Matt Magri

This is all pretty new to me, particularly since I'm kind of a private person. If you have any comments or suggestions for improving this space, please pass them on to magri@anarcho.com. At this point the main purpose of this page is to have some searchable spot that old friends and acquaintances can use to find me again (and, I suppose, for like-minded strangers to "meet" me), but I don't rule out the possibility that it might develop into something more generally useful someday. ;-)

Interests

• Doin' the parent thing (pretty satisfying stuff so far)
• Anarchocapitalism (and other areas of political theory)
• Usenet (a wide range of groups, but particularly talk.politics.theory)
• Reading (SF books, comix, political theory stuff, and lots of periodicals like Reason, Liberty, Freedom Network News [ISIL], Access to Energy [OISM], Home Power Magazine, Flying, The American Spectator, Conservative Chronicle, Skeptical Inquirer, Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, Kitchen Garden, Yankee... as well as more propeller-head-oriented stuff like UNIX Review and Internet World. I also like to return to Shakespeare whenever the opportunity presents itself.)
• Talk radio (Ron Smith [available via RealAudio, 3-6pm, M-F], David Brudnoy [east coast, AM1030 7-mid, M-F], Neal Boortz [east coast, AM750 11pm-2am, M-F], Dr. Laura Schlessinger [too Internet-phobic to have her own webpage, but you can try this site or that site], and a bunch of other folks that I get to listen to less frequently).
• Old movies (getting Turner Classic Movies has made this a lot easier to pursue)
• Some TV (Babylon 5 and the mysteries on A&E [Poirot, Miss Marple, and, usually, the Tuesday night selection].)
• Programming (so sue me... my day job is Unix system administration/security, so what do you expect? I'd better like programming in that line of work! ;-) )
• Movies that are unintentionally entertaining (while almost any movie does this a bit, I'm talking about the over-the-top examples. Plan 9 From Outer Space is a classic of this "genre" but, personally, I prefer to savor the less-cited Gymkata and, of course, the extremely rare but very amusing The Creeping Terror.

Favorite SF Authors

• Roger Zelazny (anything, altho the later, collaborative books didn't please me as much as his earlier stuff, I must admit)
• Neal Stephenson (Snowcrash is must reading. The Diamond Age is highly recommended, as well).
• E. E. "Doc" Smith (the Skylark and the Lensman series... lots of fun!)
• You can look for your favorites here.

Favorite Little Kids Cartoons

• The Busy World of Richard Scarry (produced by CINAR, seen on Nickelodeon)
• Rupert (produced by Nelvana, seen on Nickelodeon)
• Little Bear (produced by Nelvana, seen on Nickelodeon)

Favorite Netscape Fonts (Options->General Preferences->Fonts)

• Lucida (B&H) for the proportional font
• Lucida Sans Typewriter (B&H) for the fixed font

For you search engines out there: Those happy days of my childhood were spent in Shelton, CT (the part near Jones' Tree Farm). I passed my college years tolerably at the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut [ UConn ] (class of 1984). Time spent sitting quietly in rows with age-sorted kids chiefly occurred at Shelton High School (class of 1979) and at St. Lawrence School, in Huntington, CT.