| Name: | Jon Rockwell |
| Location: | Victoria, B.C., Canada |
| Birthday: | 13-Feb-1979 |
| Interests: | Badminton, Coffee, GnuLinux, Reading, Writing. |
| Quip About Me: | A sometimes studious and vegetarian. I saw Stephen Hawking spinning. And if cornered by a predator I can booze my way out of it. |
| Favourite Reads: | "Animals", "Big Dog Rage", "Blues", "The Boat", Bullet Park, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Critical Practice, Crystallography, Dark Age Ahead, "The Mouth", The Worldly Philosophers. |
| Favourite Movies: | The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost World, Lost in Translation. |
| Favourite Music: | Ágætis Byrjun, "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Blank Generation", De-Loused in the Comatorium, "Lull", OK Computer, "Pearly", "Popplagið", "Punk is Dead", Takk. |
| Favourite Quote: | "Machines with sharply focused intelligence nonetheless became increasingly pervasive. By the mid-1990s, we saw the infiltration of our financial institutions by systems using powerful statistical and adaptive techniques. Not only were the stock, bond, currency, commodity, and other markets managed and maintained by computerized networks, but the majority of buy-and-sell decisions were initiated by software programs that contained increasingly sophisticated models of their markets. The 1987 stock market crash was blamed in large measure on the rapid interaction of trading programs. Trends that otherwise would have taken weeks to manifest themselves developed in minutes. Suitable modifications to these algorithms have managed to avoid a repeat performance." Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines. 1999. "Look, it's me with my mother." Rachel, Blade Runner |