Fil Salustri's Profile

I'm a design methodologist and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Adjectives that describe me include: secular humanist, meritocrat, and long-winded. Some people call me a positivist too, as if that were a bad thing. Go figure.

I am interested in Design,the web,Science Fiction,and Life,The Universe,and Everything.. My favorite music are Sarah McLachlan,Barenaked Ladies,Bruce Cockburn,UZEB,Black Eyed Peas,Avril Lavigne,Hugh Marsh,Alexander Zonjic,odd songs here & there by Eminem,Gwen Stefani,Skye,BTO,Eagles,Quincy Jones,Art of Noise,Billy Joel,Britney Spears (really),Doobie Bros,Human League,Saga; 40's-60's jazz esp Jobim,Fitzgerald,Gershwin,Brubeck,and Baker. Occasionally enjoy 70's rock and 80's new wave.. Movies: Casablanca,Near Dark,Secretary,Star Wars (Ep 4),Serenity,Appleseed,La Femme Nikita (original),The Fifth Element,Night of the Living Dead (original),The Matrix,Blade Runner,Croupier,Jaws,Raiders of the Lost Arc,The Fountain,The Mummy,Airplane (I & II),Young Frankenstein,Spirited Away,Howl's Moving Castle,Akira,Nausicaa. TV: BSG,House,Rent-a-Goalie,Fringe,Boston Legal,CSI (original),Huff,Grey's Anatomy,SG-1,Firefly,Corner Gas,Six Feet Under,Lost. Books: Neuromancer,Burning Chrome,Cryptonomicon,Snow Crash,Mind Hacks,Foucault's Pendulum,No Logo,Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures,Wraeththu,Pattern Recognition,Godel Escher and Bach,Slant,Neverwhere,In Defence of Elitism,The Blind Watchmaker,Atlas Shrugged,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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