A life long coastal Californian, I spent the first 19 years of my life in Berkeley, then went to UCSC and got my bachelor of science in computer engineering. I then worked in Santa Cruz for about 3 years at a company that went through various name changes, mergers and buyouts. I finally took a severance package, moved back to Berkeley, and am now attempting to writing a fantasy novel.
Anime
- Slayers Fantasy comedy.
- Evangelion. Mecha drama.
- All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku. Comedy.
- Vampire Princess Miyu. Occult drama.
- Ranma 1/2. Martial arts romance comedy.
- Yawara. Romance comedy.
- Fushigi Yugi. Fantasy.
- El Hazard. Fantasy.
- CardCaptor Sakura. Magical girl.
- Kodomo no Omocha. Hyperactive shoujo comedy.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena. Weird fantasyish drama.
- Martian Successor Nadesico. Mecha action/drama.
- Saber Marionette J. Android romance comedy/drama.
- Project A-ko. Anime parody.
- Video Girl Ai. Romance comedy.
- Excel Saga. Weird, weird, weird parody/comedy.
- Legend of Basara. Fantasy drama.
- Battle Athletes. Athletics sci-fi drama/comedy.
- Tenshi Ni Narumon (I'll Be an Angel/I'm Gonna Be an Angel). Weird comedy/action/romance.
Manga
- Ranma 1/2. Martial arts romance comedy.
- Video Girl Ai. Romance comedy.
- Futaba-kun Change. Weird romance comedy.
- Oh My Goddess!. Supernatural romance comedy.
- Inu-Yasha. Fantasy.
- Fushigi Yugi. Fantasy.
- CardCaptor Sakura. Magical girl.
- Peach Girl Shoujo romance drama/comedy.
- Battle Angel Alita. Sci-fi action/drama.
- Geobreeders. Sci-fi-ish/fantasy-ish action/comedy.
- Parasyte. Sci-fi horror.
- Magic Knight Rayearth. Fantasy action/drama/comedy. Borderline magical girl.
Favorite anime/manga characters
- Ifurita of El Hazard. Not exactly sure why. I guess it's a combination of kick-assness and pathos.
- Shayla Shayla, also of El Hazard. I like anime women with lots of fire power but short tempers...
- Lina Inverse of Slayers. See! ;-)
- Tomoyo Daidoji of CardCaptor Sakura. She's so nice and loyal and dedicated. *Sniffle* Why couldn't she have ended up with Sakura?! *Waaaaahhhh!!!!*
- Washu of the Tenchi Muyo OAV. I have a soft stop for mad scientists.
- Rei Ayanami of Evangelion. Some people think that she's a fanboy favorite because they see her as some sort of blowup doll, but not me; the mere thought of kissing her gives me the willies, much less having sex with her (*shudder*). I guess I feel towards her the common female reaction (though I'm male) of wanting to take her and make her all better (like all of the characters in Evangelion, she is extremely fucked up).
- Sana Kurata of Kodomo no Omacha. Cute, hyperactive, excitable, get really into anything that she's doing, basically nice but easy enough to get a rise out of, rather clueless. I dunno why this combination makes he so appealing to me, but it does.
- Urd of Oh My Goddess!. I like trouble makers, plus she's sexy, tanned and exotic. ;-)
- Xellos the Mysterious Priest of Slayers, the only male to make it onto my list. The ultimate trouble maker, cheerful yet cruel, totally unflappable in the face of immanent death; all around, a cool guy. ;-)
People in Anime and Manga
Miscellaneous things about Anime, Manga and Japan
- Obligatory Cute Anime Animal
- The Anime Review Meta-node
- Shoujo Manga
- mahou shoujo
- henna gaijin
- otaku
- sentai
- burakumin
- Anime Drinking Game
- Saotome School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts Final Attack
- dating sims
- red thread
- Hammerspace
- Lance of Longinus
- The tentacle monster and school official conspiracy theory
Comics Strips/Panels
Comic Books
- Sam and Max. The cheerfully anti-social dog and rabbit team solve cases and have fun.
- The Tick
- The Hero Discovered Mage. Modern fantasy.
- The Sandman. Fantasy.
- Quicken Forbidden. Modern fantasy
- Leave It to Chance. Modern fantasy.
Web Comics/Online Comics
- Ozy and Millie. Anthropomorphic 10 year old animals and their parents. Stories/jokes similar to Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes.
- Avalon. Life and travails of a group of Canadian high-schoolers.
