well, this is where you find some useless information about this person you are visiting. i own a web design and computer consulting firm, could always use more money, loves gadgets, wondering if something of interest will appear in the amazon gold box, finds it fun to solve problems (except math problems), a small affection for photography, i don't travel enough, i need a vacation, i need to write more, i am 6 foot 6 and have an odious fear of heights. i have never dressed-up as elvis. Name: Brian Mackowiak (pronounced: mah-KOH-vee-ak) Email: use this one Age: Thirty i know, the photo makes me look younger. Living: San Luis Obispo, California Favorite Drink: Barq's Root Beer Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Vodka Martini Favorite Food: The Green Olives from my Vodka Martini Favorite Movies:     Seven     American Beauty     The Usual Suspects     North by Northwest     Singles     Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon     Say Anything...     The Big Lebowski (remember that coen bros. movie?)     The Matrix (for the geek-in-me) Books: lagging hard on the reading... 2002 was the year i started heavily-reading books for recreation. for fun, something for me. in the past, books were read because they were required in school or referencing tech books for work. so now it is for me. i am listing the books that i am and/or will be reading, 2002 racked up 17 books, not bad for a guy like me. each time i finish one book, i cross it out and start up another which is added to the list. Reading: 2005: A Scanner Darkly Ham on Rye How We Are Hungry The Rum Diary Diary 2004: Life of Pi Chump Change Circling the Drain The Informers Pulp 2003: The Crooked Man Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Candy A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Brave New World Sellevision The Tesseract Welcome to the Monkey House Lullaby Me Talk Pretty One Day You Shall Know Our Velocity Holidays on Ice 2002: The Queen of the Damned (VC iii) The Tale of the Body Thief (VC iv) The Shipping News [from my secret santa Michelle] Invisible Monsters Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Glamorama High Fidelity We're So Famous Memnoch the Devil (VC v) The Minority Report only 96 pages long Time Out of Joint Less Than Zero The Rules of Attraction The Man in the High Castle The Catcher in the Rye Survivor Neuromancer Frequently referencing:       -- Red Hat Linux Administrator's Handbook       -- Setting Up A Linux Internet Server       -- Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition       -- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth       -- The Truth About Money Magazine subscriptions:       -- American Photo       -- Details       -- Entertainment Weekly       -- Esquire       -- Financial Times - i am getting this newspaper free somehow       -- Internet World       -- Linux Magazine       -- PC World       -- Readymade       -- Us News & World Report I am an avid investor in the stock market...things don't look as good as 2000-2001...see how much money I am losing.

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