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Created on 2001-12-09 12:20:53 (#410384), last updated 2009-05-20
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Basic Info| Name: | Unnamed Stick Figure Guy |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1980-04-12 |
| Location: | California, United States |
| Website: | Tsuduku... |
Contact:
taylork@alum.mit.edu BioHi, I'm Ken.
I'm currently in northern california, though I originated on the east coast. I work as an electrical engineer doing IC chip design, though I get back to my computer programming "roots" sometimes as a hobby. I also have way too many interests and no time for any of them, it seems. Of course, I have a bad habit of reading the internet or staring at youtube for hours straight when I could be working on the interests I'm always complaining about not having enough time for.
I have a mild case of quarter-life-crisis omg-what-am-i-doing-with-my-life angst. But I don't expect the full force of it to hit until I turn 30 (shudder).
I also do a web comic, tsuduku, which has been an on-again, off-again project since I was an undergrad. Go check it out! (LINK IS ABOVE!) You can friend or RSS![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
24niugnep's journal for tsuduku updates and discussion.
Also, I somehow found time to act in some of mediocre renaissance's silly fan-films. Go check them out!
I used to spend a lot of time arguing politics on the interwebs, but I don't do that so much anymore.
Current list of stuff I've been trying to work on in my free time:
- Reading books I should have read years ago (Currently re-reading Cryptonomicon in preparation for tackling the Baroque Cycle)
- reading through MacroHistory
- Going to Kenpo classes
- staying in shape
- Practicing guitar
- Working on some songs that my girlfriend and I have had on the backburner for years now
- Getting through Slime Forest's Kanji set
- Re-learning french (note, due to time constraints lately, my language-learning efforts have been on hold)
- learning about amateur astronomy, and specifically the constellations and important stars. Or at least thinking about learning it.
- Getting involved in an open-source software project (Earlier this year I contributed to this project called VOS, but haven't touched it in a while)
- updating tsuduku semi-regularly
- playing videogames I should have played years ago (I still haven't beaten Shenmue 2! sheesh!)
- Attempting to have some sort of occasional social life.
- Exploring the world!
... so yeah. I really don't spend much time livejournaling anymore.
Which brings me to:
MY LIVEJOURNAL FRIENDS POLICY OMGOMGOMG!!!!!11!23@!!!#1ONETY-ELEVEN!
- You can friend me if you like; you don't have to ask me.
- I don't add any friends unless I've met you in person
- But that really doesn't matter, since I don't use my friends list to read journals anymore. I generally go to people's journals directly, so I may still read you even if you're not on my "friends list" -- and I may end up commenting on stuff you posted weeks or months ago.
- Also, you're not missing out on much, since I hardly ever lock posts to be friends-only. Of course, I don't write that much in the first place.
Also, no myspace or other web page for me (except tsuduku) -- this be it.
And to people who know me in person: I keep my up-to-date contact information in my livejournal "Memories." Convenient, eh?
THAT'S ALL
I once had a webcam, but their software sucks so I hardly ever turn it on. IM me if you really want me to :P
SUSHI IS LOVE (thanksfreyja!)
I'm currently in northern california, though I originated on the east coast. I work as an electrical engineer doing IC chip design, though I get back to my computer programming "roots" sometimes as a hobby. I also have way too many interests and no time for any of them, it seems. Of course, I have a bad habit of reading the internet or staring at youtube for hours straight when I could be working on the interests I'm always complaining about not having enough time for.
I have a mild case of quarter-life-crisis omg-what-am-i-doing-with-my-life angst. But I don't expect the full force of it to hit until I turn 30 (shudder).
I also do a web comic, tsuduku, which has been an on-again, off-again project since I was an undergrad. Go check it out! (LINK IS ABOVE!) You can friend or RSS
24niugnep's journal for tsuduku updates and discussion.Also, I somehow found time to act in some of mediocre renaissance's silly fan-films. Go check them out!
I used to spend a lot of time arguing politics on the interwebs, but I don't do that so much anymore.
Current list of stuff I've been trying to work on in my free time:
- Reading books I should have read years ago (Currently re-reading Cryptonomicon in preparation for tackling the Baroque Cycle)
- reading through MacroHistory
- Going to Kenpo classes
- staying in shape
- Practicing guitar
- Working on some songs that my girlfriend and I have had on the backburner for years now
- Getting through Slime Forest's Kanji set
- Re-learning french (note, due to time constraints lately, my language-learning efforts have been on hold)
- learning about amateur astronomy, and specifically the constellations and important stars. Or at least thinking about learning it.
- Getting involved in an open-source software project (Earlier this year I contributed to this project called VOS, but haven't touched it in a while)
- updating tsuduku semi-regularly
- playing videogames I should have played years ago (I still haven't beaten Shenmue 2! sheesh!)
- Attempting to have some sort of occasional social life.
- Exploring the world!
... so yeah. I really don't spend much time livejournaling anymore.
Which brings me to:
MY LIVEJOURNAL FRIENDS POLICY OMGOMGOMG!!!!!11!23@!!!#1ONETY-ELEVEN!
- You can friend me if you like; you don't have to ask me.
- I don't add any friends unless I've met you in person
- But that really doesn't matter, since I don't use my friends list to read journals anymore. I generally go to people's journals directly, so I may still read you even if you're not on my "friends list" -- and I may end up commenting on stuff you posted weeks or months ago.
- Also, you're not missing out on much, since I hardly ever lock posts to be friends-only. Of course, I don't write that much in the first place.
Also, no myspace or other web page for me (except tsuduku) -- this be it.
And to people who know me in person: I keep my up-to-date contact information in my livejournal "Memories." Convenient, eh?
THAT'S ALL
I once had a webcam, but their software sucks so I hardly ever turn it on. IM me if you really want me to :P
SUSHI IS LOVE (thanks
freyja!) ConnectInterests (57):
alice in chains, anime, asdf, astronomy, audio gear, ba kkwo, ben folds, cheese, computers, correct grammar, ddr, domokun, drums, electronic music, engineering, excel saga, exercise, fantasy, food, gary larson, guitar, hacking, hardware, hiking, homestar runner, irritability, jim's big ego, kenpo, kodomo no omocha, kurt vonnegut, living in greytown, martial arts, music, myst, neal stephenson, nine inch nails, penguins, penny arcade, philosophy, politics, programming, radiohead, rasputina, sci fi, science, skiing, slashdot, soundgarden, stuff, system of a down, the matrix, tool, totoro, tsuduku, video games, wasting time, webcomics
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Schools:
St. Mary of the Annunciation School - Danvers, MA (1989 - 1994)St. John's Preparatory School - Danvers, MA (1994 - 1998)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY (1998 - 2002)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA (2002 - 2004)
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