Interiot/Interests

Personal interests... things for me to read up on or expand on when bored.

=Music=

=Games=

*Arcade games: Pac-Man, 1942 (video game), Minesweeper (computer game), Llamatron *Prince of Persia (1989) *Angband (game)(1990) *Commander Keen (1990) *ZZT (1991) *X-COM: UFO Defense (1995) *[http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/198470.aspq=re-volt Re-Volt] (1999) (all the reviewers were wrong, this is a great game) *Natural Selection (computer game) (2003) *World of Warcraft (2004)

=Trips=

*Bemidji, Minnesota, August 2003, [http://ojibweforestrally.com/ Ojibwe Pro Rally] [http://paperlined.org/old/photoblog/minor/2003_08_21/] *United States Grand Prix, September 2003 [http://paperlined.org/old/photoblog/minor/2003_09_28/] *Champ Car race at Road America, August 2004 [http://paperlined.org/old/photoblog/minor/2004_08_08/] *Tokyo, March 2005 (37 days), and May 2005 (35 days), for work *U.S. Virgin Islands, May 2005 (7 days) *Singapore, May 2005 (3 days), for work

=Previous places Lived/Worked=

*Rockford, IL *Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana *Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, Muncie, Indiana *North Webster, Indiana

=Standards=

Standards promote competition even among closed-source developers, but fit the Open source software philosophy particularly well.

=Law=

*Copyright law *Contracts *Case law *Telecommunication policy

=Politics=

I m socially pretty liberal. Libertarianism appeals to me (minimalism/reductionism is always very interesting), but my strong interest in Telecommunication policy, and general belief that corporate interests end up overpowering individual interests in both the legislature and judiciary, generally pull me towards the more mainstream Democratic Party.

=Psychology=

*breaching experiment (I really am evil) *Cognitive bias (especially ingroup/outgroup (sociology)) *Perception (awesome class) *Developmental psychology (developmental Booting#Boot loader Neural tube is always cool)