Stuart Robinson

PhD Student

Unix, Monkeys, Robots, Midgets, Kung Fu, Linguistics

White Noise, Solaris, Waiting for Godot, the entire Sci Fi Masterworks Series

Abre los Ojos, The Matrix, Bladerunner, Enter the Dragon, Sexy Beast, La Femme Nikita, Apu Trilogy, Old School

Blur, The Pixies, Radiohead, Tricky, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Massive Attack, The Walkmen, French Kicks, Pulp, Dandy Warhols, Coldplay, Outkast

News Radio, Buck Rogers, Thundarr the Barbarian, Six Feet Under

Blah blah blah. I was born in Germany, but raised in the USA. (My parents aren't German, just in case you're wondering. My father was in the military and stationed in Stuttgart at the time.) Various years passed. We moved around a lot. I went to college, starting at UCSC but finishing at Reed, where I got a degree in linguistics, and then went to grad school in Australia, where I got another degree. Two degrees seemed like too many at that point, and I was getting more interested in computers, so I moved to San Francisco and
joined the dotcom bubble as a programmer. The bubble burst, as most sensible people predicted, and I got tired of programming professionally. Fortunately, an opportunity presented itself for me to take up a PhD fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (aka, Holland). So now I'm here working on describing
a Papuan language spoken in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, which is
famous for having the world's smallest phonemic inventory: only 5 vowels and 6 consonants! Supposedly, it's in the Guinness Book of World Records!

Bender from Futurama