Here's a bunch of stuff about Colin.
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Music
What I've been listening to lately:-
Hybrid - Wide Angle
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Halou - Wiser
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Petracovich - Blue Cotton Skin
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Stoa - ?
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Moby - Songs
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This Mortal Coil - Blood
Other good stuff:
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electronica: Autechre, Underworld, Balligomingo, BrianEno
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goth: Collide, Curve, This Mortal Coil, Tapping the Vein
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industrial: Einstuerzende Neubauten, Foetus, KMFDM
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blues, sorta: Big Lazy, Tom Waits, Rev. Horton Heat
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surly folk: Jim's Big Ego
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favorite band: Shriekback (smart, funky, weird, and sinister)
Books
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big cyberpunk fan: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling
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re-reading "Pattern Recognition" right now
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willing to loan most of my books - my criteria for keeping a book is "will re-read or force upon others"
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big comic-book geek
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Powers
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Gloomcookie
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Warren Ellis' stuff: Planetary, Global Frequency
Movies
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currently caught up in Lord of the Rings obsession
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favorite movies
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Alien3
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The Specials
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
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Master and Commander is on the slate for the Drafthouse. I am so there.
Other interests
Places I've been:-
England
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Germany
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Japan
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Hong Kong
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perimeter of US
Languages
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a little bit of German
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even less Spanish
Education
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pretentious New England liberal arts college
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BA in Math (think about that for a sec)
Drinks
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weird European herbal liqueurs: Jagermeister, Becherovka, Chartreuse
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port: Osbourne late-bottled reserve is current fave
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wine: cheap wine snob. wine over $8 a bottle is for suckers.
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cider: Woodchuck Granny Smith varietal
Programming chops
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vi
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regexes
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Java, Perl, Python, C
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web applications