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About Me

Enigmatic and reclusive,
Curious and exuberant!
Daft and deft, right and left,
With keenness most reverberant!

My Interests

music, linguistics

I'd like to meet:

astronauts, ravers and djs, Laurie , Roger , Michelle , Grace

Music:

Underworld, Plaid, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, Moby, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Huey Lewis and the News, Muse, T-99, Death Cab for Cutie, Art of Trance, LSG, Johan Agebjörn, Tone Matrix, Max Graham, Deee-Lite, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Bizarre Inc, Weird Al, Pizzicato Five, Fatboy Slim, The Traveling Wilburys, , Gnarls Barkley, Dean Martin, Roy Clark, Buck Owens, 808 State, Future Sound of London, Information Society, The Orb, Björk, Kraftwerk, INXS, Joey Beltram, The Cure, The Killers, Jimmy Buffett, Biosphere, Blümchen, Terra Ferma, Autechre, Jyradelix, Kaoma, Vangelis, Utah Saints, Altern-8, Paul van Dyk, U 96, Sixteen Horsepower, Iron and Wine, New Order, The Prodigy, Pink Floyd, DJ Tiësto, DJ Seduction, The Ventures, Van Halen, Squarepusher, Tears for Fears, Nirvana, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Utada Hikaru, ZZ Top, Journey, Bryan Adams, No Doubt, Christina Aguilera, Charlie Daniels Band, Inga, DC Talk, Nouveaux, LTJ Bukem, Eiffel 65, The Talking Heads, Orbital, Stereo MCs, The Guess Who, Nirvana, Rob Zombie, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tenacious D, CeCe Peniston, AB Logic, Channel X, C.W. McCall

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Amadeus, The Diamond Fleece, The Usual Suspects, Blade Runner, The Empire Strikes Back, The Wages of Fear, Almost Famous, Groundhog Day, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Spaceballs, George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol, Kill Bill, Zoolander, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Walk the Line, UHF, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Black Hole, Luther, Pi, Wargames, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Romancing the Stone, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, The Wedding Singer, Das Boot, The Big Country, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, Maverick, North to Alaska, Casablanca, The Great Escape, High Fidelity, Back to the Future, Super Troopers, Willow, Caveman, Dumb and Dumber, Billy Madison, Pirates of the Carribean, Office Space, Thank You for Smoking, October Sky, Aliens, Ace Ventura, Planes Trains and Automobiles, My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain, The Life Aquatic, The Mummy, Austin Powers

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Seinfeld, Looney Tunes, Bullwinkle, Mystery Science Theater 3000, MxC, Animaniacs, Weird Science, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Firefly, Doctor Who, Hee-Haw, Scrubs, Mind of Mencia, Mythbusters, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Tenchi Universe, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The IT Crowd, Frasier, Ren and Stimpy, Upright Citizens Brigade, Perfect Strangers, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Simon and Simon, That '70s Show, The Office, War Stories, Your World w/Cavuto

Books:

The Bible, The Lord of the Rings, Tom Swift Jr series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Black Stallion series, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, The Irish Sixpence

Heroes:

Dr. Wilkins

My Blog

Does MySpace Damage Your Job Prospects?

A friend told me that employers check, and if they see that a potential hire has a MySpace page, it can negatively impact the applicant's chances of being considered for a job opening.On the other han...
Posted by wayside on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:54:00 PST

Another Reason They Call It Fall

After running some errands today, I decided to swing by Best Buy. Well, they had done nothing in the way of de-icing the crosswalk to their back lot from the snow that fell the other day. Even thoug...
Posted by wayside on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:40:00 PST

Mind Performance Hacks

A few months ago, I bought the book Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain, by Ron Hale-Evans, which you can find nicely discounted at Bookpool.  Today I have been d...
Posted by wayside on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:32:00 PST

MySpace Player 4th Song Trick

Lately (for the past couple weeks or so), the MySpace Player on musicians' pages has been jacked up.  It has been displaying these lines of hyphens between song listings, and the lines wrap aroun...
Posted by wayside on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:34:00 PST

Door Unlocker

MIT students have been pulling off clever hacks for generations.  I get a kick out of hearing about their inventions and pranks.Check this out.  Student Dheera Venkatraman has created a nove...
Posted by wayside on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:49:00 PST

Dr. Doodle

The Register ran an interesting article on Friday: Why do we doodle?Psychologist Dr. Robert Burns has made doodling "the chief focus of his lifetime work," and has used doodles to "diagnose the emotio...
Posted by wayside on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:16:00 PST

Brainstormer

Quick!!1  Download Winamp and check out The Institute for Electronic Art at http://87.117.195.47:7079.  At the time I'm writing this, it's playing a rave-a-licious "September06 mix" by Brain...
Posted by wayside on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:09:00 PST

The Departed / Trying Out Vista

So we've actually got some Octobery weather going on here.  It's cold and rainy.  Drizzled all day.  I kind of like it.  Makes me want to have some hot chocolate.Lately I have seen...
Posted by wayside on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:38:00 PST

Rams Win!

I just enjoyed good times with friends, watching the CSU Rams taste sweet victory over the CU Buffs, 14-10. Twas nice. Congratz to the Rams!Also, this morning NASA had a beautiful launch of the spac...
Posted by wayside on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:36:00 PST

The Best Lasagna in the Galaxy

Here is the recipe for the best lasagna in the galaxy.  My mom got it somewhere a long time ago, perfected it in the mile-high city, and now I am passing it on so that you too can delight your fa...
Posted by wayside on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:32:00 PST