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Ben has a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts from UCSC, and has worked for years as an theatre electrician and sound designer. Ben also is a musician, and plays clarinet and piano (learning sax and flute). He is particularly interested in media (video editing, compositing, animation, audio, graphics, and audio/video engineering). One of his favorite books is the Yamaha Guide to Sound Reinforcement. Favorite topic? Maybe differential signaling, or video compression (it's all so cool!). Recursion is another incredible topic that can always entertain (in programming of course, but also in video, music, graphics (Escher), and mathematics).
A perpetual pack-rat of firefox tabs (thank you Mozilla team for reliable tab restoration), Ben never stops reading. But the result is that Firefox is always taking up over 400 MB of my RAM. It could be worse -- he could be using IE... °shudder° Seemingly contradictory to his internet-pack-rat nature, Ben is obsessed with efficiency in everything he does, and memorizes keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. He smiles a lot too!

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keyboard shortcuts, efficiency, productivity, video editing, filming, video compositing, media software (FCP / AE / PS / etc), live video mixing, audio editing, audio recording, live audio mixing, electrics (theatre), lighting design, rigging, computers, hardware, storage devices and solutions, teaching, learning, reading, smiling, enjoying life!, everything else that I forgot to list (there's a lot!)