Links to things that are interesting to me--maybe you'll find something interesting to you.

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Education

  • The University of Maryland - B.A., English Language and Literature, May 2004. Currently working on a B.S. in Computer Science.
  • Gaithersburg High School - Spent a year here.
  • Watkins Mill High School - And three here.
  • Escola Graduada - The school I went to in Brazil.

    News and Politics

    I'm a bit of a politics nerd. Here are some sites I read.

  • Salon.com - Online liberal newsmagazine.
  • Tompaine.com - Progressive public interest journal.

    Computer Graphics and Game Development

    I love making games and playing with graphics. Soon I hope to do it for a living.

  • Flipcode.com - Tutorials on a broad variety of game dev topics here.
  • Gamedev.net - Good all-around game programming site.
  • NeHe - The best place to learn OpenGL.
  • My Coding page - My own work in this field.

    Blogs I Read

  • Discourse.net - Law an politics by a U Miami School of Law professor.
  • Raymond Chen - Good commentary on Windows programming.
  • Talkings Points Memo - Politics and culture, by Josh Marshall.
  • Vice Squad - Blog on issues related to vice law.
  • War Room - A political blog from Salon.com.

    Music Blogs

  • Cocaine Blunts & Hip Hop Tapes
  • Fluxblog
  • Music For Robots

    Comics I Read

    I read an embarassingly large number of comics somewhat regularly. I have them in a     firefox bookmark folder and just hit "open in tabs" whenever I'm bored to read all the updates at once. Favorites in bold. (Disclaimer: Some of these may contain mature content.)

  • Bruno the Bandit
  • Checkerboard Nightmare
  • Diesel Sweeties
  • Least I Could Do
  • Mac Hall
  • OK/Cancel
  • Penny Arcade
  • Dilbert
  • Queen of Wands
  • Scary Go Round
  • Sinfest
  • Something Positive
  • The Boondocks

    日本

    For some reason I'm tremendously interested in Japanese language and culture (but then again, who isn't these days?). I hope to live there someday--at least for a year or two.

  • Japan Guide - Basic information about the country and its people.
  • Web Japan - Japanese government sponsored information site.
  • Regions and Cities - Best part of above--regional map with links.
  • Quirky Japan - The odder side of life in Japan.
  • JET Programme - One way to get to Japan for a few years.
  • Japanese Cooking - 日本の食べ物は、とても美味しいですね。；)
  • History Texts - Online Japanese history books. Very cool.
  • Mainichi Daily News - Somewhat redundantly named English version of the major Japanese newspaper.
  • Asahi Shimbun - Another Japanese paper in English.
  • Yomiuri Shimbun - And another.