mrkvm

I'm a software engineer living in Colorado with my wonderful wife and toddler-age daugther.

I'm an avid music fan, lover of sci-fi, comics (superheros comics mostly of the DC variety and a wide range of other comics styles), and other nerdy pursuits.

I'm also a bit of soccer fan. I mostly follow the MLS league in the United States along with the United States national team. I occasionally pay attention to some of the goings-on in the European leagues and competitions.

I have rather diverse music tastes, but it's very much rooted in underground/indie/alternative music. I like everything from quiet, folky stuff to abstract ambient sounds to all different sorts of electronic music.

The best way to get an idea for my music taste is to take a look at my Last.FM profile here: http://www.last.fm/user/mrkvm

Lost, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy

(Favorite authors, really): Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Lian Hearn, Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, Robert Charles Wilson, Kage Baker, Junot Diaz, J. K. Rowling, Matt Fraction, Bryan Lee O'Malley

"Anything now is acceptable, such is the need for novelty. It has revealed that there was never taste, just habits. Now there are only waves of enthusiasm that break and sink into the sand, in endless procession." -- Squarepusher

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

The Big Lebowski, Wings Of Desire, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, In The Name Of The Father, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Hero, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, The animated films of Hayao Miyazaki