Hi. I'm A l a n. This page is dedicated to my inner amateur artist. Recently I've gotten into the visual arts (drawing, etc), and for just about as long as I can remember I've been interested in music.  I collect a lot of music, (over 300 CDs, 100 tapes, and 15-20 gigs of MP3s), with synthpop-ish music being my favorite, though there are parts of almost every genre but rap/hip-hop that I enjoy.  I've also spent a lot of time creating music of my own, (160 .Mod/s3m songs, and roughly another 100 multi-track songs involving both real and electronic instruments).  Most of it is available for free online under a pseudonym (which I intentionally have not revealed here).

It's also worth noting that I really like cats. Obsessed might even be the word.  Perhaps it's because I'm a libertarian? Can you think of any other animal that has more libertarian like characteristics?  Certainly none that humans interact with on a daily basis.

I'm thinking: if I close my eyes I'll look like I'm  sensitive & caring. 

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• I like to take photos with my digital camera & I also like to read about camera technology news.  
• I have a artistic collaboration with Jymm called phOtOsynthesis. 
• I've written a very short biography, which should give you an idea of who I am, or at least where I came from and such.  
• How to succeed at Hampshire College: I don't have all the answers, but here is how I made it through with fairly pleasing results. 
• I've written software and utilities for Windows; some of my more interesting/useful code is available here as open source.
• I've spent a good amount of time coming up with fictional stories (only some of which I've written down).  Here is a rather twisted short story I wrote for a class. 
• I don't play many computer games these days, but when I took Ryan Moore's game design class I had to in the name of academics.  I also wrote an interesting game review of Zork, and created a JAVA based Marble Madness clone.
• I like to review products and services and movies and books, etc, for money. Epinions.com helps me achieve this goal, but I've also archived my reviews locally of movies, music, video games, and other things, in case Epinions goes out of business.
• I have a new DVD Burner, a NEC 3520 (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, double layer, etc). I've been doing a bit of disk quality checking, which I've collected into two pages: 3520 dvd quality, 3520 cdr quality. 
• I used to spend a lot of time making web pages. Some better than others. I've collected them into a historical archive, bad spelling, dead links, and all. 
• Tips for people with back pain.
• This Old PC is a collection of pages about another one of my hobbies: getting the most out of old PCs (laptops, usually) running DOS. 
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As already noted, collecting CDs has been a hobby of mine for years; the focus has been finding music I like for cheap.  If you pay a lot of attention, the BMG music club is a good way to find pop, though you have to wait for the good deals. More recently I've just bought used instead; I've found half.com to be one of the better online sources. You can't beat free though; once upon a time mp3.com  had a lot of really good stuff from independent artists before they closed. Those people still exist, and with google you can still find these music maker's new pages.

Recently most of my ~300 CD collection got backed up to MP3 format, resulting in a list of almost all my CDs. This is the pop music list and this is the new age (or instrumental) music list. A large project that; I'm glad I didn't do it all on my own.

I also have a draft proposal for a meta-audio format that would make internet music distribution more appealing for listeners and artists alike.

A short essay on the importance of context 

 
master of the rarely used hunt and Smite typing style.

• The evils of heat
• Wouldn't it be nice if words really were constructed from units of meaning?

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