- Megatokyo. Two gamer otakus get stuck in Japan.
- Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy. An American exchanged student in Japan and five other people get whisked from Tokyo Tower to another world.
- Exploitation Now. A jailbait mad scientist, a jailbait assassin, a porn star and her criminal little sister, and a perverted moogle. What more could you ask for?
- Bruno the Bandit. Bruno the bumbling warrior-thief and his sidekick Fiona the micro-dragon and their wacky adventures.
Novels
- Ender's Game. A classic of science fiction.
- Wyrd Sisters. Humor fantasy by one of the best writers out there.
- The Long Run.
- The Chanur Saga. A great space opera. Be warned that, while it is space opera, the author never wastes any words, so you can't skim.
- The Black Company. Epic fantasy noir. Follows the exploits of the mercenary company "The Black Company".
- The Saga of Recluce
- The Dark Tower Series. Wonder series by Steven King. A mixture of fantasy, sci-fi, and the old west.
- Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Anita raise the dead for a living, is a consult with the St. Louis Police Preternatural Task Force, and is her state's only license vampire killer. Very cool series.
Novelists
Websites
Nonfiction
Nonfiction writers
Songs
- Across the Great Divide
- Night Rider's Lament
- One More Minute
- This is the Life
- Have You Ever Seen the Rain
- I Wish I Was a Lesbian
- Cruel Angel's Thesis
- Center Field
- Masochism Tango
- Bonny Portmore
- American Pie (and Interpretations of the lyric to American Pie)
Singers
TV
- The X-Files
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Babylon 5
- Twin Peaks
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast
- Animaniacs
- Win Ben Stein's Money
- Futurama
- Whose Line is it Anyways?
- Red Dwarf
- Max Headroom
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Favorite cartoons when I was a kid
- Looney Toons/Bugs Bunny
- Voltron
- Battle of the Planets/G-Force
- Thunder Cats
- Transformers
- Robotech
- G.I. Joe
Movies
- Real Genius
- War Games
- Ghostbusters
- The Princess Bride
- Little Shop of Horror
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Midnight Run
- Space Balls
Computer/Console games
Favorite E2ers
Jokes/Comedy/etc
-
Sci-fi/fantasy/horror related
- The Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue
- Wharfinger's Law of Diminishing SF Sequels
- Node That Dare Not Speak Its Name
- The Limerick which must Not Be Named
- Necrotelicomnicon
- Red Shirt vs Stormtroopers
- What happens when you translate to Klingon and back
- If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek
- What Would Cthulhu Do?
- How to be a Cultist
- warp core breach
- top 12 things likely to be overheard from your Klingon programmer
- Star Trek Erotic Fan Fiction Cliches
- The Unspeakable Horror on the Restroom Door
- The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured
- Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a bricklayer!
- Science fiction movie babe
- Offered: Supervillain minions
- My Escape Plan from a Dying Universe
- Generic Fantasyland
- Magic items of limited practical use
- The law of inverse ninjas
- Spells Not Worth Memorizing
- surviving a horror movie
-
Computer/Math/Science humor
- You need to supply your fax number in order to not have faxes sent to you
- why did the chicken cross the moebius strip?
- my favorite math joke
- How to secure your computer against Charlie's Angels
- DOOM as a system administration tool
- You know you've been hacking too long when
- Amusing comments in source code
- Life v1.2 TODO
- coding stoned
- Feature Request for Universe 2.0
- ISO Standard Supermarket
- I love the smell of the Internet in the morning
- Geek Jokes
- Have you let Emacs into your heart?
- I like my new keyboard, it's "squishy" rather than "clicky"
- The Computer Is Your Friend
- Stupid Unix Tricks
- Rat Penises effect
- Things that the Nerd Generation will spout at their children
- tftv256 wrestles the evil Windows NT
- Street Fighter Champion Hyper Turbo Ultra Super Duper Rainbow Edition
- deep fried computers
- The Microsoft-English Dictionary
- 20 things to be learned from Street Fighter
- The Microsoft-English Dictionary: Security-Oriented Terms
- Sex, as explained by C++ keywords
- Windows for Telepaths
- What did the Zen master say to the hotdog vendor?
- Famous Last Words
- Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
- Save Soviet Jewry - Win Big Prizes!
