User:Interiot/Interests

Personal interests... things for me to read up on or expand on when bored.

Games

see also: NewQueue

• Arcade games: Pac-Man, 1942, Minesweeper, Llamatron, Marble Madness, Geometry Wars
• Prince of Persia (1989)
• Angband(1990)
• Commander Keen (1990)
• ZZT (1991)
• X-COM: UFO Defense (1995)
• Re-Volt (1999) (all the reviewers were wrong, this is a great game)
• Natural Selection (2003)
• World of Warcraft (2004)

Trips

• Bemidji, Minnesota, August 2003, Ojibwe Pro Rally [1]
• United States Grand Prix, September 2003 [2]
• Champ Car race at Road America, August 2004 [3]
• Tokyo, March 2005 (37 days), and May 2005 (35 days), for work (I stayed in this hotel, Westin @ Ebisu)
• U.S. Virgin Islands, May 2005 (7 days)
• Singapore, May 2005 (3 days), for work

Previous places Lived/Worked

• Rockford, IL
• Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
• Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, Muncie, Indiana
• North Webster, Indiana

Standards

Standards promote competition even among closed-source developers, but fit the Open source philosophy particularly well.

• Request for Comments — RFC2616:HTTP, RFC793:TCP
• W3C standards

Law

• Copyright law
• Contracts
• Case law
• Telecommunication policy

Politics

I'm socially pretty liberal. Libertarianism appeals to me (minimalism/reductionism is always very interesting), but my strong interest in telecom policy, and general belief that corporate interests end up overpowering individual interests in both the legislature and judiciary, generally pull me towards the more mainstream Democratic Party.

Psychology

• breaching experiment (I really am evil)
• Cognitive bias (especially ingroup/outgroup)
• Perception (awesome class)
• Developmental psychology (developmental any thing is always cool)

Photo equipment

• Bodies: Canon EOS 10D
• Lenses:
  • Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
  • Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM
  • Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 AF