fall out boy, something corporate, weezer, dashboard confessional, ben folds five, burning bright, deathcabforcutie, early november, ani di franco, beg to differ, blink 182, bob schneider, bree sharp, cruiserweight, dave matthews, midtown, muse, my chemical romance, over it, ozma, modest mouse, postal service, smog, notwist, radiohead, smog, green day, saves the day, el gato, lifehouse, taking back sunday, strokes, interpol, jimmy eat world.
Movies
Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, Science of Sleep, The Hours...
Television
PBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, BBC
Books
1) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2) Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
3) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
5) Animal Farm - George Orwell
6) Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7) The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
8) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
9) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
10) The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
11) Pretty much any book by P G Wodehouse
Heroes
Clouds of chemicals that were reacting and I was the by-product of, as and as they started sparking off chain reactions.
About me:
Staring at server console error messages and writing scripts to parse stuff...that's the stuff i live for.
Everything below this is what my profile used to be a year back. That's right. I hadn't really updated my profile in a year and I think I have evolved fairly as a human being since then, so let me use this to describe myself as of right now. I dislike myspace so you can say that this is my obligatory token profile. I dislike myspace for how unabashedly commercial it is, for how much spam i get on it and how badly it's designed. That was not the possesiv pronoun, hence the apostrophe. Unless I am going insane. Oh...btw - do not trust anything else that you read about me on this profile. Most of this stuff is so hopelessly out of date and I haven't the time to update it.
Am a hardware design engineer that designs software... Am a personality Z type individual with an interest in computers, chess and the weather. I've been in Austin, Texas for five years now and trying to dismantle the existential constructs of my inner being. When I am not deconstructing aforementioned existential constructs, I like to place-and-route deep-submicron vlsi things, conjure riddles, consume infinite mochas and whisper sweet nothings. I believe in affirmation. I like high fidelity, consuming curiosity and intellectual abstractions. I dislike tedium and non-determinism. I am not motivated by conventional rewards such as social approval or money or sex. I am attracted by challenges and excited by interesting gadgets and toys. I like to inhale the contents of thick reference manuals and swiftly upload them to my brain. I claim to have a brain. I like punctuation and correct spelling and grammar. i don't possess any flying zebras but if you give me coffee, no one will get hurt.
Writing about myself in the third person clearly sucks monkey posterior -
Das decided to write a little bit more about what it is to be Das. Das is programmed to be awesome. Das did not know that he was awesome before he found a bunch of friends that were awesome and they told Das that Das was awesome. Anyway, since then, Das just magically became awesome. And that's all the stuff that Das has to say about Das.
Economic and Political Views - Das believes in Richard Stallman's social, economic and political views and they are outlined in this interview with Znet magazine - http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=9350
To summarize and to quote Richard Stallman's own words - I'm not for equality of outcomes. I want to prevent horrible outcomes. But aside from keeping people safe from excruciating outcomes, I believe some inequality is unavoidable.
...which brings us to the word - "big picture". Whether that be the magical extrapolation of a somewhat confined set of ideas or the exceedingly blatant exploitation of niche markets, the overtly overall subversion of the mind's wanton delusions is an exciting quest to embark on, howsoever, transigent that may be. You may not know how much beauty there will be until you can picture it and you can verbalize it, but if you can verbalize it...and not barring the cliche about talk being cheap...what stops it from being real....and that's the word...
Das is not your average retard. Das is a super-retard. Das is bipolar. Das writes about himself in the third person.
Who I'd like to meet: the passively physical objective extrapolation of a seemingly subjective pseudo-reality.