- straight but not very good at it
- Things I've learned about lesbians from porn
- Book of Very Common Prayer
- Troll for the Ages
- white rabbit of caerbannog
- The Ronald McDonald Whore House
- Quotes from sleeping people
- If it scares little children, stick it on your mailbox and go with it
- Confessions of a Pedestrian Traffic Light Gnome
- Alexander the Great and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad
- spider camp
- The Dead Parrot Sketch
- we'll never get all those pyramids built!
- obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers
- "If you're so evil... eat this kitten!"
- All people in Canada are the same age
- Pac Man is the cause of Rave Drug Culture
- A smattering of "Real Ghostbusters" quotes
- LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (Conservatively Correct Version)
- Jar Jar Binks Love Doll
- Have you let Jesus into your heart?
- What do you get when you cross an aphrodisiac with a laxative?
- The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All
- Eating Babies for Fun and Profit
- Personal Beliefs Expressed As Buttons Pinned on My Backpack
- Dot's Poetry Corner
- If our knees bent the other way - what would chairs look like?
- This product was tested on cute, furry animals with big, sad eyes
- If we all died at the same time, would we lag heaven?
- What would the Lord of Eternal Darkness do?
- Super Mario Brothers: A Literary Criticism
- You know you're a child of the 80's if...
- bugs bunny theory of plate tectonics
- Insults from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- goat skull with spider legs
- Bathe her and bring her to me
- Like those evil little anti-military elves who gut you in the night
- I Wanna Be an Airborne Ranger
- pranks and practical jokes
- Say My Name Backwards, Bitch!
- I'm My Own Grandpaw
- California Über Alles
Amusing trolls
- Why you get Ice-cream headaches
- my lesser wives
- The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
- The Metric Bible
Amusing rants, true stories and observations
- Sex, gender relations, and such
- Nasty Sexual Images in Disney Movies
- I will REMOVE the fucking toilet seat if you don't shut up
- Things you learn when a woman moves into your flat
- women and thermostats
- being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
- "I lived on day-old chocolate cocks for six months"
- When having sex with a police officer...
- I Can't Believe It's Not Semen!
- girls are evil
- 25 ways not to tell someone that you're in love with them
- Princess Complex
- Why I am going to pretend I am a girl online from now on
- Kids' Opinions: When Is It Okay To Kiss Someone?
- Adventures in having a boy/girl name
- blonde female teen pop tart
- slut lessons
- everything you didn't want to know about sex but were forced to find out
- How Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Wrecked My Love Life
- fucking!!! yes, they were FUCKING in the quiet peaceful serenity of the green bushes along the sidewalk! neighing and "yarp!"ing like wild animals, they were! obscene, I tell you! obscene!
- Pop psychology is from Uranus
- Stupid Things to Do in a Strip Club
- I was a prisoner in a Mexican whorehouse
- Body glitter is the curse of the cheating man
- Telephone sex in Japan
- Weird shit when you wake up
- What happens when you put a hard boiled egg in a microwave?
- Modern Marxism and its impact on Cheese Noodle flavour
- Wiccans as Wannabe Universe-Coders
- you can, but you may not
- How to write an "A" paper with minimal effort
- Ralph Nader vs. hot dogs
- Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed
- IS YOUR TEENAGER CONCERNED ABOUT INEQUALITY AND POLLUTION? CALL A DRUG COUNSELOR
- The Unnerving Revelations About Cherished Fictional Characters Meta-Node
- Rasputin : A Hard Man To Kill
- Philosopher's Drinking Song
- Gooogle game
- That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
- Attempting to Urinate with an Erect Penis
- why can't Starbucks sell "small," "medium," and "large" drinks?
- Silly things we believe when we're kids
- Those chipper folk who love Mondays
- I secretly admire Cruella De Vil. PETA will be kicking down my door any second.
- next time don't drop acid and down a dozen shots right before the rehearsal dinner
- Your website makes me want to remove my brain with a rusty spoon
- stupid consumer warnings
- Jar Jar Must Die
- Things I've done on acid
- Snow White and my aggravating loss of childhood stupidity
- No damn you, it's nothing like a chess game
- The unending confusion of watching a Christina Aguilera music video
- The Best Damn Parking Warning Ever
- people will steal anything
- I am a jelly donut
- Stupid Things Aristotle Said
- Why I should not fix your computer
- Public service commercials that accidentally make you an asshole
- Mommy, Why are Those Ducks Wrestling Like That?
