About me

Basic Biographical Data

• Born: March, 1976 (Pisces, Year of the Dragon)
• Place of Birth: Bay Shore, New York (USA)
• Current Place of Residence: Charlottesville, Virginia (although my permanent address is still in New York)
• OS Platform(s) of Choice: Mac OS X, NewtonOS, Unix/Linux (all flavors)
• Programming Language of Choice: Java, but I'm also working on learning Python and Objective-C (for Mac OS X/Cocoa development)

Hobbies and Interests

• Reading (mostly speculative/science fiction and mysteries). Some of my favorite authors are:
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Barry Hughart
  • Steven Saylor
  • Neal Stephenson
  • Rex Stout

  If you're interested, take a look at my current reading list.

• "Star Trek" (watching the movies/television shows, and collecting memorabilia)
• PDAs and palmtop computers (in particular, the Apple Newton and the Palm handheld organizers)
• Computer games:
  • Age of Empires
  • Caesar III
  • Civilization II
  • Diablo II
  • Excape Velocity: Nova
  • Unreal Tournament
• Music (listening to it, not playing it). My musical tastes are somewhat... varied, and include (but are not limited to) the following:
  • Tom Lehrer
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • Semisonic
  • Sarah McLachlan
  • Loreena McKennitt
  • David Arkenstone
  • Jewel
  • Alanis Morissette
  • Erasure
  • Enigma
  • Blondie
  • Lords of Acid
  • Tattoo of Pain
  • Praga Khan
• Origami (although I'm still just a raw beginner)

Codes

Since I am, first and foremost, a geek, we might as well start with my Geek Code...

  -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
  Version: 3.12 GCS/J/SS d- s:+ a? C++++ UB++>+++ P+ L+ !E W++ N++ o>++ K w--- O- M++
  V-- PS++ PE Y+>++$ PGP+ t++@ 5>+ X++ R(+) tv(+) b+(++) DI++++ D++(---)
  G++ e++>+++++ h* r*>++ !y+
  ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

And, of course, since I'm Jewish, I have a Yiddishkeit Code...

S SC- Fa1 TM- Ng M K H T tC AT SY+,A Te PC FOsmhh D Tz++ E+
L- Am I Ha hc FH    IPL