This debian kid: I am a 22 year old programmer working at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis. I do my work in perl, c, and php. The GSC is almost exclusively a perl shop. The GSC has been a bastion of Sun Microsystems since it's inception but lots of linux/intel machines have been showing up recently.
Outside of work I do tech stuff at the St. Louis Independent Media Center [www.stlimc.org], Read, participate and plan political actions , and try to eat stuff that tastes good and is good for me. I run competitively, rock climb, hike, and have worked for entire growing seasons on organic farms. I am in the process of moving into an urban housing collective in St. Louis and generally consider myself anarchist and primitivist with a paradoxical addiction to digital technology. I love free software and wish that there was more free hardware. ;) The 'digital divide' bothers me and I am VERY interested in getting something like the Yellow Network Coalition [http://www.ync.org] going in St. Louis. I am currently listening this stuff mostly: Ani Difranco's new album "revelling and reckoning" Radio Head "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" Wilco "Yankee Hotel Fox Trot" The Mountain Goats [http://www.themountaingoats.net] Benjamin Britten's War Requiem Aphex Twin "Come to Daddy" Bjork "Vespertine" Bruce Springsteen "Tom Joad" Random Belle and Sebastion Recently read non fiction: "Blowback, Costs and Consequences of American Empire" "Life is a Miracle, an Essay against Modern Superstition" "Science of Coercion, Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945 - 1960" "Nickel and Dimed, on (Not) getting by in America" "The Botany of Desire, A Plant's-Eye View of the World" Recently read fiction: "All The Pretty Horses", Cormack Mccarthy "The Long Home", William Gay Tom Hallaran Informatics http://genome.wustl.edu/gsc/INFO/Staff/thallara Washington University Genome Sequencing Center 314-286-1114 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