- Stupidest thing you've coded just to see if you could
- Blackcurrant and Earwig Juice
- The easiest way to thwart an automatically flushing toilet
- How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
- The Lessons Learned the Hard Way metanode
- Grapefruit Moonshine Beer Explosion
- how to tenderize an octopus
- How to attract a man old enough to be your father
- Simple rules for dating one of my daughters
- why strapping buttered toast to a cat's back will not produce infinite power
- things people tell me that I refuse to believe
- Kids' Opinions: How To Make Someone Fall In Love With You
- Kids' Opinions: How To Tell If Adults At A Restaurant Are In Love
- Junk that I keep in my outgoing folder of my mobile phone, waiting for me to SMS it to some poor sod
- How I nearly killed myself masturbating
- Excerpts from the US Dept of Labors Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Smurfette really wasn't a "smurf" or an "ette"
- ancient Scottish tradition of basing your food on a dare
- Concise Guide to Forgetting How much You Suck
- Famous names which are also sentences
- nobody likes me everybody hates me think I'll go eat worms
- parenthood readiness test
- 36 Things Admissions Never Told You
- class action suit against God
- I am scared by fluffy pink bunny rabbits
- With regard to your recent use of the L word
- Who the hell would name their daughter Lolita?
- Do not put this product into the rectum by using fingers or any mechanical device or applicator.
- the grammar demons
- Isms And Phobias In "The Lion King"
- Little things that are so annoying
- and you thought the USA was the only place with ridiculous laws
- Overcoming arachnophobia, or how I learned to love the spiders with HUMAN HEADS!
- The Declaration of Independence - translated to German and then back to English
- How to Calm a Cat in Heat
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the LAPD
- How to explain conservatism to your squishy liberal friends
- The Weddings I have Performed, or Why God is Gonna Kill Me
- it is now illegal to die
- Confessions of an Ass-Kicker
- How The Hudsucker Proxy saved my life
- The Anal-Retentive English Teacher Who Lives in My Forebrain
- I am a bomb technician, if you see me running try to keep up
- Can of Sprite as a Weapon of Choice
- Studies Suggest Homosexuals Strikingly Similar to Actual Human Beings
- The Joy Luck Fight Club
- a game which involves running around at night with white plastic chairs
- The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
- swooning lessons
- compressed air as improvised bug spray
- You know what? I've had it up to here with "Trix are for kids!" GIVE THE RABBIT A FUCKING BOWL OF CEREAL, YOU DICK!
- slow children
- A Child's View of the Army
- Kiss your pants goodbye, Evil One!
- My kitchen window has become an instrument of death
- Report Finds Marijuana Makes Things Kind of Funny
- Forks are the adolescent stage between teaspoons and tablespoons
- Killer Vegetables and the Farts from Hell
E2 Humor
- What level do we learn fireball?
- I am the very model of a modern E2 editor
- Pick Titties Carefully
- Hi, I'm pingouin, and I nuked Everything New Nodes
- Your radical ideas about my radical ideas having already occurred to others have already occurred to others
- Scary Chatterbox Snippets
- The node that tried too hard to be loved
- When Jet-Poop Nuked Guest User
- no animals were harmed in the writing of this node
- I will REMOVE your "All Your Radical Touching Base Are Already Occurred to The Lesbian Monkey Puppy" Philosophy on me if you don't eat my soy google balls, hatt-baby. Real or Malarky?
- Yes, I am level one. Everybody hurl feces at me.
- on the dangers of putting node titles in quotation marks
- EDB haiku
- nodeshellers, like spammers, would do well to utilise a "random" string in node titles 892357658354
- All your radical idea are belong to us
- Well, wait--what if someone ELSE's radical ideas already occurred to ME?
- The Great E2 Fin de Siecle Fiction Challenge
- Jung-Markov Collective Dream Constructor
- The One True Meme
Silliness and Strangeness
- Liberal Anti-Christian New World Order UFO Conspiracy
- wicked, wicked little puppies
- Your hands do the work of 10,000 highly trained lesbian jumping beans
- monkey tentacle pr0n death-frenzy with gerbils and a ball-shaving lesbian triplet carnival
- What to do if your friends think you are an agent of the Old Ones
- catting weird things to /dev/audio
- Can't sleep; clown'll eat me.
- these damn elves keep stealing my smokes!
- Squirrel Empire
- Garden of Eden Creation Kit
- Crush! Kill! Destroy!
- When an octopus becomes upset, it may eat itself
- Carnies are evil, maniacal goblins who want to kill us all and sacrifice us in the ring of fire.
- Someone's been messing with my anti-paranoia medication!
