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Miscellanea

Contact Info: Means for contacting me.
Curriculum Vitae: Hire me, collaborate with me [brief version].
Friends page: Things having to do with various friends/groups.
Media Possessions: Anime, manga, movies, and books that I own.
Music page: My music preferences.
Programming Languages: Programming languages and my knowledge of them.
Pgp Public Key: My public key, used to verify email authenticity.
RSS feed: This RSS feed is categorized. For those who want only posts with technical content, I recommend the feed for the "tech" category.
What Are You Quizzes: Various pointless quizzes that I've taken.
What Is Worthy: What I find worthy of pursuit.
Wishlist: If you should ever feel the need to spend money on me, here's a good way to do so.

Frequently-answered questions

Occupation

I am an associate software engineer at an LA company with good open source intentions.

I am also a volunteer sysadmin for HCoop, the Internet Hosting Cooperative.

I work on various Free Software projects in my spare time.

Degrees

B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University (West Lafayette).

Movie genre

Anime, fantasy

Book genre

Manga, s.f., fantasy, classics

Text editor

Emacs

Operating system

Ubuntu Linux (which is a GNU/Linux distribution), Emacs (which is a portable operating system in the guise of a text editor)

Games

Super Nintendo: Chrono Trigger, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Nintendo 64: Mario Tennis
Gamecube: Super Smash Bros. Melee
Playstation 2: SSX 3
Wii: Wii Tennis
PC: Tyrian 2000
text-based: Nethack

Did I enjoy being a student

No. I disliked many things about being an undergraduate student. Getting rid of lectures and replacing them with well-written explanatory texts and optional Socratic seminar style group help sessions would have probably been sufficient to make me like being a student.

What do I want out of life

Some distinction, some responsibility, decent quality of living, good friends, stable income, some time to myself for hobbies, to stay up-to-date with computer-related technology, to encourage various freedoms (Free Software, anti-DRM)

GNOME apps or KDE apps

GNOME apps

Window manager

XFCE (narrow vertically-centered right sidebar, task list on bottom, no top panel, Tango theme for icons, my own "Saner-dawn" theme for XFCE and GNOME apps, Microcurve window theme, right-aligned window titles, snap-to-edges window movement, smart placement of new windows, focus follows mouse)

Version control system

git. I used to be a fan of Gnu Arch, but it failed to take the leap into 2006 with SHA1-based content addressing.

Applications

Web browser: Initially Kazehakase, but now Firefox. I sometimes use emacs-w3m to browse web pages quickly from within Emacs.
Music player: EMMS, with MusicPD as the backend. This is done by means of the emms-player-mpd.el file, which I made.
RSS reader: LifeRea, though I am transitioning to Google Reader so that my feeds can be easily synchronized with my OLPC XO-1 laptop.
Email client and newsreader: Gnus
IRC/chat client: ERC (together with BitlBee, I can use it for AIM and Jabber as well)

Favorite Emacs extended command