Mail me at jbn [[at]] abreka [[dot]] com

I enjoy listening to Guster when riding the Amtrak; loud, quasi-obnoxious techno music while coding; and Counting Crows during bouts of causless nostalgia.

I think the political spectrum can be best understood as deviations from rationality with the aggregate decisions of (American) liberals and conservatives being nearly equal but opposite in error. I sometimes label myself a libertarian because the other options are more offensive; I am not a libertarian.

I enjoy reading compuslively because of an agreement with Sir Francis Bacon. There is no medium with higher bandwidth than a book for fiction or non-fiction. I get angry at people who get angry at people who say “the book was better than the movie”. Movies are to writen word what masturbation is to sex.

In 2004, I was diagnosed with and treated for a very rare form of cancer called Chordoma. It was not pleasant. Shortly after my surgery, I established a non-profit entity with the sole purpose of finding a cure. Their is currently no cure although there is finally active research.

I have been a computer hacker since fifth grade. I bought my first stock around the same time. I have been doing financial research and modeling since tenth grade. I suppose this was inevitable given my two passions: toying with complex systems and programming. My research has yielded some interesting results and I am currently trading based on the outcome of one specific experiment

I am a graduate (2007) of the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. Although I enjoyed the college experience, I think an undergraduate education is less than useless.

I rock. I would rock more if I was dating Natalie Portman. Someone please get on that.