Shava Nerad

ethnotechno.com, Grateful Dead and hippie jam music, blues, jazz, world beat (raw), singing with my son (even though he can't hold a note) every night before bed

too many. Most recently, I have really enjoyed, and have re-read several times, Dewey's Education and Democracy. Currently reading Lewis's Lives of a Cell, and trying to get my son to fall in love with it. My reading is broad and eclectic. Current reading also includes Red Mars series, and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a stranger., The good ones. Hmmm... Most influential might include Mircea Eliade and Chogyam Trungpa on spirituality. Barbara Kafka is one of my fave cookbook authors. More later.

Tampopo. The Matrix (before it got tired). Breakfast at Tiffany's. Year of Living Dangerously. Favorite film in the last few months: Good Night, and Good Luck

I don't own a TV, although I used to work in entertainment marketing. But my son has me watching Buffy on DVD with him, episode by episode, season by season. I will survive. More recently, Firefly. Yum!

Politics, civic engagement (big believer in social capital), science fiction, gaming, history, religion/spirituality, geekiness in various formats, writing, gaming (online, tabletop, strategy, ...), reading, music, cooking, sewing/needlecrafts, geeking around with the computer I built, people watching, striking up conversations on the bus, transforming society

Liberal, currently an active Democrat

Unitarian/Buddhist -- Jewish by birth

DEC, Varian, MIT, UNC/CH, UO, Oregon Public Networking, eMarket Group, and http://tor.eff.org

largely an autodidact. When they hired me at MIT, my manager said, "No degree and a publications list like this? You must be an incredible self starter!" If it's good enough for MIT, isn't it good enough for you?

U-32 HS, E. Montpelier, VT

MIT Science Fiction Society, Democratic Party, MIT Educational Studies Program (Instructor), Progressive Democrats of Somerville, Unitarian Church