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real name: Paul Geffen


current location: Boston, Massachusetts
previous locations include: Port Washington, New York, Princeton, New Jersey, Wayland, Massachusetts, Danbury, Connecticut

on Twitter as @LPGeffen and @Triadex and others.

interests: Musicology great pianists ECM Records technology

contributions to this site

On Wikipedia since January 23, 2006.


Baptised by Horace_W._B._Donegan in Bronx, New York, on 25 September 1955.
former member of Association for Computing Machinery


student of Alexander Technique
student of yoga
former student of Contact improvisation and Authentic Movement
practice vipassana meditation
Anglophile
discographer of Sviatoslav Richter
fan of Miles Davis
fan of Elton Dean
fan of Monty Python's Flying Circuses
fan of The Prisoner
fan of The Firesign Theatre
fan of XKCD
fan of Peter Greenaway
fan of Stanley Kubrick
fan of D. H. Lawrence
fan of T. E. Lawrence
fan of Ezra Pound
fan of Robert Lowell
fan of Harry Mathews
fan of Thomas Pynchon
fan of Jacob van Ruisdael
fan of Piero della Francesca
fan of Tom Lehrer
fan of Peter Schickele
fan of Richard Thompson
fan of Leonard Cohen
fan of Jonas Hellborg
fan of Brian Eno
fan of Bill Frisell
fan of Donald Knuth
fan of M. C. Escher


I have met these people:
Forman S. Acton, Anne Azéma, Will Berger, Peter Bergman (comedian), Stephanie Blythe, Zsolt Bognár, Don Buchla, Malcolm Cecil, Richard A. Clarke, John Chowning, Daniel Cohen, Joel Cohen, Aaron Copland, Patricia Craig, Quentin Crisp, Michelle DeYoung, Disque Deane, Ron Della Chiesa, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Asher Fisch, Barney Frank, Bob Frankston, Maxwell M Geffen, Michael William Gilbert, Robert R. Glauber, Jay Gonzalez, Greer Grimsley, Marc-André Hamelin, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Speight Jenkins, Bryn Terfel Jones, Margaret Juntwait, Mitchell Kapor, Steven Karidoyanes, Robert J. Lurtsema, Stephen Lynch (politician), Tod Machover, Benoît Mandelbrot, Peter Max, Sherrill Milnes, Jay Hunter Morris, Frank Moss, Lisa Mullins, Garrick Ohlsson, Gerhard Oppitz, Ray Ozzie, Deval Patrick, Philip Proctor, Steve Roggenbuck, Jonathan Sachs, Edgar Schein, Daniel Seltzer, Jean Shepherd, Dana Sheridan, Stuart Skelton, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Jo Spier, Jared Spool, Richard Stengel, Jeffrey Ullman, Gottfried Wagner, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Edward Yourdon, Francesca Zambello, and Benjamin Zander.

Howard Bellin, Arend Lijphart, Kenneth MacCorquodale, Hans Maeder, Merle Middleton Odgers, Richard Plant (writer), Grete Rikko, Benno von Wiese, and Stefan Wolpe were on the SS Rijndam (1951) with me in June of 1956.

I have studied with Harbhajan Singh Yogi, and with Henepola Gunaratana at the Insight Meditation Society