A little info about me:
I'm a recent graduate of reed
it was a great place to be. It's prehaps not the school for everyone,
however.
I'm a graduate student in history at UCLA and am currently preairing for
fastfood career I have been told awaits graduates of that discipline.
Unfortunately despite its dim career prospects I have fallen in love
with the discipline. What can I say? Je suis tres stupide. There
really is not much I'd like to say about myself beyond these basics.
Besides, if you are reading this page my guess is that you know me
already ;). If not you can e-mail me at strider_dunadan@[don'tspam-me]yahoo.com[spam] . My AIM is strider3987
I run linux a very cool open source
unixish operating system. The distribution I use, in case you care,
debian and I run windowmaker as a windowmanager and emacs as my primary text editor. I like debian because I find it to be a very well thought out and stable system, and of course there is its package management system which rocks. But enough about my nerditity.
I'll divide the remainder of this web page into links.
Nerdidity:
Here is some info about the computer geek side of my personality
Doyle Owl: Some friends of mine had the Doyle Owl for about a year, and I got a photo with it (as well as a few adventures). Here is viewable sizepicture of me with the owl . The doyle owl is a relic of reed college that is highly valued you can read more about it here .
Writing:
Oy, do I write. Here is some bad poetry (new pomes added in 1/30 2003, formatting update in march).
And here is a weird litte short story I'm working on. Some friends and I have turned it into a short film. We made the movie over the summer in Texas. It should be available online soon from this site.
We are thinking about making a dark comedy. I'm toying with the idea of writing a story about a young man who cheats his way through highschool and college to get into a good medical school. He then talks to a plastic surgeon about it, and discovers it takes an awful lot of work, and doesn't pay as much as he was hoping. Then he runs into a dentist, who tells him that he can rip off the state welfare dental benefits for millions a year, and doesn't even have to get into a good dental school to do it. He does it, becomes involved in massive fraud, and kills patients. He is then somewhat conflicted, as he realizes his life is meaningless. But, rather than change his ways, he devotes his life to teaching a young impovershed girl how to cheat her way into college, and shows her the ropes of insurance fraud. He then feels completely satisified and decides to write a book about his life.
Another idea I am probably going to write is a story about a man obsessed
with technologies that aid communications. He will be horrible at communicating
himself. He will spend countless hours with thousands of dollars of phone equipment
so that anyone can contact him at will, waiting for someone to call. He will fall in
love with a telemarketing company called "marla communications" as if it were a real
person. He will write the company love letters, and call it constantly, buying cell
phone gadgets (they sell many such things). The company goes bankrupt. He drives up
to their headquarters to find "marla". When asking the locals how to get there he
discovers it was burnt down in a case of insurance fraud. The story ends with him
somberly pacing over the broken ruins of "marla."