About

Here are a few various and sundry details to give you a better idea of who I am.  Have fun!

Activities:
Mountain biking, swimming, scuba diving

Interests:
Drinking coffee, conversation, practicing my Chinese, reading, putting my feet in the sand and thinking about nothing at all.

Favorite Music:
I have a special place in my heart for The Cure, Depeche Mode, and New Order.

Favorite TV Shows:
SNL, Simpsons, Iron Chef, Battlestar Galactica, Whiz Kids, Connections, Jacques Cousteau, NOVA, Frontline, The Daily Show, The Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Hour

Favorite Movies:
Before Sunset, Bladerunner, Black Hawk Down, Blues Brothers, Chungking Express, Commandante, Die Hard, Dr. Strangelove, Fight Club, Green Tea, Heathers, Lost in Beijing, The Matrix, My Architect, Pi, Strange Days, Something About Mary, Team America, War Games

Favorite Books:
Invisible Cities, House of Leaves, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Private Life of Chairman Mao, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, The Sorrow of War, Theory of the Leisure Class, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Favorite Quotations:
先下后上, Real Artists Ship

About Me:
Son of a high-school English teacher and an Architecture Professor, younger brother of a soldier, and kin to a number of Miniature Schnauzers, born in Ohio, moved to Texas at 10, went to college at 16, graduated in Computer Science from UT Austin, worked in Austin and Silicon Valley before burning out on high tech in ‘99, backpacked around Asia for two years, ended up doing tech again in Beijing in 2002, founded NthCode in 2005 where I work every day to push the company another step in the right direction.