Poseur.com
My name is Edwin Watkeys, and I'm a philosopher-artist-programmer who pays the bills by helping businesses design products, human organizations, brand identities, and so forth. I live in – and work out of – Philiadelphia.
About me
- Name
- Edwin H. Watkeys III
- Contact information
- 215-694-4201
edw@poseur.com - Hometown
- Old City, Philadelphia, PA
- Education
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 1991 to 1995-ish. Philosophy major with a concentration in aesthetics and a minor in computer science. Got distracted by a start-up and didn't get around to finishing.
North Penn High School, Lansdale, PA. 1991.
- Political views
- Tediously nuanced
- Religious Views
- Turtles all the way down
- Activities and interests include
- Biking, backpacking, hiking, swimming, hanging out at cafés, walking, photography, music, philosophy, art, design, architecture, programming, user experience design
- Favorite music includes
- The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Laura Marling, The Decemberists, Neko Case
- Favorite books include
- Infinite Jest, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut), The Death And Life Of Great American Cities, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman), The Age of Wonder (Holmes), The Timeless Way of Building (Alexander)
- Quotations
"Any [programming] language that has no side effects can only heat up your computer" –Unknown, via Rich Hickey
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." –Van Gogh
"Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice." –Wallace Stevens
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." -Complètes de Buffon
"Gets hard to guess the best way through/The thing to do if none of this is true/I wish I knew how to undo/The knot I tied in you..." -Robert Smith, Signal to Noise
"Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German." -Molly Ivins, of Buchanan's 1992 Republican National Convention speech
"Don't try." -Charles Bukowski's gravestone
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -Louis D. Brandeis
"...[H]e was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune’s cruelest agents as well." -Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster…when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back." -Nietzsche
"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It will be apparent to all who have given the matter superficial consideration—the only kind of consideration the matter merits—that beach volleyball is unworthy of the Olympics." -Troy Patterson
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards." -William Francis Butler
