Some stuff about me, by Don Hopkins.
- I live the way I type: fast with a lot of mistakes.
- I love to code. I enjoy learning and using programming languages,
designing software, and reading writing and debugging code. I'm into user
interfaces, graphics, languages, image processing, networking, hypermedia,
multimedia, advanced research, product development, and lots of stuff in between.
- Some languages I've used enough to know well:
Bounce.
Java.
ScriptX.
NeWS.
PostScript.
Forth.
C. C++. Lisp. Scheme. Logo. Pascal. Basic. TCL. Csh.
Various assembly languages.
Lots of random scripting languages.
- Some other languages I've just studied and think are cool: Self.
Eiffel. Dylan. Objective C. Smalltalk. Prograph. ToonTown. KidSim.
Hookup. Max.
- Some langauges that are lame: C++. JavaScript. Perl. Pilot. Prolog.
Mocklisp. Duke Nukem Script.
- Reading: Philip K Dick. Stanislaw
Lem. Fredrick Pohl. Scott McCloud. Ian Banks. Lots of others...
- Movies: Zardoz. Wallace and Gromit. Star Wars. Planet of the
Apes. Dr Strangelove. Animal House. Tank Girl. The Deep. Blade Runner. Buckaroo
Bonzai. Pink Panther. Independence Day. The Never Ending Story. Terminator.
Cheech 'n Chong. Star Trek. Fried Green Tomatos. Alien. Monty Python. 2001.
Mel Brooks. Brazil.
- Music: Here's some of the music I like. I have a wide but weird
range, but here's what I can think of off the top of my head, in no particular
order: Primal Scream. Beatles. Butthole Surfers. Herbie Hancock. War. Laurie
Anderson. The Who. Art of Noise. Xixxo. Pete Shelly. African Head Charge.
Bob Marley. Traffic. Yello. Doors. Rolling Stones. Crosby Stills & Nash.
Jane's Addiction. Ludwig van Beethoven. James Brown. Negativland. Grateful
Dead. Thelonious Monk. Jimi Hendrix. The Clash. Devo. They Might Be Giants.
Jefferson Airplane. Buzzcocks. Gong. Cypress Hill. Brian Eno. KLF. George
Clinton. Pearl Jam. Simon and Garfunkel. King Crimson. The Monkeys. Johann
Sebastian Bach. Frank Zappa. Eric Clapton. Steely Dan. The Cure. Philip
Glass. Eurythmics. Peter Gabriel. Dead Kennedys. The Band. Nine Inch Nails.
Rush. Enya. Nina Hagen. Human League. Bootsy Collins. Led Zeppelin. Indigo
Girls. Pink Floyd. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Thomas Dolby. Yes. Jello Biafra.
Einstrürzende Neubauten. Bob Dylan. The Knack. B-52's. Talking Heads.
Kraftwerk. ELO. Nirvana. Jethro Tull. The Residents. Beck. Moody Blues.
Deep Forest. Oingo Boingo. Dead Milkmen. Tom Petty. Santana. Depeche Mode.
Aretha Frankllin. Beach Boys. Jean-Michel Jarre. I lied about thinking of
these off the top of my head: actually I browsed around on
Yahoo
to remind me what I like.