n-linear
30 years old
Blmgtn, IN
Male
About
i study human thinking and learning. i live with my lovely girlfriend and two cats in bloomington, in which is a beautiful and quiet place. we screen print in the basement, ride our bike everwhere, and drink too much coffee. pretty soon we're moving to new york.
Movies
a scanner darkly, aguirre - the wrath of god, battle royale, the fog of war, children of men, the three burial of melquiades estrada
Music
stars of the lid, steve reich, fennesz, ryuichi sakamoto, juliana barwick, brightblack morning light, panda bear, deerhunter, a sunny day in glasgow, the battle of land and sea, officerfishdumplings, boom bip, nico muhly, trevor gureckis, beach house, savath & savalas, davendra banhart, vetiver, fiest, mew, eluvium, mount eeric, ISAN, the fiery furnaces, lilys, swirlies, mark kozelek, xtc, stars, jon brion, wilco, [[[Vvrssnn]]], songs of green phesant, josé gonzález, of montreal, peter bjorn and john, jens lekman, annuals, animal collective, the shins, psapp, philip glass, neil halstead, junior boys, mapstation, sam prekop, final fantasy, the glands, illoin, the boats, ulrich schnauss, josh rouse, thurston moore, jim o'rourke, the sea and cake, tortoise, dntel, alexi murdoch, asa-chang, cass mccombs, the dead texan
Television
sopranos, lost, the office (both), extras, & family guy (sometimes)
Books
wolfram - a new kind of science, sutton & barto - reinforcement learning, bishop - pattern recognition and machine learning, hofsteader - i am a strange loop, mcsweeny's, levitt - feakonomics, gladwell - blink & the tipping point, hofstadter - i am a strange loop & g.e.b., diamond - guns, germs, and steel, feynman - the pleasure of finding things out, wired mag, the believer mag, seed mag, saramago - blindness, eggers - a heartbreaking... & ... velocity, toffler - future shock, stephenson - snow crash, brautigan - like watermelon sugar, dawkins - the selfish gene & the blind watchmaker, and other stuff
Activities
running and riding up things, riding down things, non-car travel in general, biking around bloomington (esp to the farmer's market), walking up things, all of the above at night, in the dark, or in rainstorms, working harder
Interests
cognitive science, mathematics, computers, learning new things