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104-Key Samurai
Created on 2003-01-15 21:36:00 (#857000), last updated 2009-08-20
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Basic Info| Name: | Atrus |
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| Location: | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States |
| Website: | Atrus.org - It's just not done |
Contact:
atrus@atrus.org BioI'm difficult to impress or excite and I tend to be reclusive. On the other hand, I do enjoy things, especially absurdist conversations, and like going for walks and generally wandering. Just don't expect me to hop up and down or go to lots of parties. I usually wear a t-shirt and some sort of pants. Fanciness isn't something I'm good at or really appreciate.
My tastes tend towards the obscure and absurd. My favorite band is They Might Be Giants. I like David Lynch's films (at least the ones I've seen). I enjoyed reading Killer in Drag. Robot Chicken is probably the best TV program airing. I really enjoy The Show with Ze Frank (a podcast). Nextwave is a lovely comic book series.
I like many popular things too, but they're not nearly as much fun to list ;) I'll list some below, in the favorites section. Wit, satire, intelligence, mysteries, and puzzles tend to draw my interest.
I fail to fit into any part of popular culture. Some of my friends are gamers, comic book geeks, and anime fans. I'm none of those, but I'm generally capable of discussing those sorts of things, or at least tolerating discussion of them.
I'm intensely interested in computer science, particularly social networking, web services, content analysis, security, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, and networking. If you can think of a field in CS, I've probably poked at it. If you can't think of a field in CS, I can still explain what I do, in a general sense. I also dabble in linguistics, photography, gender, and film studies.
Recommendations/favorites:
Books (by author): Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams
Comics (by writer): Scott Morse, Arthur Dela Cruz, Warren Ellis
Music (by group): The Magnetic Fields, Cake, Death Cab for Cutie, Superdrag, Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Röyksopp, Supreme Beings of Leisure
Anime: Boogiepop Phantom, Serial Experiments Lain, Kare Kano, Hellsing
Assorted hacks: hacks.atrus.org
Amazon.com wish lists
Last.fm: atrustheotaku
Del.icio.us: atrus
Facebook: Um, me
Personal site in need of rennovation: atrus.org
Full contact info (friends-only)
My tastes tend towards the obscure and absurd. My favorite band is They Might Be Giants. I like David Lynch's films (at least the ones I've seen). I enjoyed reading Killer in Drag. Robot Chicken is probably the best TV program airing. I really enjoy The Show with Ze Frank (a podcast). Nextwave is a lovely comic book series.
I like many popular things too, but they're not nearly as much fun to list ;) I'll list some below, in the favorites section. Wit, satire, intelligence, mysteries, and puzzles tend to draw my interest.
I fail to fit into any part of popular culture. Some of my friends are gamers, comic book geeks, and anime fans. I'm none of those, but I'm generally capable of discussing those sorts of things, or at least tolerating discussion of them.
I'm intensely interested in computer science, particularly social networking, web services, content analysis, security, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, and networking. If you can think of a field in CS, I've probably poked at it. If you can't think of a field in CS, I can still explain what I do, in a general sense. I also dabble in linguistics, photography, gender, and film studies.
Recommendations/favorites:
Books (by author): Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams
Comics (by writer): Scott Morse, Arthur Dela Cruz, Warren Ellis
Music (by group): The Magnetic Fields, Cake, Death Cab for Cutie, Superdrag, Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Röyksopp, Supreme Beings of Leisure
Anime: Boogiepop Phantom, Serial Experiments Lain, Kare Kano, Hellsing
Assorted hacks: hacks.atrus.org
Amazon.com wish lists
Last.fm: atrustheotaku
Del.icio.us: atrus
Facebook: Um, me
Personal site in need of rennovation: atrus.org
Full contact info (friends-only)
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ConnectInterests (139):
acm icpc, alfred hitchcock, algorithms, alice in wonderland, arthur dela cruz, artificial intelligence, atrus, bayesian filtering, board games, boogiepop phantom, books, c, c++, cities, clamp, clover, code as art, collaborative filtering, content analysis, continuity editing, cowboy bebop, cryptography, d'ni, darcs, darren aronofsky, david lynch, ddr, decay, dogma, douglas adams, emacs, erlang, film noir, film studies, fortran, fountains of wayne, fractals, functional programming, game theory, go, greasemonkey, groovy, haskell, hellsing, hoshi no koe, html, hypothetical hobbies, information theory, jabber, japanese, java, javascript, kare kano, lain, lambda calculus, lgbtqqia, linguistics, lisp, lua, manga, metro, monotone, myst, nadesico, narrative theory, neil gaiman, neutral milk hotel, nietzsche, noir, object oriented programming, octavia butler, operating systems, origami, orson wells, otakon, pedro the lion, perl, photography, photoshop, php, pixies, poetry, pomosexual, programming, programming languages, prolog, public transportation, python, quentin tarantino, rdf, reading, recommendation systems, red dwarf, robert frost, rpgs, ruby, salvador dali, scott morse, scrabble, security, semantic web, sherlock holmes, smalltalk, smartrip, soap, social networking, software design, source code management, stanley kubrick, statistical natural language processing, superdrag, surreal numbers, tad williams, the magnetic fields, they might be giants, topcoder, transfinite algebras, trust, unix, urban exploration, version control system, video editing, vigilante mathematicians, vincent de moor, vocal trance, warren ellis, web services, webcomics, wiki, witch hunter robin, word games, writing, x-files, xml, xpcom, yoko kano, zen cowboys, λ, א
External Services:
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Schools:
Flintstone Elementary - Oxon Hill, MD (1987 - 1996)Oxon Hill High School - Oxon Hill, MD (1998 - 2002)
University of Maryland - College Park - College Park, MD (2002 - present)
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