Friends

Dec 2002

San Diego, CA

3Dsolve, QDesign, Be, Red Storm Entertainment, Virtus, Adobe Systems, Emerald City Software, Mediagenic, Silicon Beach Software

http://profiles.friendster.com/fboosman

Entrepreneurship

agnosticism, alphabetizing lists of interests on social software profile pages, aspirational marketing, bicycling, blogging, Buddhism as a philosophy, Canada, cooking, craftsman homes, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, foreign language study, France, hiking, Japan, marketing, my friends, my kids, the Pacific Northwest, the Singularity, skiing, soccer, social software, travel, video game design, writing

1984, About a Boy, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Complications, Cryptonomicon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Deepness in the Sky, The Demon-Haunted World, The Diamond Age, Dune, Ender's Game, The Forever War, Freakonomics, Gdel Escher Bach, Godforsaken Sea, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Into Thin Air, A Long Way Down, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Pattern Language, Quicksilver, Schindler's List, The Singularity Is Near, The Tao of Pooh, What's Bred in the Bone

Aliens, Animal House, Bend It Like Beckham, Black Hawk Down, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, The Bourne Identity, Chasing Amy, The Empire Strikes Back, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gladiator, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, The Last Samurai, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lawrence of Arabia, The Matrix, Napoleon Dynamite, The Princess Bride, Schindler's List, Serenity, Shakespeare in Love, State and Main, Stranger than Fiction, The Tao of Steve, Walk the Line

Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, The Cars, The Corrs, Sheryl Crow, Dido, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Sarah McLachlan, Moby, No Doubt, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Police, Spoon, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Talking Heads, U2

30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, House

Capricorn

Anyway you look at it, I'm a bundle of contradictions. I love to cook for friends and family, but if it's just me, and there aren't any leftovers, it's a protein shake for dinner. I love to ski, but know that I have little talent for it (and don't particularly care). I can be a wimp about the cold, but one of my goals is to summit Kilimanjaro. I think cigarettes are a blight on the modern world, but enjoy a good Cohiba now and then. I speak French, Russian, and Japanese with good accents, but my vocabulary in each is terrible, so I quickly get myself into all sorts of trouble. I think hiking is great, and try to get out every weekend, but when night comes, there's nothing like a warm bed in a cozy room. I'm disappointed to see the US-centric homogenization of world culture, but it sure is cool to have Starbucks in Tokyo. I love watching movies, but despise broadcast television. I'm fascinated with and admire many foreign cultures, but worry about the long-term effects of immigrant populations that don't assimilate into their adopted countries. I was born in California and reside in North Carolina, but feel truly at home in the Pacific Northwest, despite having lived there less than two years. My entire career has been based on computing technologies, and I don't go anywhere without my laptop, but I sometimes wonder how much net benefit we derive from personal computers. I'm grateful for having been born in the US, but often think I might be happier someplace kinder and gentler. I'm agnostic, but want to make the Kora, the Tibetan trek that is said to cleanse past sins. I find that as I cast off possessions, I become happier, but that doesn't stop me from being attached to my iPod.

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