- missing A geo game where the real world maps to fiction.
- statusinator Android application that updates your facebook status and allows you to upload photos.
- team-quotesdb Google App Engine application that stores quotes, features some social networking features via Open Social.
Zim: What are you doing GIR?
GIR: Nothing.....
Zim: Nothing or...something?
GIR: Nothing.....
Zim: Nothing or...something?
About Me
For whatever reason people may be interested to know who I am, so I've built this page to advertise that information. It is duplicated (due to limiattions in current social networking software) in a large number of places, as listed in the header up there or over there on the side. I am a sys-admin working for Google and living in San Francisco.Books I've read
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
- Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
- The Big U - Neal Stephenson
- In the Beginning . . . was the Command Prompt - Neal Stephenson
- Burning Chrome - William Gibson
- Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- Freakonomics - Steven Levitt
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Count Zero - William Gibson
- Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
- Interface - Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
- Good Omens - Terry Prachett
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Hitchhikers Trilogy - Douglas Adams
- The Code Book - Simon Singh
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
- Candide - Votaire
- Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
- Where Wizards Stay up Late - Katie Hafner
- The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
- REAL Ultimate Power the Official Ninja Book - Robert Hamburger
- Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
- Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor - Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
- Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
- Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
- Discover your Inner Economist - Tyler Cowen
- Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
- The Pickup Artist - Terry Bisson
- The Paradox of choice (60%) - Barry Schwartz
- The Future of Reuptation (40%) - Daniel J. Solove
- World War Z - Max Brooks
- Wireless Nation (60%) - James B. Murray, et all
In Highschool
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald -
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck -
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien -
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain -
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand -
- Hamlet by Shakespeare -
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -
Me, Codetionally
20080510Misc Projects
On code.google.com (My Profile Page) I have a few minor projects that I work on from time to time.20050205Neverwinter Nights
I was involved with a neverwinter nights product (as mentioned on the front page) and over the course of the 1.5 years I worked on it, the team and I were interviewed twice.Open Source Software
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