Books I thought I would
take with me to Argentina
  • Philosophical Investigations
  • Programming Erlang
  • Programming Ruby (pickaxe)
  • Collected Works of Gertrude Stein
  • The C Programming Language
  • 501 Spanish Verbs
  • Spanish English Dictionary
  • A thousand plateaus
  • Poems of Paul Celan
  • Conquest of Abundance
  • Actionscript 3 Cookbook
  • Rails Cookbook
  • AI for Game Developers
  • Algorithm Design Manual
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Book of Questions 1, 2
  • Relational Aesthetics
  • Programming Rails
  • Collected Works of Wallace Stevens
  • The Turing Omnibus
Books that I actually
took with me to Argentina
  • Philosophical Investigations
  • Programming Erlang
  • 501 Spanish Verbs
  • Spanish English Dictionary
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"that day you broke into my house"
"and drank all my scotch"
"typed me poems"
"in the fashion of william carlos williams"
"on that typewriter"
"(i threw it in the river later)"
"and smoked all my cigarettes"
"that was the best day of that year"
"from what i recall of it"

excellent whiskeys
  • Oban
  • Lagavulin
  • Highland Park
  • Bunnahabhain
  • Connemara (irish)
who are you for?
  • Arsenal (as long as Arsene Wenger is there)
  • River Plate
  • Schalke
  • Marseille
  • Athletic Bilbao
Books that, for better or worse, at one time or another, changed me in some way
  • Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgeinstein
  • Cantos - Ezra Pound
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Languages - Abelson
  • Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze/Guatarri
  • Programming Erlang - Armstrong
  • Relational Aesthetics - Nicholas Bourriaud
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
  • The Order of Things - Michel Foucault
  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Composers I'm into
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Morton Feldman
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Erik Satie
  • Arvo Part
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Giacinto Scelsi
  • Max Richter
Programming Languages I don't know that I would like to learn
  • Lisp
  • Haskell
  • Python (in progress)
  • Smalltalk
  • Scheme
  • Prolog
Places I would like to visit
  • South Africa
  • Ghana
  • Costa Rica
  • Indonesia
  • Switzerland (done)
  • Israel
  • Sweden
  • Vietnam
Philosophers/Mathematicians I like
  • Paul Feyerabend
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Leonard Euler
  • Georg Cantor
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Seneca
  • Michel Foucault
  • Norbert Wiener
  • John von Neumann
  • Gilles Deleuze
Favorite Poets
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Edmond Jabes
  • Kenneth Patchen
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Paul Celan
  • Helene Cixous
  • Larry Eigner
I like biking
  • "It's a pile of shit, this race, it's a whole pile of shit ... You're working like an animal, you don't have the time to piss and you wet your pants ... You're riding in mud like this and you're slipping and ... it's a pile of shit, you must clean yourself otherwise you will go mad ... "[Will you ever ride it again?] "Sure, it's the most beautiful race in the world!" - Theo de Rooy
  • "It never gets easier, you just go faster." - Greg LeMond
  • "I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing." - Richard Virenque
  • "A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness." - James E. Starrs
  • "You have to sprint on feeling, not thinking. You must have faith in yourself but you cannot think about it too much." - Jean Paul Van Poppel
  • "To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain....at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter...If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport" - Scott Martin