About Bhuga
I'm a hopeless vagabond nomad, originally from New Orleans, of late from somewhere new about as often as I can stand it. I live life as heavily as I can handle it, hard work and hard fun. When I decide I'm going caveman on something today, be it some misbehaving servers or a pile of greasy food that mocks the room, daring all to actually finish it, watch out.
The story of my life is either the story of a post-state visionary or a dangerous drifter, depending on how you look at it, and I'd recommend not spending your valuable time to read any such story as opposed to do any of the many interesting things you could be doing. Nonetheless, the internet is full of people who have nothing better to do than not follow good advice, so here comes some info about me.
I have a lot of accounts. I have a Facebook, a drupal.org account, a seasteading.org account and a bunch more I'm not going to bother to type out. You can see a picture of me at Facebook that you can use to determine if whatever you've just found on google by 'me' is by me. You can find me littering mailing lists, web sites, forums, places like flickr, just wherever. Much as I hate to admit it, I gave up on functional privacy years ago.
I have comparatively few aliases. I am Ben by day, bhuga where the internet forces me to be, and Spiderpig when someone's betting me that I could not possibly eat all of that.
The way I eat my way through life is proof enough that I really am a caveman, bhuga, at heart, and that Ben is an alias I use when dealing with the so-called civilized world. When I'm not spearing bears, clubbing females, or protecting my luxurious cave from jealous outsiders, a few long-term interests brighten my soot-soiled cave. They are listed here, so that the kind reader need not enter my cave, which would further spur my cavemen rivals' jealousy. Mind you, bhuga is generally too lazy to start a project he can't imagine finishing, and has thus only touched on several of these topics. Nonetheless, interest remains high.
- Declarative Programming. This is too narrow a term for what I think of when I think of declarative programming. Remember that the ideal programming language is declarative, and it has one program: "Do what I mean;", and the compiler accepts phonetic spellings and has auto-correction for end-of-line tokens.
- RDF. Tying closely in to enabling a declarative world, my only mourn with RDF is that SPARQL is going to get abstracted away by glossy interfaces with curved corners. It's not a bad thing, I guess, and for now I can write my little one-line declarative programs and enjoy myself doing it.
- Behavioral Genetics. Not a topic I'll ever be more than an armchair quarterback in, but one I keep coming back to. I'll never cease to be fascinated by the competition for primacy in natural selection by memes and genes, and it's a field with easily-grokkable new information coming out all the time.
- International Relations. I almost went to grad school for this, and I'm glad I didn't really--there might have been too much self-interest in the status quo for me to come to my current political understandings. Nonetheless, I don't see why politics isn't dinner conversation.
- Economics. One can't study international relations for very long without running into this topic. Man, what a failed science.
- Martial arts. I trained in Taekwondo for several years, and wouldn't you know it, I accidently became a bit competent at it. Nice. Lately I've forgone further training to study the ancient art of being lazy and getting fat.
- Food. I eat like crazy, but I'm not big on fancy stuff. I'm a connoisseur of shady street food. If you can't eat it on a stick, I'm immediately less interested.