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off in the distance you can see a large mountain, where it's quite clear that it is snowing. no question about it.
you hear birds chirping, quite near to where you are--of course, they may be responding to the sounds inside the clearing.
but the much much louder sounds are coming from a nearby waterfall--you can't see it, but it's gotta be big. you could follow the sound if you wanted--there seems to be a path leaving that direction.
there are two other paths leaving the clearing. one is labeled with a sign that says: "the hill school." the other is labeled with the sign: "the hell school."
there's also a small wormhole which seems to connect to a nearby
house.
presumably there's a lot of traffic between the two places?
there's a pile of books, scores, magazines, and random papers scattered all throughout the clearing as well. it seems like there's some vague rhyme and reason to it, but glancing at the topics, there seem to be a few on all sorts of topics. you figure that if you'd look at the most recently read books you'd probably have a better idea of what makes the person in the clearing tick.
there's also a resume that you see. it seems somewhat off in the corner--presumably he has more important things to worry about.
he seems kind of strange.
(warning: links in next paragraphs not yet written! i'll get there soon...)
more obvious is that he's always doing 15 things at once...he starts telling you a story, but then stops and hums a tune. then he starts telling you why nicholas negroponte is a moron, but if you've never heard of him, he starts talking to you about gay politics in late twentieth-century america. then he pauses and starts talking about some obscure theorem from theoretical computer science.
it's obvious that he's rather well read from listening to him, but he tends to go on a bit much, so you start looking at his appearance instead.
he's wearing mostly two colors, purple and a dark turquoise. everything he's wearing seems to be either silk or linen, and contrasts nicely with his hair. he has on glasses as well.
there's a gold ring with an image of a beaver on his right ring finger (the beaver is pointing away from him). on his left ring finger is a silver ring with an ocean wave pattern on it. he's also wearing a pewter pentacle around his neck, and looks altogether more like a neo-hippie than someone who's as classically intellectual-sounding as he sounds like he is.
brian is an old friend from mit whom i used to live with when i was an undergrad. nowadays he works for pointcast, which is an internet news provider.
anca mosoiu (pronounced /m schwa sh oi u/) is my best friend from back when we were at mit. i used to eat with her many times a week for two and a half years, and we went to europe together the summer after we graduated, in 1995. oh, and i'm her inner child, by the way. she just quit working at one wave. (don't blame her for that dreadful name. actually, it used to be business@web, and before that, it was object power. feh.)
daniel is someone i've gotten to know quite a bit better over the last several months; i think we met probably sometime last november, but we became much better friends over the summer. he's switched out of the ee department, quite wisely, and is having much more fun as a multimedia student in the dept. of communications. for some reason, that's in the ag school. he also has a small internet business he co-owns with a friend of his.
there used to be a link to perry finley's page here. but there's not anymore :-( instead, brian has some pictures of perry on his pictures page
my dad works for steelcase, which is the largest manufacturer of office furniture in the world. the r&d server that they have on the web is kinda cheesy (it used to just have the picture of the pyramid), but it is still a neat pic of the building dad works in.
tim is a guy i used to sing with here at cornell. he just left for japan for a program called jet which hired him to teach english to high school students there. in an ideal world i'll visit him next winter or so.
hani graduated from mit this june and it couldn't have happened to someone who more needed to get out of that place. ack. but he's a great guy even so.
nick is a good guy who i met about a year and a half ago. he's a lot cuter than the somewhat blurry picture on his web page would indicate.