dequinixEIGHT :: about

the site ::

The two-thousand mile reboot. The two year reboot. The twenty year reboot.

After spending eleven years, I had a change of venue approximately one year ago. The transition from Houston to New York City, give or take a rough estimate of two thousand miles, was initially a bit awkward: paying $1.75 for Snapple was never my idea of home. But the Big Apple grows on you, and now I can't imagine living anywhere else in the near future.

It's been two years since I launched dequinix.com. It's a cyber-observation deck: the man on the street corner, the woman on the subway chair, they all belong here. The stories I tell, the theories I may postulate, the bullshit I may splurge, they also belong here. A mental playground of sorts, only believe half of what you read; the other half is there for testing purposes—We hope you pass.

It's been twenty years to this day, August 28, 2001, that I was born. Mathematically, it doesn't make sense that I feel like I just turned eleven. But it's cool like that: I'm sure in twenty more years, I'll be juggling market figures in one hand and trying to kick asses of anonymous pre-pubescent teenagers in Counter-Strike IX. And it'll still be all good.

And the picture. A reboot story of its own. Lost in Brooklyn, post-Cibo Matto Concert, August 3rd, 2001. Lorimer Street station. 3AM. I was just a tad bit scared, that's all. The world is upside down when you don't know your location in this world. The J train showed me the way back to Fulton Street.

the creator ::

Rahat Ahmed. 20. Born August 28, 1981 in a hospital somewhere in the highly populated city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. I came to the United States in July of 1990. Moved to New York City in August of 2000 to attend Stern School of Business at New York University. Undergraduate Program. Sophomore currently. Double majoring in Finance and Information Systems, and as of now, intending to minor in East Asian Studies, with a concentration in Mandarin.

I like romantic walks on the beach, tantalizing conversations regarding the heated competition in the console gaming industry, Radiohead, New Order, obscene amounts of Korean Pop (S.E.S. anyone?), Murakami books to spend the night with, gaming to the uber-teenth degree, kimchi and sushi.

contact info ::

AIM: dequinix
ICQ: 7436450
email: rahat@dequinix.com

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