Vital Statistics

  • Current Residence: Providence, RI
  • Hometown: Jamestown, ND
  • Other Places: Minneapolis, MN; Tokyo, Japan; Chicago, IL
  • the glorious days of summer

    Children: Mizuki, 9 years

  • Relationship Status: Married to Tomoe Ohga Samuelson
  • Activities: Road Cycling, Bike Commuting, Gardening, Eating, Drinking
  • Interests: Technology, Science, Skepticism, Politics, Music
  • Favorite Music: Scott Walker, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Fred Frith, Frank Zappa, The Fiery Furnaces, Melvins, Melt Banana, Jacques Brel
  • Favorite TV Show: The Wire
  • Favorite Movies: Playtime, Jacques Tati; Iranian cinema, especially Abbas Kiarostami
  • Books That Influenced Me:
  • Lord of the Rings – some guy
  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever – Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
  • Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Candide – Voltaire
  • The Trial – Franz Kafka
  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air – Marshall Berman
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion
  • Allegories of Cinema – David E. James
  • Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes) - Abe Kobo
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Snow Queen – Hans Christian Andersen
  • Cosmos – Carl Sagan
  • The Third Chimpanzee – Jared Diamond
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus – Charles C. Mann
  • His Dark Materials, especially The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
  • College:
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus ‘90
  • Media Arts, Film Studies
  • High School:
  • Jamestown High School ‘83
  • Current Employer: CVS Caremark Corp., CVS/pharmacy Advertising; January 2004 – Present
  • Position: Web Applications Developer
  • Location: Woonsocket, RI