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the brandensite

hello and welcome to my website

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apropos of nothing

I live Santa Clara, California – not far from where I was born. I work in IT and make a lot of photos. I'm Jewish. My dream vacation involves sitting at a sidewalk cafe for hours, sipping coffee.

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permanent features

I've created some postcards and now they're just laying around my house. If you send me your address, you will

get a free postcard

Every once in a while I update my ultimate list of the best

storytelling video games

Does it bug anyone else that in English

it's called Saturday

bookmarks

blogroll

Divine (a game)

the brandensite is a vanity project where I collect all of things I've put onto the internet in a big, fat glorification of myself. I've maintained this monument to arrogance in one form or another since I was thirteen years old in 1995. This is my social media.

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older!

I make a lot of photos

I love photography. I love learning about photography and making my own photos. I share my new photos on Flickr almost every day, and I have a photo portfolio website. I will talk about photography at the slightest provocation. This website is one such provocation. Beware all ye who dare:

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nobody cares what music you listen to

My recent favorite musical artists are VNV Nation, The Decemberists, Röyksopp, purity ring, Project Pitchfork, mind.in.a.box, genCAB, The National, Jon Hopkins, and Ott.

I obsess over an extensive, curated, eclectic and growing library of music which is meaningful to me. I put the library metadata online (not the music) and it consists of 18,497 tracks from 2,238 albums from 904 musical artists. Since February 2006, the library has logged 535,369 track plays, or a total time I've spent listening to music:

4 years 34 weeks 5 days 8 hours 32 minutes
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