That Armchair Philosopher

My blogs

About me

Gender Male
Industry Technology
Occupation bad-ass
Location California, United States
Introduction Food. Books. Music. Guitar. Photography. India. Politics. Religion. Yale. California. Technology. Whiskey Sours. Money. Life. Wisecracks. Poetry.
Interests Food, Good books, Technology, My guitar, *good* parties, Hiking, Squash, Photography, Music
Favorite Movies Le Joyeux Noel, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two smoking barrels, Ben Hur, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Thin Red Line, Donnie Darko, Big fish, O Brother where art thou, Amelie, Russian Dolls, L'Auberge Espagnole, Clockwork orange, Psycho, Birds, Star Wars (4-6), Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine, Kill Bill, LOTR et al
Favorite Music Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Doors, Joe Satriani, Vanessa Mae, Yanni, Lynnrd Skynnrd, The Who, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Springsteen, Smiths, Magnetic Fields, Cure, libertines, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Velvet Revolver, GNR, kinks, B52s, Proclaimers, Mozart, Strauss, Handel, Paganini, Stone Roses, Whiffenpoofs, Verve, Clap your hands say yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Camera Obscura, New Order, ZZ Top, Wolf Parade, U2, Oasis, Suede, Arctic Monkeys, shins, Genesis, Iggy pop, Heartbreakers, Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, RHCP, Stevie Wonder, Ramones, Velvet Underground, Voxtrot, Postal Service, Supertramp, Faure
Favorite Books Tolkien, Feynmann, Terry Pratchett, H2G2, Neuromancer, Schroedinger's Cat, Catch 22, Dostoyevsky, Gerald Durrel, 100 years of solitude, Prison ward, "Godel, Escher, Bach", Kilgore Trout, Clifford Simak, Wodehouse, Harold Pinter, Kundera, Joyce - Ulysses, The Year of Magical Thinking, The perks of being a wallflower, Catcher in the rye, On the Road, The stranger, The plague:albert camus, Brave New World, Artificial Intelligence, William Dalrymple, Arcadia, The Moviegoer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gould's Book of Fish, Agatha Christie, Holmes, Cryptonomicon, Hemingway, Chaucer, Keats, The argumentative Indian

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

Frankly, I don't give a damn about either.