Dan Novak

United States

Not much of an artist, though I appreciate good art. Not Art With a Captial A, mind you. I like neat, clever, colorful, and interesting more than pretentious.

I'm an "instructional technologist" with a company that develops training for other companies. My main gig is making e-Learning courses talk properly to stubborn learning management systems. I dabble in a bit of everything. Or, as one of my old bosses said "Not a jack of all trades, more like a six or seven".

Personal heroes: Johann Sebastian Bach, Jeremy Clarkson, Alan Turing, Claude Ostyn, Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Stephen Fry, Dara O'Brien and more. Anyone that bucks the trend and does what they do best, without letting it get to their head. (Maybe not so much true for Jeremy Clarkson, but I appreciate someone who doesn't let other people tell them what to think)

Current Residence: Mystic CT
Favourite genre of music: Classical, Minimalist, Progressive Rock/Metal, Ambient, World Fusion
Favourite style of art: Abstract, Fractal, Industrial Design (e.g. exhibit at MOMA), Kinetic Sculpture (e.g. George Rhoads)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
MP3 player of choice: iPod/iPhone
Shell of choice: Windows cmd, cygwin, bash
Favourite cartoon character: Firecracker, firecracker, siss boom bah! Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny, rah rah rah!
Personal Quote: [R]eality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman

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