name	brendan a. mccarthy
species	homo sapiens (assumed)
gender	male
form	6 foot 1, 145 pounds, ectomorph, modifications
age	40
colour	skin: pink hair: brown eyes: brown
disposition	Keirsey Temperament: INTJ, Libra
status	married, 2 children
privacy	PGP fingerprint: EE2A2FB7

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music | places | + | - | misc

 

blog	the blog
art	Archimboldo, Salvador Dalí, Antoni Gaudi, H.R. Giger, Dave McKean, Joan Mirò, Vaughan Oliver/ v23, Michael Tam, Joel-Peter Witkin
authors books	Nicholson Baker, Iain Banks, Daniel Boorstin, W.S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Paul DiFilippo, Douglas Hofstadter, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, H.P. Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, Werner Vinge, Matt Wagner (for Mage, Mage II & Grendel)
computing	Apple Macintosh, Artificial life (Macintosh Artificial Life Software), genetic algorithms, complexity theory, complex dynamical systems, FileMaker Pro, Newton, Rhapsody, Marathon Infinity Myth & Bungie Software, ZPC, Bad Day at the Midway, Bad Mojo, Fractal Design Painter, Bryce & Kai's PowerTools from MetaTools, Emigre fonts.
culture	Artists' Television Access, Defenestration, Survival Research Laboratories, moss, Schwa corporation, theremin
film video	2001: A Space Odyssey, Akira, Alien, Apocalypse Now, Bladerunner, Blue Velvet, Brazil, The Brothers Quay, The City of Lost Children, Dancer in the Dark, Delicatessen, Edward Scissorhands, Eraserhead, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, vintage Japanese live-action (Kikaida, Go Ranger, Kamen Rider), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nosferatu (Murnau and Herzog), Raideen, Repoman, Wings of Desire
music	I have a whole page dedicated to music...
places	Australia (Cairns, the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland rainforests, Sydney) Austria (Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna) Canada (Vancouver, B.C.) Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman, British West Indies) People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Guangzhou) Denmark (Copenhagen) England (London, Stonehenge) France (Bayeaux, Cherbourg, Le Havre, Nice, Paris) Germany (Berlin, Goslar, Hannover, München) Greece (Athens, Corinth, Delphi, Mycenae) Ireland (Cork, Dublin, northwestern coast, Waterford) Italy (Rome) Japan (Kyoto, Mt. Fuji, Nara, Osaka, Sapporo, greater-Tokyo) Kenya (Amboseli, Masai-Mara, Mt. Kenya, Samburu, Nairobi, Lake Victoria) Netherlands (Amsterdam) Russia (St.Petersburg, Moskow) Spain (Barcelona) U.S. (Dallas, Detroit, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Maui, the Mojave Desert, Nashville, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, the Sierras, Washington DC)
+	Siobhán, Arianne, Alastair, Bronwyn, Ted & Keara cobalt blue, scuba, food, San Francisco, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Mr. Spock, dream, travel, texture, the Others
-	excess CSF, pneumonia, spam, taxes
miscellaneous	Burning Man Mayhem site WAXWeb DigiCrime Hostile Applets Source Code