Profile

Add this user to your friends list  To-Do List  Memories:  Tell a Friend!  Search This Journal  Nudge This Friend
User:pbrane (61198) View public key
Name:jake
Location:Redmond, Washington, United States
Birthdate:11-14
E-mail:
LJ Talk:
AOL IM:AIM status dpbrane (Add Buddy, Send Message)
ICQ UIN:ICQ status 113128459 (User Profile)
Google Talk:
Bio:Nocturnal pseudo anarcho-communist (libertarian socialist when I'm feeling less extreme) theoretical physicist / physics inspired mathematician / computer scientist / nerd. Wanna-be infoterrorist-cryptographer. Degrader of "Intellectual" Property "Rights". Lover of obfuscating parentheticals and superfluous "scare quotes". Nomadic rebel without a clue. Itinerant scientist without a sponsor. Peripatetic corrupter of youth. Embracer of contradictions.

ENTP. Chaotic, with Good tendencies. Sextuple-aspect Scorpio (everything interior to the asteroid belt is in Scorpio). Electrically neutral, no intrinsic angular momentum. Appetitively omnivorous. Kinsey 1.7 (std. deviation 0.4) [take all of these designations with a small crystal of NaCl]

Boston raised, NorCal educated, Seattle dwelling roots-be-having dwelling, Fog Manor dwelling stuff-be-storing, triple U.S./British/Irish citizen (soon to add French citizenship as well).

Partner of [info]amberphlame, stepdad of [info]starmail, and now as of 10/4/07, father of [info]liya_rowan.

Roughly 8 parts liquid metallic hydrogen, 5 parts nitrous oxide, 2 parts phlogistion, and 3 parts dirt.

Gamer geek goth hippie punk raver undercover freak

Flake.

You got all that?



I moderate [info]physics, [info]mathematics, [info]math_research, and [info]borgian_review, which are open communities, no need to ask me to join - jump on in, the mental wankery's fine.

I also moderate [info]theory_research, which you're welcome to post to if you're an active theoretical physics researcher, and if you'd like to join (you don't need to join to post, but if people post "friends-only" there, you won't be able to read them until you've joined), drop me an email.

If you're interested in australian labradoodles, go to Kadli Cottage



"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed... or buy anything sold or processed... or process anything sold, bought or processed... or repair anything sold, bought or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."


- Lloyd Dobler


'There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.'


-Douglas Adams

'Like Bugs Bunny, Spike Jones, and the Marx Brothers, all real theoretical physicists are anarchists."


-Bob Laughlin

'Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest'


-Denis Diderot

“Physics is like sex: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”


