I have been facinated with breakdancing since i was very young, I remember seeing it on tv and in movies before i was 10 years old. When I was about 13 I started trying to break, but being fairly isolated in small town iowa, there was no one around to help me out. I continued to teach myself to break until I was 16 and living in east centrel Phoenix, AZ. My neigborhood in phoenix was the perfect place to continue my breaking activities, I met many friends who were breakers, and ended up breaking with HTO - Hard-to-Oppose and CRK - Crucial Rockers. When I moved back to Iowa, I started a youth hangout spo (thebeatbox)t in a basement of a building on the town square. The Beatbox started with breakdancing sessions 3 times a week, and a saturday night jam once a week. Over the next 4 years, The Beatbox turned into a massive community project, providing comprehensive youth and technolgoy resources to the whole community. Check out the following for more info on my breaking and Beatbox activities.

roland's break pics

thebeatbox.org

Basially, enabling computers to work together.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ - the new shit

http://komodo.thebeatbox.org - the beatbox is working on an experimental cluster project

http://www.google.com/jobs/eng/prod.html - google uses 100,000 + servers to provide the google search application

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ - the plan9 operating system

SETI = Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence,

http://seti.thebeatbox.org

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, AMD64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.

I install FreeBSD on most server systems that I work on. I also use it as a desktop OS for my laptop.

http://freebsd.org

Breakdancing, Emceeing, DJing and Graffiti