Piper Afloat
- Astrological Sign: Aries
- Occupation: Pre
- Location: Both Coasts : United States
About Me
Presently working on a multimedia project which could save millions of lives (or at least thousands)... Learning to sail with fellow gimps in S.F. (becoming a handicaptain, ar ar)... Formerly a tech writer documenting a top-o-the-line Java IDE & co-leading the usability initiative... Previously an RN in Emergency, CCU, and Home Care... Before that, an EMT on a small yacht taking an epileptic crewmember and a sociopathic, delusional, drug-addicted captain from Cape Cod to the Carribean... Before that, an aide on a head-injury ward (good prep)... Before that, a cash-register jockey... Before that, hand-rearing abandoned pets in the Middle East... Before that, trailing clouds of glory.
Please come up with a more appropriate name for the ringtoe:
Penultimate pedal peripheral
Interests
- Sailing
- living aboard
- travel
- fixing things
- DC electricity
- woodwork
- travel
- knotwork
- computers
- celestial navigation
- UI design
- HTML
- usability
- travel
- history
- travel
- art & architecture
- archaeology
- literature
- theater
- modern languages
- travel
- communications
- music
- travel
- playing flute
- wishing I could still play flute
- learning theory
- music theory
- psychology
- neurology
- neurophysiology
- fixing things
- endocrinology & nutrition
- anthropology
- international relations
- travel
- vectors
- matrix math
- travel
- wondering if I'll ever reconquer the quadratic equation
- travel
- ... bored yet?
Favorite Movies
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- MIB
- Gods & Monsters
- Saving Grace
- Trainspotting
- Meaning of Life
- Runaway Jury
- Lilo & Stitch
- Maltese Falcon
- Bringing Up Baby
- Shreks
- Head
- Lost in Translation
- LOTR
- 50 First Dates
- Pride & Prejudice w/ Keira
- Serenity (and Firefly)
- Malcolm X
- Gosford Park
- African Queen
- Mulan
- Red Violin
- The Bread My Sweet/Wedding for Bella
- Kiss Me Guido
- ...
Favorite Music
- Anonymous 4
- Bach
- Beatles
- Corvus Corax
- Chopin
- Chapin Carpenter
- Clapton
- Faure
- Fattburger
- Feufollet
- Julia Fordham
- Green Day
- Sonny Landreth
- Mozart
- Monkees
- Rachmaninoff
- Roches
- Santana
- Bob Seeger
- The Who;
- Tubthumping
- Bohemian Rhapsody:
- blues
- Indian fusion rock
- exactly one performance of one opera
- anything you can really dance to
- and I'm learning to like the Dead (aaargh!)
Favorite Books
- Authors:
- Terry Pratchett
- Christina Rodenbeck
- Michael Pollan
- Jane Austen (despite/because of her obsession with money and sex)
- Salman Rushdie
- Jasper Fforde
- Giovanni Guareschi
- Shakespeare (sorry
- it's true)
- Lewis Thomas
- Toni Morrison
- both Gerald and Lawrence Durrell
- Connie Willis
- Neil Gaiman
- Roald Dahl
- Herge'
- JRR Tolkien
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Don Casey
- and
- of course
- Anon.