Tabula Rasa : Illumination - Jason

Hometown
Johnson City, New York

Favorite games
Fallout, System Shock, Pirates!, Dark Forces / Jedi Knight, Donkey Kong (arcade version), Tekken, Illuminati, Cosmic Encounter, and Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series

Favorite books
Lord of the Rings, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, The Mote in God's Eye, Discworld series, Amber series

Favorite movies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Unforgiven, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Hard Boiled, The Natural, Conan the Barbarian, The Shining

Favorite websites
Slashdot, Fark, ESPN, Penny Arcade, PVP Online, Yahoo, Google

Favorite bands or songs
Rush, Dream Theater, Miles Davis, Weird Al Yankovic, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Primus, Iron Maiden, to name but a few.

Favorite quote or personal mantra
"Then don't do that."

Previous projects
Underlight, Ultima Online 2

Describe your job
My primary responsibilities are server performance and stability. In addition, I occasionally dabble in AI and other game systems.

Describe your current pc and/or tell about your "dream machine."
My "dream machine" would be a cluster of multiprocessor Opteron servers, say about 1000 processors total, connected via an optical backplane and (naturally) including a terabyte or ten of RAID storage. I'm not sure what I'd do with it, but I bet I could think of something.