Michael

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Location United States
Interests music, computers, Perl, philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, books, skiing, kayaking, hiking, logic, existentialism, operating systems, computer security, privacy issues, consumer rights in the digital age, world news and affairs, politics, good beer
Favorite Movies Big Fish, Garden State, Bladerunner, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Hotel Rwanda, Magnolia, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects, High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snatch, The Big Lebowski, The Dark Crystal
Favorite Music Steve Reich, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, The Clash, Medeski Martin & Wood, Miles Davis, Belle & Sebastian, Tori Amos, Evanescence, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Stereolab, Yes, John Scofield, Sergei Rachmaninov, Igor Stavinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aaron Copland, Alan Hovhaness, Samuel Barber
Favorite Books Leviathan (Paul Auster), The Rosy Crucifixion (Henry Miller), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Steve Martin), Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), Steppenwolf (Hesse), Why I Am Not a Christian (Bertrand Russell), Lord of the Rings, Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges), The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)

Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?

Beware of the turtle. Turtles are mighty fierce creatures.