I've spent a few years wandering around learning how to be a human being. Right now I'm a web consultant living between Baltimore and Philadelphia.

A few tech projects I've half-completed include:

• The most common themes in music lyrics according to a machine learning algorithm.
• Rhyme scheme analysis using the International Phonetic Alphabet and sequence alignment
• Swarm, a project in distributed programming/collective action blog

I like walking, running, biking, and taking public transit.

J Dilla changed my life.

Here are some books I really enjoyed reading in the past year:

• Thinking The Twentieth Century, Tony Judt
• No Name In The Street, James Baldwin
• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
• The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro
• The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Course in General Linguistics, Saussure