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Real name: Paul Geffen


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

Formerly 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 Andrei Tarkovsky,
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, Robert Gates, 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.