Hi, I'm Ben Sibelman. Welcome to my website.

My resume

My environmental blog (post comments!)

Contact: E-mail me at , or call me at (818)421-5859, or IM WeirdBen.

The facts:
      I graduated from Pomona College in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in computer science (an odd concept, but appropriate enough, since I want to do artistic things with my computer skills). I also double-minored in math and environmental analysis.
      I'm currently working at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where I contributed in a minor way to the latest release of Windows Live Photo Gallery. This fits in fairly well with my interests in computer graphics and art, though not so much with my other major passions, science fiction and environmental issues, which I will try to continue in my free time.

Personal mythology:
      I'm one of the many incarnations of Captain Obvious, whose sole superpower is the ability to force people to come to grips with facts that are really, really obvious but inconvenient. In this incarnation, Captain Obvious is a Little Green Man: little because I weigh only about 54 kilograms (120 pounds), green because I care deeply about the fate of Earth's biosphere.
      Like Ford Prefect, Captain Obvious is from the planet Betelgeuse 5, which is where he learned to disable Somebody Else's Problem fields. They don't have sarcasm on Betelgeuse 5, so don't be surprised if you talk to me and I don't notice when you're being sarcastic.

Here's a picture I took of myself with my "hyperspace transportation device"
(a klein bottle stuck through a Ramagon tesseract), as well as my trusty towel.