As a member of numerous social media sites, I have had to create many member "profiles" for myself. These profiles paint a quick picture of me but don't, obviously, go into details. Here I'm hoping to fill in some of those gaps by telling you (more) about myself from the social networking point of view.

The intention here is to give you an idea of what I'm all about by listing the things that I like, the things that I do, and the things that I recommend. These lists are not meant to be exhaustive and are far from complete. They merely highlight the things that I like, do, and recommend the most. Let me know what you think at ameel [at] insanityworks.org.

In one sentence, who am I?

I am geek, techie, Trekker, drummer & percussionist, skeptic, and MBA graduate.

Things I do:

I drum, read, write, blog, watch TV & movies, listen to music, and surf the 'net. I also like sleeping and am an accomplished sleep camel.

Things that interest me:

Reading (mostly books, predominantly of the science fiction and fantasy genre), music (most kinds, but particularly rock, pop, and alternative), movies (most kinds, but a lot of science fiction), television (most shows), radio (mostly short wave, when I get the time, otherwise podcasts), writing (short stories, blogging), computers (pretty much everything to do with computers), the Internet (most everything), and technology in general (these days: tablet PCs!).

Bands I like:

U2, Moby, Peter Gabriel, REM, Collective Soul, Garbage, Coldplay, Sting, Pearl Jam, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Dire Straits, Goo Goo Dolls, Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruce Springsteen, Junoon, Noori, Vital Signs, and many, many more.

Television shows I like:

Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9), Babylon 5, Firefly, Space: Above & Beyond, V: The Final Battle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Carnivale, Dollhouse, Heroes, The Mentalist, Medium, Supernatural, Sapphire and Steel, Charmed, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Lie to Me, Perfect Strangers, Boston Legal, Whose Line is it Anyway, Thank God You're Here, Spicks & Specks, Yes (Prime) Minister, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Scrubs, M*A*S*H, The IT Crowd, Frasier, Get Smart, Perfect Strangers, Law & Order (SVU, CI), Matlock, Veronica Mars, CSI, NCIS, Numb3rs, Air Wolf, The A Team, MacGyver, House, Xena: Warrior Princess, Gilmore Girls, Roswell, Eureka, Mythbusters, Top Gear (and associated programmes), The Weakest Link, Parkinson, Looney Toons, Tom & Jerry, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and many, many more.

Movies I like:

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), The Matrix (trilogy), Terminator (trilogy), Star Wars (original trilogy), Alien (series), X-Men (trilogy), Serenity, James Bond (series), Die Hard (series), Indiana Jones (trilogy), Lethal Weapon (trilogy), Men in Black (series), Bad Boys (both), Back to the Future (trilogy), Monty Python (series), Hot Shots (both), Airplane (both), Naked Gun (trilogy), Pushing Tin, Dead Poet's Society, Memento, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather, Spy Game, Sneakers, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Negotiator, The Usual Suspects, The Great Escape, Braveheart, Das Boot, The Incredibles, Fantasia, The Jungle Book, Shine, The Message, Gandhi, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Moulin Rouge, Almost Famous, The Blues Brothers, and many, many more.

Authors I read (and books I like):

Anything by: Arthur C. Clarke (particularly the Rama series), Isaac Asimov (particularly the Foundation and robot series), Frank Herbert (particularly the Dune series), Vernor Vinge, Richard Bach, Michael Crichton, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, and many more.

Websites I recommend you visit:

Google Reader, Skeptoid, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Airliners.net, PakPositive, Ain't it Cool News, Slashdot, Engadget, CNET, ArsTechnica, Web Worker Daily, Lifehacker, Joel on Software , GottaBeMobile, jkOntherun, Tablet PC Review, Student Tablet PC, Overheard in New York (and its associated network sites), Cracked.com, YouTube, PhD Comics, User Friendly, xkcd, Questionable Content, Comics.com, GoComics.com, Neurotically Yours, Angry Alien, RedBubble, I Can Has Cheezburgr? (and its associated network sites).

Blog posts I recommend you read:

Netcasts I recommend you listen to:

Everything on the TWiT network ( I particularly enjoy TWiT, Windows Weekly, net@nite, and Roz Rows), Skeptoid, the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, the Skeptic Zone, and most things on ChannelFlip,.

Mailing lists I recomment you subscribe to:

MaxBarry, Snopes, MIT's Technology Review, The Internet Oracle, SciTech Daily.

My current favourite quotation (usually my e-mail signature):

Some days you are the bug. Some days you are the windshield.

More of me on the Internet:

	RT: Personal blog			LinkedIn profile			Flickr Photostream
	ACME: Professional blog			Google Profile			Picasa web albums
	Twitter stream			Facebook profile			RedBubble profile
	Delicious bookmarks			FriendFeed page			YouTube profile
	StumbleUpon profile			Google search results			Wikipedia profile
	Digg profile			Yahoo! search results
	Google Reader shared			Live search results

[Last updated: 29 March 2010]