IVSTINIANVS
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Indentured Software Engineer |
| Location | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | Language Nerd and onetime linguistics scholar now Developing Software for a living. Pedant and proud of it. Affectations of a Frasier Crane; Table Manners of a Homer Simpson; Pretentions to the wit and irony of an Addison DeWitt: but I'm too fat for that gesture. Raging Biblioholic (I buy 'em; doesn't mean I read 'em.) Englishman by birth; midwestener (Missouri and Illinois) by upbringing; New Englander by choice. Yalie (BK 82). Proud Member of the Reality-based Community. Cynophile. A Liberal because I believe in Right and Wrong. You can also call me JJMG. (I have two middle names. My parents used to claim that it's an English thing, but I wonder if it's just as pretentious there.) If you insist on a face you can look here. |
| Interests | Classical Greek, Latin, Ancient History, Mythology, Fairy Tales, Anachronistic Paintings, Comparative Religion, Paleography, Epigraphy, Calligraphy, Writing Systems, Political Theory, Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism, Bibliomania, Bibliphilia, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, Documentary Hypothesis, Origins of Monotheism, Post post Modernism, Languages |
| Favorite Movies | The Day the Earth Stood Still, Withnail & I, THX 1138, The Man in the White Suit, Kind Hearts and Coronets, All about Eve, Vertigo, Theatre of Blood, Stardust Memories, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Longtime Companion, Fried Green Tomatoes, We Think the World of You, Sixth Sense, The Others, The Haunting (1963), Laura, Fargo, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Wizard of Oz, Brazil, Galaxy Quest, Raising Arizona, American Werewolf in London, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fitzwilly, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Yellow Submarine, Nicholas Nickleby (2002), King Kong (2005) |
| Favorite Music | Early Music, Baroque Music, Mozart, Vivaldi, Handel, Baroque Opera, Chamber Music, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Big Band, Smiths, Cure, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Morrissey, New Order, Devo, Buzzcocks, Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, B52s, etc. etc. |
| Favorite Books | Anything by E. F. Benson, Steven Saylor, Mary Renault, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tolkien (esp. Silmarillion), C. S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Homer, Herodotus, Lucian, Anne Rice, Edward Gorey; Tale of Murasaki, God: a Biography, Dog is my Co-Pilot, Amazing Gracy, Guns Germs and Steel, How Proust Can Change Your Life |