- NON-VIOLENCE! NON-VIOLENCE! NON-VIOLENCE! Non-violence makes you strong! Strength crushes enemies! NON-VIOLENCE!
- Touch the Puppy
- vegetables subjected to the terrible thrall of farming
- Your hands do the work of 10,000 highly trained lesbian jumping beans
Misc. Humor
- almost, but not quite, entirely unlike
- the Devil's Dictionary
- Elf needs food badly
- No eyes, no groin
- make love like crazed weasels
- Government Porn
- l33t sp34k
- How to become a Zen master
- There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
- The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
- The most powerful force of evil in the universe
Computers
- Linux
- open source
- GNU
- Mozilla
- KDE
- Emacs
- recursive acronym
- INTERCAL
- Well Known Ports
- Good programmers
- DLL Hell
- The Programming Languages Genealogy Project
- sysadmin
- bookmarklets
- software patents
- Anonymous Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Is it better to turn off your computer at night, or let it run all the time?
- Open Directory Project
Science, Biology, Math, and so on
- Godel's theorem
- prion
- The 26 Stages of Corpse Deterioration
- Evolutionary pressure against being evil
- Ball Lightning
- How To Warm Boot the Human Brain
- Asperger's syndrome
- evolution of sleep
- Sorites Paradox
- bristlecone pine
- Why is nasal mucus green?
- lab-created stones
- cavitation torpedo
- sphagnum moss
- Cocktail Party Effect
History
- Knight-errant
- Comfort Women : Japanese sex slaves in World War II
- Sand Creek Massacre
- Night of the Long Knives
- Indian Removal Act
- the Dawes Severalty Act
- Child Rearing in Colonial America
- Becoming a knight
- Indian Boarding Schools
Health, diseases, and so on
Pseudoscience, fads, urban legends, and so on
- Pseudoscience Meta Node
- Ear candling
- If "cult" religions are so good at mind control, why are their attrition rates so high?
- Ritual Satanic Abuse
- The Myth Of The Borg
Life
- The exact moment when I ceased to take my education seriously
- The moment pornos lost their appeal for me
- effects of pornography
- How to fight and not get your ass kicked
- Why organic food is a waste of money
- Advice For Using Customer Service
- How dating pretty boys helped me come out
- The actual facts behind the McDonald's coffee lawsuit
- Girls versus Girls
- things I am afraid of
- What to do if you're stopped by the police
- I was a homeless bum and it made me a better person
- Women want me when I'm taken
- Don't blow into someone's vagina
Depressing stuff
- Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
- chilling cruelty of children
- Boy meets me, boy becomes infatuated with me, boy realizes I take up space, boy runs like hell.
- Suicidal teens fucking piss me off
- pain is not negated by the presence of a greater pain somewhere else in the universe
- Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen year-old girl
- the SCUM manifesto
- godhatesfags.com
- kids are being trained to shoot people chanting in the woods
- After sixteen years, that voice
Philosophy/Politics
- Objectivism
- True communism
- Removing marriage from government recognized relationship contracts
- Politics and the English Language
- Benjamin Franklin's method for achieving moral Perfection
- The Metanode Paradox
- Occam's Razor
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- The (Insert Party Here) Agenda
- Breeders: your children do not make you superior
- Think of the children!
- glowsticks are drug paraphernalia
- Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act
Religion
Myths, Magic and the Occult
- sidhe
- How to attract the Fae
- witch ball
- Witch pegs
- Witch Bottle
- Everything2 quick guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other entities
- Triple Goddess
- Changeling
- Guide to Spellcasting
- Daemonolatreia
- theater superstitions
- Things you can make a wish on
- Tripping out on Rye bread, man
- The Mothman Prophecies
Weirdness
- The hidden evil in UPC bar codes
- Indiana once tried to change the value of pi
- Documenta, the Child-Bride, bares her legs for the Ravenous Wolves of the Grey Hour
- Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightly
- Parasitic mating practices of anglerfish
- the US is still under Martial Law
- Flat Earth Society
- Landover Baptist Church
- naked mole rat
- Hindu-Jewish conspiracy
Misc.
- Neil Gaiman
- Webster 1913
- Mary Sue
- this life is a placement test for the next
- The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
- Matt Wagner
- Vote Dump Metanode
- How to write sex and violence - tastefully
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- Emacs Code to Nodify The Tech's Shakespeare Texts
- Feminist Vocabulary Metanode
- The NoCal Super Layoff Unemployment Collecting BBQ Moonlit Bowling Noder Meet
- meta-XP