About
The Wizard of Odd, Absurdly hyper-imaginative Dork, Lover of Humanity but Cautious of Individuals, Given to long and deep bouts of self-induced isolation (wonderfully short-circuited by the smile of my wife and/or son), Melancholic thinker who wakes up to realize that joy is just about the best answer to anything.
Movies
Some Kind of Wonderful, Less Than Zero, Breakfast Club, St Elmos Fire, Mystic Pizza, Pretty in Pink, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Life Aquatic, Never Cry Wolf, City of the Lost Children, Dark City, Battle Beyond the Stars, Goodbye Mr Chips.
Music
Milosh, Faithless, Apparat, Erasure, Kimya Dawson, Hall & Oates, John Murphy, Wolfsheim, Depeche Mode, Moby, The Knife, De/Vision, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Belle and Sebastian, Lali Puna, Greg Edmonson, Chicane, Bassnectar, M83, Above & Beyond, Frou Frou, Joseph Arthur, Hossam Ramzy & Jose Luis Monton, Cut Copy, Flying Lotus, Foo Fighters, Barry Louis Polisar, Kate Bush, Apparat & Ellen Allien, Imogen Heap, Combichrist, William Orbit, VNV Nation edIT, Junkie XL, The Presets, Santogold, Covox, Boy Robot, Soviet, Jahcoozi, Loop Guru, Olive, The Album Leaf, Patrick & Eugene, Camouflage, Bit Shifter, Rhys Fulber, Justice, Ozomatli, Joy Division, Julieta Venegas, K's Choice, A Flock of Seagulls, Diary of Dreams, The Jesus and Mary Chain
Books
Love and Will, The Subversion of Christianity, Occidental Mythology, Oriental Mythology, The New Old-Time Religion, Prometheus Rising, The Divine Proportion, Dune, Perils of Perelandra, From Jerusalem to Iryan Jaya, Tragic Sense Of Life, The Cry for Myth, The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology, he Courage to Create, The Meaning of Anxiety, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, Art and Artist
Activities
Figurative llama tipping, facebook lurking, MMORPG community, occasional gardening, photography, design, weird science, micro-philanthropy, hanging out with Nova and Colleen, disturbing the comfortable, comforting the disturbed, over-thinking it all, saying exactly the wrong thing at the exact wrong time (I have perfected this art, by the way, and am available for tutoring), giggling uncontrollably at somber events
Interests
Social Justice, Pacifism, Minor-Key melodies of all kinds, Archaeology, James Jaxxa, Susan Hiller, Design thinking, Engineering design process, Error-tolerant design, Fault tolerant design, Functional design, Metadesign, Mind mapping, Anthropology, History, Poetry, Art, Herny Moore, Reading, Travelling, Sculpture, Music, Sailing, Photography, Language Studies, Religion, The Singularity, Seed AI, Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism
NovemberNov 21 Saturday Sat 09
Enjoying the mussels at the legendary Kavala Grill in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Wonderfully absent of dirty hipsters. http://bit.ly/8dlMzR
RT @nicholaspatten: Tutorial: CSS3/HTML5: Some Cool Resources. http://bit.ly/5WuRHm
NovemberNov 20 Friday Fri 09
10 levels of intimacy in today's communications (and some other remarketables): http://bit.ly/1qaqGL
Concept feedback. Online service for gathering heuristic feedback on your creative work. http://bit.ly/1D4gSb
NovemberNov 18 Wednesday Wed 09
Salesforce.com releases a social networking platform for the enterprise. Looks promising! http://bit.ly/NL5Tc
Excellent primer on prioritizing your social media efforts. http://bit.ly/2KVtKw
NovemberNov 17 Tuesday Tue 09
Do Fortune 100 companies need a 'twittervention'? Study concludes top 100 don't get Twitter. http://bit.ly/3iJKBo
30 conversations on design from some of the world's top creative thinkers. http://bit.ly/1KhgnW
NovemberNov 16 Monday Mon 09
Prototyping/wireframing for websites via the web? This looks very promising. http://bit.ly/16Tocd
NovemberNov 15 Sunday Sun 09
#lastfm #love Here's That Rainy Day by Ella Fitzgerald http://bit.ly/3ilMUe
#lastfm #love Before the Dawn by Evanescence http://bit.ly/IetBA
#lastfm #love Milonga de Mis Amores by Canaro, Francisco http://bit.ly/JaTbY
#lastfm #love Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long by The Boswell Sisters http://bit.ly/pFQXM
#lastfm #love Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by The Andrews Sisters http://bit.ly/L9hr1
NovemberNov 14 Saturday Sat 09