I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the potato chip that jabs you in the roof of your mouth. I am Darkwing Duck.

Actually I'm not Darkwing Duck, but that was a fun show to watch when I was a kid.

I do many things with computers. I like watching random, *intelligent* TV shows and secretly hoping that their plotlines will be convoluted enough to entertain me (why didn't Heroes opt for a fixed-point temporal static time loop? grr).

I read many books. For a spell earlier this year I was averaging a book a week.

When I'm in new locales I enjoy taking all sorts of random pictures and Flickring them (though I am not a photographer by a long shot).

Random other things I like: linguistics, cooking, the internet, scifi movies & tv, penguins, and Linux.

Obviously I fall into the geek/nerd category, but I prefer "geek" as a term of affection.

Oh, and I'm fairly certain that I am Aspergerian (but it's only a self-diagnosis).

*** Books I recently read ***
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson,
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger,
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss,
Jennifer Government by Max Barry,
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser,
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams,
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris,
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle,
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler,
The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved by Mario Livio,
Contact by Carl Sagan,
The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling,
Just For Fun by Linus Torvalds,
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins,
The End of Faith by Sam Harris