an eudaemonic odyssey, continued

About Me

…swirls a curse, or blessing, to see things differently. Righties and Romans (and cynics :-) might call me sinister, but i'm a nice guy.

I work on ideas i think have promise in changing the world, such as collaborative filtering and social computing. I watch sports to learn something in a sport i play. When i cycled and raced, i trained and rode 10000km yearly for years, until i burned myself out, but still i prefer doing to watching. My compatriots and i now find ourselves the center of organized inline skating in Rochester.

I read anything and everything, from food labels and dictionaries to news and blogs to documentation and manuals. If “we read to know we are not alone,” i must be awfully lonely …help, help. (;-)

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My Interests

inline skating, Nordic skiing, hiking, backpacking, camping, traveling, Burning Man, Critical Mass, cycling, wheel building, kayaking, sustainability, peasant food, farm markets, bazaars, architecture, tensegrity, urban design, loft conversions, sound gardens, Arcosanti, Pritzker Prize, Long Now, MacArthur fellowships, Ashoka.org, social capital, venture philanthropy, social enterprise, social computing, calendaring, collaborative filtering, MovieLens, NextStep, Unix, hacking, programming, opensource, open courseware, open content, Creative Commons, social media, art + design, photography, journalism, media literacy, writing, text, typography, ♪, ✈, ✉, ✍, 简体, 中文, Cantonese, Deutsch, colloquia, mathematics, boundary calculus, economics, finance, physics, astronomy, optics, acoustics, science, engineering, innovation, iconoclasm, unconventional wisdom, genius, doing things better, doing things worth doing well, EMDR, clarity of mind, awareness, mindfulness, transcendence, nirvana, life…

Music

Yo-yo Ma, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Maria Schneider, Bill Frisell, Theo Bleckmann, John Hollenbeck, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Aphex Twin, Moby, Henryk Górecki, Béla Bartók, Antonio Jobim, Brian Wilson, Sky Cries Mary, Tunde Jegede, Jose Angel Navarro, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston, Keola Beamer, James Taylor, Pink Floyd, Devo, Jethro Tull, Ossia, Musica Nova, Eastman Jazz Ensemble, Kilbourn Hall, Java's

Movies

Yi Yi, Vanilla Sky, Koyaanisqatsi, Six Degrees of Separation, El Amor Brujo, Bagdad Cafe, Before the Rain, Cast Away, Horse Whisperer, Contact, Jackie Brown, Traffic, Eat Drink Man Woman, Benny & Joon, Toy Story 2, In the Mood for Love, Sixth Sense, Apocalypse Now, Alien, American Beauty, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Before Sunrise, Bridges of Madison County, Chungking Express, Cinema Paradiso, Dr Zhivago, Emperor's Club, Fast Cheap & Out of Control, Finding Nemo, God Must Be Crazy, Good Will Hunting, Hamlet (2000), Human Stain, Joy Luck Club, Laurel Canyon, Manhattan, Paris Texas, Pay It Forward, Powaqqatsi, Road Home, Short Cuts, Hable con Ella, Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Trois Couleurs: Rouge, Trois Couleurs: Blanc, Together (2002), Vertigo, ...

Television

PBS documentaries, Frontline, Independent Lens, P O V, Wide Angle, Nova, C-SPAN, Comedy Channel, Food Network, Lost (season one), Thirtysomething, This Old House with Bob Vila, but i have never owned a television!

Books

Tripmaster Monkey, Chautauqua Summer, Journey to Ixtlan, Eudaemonic Pie, Predictors, Frugal Gourmet, Lewis Carroll, Douglas Coupland, Hal Abelson, Guy Steele, James Gleick, Richard Feynman, Arno Penzias, Richard Shoup, Edward Tufte, Stephen Gould, William Riker, Elizabeth Corcoran, Vivian Paley, Francine Shapiro, e e cummings