-Richard Feynman
Memories:46 entries
Interests:150: abstract algebra, ads/cft, alexander the great, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, anonymity, arrow's theorem, artificial intelligence, astronomy, astrophysics, australian labradoodles, axolotls, barcelona, basil, bigstupidwordsthatnooneknows, black hole thermodynamics, boston, bowling, boys in eyeliner, buckaroo banzai, california, category theory, censorship, chaotic eternal inflation, cognitive science, condensed matter physics, condorcet voting, conformal field theory, consciousness, cooking with booze, cooking with garlic, cosmological bubble nucleation, cryptography, dali, daniel dennett, dark energy, david chalmers, devil doll, digital cash, discordianism, duality, effective field theory, electric-magnetic duality, emergence, entertaining people, entp, enumerated powers doctrine, europe, exact sequences, excessive abstraction, finite temperature field theory, freaks, free range porn, free software, girls with glasses, go, greg egan, guiness, hierarchy problem, hiking, holographic principle, hunter s. thompson, i2p, incompleteness, information sharing, information theory, intellectual property, intelligence, irony, jane's addiction, java, jedi mind tricks, john cusack, john linnell, judge diplomacy, justifiable paranoia, k-theory, ken kesey, lawrence lessig, lucid dreaming, m-theory, ma petite grenouille, mathematics, mavans, mental masturbation, meyers-briggs, mountains, mvc (model 2), naturalistic dualism, neal stephenson, negativland, neil gaiman, nonabelian cohomology, nsa, oenophilia, orbifolds, orbital, paradoxes, particle physics, paul erdos, peripateticism, philip k. dick, philosophical zombies, philosophizing, philosophy, physics, plastikman, postal service, provence, pseudonymity, punk rock, quantum field theory, quantum gravity, questions, rails, ruby, san francisco bay area, santa cruz geek houses, sarcasm, seattle, sedition, self-reference, silver nail polish, six degrees of separation, slightly noncommutative anything, snowboarding, springframework, strawberry-banana margaritas, string theory, suicide girls, sun, superconductivity, supersymmetry, temperate rainforests, terry gilliam, the angel problem, the luberon, the pixies, theoretical physics, theory, they might be giants, throwing muses, tom stoppard, travel, unsolved problems, vodka sprites, william s. burroughs, wine, wireless, zen
Schools:Buckingham Browne and Nichols School - Cambridge, MA (1980 - 1989)
Josiah Quincy Elementary School - Boston, MA (1983 - 1984)
Concord-Carlisle Regional High School - Concord, MA (1989 - 1993)
Middlesex Community College - Bedford, MA (1993)
University of California - Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA (1993 - 1998)
Stanford University - Stanford, CA (1998 - 2005)
University of California - Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA (1999 - 2000)
University of Washington - Seattle, WA (2002 - 2006)
Friends:
People136:_swallow, adamas, alexanderwait, alexiflex, aliteraryaffair, allocate, alodyne, amanda42, amberphlame, antoninko, anunnakigirl, beluosus, bixie, blahblahnyborg, bluepoint, bookofchange, boonedog, bram, brianfey, bunpoh, c_dawg, cameo, candid, chronicfreetime, cidr, cjezuaza, cocacolaaddict, combinator, crankyeconomist, crasch, delores, derekja, djos, dr_nebula, duckierose, dyslexia, eaterofhands, ectal, evan, feralboy, fonix, four, friendlyheretic, frogpyjamas, geekdiva, geekgirl08, geheimnisnacht, geltsgirl, gen_bb, giantlaser, glass_half_full, gr0m1t, gustavolacerda, hw, hypnodisc, ideaspace, illuminae, jaipur, jennyneill, jhen, jinian, jope, josienutter, jynxjynx, kalimdor_wilson, kiad, kill, kittenaskat, kitty_scarboro, kr1k, ladytetsu, leeloolala, lickypants, lilpoohbear, limbsoup, liya_rowan, lotusblossom, markand, markle, marzipan_pig, masque__, mathgrrl, mauitian, metaphorge, mmcirvin, mnemophobe, montecook, moonaysl, morghon, mr_bungee, nefarious, nibot, nomi, octet, oranchina, panman, patrick, pbrane, personaljesus, pjammer, poon, pronitrothunder, rasik, renwick, rjl20, rliz, rubylou, sadojewess, saltysea, sapience, simonmclafflin, slit, spiffybee, spoonless, squarkz, starmail, sweet_pickles, sweetgonzotooth, tdj, techstep, timecrash, toddv, tully_monster, tungsten, vaguerant, warhol, warrend, wolffire, xkcd, ydna, yiab, yiyi, z3synchrony, zebulon_y, zille, zulfikar_ii
Communities19:borgian_review, diplomacy, economics, evan_tech, go, lj_maintenance, lj_nifty, lordonroy, loveandacademia, math_help, math_research, mathematics, news, paidmembers, physics, physics_grad, tex_latex, theory_research, virtucomm
Feeds8:chalmers_rss, lawrencelessig, not_even_wrong, prepostuniverse, savagelove, sciam, strings_discuss, theonionfeed
Account type:Basic Account

(more details...)


Create an Account
Forgot your login?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…