// About

Hi I’m Bruce Webster – husband | engineer | musician | social media advocate | wannabe kayaker |

Thanks for stopping by.

And just to clear up any possible confusion… I’m not that Bruce Webster – the guy from the early days at Apple, or Byte magazine.

What’s with “3 Loops”? – It’s all about the ear man. Isn’t it amazing that the ear lets you listen to all that cool stuff -AND- buried deep in the ear is the central “organ” that provides balance for the whole body?

“The semicircular canals are the body’s balance organs, detecting acceleration in the three perpendicular planes. These accelerometers make use of hair cells similar to those on the organ of Corti, but these hair cells detect movements of the fluid in the canals caused by angular acceleration about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the canal.”

– From HyperPhysics/Sound/Ear – Georgia State University

Hmmm coincidence… I think not.

Politics – I’m basically non-political but if someone wanted a summary… I’m a fiscally conservative, bleeding-heart independent.

Music

  • Tower of Power
  • Miles Davis
  • Weather Report
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Steely Dan
  • The Meters
  • Santana
  • Yes

Books / Authors

Recent Reads:

  • The Tipping Point
  • Freakonomics
  • This is Your Brain on Music
  • Musicophilia
  • Why Geography is Important

Issac Asimov – the master

  • The Foundation series
  • The Robot novels

Frank Herbert – another master. Dune

William Gibson – started my romance with cyberpunk

  • Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive

Bruce Sterling – The Difference Engine (with William Gibson)

Pat Cadigan – another of the cyberpunk authors

  • Synners / Mindplayers / Fools / Tea From An Empty Cup

Neal Stephenson – got hooked originally through Snow Crash and Diamond Age. Working my way through the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World)

Anne McCaffrey – ok I admit it… I love the Dragonriders of Pern

J. K. Rowling – Yep, I anxiously awaited the arrival of each of Harry Potter books

Food – I love the stuff… probably too much

  • Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (Guy Fieri)

Podcasts / Podcasting – I got hooked early on, mid-2004. RSS + audio what could be cooler. A couple of questionable attempts at starting my own podcast continue the cycle of procrastination. This year for sure.

TV - I watch too much but I love HDTV (and the sound, the sound). And DVR helps skip most of the commercials

  • The West Wing – watching the reruns is a family ritual. Don’t you wish politics was more like this?
  • 24 – Jack is back…
  • Fringe – feels a new-generation version of the X-Files
  • The Unit
  • Heroes
  • Sanctuary
  • Dr Who
  • Bones
  • House
  • Battlestar Gallactica
  • Firefly – gone but not forgotten, maybe the best SciFi series ever.
  • Damages