician), Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin.

My Blog

learning bmx

Strengthening: Lift your toes up on the upstroke and downstroke.Keep your hip over the downstroke pedal.Straighten your leg on the bottom of the stroke.  Manual: indoor training: Bend your knees but ...
Posted by Gabriel on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:57:00 PST

F questionairre

1) How long have you been attending to technical knowledge? Muscular? Spinal/nerve?2) In what context are you creative?3) Are you good at bouncing a basketball against the wall and the floor?4) Do you...
Posted by Gabriel on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:16:00 PST