User:Memory palace

'Hi, my name is Carol. I am an information junkie.' (Hi, Carol.)


 * I've been using the Internet since June 1994. My first email address was "wade@oswego.edu," my handle at my alma mater, SUNY Oswego. I'm a writer, old-school Netizen, professional technologist, and occasional artist and musician (I play bass guitar, violin, and some percussion).


 * I've been editing Wikipedia entries since 2006. I'm still learning & working out the intricacies of Wikipedia participation; I find the whole process extremely gratifying. I'm always seeking to become more involved with the Wikipedia community (hence this page, finally, after remaining anonymous until May 2010).


 * I like keeping a low profile (when I'm not floridly parading myself before millions of people on the Internet).


 * I like noticing and correcting minute grammatical, factual, and statistical errors.


 * I enjoy spontaneous road trips, live concerts, and dancing in faraway places (which, at times, include the inside of my mind).


 * Long Island City, NYC is where I call home. It’s pretty great. I won a NYC housing lottery. Yes, it happens. I was born in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, and grew up in Elmont, NY on the Queens / Long Island border.


 * One of my proudest contributions to Wikipedia is the profile picture of Jon Fishman playing with Phish, which I took at Madison Square Garden on December 3, 2009.


 * My username, Memory Palace, is a mnemonic device that uses the spatial relationships of objects (physical, mental, digital, etc.), to establish, order, and recollect, past, present, and/or future phenomena. I first heard it used in the context of a rhetorical commentary on the future of cyberspace, loosely connected to the short literary work of the same name, in the 2000 documentary about my favorite author, William Gibson, called No Maps for These Territories.

My primary interests include:

Architecture

 * Art Nouveau
 * Bauhaus
 * Classical
 * Modern
 * International Style
 * Philip Johnson
 * Le Corbusier
 * Mies van der Rohe
 * Eero Saarinen
 * Postmodern
 * Zaha Hadid
 * Rem Koolhaas

Art & Art History

 * Art Dealership
 * East Asian Art
 * Ancient and Dynastic Asian Sculpture
 * Tibetan Art
 * Modern Art
 * Art Movements
 * Bauhaus
 * Cubism
 * Dadaism
 * De Stijl
 * Fluxus
 * Futurism
 * Minimalism
 * Sol LeWitt
 * Pop Art
 * Pre-Raphaelites
 * Surrealism
 * Graphic Design
 * Heraldry
 * Typography
 * Photography
 * Renaissance Art

Business

 * Entrepreneurship
 * Startups
 * Financial markets
 * Decentralized finance
 * Securities trading
 * Music Industry
 * Music Production
 * Record Labels
 * Factory Records

Languages

 * Dutch
 * English
 * Critical Theory
 * Etymology
 * Philology
 * Semiotics
 * German
 * Latin
 * Sanskrit
 * Swedish
 * Scandinavian languages
 * Tibetan
 * Welsh

Mathematics

 * Chaos Theory
 * Fractal Theory
 * Pythagorianism

Media

 * Books
 * Reference Books
 * Dictionaries
 * Almanacs
 * Atlases
 * Non Fiction
 * Science Fiction
 * William Gibson
 * Film
 * Ingmar Bergman
 * Terry Gilliam
 * Stanley Kubrick
 * Martin Scorsese
 * Ridley Scott
 * Television
 * British Comedy
 * Classic TV

Music

 * Classical Music
 * Chamber Music
 * Electronic music
 * Chiptune
 * Electronic Dance Music
 * Drum and Bass
 * Jungle
 * Dubstep
 * House
 * Electro (the sub-genre I am most strangely sensitive about, in terms of what's totally amazing & what's absolutely grating, intolerable crap...)
 * Funky
 * Progressive
 * Tech
 * IDM
 * Ambient House
 * Glitch
 * Experimental Music
 * Musique Concrète
 * Twelve Tone
 * Frank Zappa
 * Film Soundtracks
 * Indonesian Gamelan
 * Jazz
 * Free Jazz
 * New Wave
 * Rock & Roll
 * Art Rock
 * Classic Rock
 * Hardcore Punk
 * Improv Rock
 * Phish
 * Indie Rock
 * Math Rock
 * Noise rock
 * Krautrock
 * Prog Rock
 * Punk Rock
 * Post-Punk

Philosophy

 * Consciousness
 * Postmodernism

Psychology

 * Mental Illness
 * Psychopathology
 * Recovery

Scandinavian History & Culture

 * Iceland
 * Norse Mythology
 * Sweden
 * Swedish Design
 * Swedish Language

Science

 * Astronomy
 * Cosmology
 * Biology
 * Genetics
 * Human Sexuality
 * Marine Life
 * Microbiology
 * Geography
 * Cartography
 * Geomapping
 * Geology
 * Gemology
 * Physics
 * Astrophysics
 * Particle Physics
 * Quantum Mechanics

Spirituality and Occultism

 * Astrology
 * Eastern Religion
 * Buddhism
 * Zen
 * Tibetan Buddhism
 * Vajrayana
 * Gelug School
 * Nyingma School
 * Dzogchen
 * Hinduism
 * Ayurveda
 * Yoga
 * Iyengar Yoga
 * Taoism
 * Tarot
 * Wicca

Sports

 * Ice hockey
 * Soccer / Association football
 * FIFA
 * World Cup
 * English Premier League

Technology

 * Electronics
 * Computers
 * Hardware
 * Networking
 * The Internet
 * Blogging
 * Cloud computing
 * Internet Culture
 * Internet Radio
 * The Worldwide Web
 * Programming
 * Cryptography
 * Blockchain
 * Cryptocurrency
 * Machine language
 * Artificial intelligence
 * Machine learning
 * Deep learning
 * Electronic musical instruments
 * Mobile Devices

Writing

 * Non Fiction
 * Journaling
 * Journalism
 * Poetry

The minute I figure out how to make this page more interesting, I'll do that. Until then, thanks for stopping by.