movement:

	Kokikai Aikido I'll learn to throw when I get old. In the meantime.. You get to FLY THROUGH THE AIR!
	MIT Aikido In 1996, a gaming buddy said "I'm supposed to start a dojo." We said "What's aikido?" I've trained at MIT ever since.
	Charles River Aikido In Boston but not an MIT affiliate? Try these excellent folks.
	Kokikai Aikido International The thing about Kokikai Aikido.. the.. where to start. The thing about Kokikai is Sensei. How lucky could I be, that this is the style I happened upon?
	Harvard-Radcliffe Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club I practiced with this group from about 1993-1996 and for a (backachey) month or two in 2004. Lineage and quality.
	etc movement Bicycles, mostly. Choppers, kites, DIY. A few of my favorite things.

path II:

	An Erisian Tarot (Not "The Erisian Tarot," of course.) By Revd. MC 900ft. Escher (yours truly) and Irrevd. Hacksaw. Almost no cards drawn, but much text. My once and future project.
	Principia Discordia TheA Defining Work
	Discordianism Countess Nichtgelbschneeessen, High Priestess of the Cult of the Sacred Tentacled Kiwi (kbuxton)'s Discordianism page

Hire me!:

Résumé UNIX C/Perl/etc coding with a math/physics bent. I'm all set now, thanks!

athenahealth, inc Run by "the good kind of republicans" - how to make the world a better place? start with a smart business model. One of the two "puzzle companies" in Boston - the kind where your cover letter is your work on the puzzle in their ad. I don't know much about the other one, ITA - except that it's the lisp shop, where we are the perl one. I get to work with some of the nicest people I have ever met.

the family business:

Fools Errant Trickster Gods Ritual Objects and T-Shirts: No job too weird or too mundane. Some of my dearest hobbies, I eventually beat/coerced into FE products. This business was shut down when I got A Real Job. If I try to drag it back online, I'll let you know.

coding:

	Perl Photopage Some perl scripts that turn directories of images into okay thumbnail/links pages. The images are shown at some reasonable size, and have image maps over them that link to versions of two or three larger sizes (e.g. click on the left half, see a medium-size version; click on the right half, see the original). If there's a file called "writeme" in the directory, the text from that is included after the images. The bicycle pages on this site were generated with these. Nopublish, nocomment Tools for generating the online résumé and the official résumé from the base document. Nopublish is for removing e.g. address and phone number from the online version. Nocomment removes incriminating or silly comments from both versions. Nohide This tool maintains an in-stock catalog page as a variation on an appropriately-tagged past-and-present-products page. It carries out some string substitutions (e.g. page title, shopping cart links). Also, it leaves out text for any item marked sold (or hide) and uncomments commented-out text marked "unhide." BP-Invoice Client-side web stuff, with enough server-side to build testbeds. Hello-worlds with cookies. There are so many things to automate out there! For example, the way the Billpoint credit card service works is: customer sends me email, I go to the BP site and fill out a form, BP sends customer a CC invoice. It should be this way: customer clicks on an item's pay-with-BP link, a Perl script logs onto the BP site, and fills out and submits their form, BP sends customer a CC invoice. It's a wonderful world. Another option is: I lie and give them my email instead of the customer's email, they email me the invoice url, I have a script to find it in the mail spool, and I get the page down and serve it to the customer. But that might be wrong. The test version of this is now working, but I haven't gotten around to implementing it in the Fools Errant catalog. I'd show you the test, but some hundred fools would click the link - and I haven't written the deinvoice cancelbot yet.
	Elisp after-save-hooks Nopublish/nocomment and nohide/unhide would be an unfeasible hassle to use if it weren't for Emacs after-save-hooks. Every time I saved the base file I'd have to make sure the derived files were updated. Solution: the first line in the base documents contains a bit of elisp that says "Each time this file is saved in Emacs, call a process to build the derived files." The "writeme" files for Photopage are tagged this way as well - edit one of them, and the new .html page is ready to go.
	C Triage (spring 1999) I was taking "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling" and "Digital Image Processing for Hard Copy" at the MIT Media Lab. My final project for these two classes was sort of a wavelets-based multiresolution image mosaicker, a collage/montage thing. Results like nothing out there. (After deciding on the project, I got the impression that "Photomosaic" was originally developed for the Hard Copy class. Wacky.)
	Java Numerical Photography (Fall 1998) A course at the MIT Media Lab. Here are our class's problem sets and solutions and final exhibition projects (on the exhibition page, I'm the lower-right shadowy creature). "The creative use of scene-capture devices is explored in the context of computational expression. Students will each be equipped with a low-end digital camera and explore the physical environment for imagery that can bond well with computational post-processing. Intensive weekly exercises will be given, with review sessions each week."

vegan cooking:

pizza dough (secret for ultrathin crust is the proportions: 4c flour, 2c water (none of this 3:1 nonsense) - that and preheat your stone on broil for like an hour) pasta-machine tortillas (optimized for rectangular griddle - take it from there) protein bar guts (Inspired by a rx in some hippie dessert cookbook ;)   Soy protein powder is cheap at Trader Joe's. Mix with something maplesyrupy/honeyish and something else..) maple-roasted almonds Stronger, darker, vegan-er than honey-roasted. But the sugar sticks only almost as well. Germanish Chocolate Cake An upside-down cake. This is basically a Wacky Cake starting with coconut, almonds, margarine, and sugar in the bottom of the pan. The WC base cake has two key features. First: it is a robust and adequate vegan chocolate cake. Second: if, instead of measuring the oil into a measuring cup, you use the cup to hollow out a dent of appropriate volume in the dry ingredients and pour the oil into that, you don't have a sticky measuring cup to wash. Espresso Snowballs A Russian/Mexican Wedding cake variant. The lesson here is that when the texture won't suffer, the easiest way to flavor baked goods with coffee is to add finely-ground coffee, rather than brewed or instant. Truffle Innards I know nothing about dipping chocolate, but here is some fine goop for inside. It's not very like fudge, but has several other desirable properties: it takes O(minutes) instead of O(hour), and it is disinclined to disastrous boiling over and sugaring. Almond Toffee Crunch Something like a Heath Bar or Almond Roca, only vegan.

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