BRIEFLY:

I have very recently joined the coding team at Zindagi Games, in Camarillo, CA. Very occasionally I write things and produce music. I went to school at UC Berkeley, and took classes with UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program. Much of my time is spent reading books and sports news. I have lived in California, Japan, and Taiwan.

MUSIC:

• Recent: Good Old Neon
• Theoretical: Bang Bang Shoot Shoot
• Neither: Up Up Down Down

WRITING:

• Current: Blog
• Recent: Beijing 2008 blog
• Defunct: old blog (2002-2008)
• Decaying: "Becoming the Teapot"
• Archaic: "Spring, Pin, and Trigger"
• Primordial: Green Dragon Vol. 1

READING:

• Bangs. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
• Barthes. Image, Music, Text
• McConnell. Code Complete

THIS YEAR I HAVE ENJOYED:

• Berman. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
• Davis. City of Quartz
• Foster Wallace. Oblivion
• Meyer. The Last Days of Old Beijing
• Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Tomine. Shortcomings

OF NOTE:

• Alan Pollack's Notes on the Beatles
• The creative miscellany of Mark Essen
• Riddles, collected by William Wu
• Sal Khan's educational videos on various topics
• Free VST effects by Graham Yeadon
• The indispensible C++ FAQ LITE

PERSONS:

• somewhere between Korea, Riverside, and San Jose: Albert
• living the Life: Ben
• practical, yet sporty: Don
• keeps moving where I move: Grace
• does not acknowledge that I call him Ja-Wang: Ja-Wang
• intimidated me when we first met: Jen
• a champ, on and off the court: Johann
• tempting reason to move to Shanghai: Lisa
• knows the score: Mike
• on the way: 楊兆欽

ELSEWHERE:

• Facebook
• AIM: CaptinChikin
• Email/Gtalk: jeffomatic at-sign gmail