Dating Women, Relationship with Women, Friends, Activity Partners

Mar 2003

West Chester, PA

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Cypherpunk

cryptography, security, politics, technology, travel, business, games, science, neuroscience, biochemistry, phenethylamines, tryptamines, aerospace, engineering, nuclear science, rockets, space, current events, politics, industrial music, luxury, liberty

PIHKAL, TIHKAL, CRC, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, The Botany of Desire, Vernor Vinge, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Earthweb, Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Thinking About the Unthinkable, assorted military field manuals, Loompanics

Apocalypse Now, King of New York, Contact, Dune, Godfather, Scarface, 2001, The Matrix, The Doom Generation

Coil, Current 93, Death In June, Nurse With Wound, Negativland, Thievery Corportation, JS Bach, Muslimgauze, Moongod Allah Project, Loreena McKennitt, Miranda Sex Garden, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, New Model Army, Sinead O Connor, Wu-Tang Clan, Gangstarr

(mmm, tivo) History Channel, News, Simpsons, South Park, Mail Call, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage

Pisces

Cypherpunk. Anarchist. Technologist.

I dropped out of high school, went to MIT, got involved with
ecash and cryptography, dropped out, started an ecash
company in Anguilla, got kicked out of Anguilla and moved to
Oakland, started HavenCo, lived on Sealand for a couple
years, and then left. Now I'm working on a couple books,
some startup companies, and traveling. I'll probably go
back to MIT in a year or two, finish up undergrad and get an
S.M. or Ph.D., and then work on a Gerald Bull-style 'Space
Cannon' or other cheap orbital launch system, to put up a
constellation of thousands of low earth orbit communications
satellites, cheaply. Full circle, kind of. Basically, I'm
trying to have end to end security in the face of arbitrary
threats, for communications, commerce, etc. 'That
government is best which governs least', assisted by
technology which makes it impossible to govern ideas and
commerce...

I'm a big fan of media piracy in my daily life; I haven't
paid for a CD or movie in a long time. I like computers,
networks, wireless communications, guns.

Odd facts: I don't yet have a driver's license. I have
replaced all my belongings 5 times in 5 years. All the
physical items I care about fit in briefcase and backpack.
I'd be perfectly happy living my entire life in W and
Mandarin Oriental hotels around the world, but don't have
the cushy consulting job to expense it yet. My priorities
are air, water, power, network, food, shelter, safety,
temperature.

People I can respect intellectually and morally. People who
distrust authority, have faith in the possibility of
technology, and understand that if they don't do it, no one
else will. Self-confidence is important, as is a
willingness to take (calculated) risks in pursuit of goals.

I am really happy to have (again) forsaken 'cute but dumb'
or 'cute but stressful' for people I can actually respect,
or being alone. My 'putting up with bullshit' quota has
been exceeded for the rest of my life; any time I would
formerly have spent being nice to those best described as
'psycho bitches' (male or female) just because they're hot,
is now being spent making money, which will then buy me
quality complex organic molecules, travel, consumer
electronics, firearms, books, and other goods/services for
recreation and joy far in excess of anything resulting from
association with the psychotic and manipulative. Hence, I
have a LOT of time for work these days.