Robert Hurley

Fast facts

• At the movies I like

  subtitles, apparently: the last three movies have all been foreign films (Spanish, French & German, respectively)-- though I did not plan it that way...

• Last movie seen

  No Country for Old Men, The Lives of Others (German, w/English subtitles), Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico, in Spanish)

• Music I listen to

  Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Kate Bush, Joe Ely, the late "Snakefinger" Philip Lithman, old John Hiatt & Declan McManus, etc.

• Best album right now

  I'm an OG, so I really don't listen to anything that appears on Billboard...

• Favorite author

  Fyodor Dostoyevski, Federico Garcia Lorca, Theodore Adorno, Edith Wharton, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Jay Gould

• Last book read

  The Last Election, Blindness (Jose Saramago), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Creation (Gore Vidal), Name of the Rose, Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed), Cuba Libre (Elmore Leonard), Heart of Darkness, House of Mirth, Beowulf (Seamus Heaney trans)

• Best game right now

  semiotics (a puzzle), cacophany society, hoaxes: zapmeals.com (fake Web 2.0 startup) and the JT Leroy hoax

• Software I use

  Firebug for Firefox, EditPlus (primarily, for for HTML, CSS, PHP and javascript), Macromedia MX2004 studio, Photoshop, various database programs, etc.

• Hardware I use

  Compaq Pesario, AMD 64 x2 w/nVidia, 1gb RAM

• If I won 1 million dollars, I would:

  buy a house, buy music equipment & top 'o the line computer, work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like... write a screenplay-- who the hell knows???

• If I were a super hero I would:

  not advertise the fact

• I wish I could:

  see above (work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like)

• Favorite travel destination:

  the Coast (pick one)

• On my vacation, I...:

  vacation? you mean when I'm not working? (never happens), or when I'm not getting paid for it? (which is MOST of the time)...

• Favorite sports team:

  Cal Bears, Oakland A's

• I'm passionate about:

  finding love in this world

• Food I like:

  anything equatorial (carribean/cajun, thai, middle-eastern/north african, etc)

• I don't like:

  being condescended to by lower life forms

Blog posts

• Seneca, a band from Limerick, Ireland, played the Warehouse in Port Costa Friday, Nov. 21st
• Last Friday in Port Costa
• North Bay Ruby User's Group (MBRUG) meetup at O'Reilly Publishers Headquarters in Sebastopol, CA
• Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
• Cotati, California: A Visual Metaphor
• More news from the Institute for the Reiteration of Obvious Conclusions (IROC, iroc.org)

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