I have since given up on attempting to look dignified in any photograph taken of me. It is just not happening.

I'm a pretty big nerd. I enjoy playing tabletop games such as D&D and Shadowrun and board games such as "Carcassonne" and "Kill Doctor Lucky". I'm bitrektual, which means I love Star Wars and Star Trek equally. I'm also a bit of an MST3k nut. I also enjoy watching terrible cartoons and even worse movies. There's something really enjoyable about watching a film fall on it's face.

I like to keep abreast of developments in science and technology. That kind of stuff is completely fascinating to me. The universe is a giant and fascinating place, and I feel understanding it is intrinsic to our survival as a species.

My music tastes tend to wander from Blues and Jazz to Classical, to 50's crooners such as Sinatra and Martin. My one true musical love though is heavy metal. It covers such a wide range of musical styles and ideas, and although it can be cheesy or gorey at times, I still think its pretty tits.

I've just recently graduated College and I'm at that terrifying point in my life where I need to decide what I want to do with it. I've already got a job and an apartment and I'm not entirely sure what to do next. I occasionally play bass and let my watching of MST3K affect my life to possibly too severe a degree.

I'm currently working in the operations department of an e-billing company. My job basically boils down to finding out what's wrong with their servers and fixing it. Its interesting work to say the least. Plus I get paid to do my hobby, so that's always a plus.

- Pointless Arguments
- Picking up aspects of languages
- Procrastination
- Random computer stuff
- Losing people in conversation
- Fixing things
- Cooking (apparently)
- The Linux (Fedora/RedHat all the way!)

Once upon a time it used to be my giant-ass afro. Nowadays I have no clue.

Books --
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Shame that Card is a bigot though.
Albert Camus' The Stranger
Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Sandman
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Stephen King's Dark Tower series (Minus Wizard and Glass)
Douglas Adams' So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Brian Clevinger's Atomic Robo
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
Freakanomics by Steven Levitt and Sephen Dubne.
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time

I've recently decided that my bookshelf is severely lacking in nonfiction. As such, I've endeavoured to fill it with stuff like Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and a whole whack of computer programming manuals.

Movies --
Conan the Barbarian
Ghostbusters
Shawshank Redemption
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Mel Brooks movies
Space Mutiny, Manos the Hands of Fate, Pumaman and all of those other wonderfully awful, riffable movies
Serenity
Muppet Treasure Island
The old Three Stooges short films
Any of the Marx Brothers Movies

Shows --
The Three Stooges (Classic stooges, not that horrible recent remake)
Futurama
Stargate (All of them)
Adventure Time
Community
The gamut of the DCAU
Game of Thrones
Doctor Who
Star Treks TNG And DS9
Farscape
Looney Tunes (The classic ones)

Music --
Here, have a last.fm page: http://www.last.fm/user/BurningFool
Act now in the next 30 minutes and get a soundcloud page for free! http://grooveshark.com/#!/frojoe.21

Food --
I'm kind of a picky eater, but I'm working on it. Usually most of my food outings involve all you can eat Korean barbecue or sushi. I'm also partial to Indian food.

System of Measurement --
- Firkin/Furlong/Fortnight FTW!!!

1) My music in some form or another
2) Someone to talk to
3) Air
4) Some books
5) Something to tinker around with
6) A decent night's sleep

Absolutely random stuff. Friends, hypothetical exploits, random animal attacks, music, the future and some other stuff I can't quite remember.

Probably inside watching TV or playing bass unless someone decides to drag me out and do something. Its not that I'm not active, its just that I have very little motivation to go out and do stuff :P

I've had Sultans of Swing by Dire Straights stuck in my head for the past week. It's driving me a teensy bit nuts.

Because why the hell not? What do you have to lose aside from a couple minutes of your time. Unless those few minutes were going to be spent disarming a bomb, or curing cancer, giving someone a tracheotomy or something like that. In which case, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE! GO!

Or if you've gotten so used to Emacs keybindings that you use them in other programs and you can't seem to do the stuff that you wanted to do in the first place. Nano users need not apply.