Media, Politics, Online Political Activism, Programming, Social Informatics, Film, Music, DJing, Strategic Intelligence, Blog Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Network Analysis, Netwar, Swarming, History, Weimar Germany, Medieval European History, 20th Century American History, Copyright, Civil Liberties, Social Change, Nonviolence, Programming, FOSS
Music
House, Jazz, Hip Hop, Downtempo, IDM, Ambient, Dub, etc.
Movies
The Big Lebowski, Millers Crossing, Fargo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Deconstructing Harry, Match Point, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Red Beard, Ikiru, The Seventh Seal, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Alien, THX-1138, Stalker, Videodrome, Network, Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, Dune, Sexy Beast, Donnie Darko, Waiting for Guffman, Lost in Translation, Good Night and Good Luck, The War Room, The Fog of War, Street Fight, The Power of Myth, American Beauty, Magnolia, Half Nelson
Television
The Wire, Deadwood, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the Joel episodes), sundry BBC productions and adaptations.
Books
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, The Sickness Unto Death, New Seeds of Contemplation, The Name of the Rose, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, Dune, Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Virtual Light, The Difference Engine, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Queer, Junkie, Networks and Netwars, Swarming on the Battlefield, Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Microserfs, stuff by H.P. Lovecraft
Heroes
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Theodore Roosevelt, my grandparents
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Major: Library Science, Information Science
Clubs: BROG, AoIR, ACM, ISDC, ALA, Lawn Wranglers
2003 to 2005
St Mary's College Of Maryland
St Mary's City, MD
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: History
Clubs: Otaku Soundsystem
I'm a systems developer at a progressive non-profit in Washington, DC. In my spare time I spin downtempo and dance stuff. My sound sort of goes back and forth between cool, techy and warmer dub, jazz, and disco influenced tracks. It's an interesting tension. I used to play at Sonar and the Ottobar among various other clubs and bars in Baltimore and threw a party called "Chuffed" here in DC for maybe six or seven months, snagging mentions in the Washington Post and New York Times.
In grad school I worked with a research group studying the structure of blog and Livejournal networks. My own research dealt with the ecology of politcal blog networks and was presented at a couple of conferences. Presenting at conferences feels kind of like spinning a set, only with less dancing. Usually. As an undergrad I focused on the cultural history of the Weimar Republic, particularly media created by German veterans of the First World War and the cultural aesthetic underpinnings of National Socialism. This last bit led to a stream of jokes at my expense from "friends" who insist that my work is all about Nazis. You people know who you are.
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I see by your comments space that my minions have already gotten to you. Also Angie came home and told me all about Face Book yesterday….see your proselytizing is working ;-)
speaking of parties, i think there's homebrew tasting in order for next weekend. come for the beer, stay for the super nintendo/opportunity to point and laugh at my record collection ("supertramp?!"). dan'll fill you in on the details.
