Who Am I?

"I must not fear

Fear is the mindkiller

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration

I will face my fear

I will permit it to pass over and through me

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing

Only I will remain."

I am a twentysomething programmer for a small company in south africa called U.C.S. i am an unreconstructed techie and unrepentant hacker. my programming fluid of choice is coke (aaah, coke) but at a pinch i'd drink tea (with lots of sugar). i consider myself an atheist (strong) and a materialist. politically i would consider myself a left-libertarian. i like to listen to LOUD, heavy music (i do listen to mellow stuff also but not so often - perhaps it explains why i'm not so mellow). i have every ozzy-era black sabbath record, every ozzy solo record, every led zeppelin record including bootlegs, every metallica cd, every nirvana record, everything recorded by l7, everything by soundgarden, stuff by live, skunk anansie's two albums, marilyn manson's last two records, older ac/dc stuff, nin stuff, a few neil young cds, blue oyster cult cds, pearl jam, old leonard cohen records, the new page and plant records, the entire john lennon, bob dylan, doors, bob marley, peter tosh, jimi hendrix, thin lizzy and jethro tull collections, lots of patti smith stuff, lithium and sugardrive (local) cds. i DON'T go to raves but to places that play real music. i also play electric guitar (an Ibanez Artist) (not in a band yet though), and i drive a 1974 white beetle. I like to watch millennium and the x-files (and first wave) but i am a complete skeptic in matters paranormal and extra-terrestrial. i like ALL the star trek series (the original, next generation, ds9 and voyager) and am a big fan of the borg. as far as movies go i like sci-fi (Blade Runner) and horror (Hellraiser). i like reading books that fit somewhere in the sci-fi/cyberpunk/dystopian/fantasy genres (philip k dick, william gibson, george orwell, frank herbert); philosophical, political and (anti-)relgious works (noam chomsky, neitzche, wilhelm reich), funny science fiction+fantasy (terry pratchett, douglas adams) and of course horror (both classic [hp lovecraft, edgar allen poe]) and modern [clive barker, peter straub, anne rice]) - my current favorite books are [the three stigmata of palmer eldritch - philip k dick], [mona lisa overdrive - william gibson], [world orders, old and new - noam chomsky], [farenheit 451 - ray bradbury], [the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - douglas adams] and [the queen of the damned - anne rice]. i also like poetry both written (poe, ee cummings), and sung (jim morrison, bob dylan, leonard cohen). i have also writen a few poems and if you're unlucky you'll get to read some of them. i have no tattoos and no part of my body is pierced (not even my ears).

this picture of jesus dancing is blatantly stolen from <why christians suck> (where i am playing satan in God On Trial - if that EVER gets off the ground!)

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this is my .plan file (finger jamesw@www.us.ucs.co.za):

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we are the borg,          ``          
lower your shields and surrender your ships,
we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own,
your culture will adapt to service us,
resistance is futile.