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Adam Eivy

Web Development at ShadowPuppet, LLC

Seattle

About:
Adam Eivy is a Web Developer who creates user interfaces and media delivery services on the web. He has extensively worked with Flash, AS, JS, AJAX, XHTML, CSS, DHTML, Illustrator, Photoshop, Debian and Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and W3 web standards to deliver high quality web sites with marketable user interfaces.

Ideology:
Rationalist Transhumanist Atheist Individualist with Collectivist ambitions, Interplanetary desires, Technocratic leanings, and a longing to prove hyper-dimensional supernature as science rather than mysticism

Interests:
Languages, Mandarin Chinese, German, English, AI, Cryptography, Encryption, Open Source, Tactile, Linux (Ubuntu and Debian mostly), Security, Hacking, Web Development, UI, UX, Math, Traveling, Environmental Design, Windmills, Alternative Energy, Space exploration, Information, Movies, Books, Comics, Photography, Complex Network Models, Circuitry, Dreams, Sleep, Science, Seattle, Go, Chess, Unicycle riding, Juggling, Acrobatics, Street Performance, Graffiti, Social Landscapes, Music, Playing accordion, Playing Guitar, Playing Harmonica, Bleeding edge, Arrays, Evolution, Freedom Revolutions, Parkour, Atheism, Rationalism, Humanism, Collectivism, Individualism, Futurism, Technocracy, DIY, Solar, Sustainability, Cyberpunk, Dystopian Remix, Steampunk

Favorite Foods:
Sushi, Smoked Salmon, Thai food

Favorite People:
William Gibson, Richard Dawkins, Myself, Jeff Noon, Al Gore, Anyone who has given a TED Talk (ted.com)

Favorite Movies:
“Akira”,”Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control”,”The Fifth Element”,”V for Vendetta”

Favorite TV Shows:
“Cowboy Bebop”,”Elfen Lied”,”Max Headroom”,”Samurai Champloo”

Favorite Music:
2 Raumwohnung, Air, Allegri, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Folds (Five), Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Cardigans, Deathcab for Cutie, Decemberists, Earlimart, Eisley, Goldfrapp, Gotan Project, Ladytron, Lhasa, Pink Martini, Portishead, Postal Service, Radiohead, Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Weezer, Yann Tiersen

Member of Groups:
GSLUG (Greater Seattle Linux Users Group)

Favorite Quotes:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to make the world adapt to him; all progress in the world, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man” — Bertrand Russel

“Is it not enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are little fairies at the bottom of it too?” — Douglas Adams

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
– Isaac Asimov

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
– Cory Doctorow

Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet
– unknown

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
– Tom Cargill

Favorite Books:

‘The God Delusion’ -Richard Dawkins,
‘Time Enough for Love’ -Robert Heinlein,
‘Neuromancer’ -William Gibson
‘The Portable Athiest’ -Christopher Hitchens,
‘Nymphomation’ & ‘Vurt’ – Jeff Noon
‘Small Gods’ -Terry Pratchett,
‘Red Mars’&’Green Mars’&’Blue Mars’ -Kim Stanley Robinson,
‘Cryptonomicon’ -Neal Stephenson

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