Demographic, Employment and Education: Single White male, 25, U.S., Almost done with my Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. I sell my body to science regularly for in house Medical studies most people fear to make ends meet. Been hacking since grade school.
Leisure: Music taste runs from hardcore punk and blues, experimental, ambient and postrock with a healthy dose of electronic. Used to work volunteer security at 924 Gilman Street when I was at U.C. Berkeley. I enjoy Sci-Fi, mind screw movies (Fight Club) and can't stand "popular" or mass marketed anything (including people). Love my stereo and home theater. Used to be an avid mudder (Dartmud). Computer experience: SQL, PHP, Javascript, HTML, shell scripting and whatever else it takes to get the job done. Mostly SysAdmin style, Jack of all trades/Troubleshooter user. So far over the last 4 years I've built firewalls, supercomputers, database driven web servers and many workstations, all Debian and with relative ease. I do all this in my "spare" non thesis productive time. Politics: Libertarian/Anarchist (I'm not a true anarchist, corporations are held to a very strict set of rules and oversight in my ideal world). I think the U.S. and the rest of the World is going the wrong direction with things like the DCMA and SSSCA. Coding is not a crime to paraphrase an old skateboarding slogan. Hope to one day either lobby for or be elected by techno savy constituents to fight for personal, privacy and digital rights over corporate excess and greed. Religion and Outlook on life: Athiest, Agnostic. Brutaly honest, Pragmatist. Bitter, Jaded, Realist. Hobbies: I play the Didjeridu. I also homebrew, handload, pistol shoot, practice Okinawan Karate and Kobudo, do weight lifting and play rugby. --mike
