I'd like to meet:

People who love dance music and clubs and who want to throw parties, raving loonies about politics, quiet thinkers, bar flies, and world travelers. Understand that due to my chosen profession as a webmaster, I am something of a computer geek as well, and almost automatically like other geeks. BTW, most DJ's are geeks in their own right:

Exhibit A - Who else drools over going to record shops, spending hours listening to music, then dropping a gazillion bucks for a dead medium like vinyl?

Exhibit B - Who else visits clubs to train spot other DJ's instead of cruising for women, their pockets packed with demos instead of condoms?

Music:

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EDM/Dance

Genres: Techno, Progressive house, Progressive tribal, Chicago/Funky house, Trance, DnB, you name it...

DJs: Sasha, Paul van Dyk, LTJ Bukem, John Digweed, Max Thomson, Ferry Corsten, Steve Porter, Max Graham, DJ Genna, DJ Ciconte, Godfather Sage, Sander Kleinenberg, James Holden

Producers: Underworld, Orbital, The Orb, The Shaman, Chemical Brothers, 808 State, CJ Bolland, William Orbit, Junkie XL, DJ Shadow, BT, Banco de Gaia, Godfather Sage, LTJ Bukem, Steve Porter, anything off of Eye-Q Records, Daft Punk, Crystal Method, The Prodigy, Faithless, Pet Shop Boys, Groove Armada, FatboySlim, Massive Attack, Tricky, Basement Jaxx, Jamiroquai, Morcheeba, most of the Global Underground series, Sneaker Pimps, Chicane, Timo Maas

Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Nine Ince Nails, The Cure, Depeche Mode, James, Ministry, Ruthie & The Wranglers, The Hula Monsters, Led Zeppelin, Stone Roses, U2, Blink 182, Nirvana, New Order, The Smiths, Morrisey, Duran Duran, The Police, Portishead, The Verve, Green Day, Bush, Oasis, Blur, Tori Amos, The Nighthawks, The Rhodes Tavern Troubadours, J.P. McDermott & Western Bop, Galaxy

Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Empire Brass, Sam Pilafian, Kenneth Amis, Wycliffe Gordon

Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Haydn, Debussy, Copland, Schumann, Shostakovich, Gershwin, Dvorak, Satie, Beethoven, John Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Modest Mussorgsky, The Kronos Quartet, Vaclav Nelhybel, Robert Kapilow

Movies:

Trilogies: The Godfather trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy. The Matrix Trilogy (of course the last one sucked).

Television:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mad TV, CSI, re-runs of old Star Trek, and The Next Generation. South Park, Family Guy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Books:

I read a lot. Really.

Currently I am making my way through some Bruce Schneier books on computer security, and two others by Kevin Mitnick . I have this sorta dream of being a computer security guru, but know that most of my friends in this industry (who can actually talk about their jobs) think it's boring as hell and want out. This keeps it a "sorta dream". Of course, in real life, I should just do what I like and maybe I'll like it more than they do. Who knows?

Recently finished:

• The Atrocity Archives
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy

Current Reading:

• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
• Beyond Fear
• Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
• The Art of Intrusion : The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers

Waiting to be read:

• WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE: The Origins Of The Internet
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent
• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
• The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
• Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age

I like science fiction and fantasy quite a bit. Authors I dig include:

• Dan Simmons (like Herbert, he creates entire universes)
• Charles Stross (really, really funny mix of IT and sci-fi, British humor)
• Orson Scott Card (great stories, real people)
• Frank Herbert (Dune, need I say more?)
• Robert Heinlein (if you don't know him, and saw the movie Starship Troopers , you now have a clue)
• Terry Pratchett (cheesy fun fantasy)

I have too many periodical subscriptions. My saddle bag for the Metro ride to work, or idle poolside perusal, currently contains the latest issues of Science , The Atlantic Monthly , The New Yorker , Harpers , Rolling Stone , and 2600 . I use to read Foreign Affairs , but that was like adding required school assignments to my leisure reading and since the geo-political map changes daily, it got to be too difficult to stay on top of the current discussion.

Blogs & websites I waste my time on:

• Cheaper Than War
• Buzzlife
• The Drudge Report
• Daily KOS
• Eschaton
• Ars Technica

Heroes:

Anyone fighting the Bush Administration policies, Democracy Now, The Memory Hole, Cryptome.org, Bruce Schneier, Tim Berners-Lee, Einstein (over-cited but true), Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Dr. David Graham (FDA critic)