speak.to

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Member for:
5 years 37 weeks

Location:
Washington, DC

About me:

I develop and manage the speak.to web site. I work for a computer company as a graphic designer and web developer, and I live in an old townhouse in Washington, DC. Feel free to ask about anything else you'd like to know.

My email address is dale[at]speak[dot]to. You can also use the Contact form to send me a message.

Favorite things:

Activities: Bicycling, attending concerts, seeing films, visiting museums, reading, hiking, horseback riding, camping, travel.

Music: Beethoven, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Michael Franti, Macy Gray, Nina Hagen, P.J. Harvey, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Thelonious Monk, Morphine, Van Morrison, Bob Mould/Sugar, New Order, Parliament/Funkadelic, REM, The Replacements/Paul Westerburg, Silversun Pickups, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Steely Dan/Donald Fagen/Walter Becker, Sekou Sundiata, Cassandra Wilson.

Books: Aztec by Gary Jennings. Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, and The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel. Neuromancer, Idoru, and Virtual Light, by William Gibson. Chaos by James Gleick. A Forest of Kings by Linda Schele. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

Movies: Rang De Basanti, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lord of the Rings (all), films by Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Rope), films by Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Iron Giant, The Fifth Element, Brazil, Austin Powers, October Sky, Amadeus, Blade Runner, Pi, Twelve Monkeys, Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia, Touch of Evil, Metropolis, Svengali, The Great Dictator.