~ LISTEN

M: Lord of the Rings

L: Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse

~ READ

M: Magician: Master
Raymond E. Feist

L: Good Omens
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

~ PLAY

M: World of Warcraft

L: Civilization IV

~ BELGARATH

MB: ASUS K8N-DL
CPU: Opteron 250
MEM: 1GB ECC
HD: RAID1+LVM 300GB
OS: Gentoo Linux (Hardened, PaX, SeLinux)

~ XTHEN

MB: DFI nF4 SLI-DR
CPU: Opteron 170
MEM: DDR 1GB (400)
HD: 250GB/250GB
VGA: GeForce 7800GT
OS: WinXP/Xubuntu

~ MITHRANDIR

MB: DFI nF4 SLI-DR
CPU: Athlon64 X2 3800+ (+300 MHz OC)
MEM: DDR 1GB (400) (+60MHz OC)
HD: 250GB/250GB
VGA: GeForce 6800GT
OS: WinXP/Gentoo-x86/Gentoo-x86-64/Gentoo-Hardened

~ COMICS

Nodwick & FFN
InkTank
PvP Online
Ctrl-Alt-Del
/gu comics
Looking For Group
xkcd
WtF Comics
Penny Arcade
Dork Tower
FoxTrot
I Can Has Cheezburger?

~ BLOGS

Contrary Brin
Paul Graham
Cooking for Engineers
Robin McKinley's Blog

Mike
:. Vital Stats
I'm a fairly normal but geeky software engineer. I enjoy reading, gaming, music, and spending time with Laura. I also spend a great deal of time practicing Tibetan Qigong.
Laura
:. Vital Stats
Who am I? Uh, yeah, good question... My offline name is Laura, and I live and work in the craziness of Silicon Valley. My online name is Laranth. In my head, sometimes I think I'm a dragon. Thus, the name.
Ok, now you're asking "Where'd the dragons come from?" I blame it on all those fantasy books I read as a teen. I was impressionable. And dragons just stuck. So anyway, online and in my head, there's [[ dragons ]] lurking about.
I like scifi/fantasy, it's good for both escapism *and* for looking at the society you live in from a different angle. Like, say, what would happen if people had telepathy. Would people fight less or more? That kinda thing. So I've read a lot of books, and I had pretensions of being an artist. But now, I work in computers.
I've graduated from the EECS program at UC Berkeley. I'm currently employed as a Hardware Engineer for nVidia.
In my free time, I still read, but now I mess around on my computer much more than before college. I play computer games like World of Warcraft, and I design webpages, and I occasionally code random projects. Oh, and I pretend I know what I'm doing on Linux.
Wait, almost forgot something. Or rather, someone. Very important. Mike. My husband. My sweetie. No, you can't have him. He's *mine*.
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