Name:

Ari

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Hometown:

Chicago

Country:

United States

Occupation:

Senior design engineer

Hobbies:

iPhone development, Flash games/micro-sites, game design theory/practice, artificial intelligence, computational theory, machine learning, robotics, aeronautics/astronautics, theoretical and applied math/mechanics/physics, history of technology and the Internet, music composition/recording/editing, film editing/CGI/special effects, wildlife conservation, service oriented architecture, social networking/folksonomies/Web 2.0 architecture, open source software, FreeBSD/Linux operating systems, .NET, AJAX, and more.

Movies:

Star Wars (yes, all of them, including the prequels), Indiana Jones (all of them, maybe even the 4th one coming out in May 2008?), THX-1138, Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, La Strada, Bicycle Thieves, Charlie Chaplin films, The Testament of Dr Mabuse, E.T., Real Genius, Mad Max, Road Warrior, Logan's Run, Existenz, The Fly, History of Violence, Lord of the Rings (all of them), Sergio Leone films, anything related to sci-fi dystopias, existentialism, and doom. I'm a happy person, really.

Music:

Jane's Addiction, Joy Division, The Pixies, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Slowdive, Bauhaus, The Buzzcocks, The Stone Roses, Suicide Commando, Gang of Four, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Manufacture, The Smashing Pumpkins, Slowdive, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Queens of the Stonage, Enya, Aphex Twin, Underworld, Chopin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Death In Vegas, David Bowie, DJ Tiesto, Dead Can Dance, Talking Heads, Front 242, Gary Numan, Ween, A Flock of Seagulls, A Perfect Circle, A-Ha, Add N to X, Air, Antiloop, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Art of Noise, Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Black Sabbath, Blondie, The Breeders, Brian Eno, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cars, cEvin Key, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, Client, Combichrist, Covenant, Cyberaktif, Daft Punk, The Damned, The Germs, X, Death In Vegas, Desert Sessions, DJ Tiesto, The Doors, Doubting Thomas, Download, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Electric Hellfire Club, Enigma, Erasure, Cream, Eurythmics, Fischerspooner, Fluke, Frank Black, Front 242, Funker Vogt, Chicks On Speed, Peaches, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, Haujobb, Helmet, Robots In Disguise, ...

Books:

Anything by Philip K. Dick, anything by Asimov, anything by Arthur C. Clarke, anything by James Burke, anything dealing with the history of computers, computing, and the Internet, anything by Cliff Stoll, band biography books, and too many other books to list. See http://www.librarything.com/lemonkey