Val Delane
Directory

valdelane0 at gmail, Facebook, Goodreads, Google+, LinkedIn, PicasaWeb, Twitter,

Keywords

Acceleration, Algorithmic Art, Androgyny, Anomaly Detection, Artificial Life, Augmented Reality, Autodidacticism, Awareness, Behavior, Biotechnology, Bodywork, Brainstorming, Buying Low, Camping, Cautious Optimism, Civil Liberties, Coffee, Coherence, Collaborating, Communicating, Cooperating, Creating, Cross-Domain Synthesis, Culture Jamming, Curiosity, Cyborgs, Cycles, Deep House, Deft Handling of Dangerous Things, Desert, Designing, Diversity, Dorkiness, Dreaming, Driving, Droid, Drumming, Dystopias, Eating Tentacles, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elegant Solutions, Emergent Behavior, Encouraging, E-Prime, Evolutionary Computation, Experimenting, Exploring, Extropians, Extropy, Faces, Facilitating, Falsifiability, Fire, Flow, Free Markets, Funky Breaks, Futurism, Geekiness, Gender, Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Engineering, Going Slightly Out of the Way to Step on Crunchy-Looking Leaves and Kelp Bladders, Gracious Interaction, Harmony, Healing, Here, Hiking, Holism, Honesty, Hugging, Human Factors in Technology, Hybrid Vehicles, Immune System, Improving Processes, Independence, Integrity, Interpersonal Neurobiology, INTJ, Intuition, Investigation, Joy, Juggling, Knives, Language, Laughter, Listening, Lolcats, Loyalty, Lucid Dreaming, Mad Scientists, Mashups, Mettā, Misusing and Repurposing Tools, Motorcycles, Movement, Motion, Mudita, Nanotechnology, Negotiating, Nondualism, Now, Ocean, Offshore, Pattern Recognition, People Watching, Perception, Perl, Perpetual Activation, Perspicuity, Perspective, φ, Physics, π, PowerShell, Preparedness, Psytrance, Racquetball, Rare Events, Readiness, Reductionism, Renewable Energy, Reputation Economy, Retro-Futurism, Rhythm, Ribofunk, Road Trips, Routine, Sacred Geometry, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Science, Science Fiction, Screen, Self Defense, Selling High, Sharing, Shiny, Signal Processing, Social Synapses, Solar, Songs About Food, Sousveillance, Space, Spatial Relationships, Speculative Fiction, Splendid Frisbee, Stability, Stompy Boots, Storms, Superlative Service, Sushi, Sustainability, Synesthesia, Synthetic Intelligence, Thresholds, Toys, Transcendence, Transhumanism, Trust, Understanding, UNIX, Utopias, Vata, Vim, Wackiness, Walking, Waves, Wearable Computers, Whuffie, You Are Not Your Tag Set, Zen Buddhism,

Anti-Keywords

Apophenia, Barking Dogs, Bigotry, Coercion, Confirmation Bias, Confusing Causality with Correlation, Corn is the Future, Crustacea, Delusions of Reference, Design by Litigation, Echinoderms, Fear, Fractional Reserve Banking, Ghetto Birds, Gratuitous Beeping, Greed, Hindsight Bias, Laugh Tracks, Leaf Blowers, Littering, Mollusca, Overfitting, Potholes, Premature Optimization, Representativeness Heuristic, Rudeness, Scratchy Tags, Senescence, Survivorship Bias, Theft, Tinnitus, Traffic, Whinging,

Selected Original Writing

Fear, Haiku, Lever, Potential, Ready (with Julia Rader and Kris Manske), Simultaneous,

Favorite Books and Stories

Accelerando (Stross), Annabel Scheme (Sloan), The Annotated Alice (Carroll, Gardner, Tenniel), Artificial Life (Levy), The Caryatids (Sterling), Ciphers: A Post-Shannon Rock 'n' Roll Mystery (Di Filippo), Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (Brownlee), The Design of Everyday Things (Norman), Dhalgren (Delany), The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Stephenson), The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Le Guin), Dragonsinger (McCaffrey), Dragonsong (McCaffrey), Encyclopedia of Thai Massage (Salguero), Feed (Anderson), The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book (Oehler), Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Taleb), Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (Goldberg), A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist (Levine), Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy (Rucker), The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Hofstadter), Makers (Doctorow), Mobile Mansions: Taking Home Sweet Home on the Road (Keister), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Jaynes), Radix (Attanasio), Rainbows End (Vinge), Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (Ruff), The Shockwave Rider (Brunner), Skinny Legs and All (Robbins), Snow Crash (Stephenson), Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way (Tzu, Mair), The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Norretranders), Time Enough for Love (Heinlein), Valis (Dick), Wake/Watch/Wonder (Sawyer), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Pirsig),

Favorite Movies

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), American Beauty (1999), Back to the Future (1985), Being John Malkovich (1999), Benny & Joon (1993), Blade Runner (1982), The Blues Brothers (1980), Chocolate (2008), City of Lost Children (1995), Con Air (1997), Das Boot (1981), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Dr. Strangelove: Or—How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Dune (1984), Fargo (1996), The Fifth Element (1997), Fight Club (1999), Flash Gordon (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Gattaca (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Incredibles (2004), In God We Tru$t (1980), Juyuso seubgyuksageun (1999), Kinsey (2004), L.A. Story (1991), Léon (The Professional) (1994), La Lengua de las Mariposas (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Matrix (1999), Minority Report (2002), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Moulin Rouge (2001), Nikita (1990), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Office Space (1999), The Princess Bride (1987), Repo Man (1984), Saving Face (2004), Seppuku (1962), Star Wars (1977), Tampopo (1985), Tank Girl (1995), The Terminator (1984), Tonari no Totoro (1988), Toy Story (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Vanilla Sky (2001), V for Vendetta (2006), War Inc. (2008), WarGames (1983), Wayne's World (1992), What Dreams May Come (1998), Wo de fu qin mu qin (2000), Yentl (1983),

Favorite Series Shows

Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (reimagined), Better Off Ted, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carnivàle, Cowboy Bebop, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dr. Who, Farscape, Firefly, Fringe, Ghost in the Shell, Glee, Invader Zim, Jericho, Max Headroom, NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek TOS,