User:Bradley Buri

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

My name is Bradley Buri and I am an infophile. I've engaged in the pursuit of knowledge since I began reading as a young child. I was a voracious reader, and put to use whatever books I could get in my hands. My father was a computer programmer and therefore we had a "home computer" in 1983, when I was just four years old, and I developed a knowledge of basic computer programming at a young age. He also bought our first video game system (a Mattel Intellevision) and video gaming became a hobby which we both keep up with today, although with varying degrees of enthusiasm. My mother was a nurse and I was quite fond of reading her old nursing textbooks. (What I could understand of them anyway.) My parents also bought a VCR while I was quite young, and thus began my love affair with the cinema. It was slow going at first but in more recent years has become quite cultivated. As an adolescent I developed a taste for music as well, moving away from the pop sensibiilities that my mother instilled and the western tastes of my father, to a more alternative and classic music scene. In high school, I continued my pursuit of literature, music, video games, and film, and at the same time became more involved in the school and local theatre companies. This led to quite a comprehensive knowledge of acting styles and technical theatrical techniques and equipment, which I continue to use today as I am a freelance theatre technician. In college, I continued my obsession with knowledge by pursuing mathematics, history, literature, the sciences, whatever class there was to be taken, I probably did. I went so far as to develop an interest in quantum mechanics and multi-dimensional theoretical physics (an interest mind you, nothing that I will probably contribute to this site), and eventually got a degree in philosophy with and interest in metaphysics and analytical philosophy. Now I continue to read whatever I can, whenever I can. Novels, philosophical works, comic books, essays, CD booklets, magazines, historical accounts, old textbooks, I can't get enough. (One has to do something while sitting in a light booth during down time, right?) As long as the information is out there, I'll continue to pursue it in all of its forms.