Albert Lash

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This site was last updated April 18, 2009 - Happy Springtime.

My name is Albert L. Lash IV (Alby Lash) and this is my web site, thank you for looking at it.

I live in Quincy, Massachusetts. The South Shore continues to treat me fine. I'm currently working at a great internet engineering company, Savonix Corporation, offering IT and professional services, hosting services, prepackaged and custom software, and industry solutions. We're also working on web applications for the banking, retail, higher education, real estate, and health care industries. These products include for Uplink ™ interactive floor plans for facilities maintenance and space management, Upsell&trade for marketing, and Update&trade for sales management, among others. Check out a online banking website, or a retail marketing blog I contribute to.

Reading is my favorite hobby. I just finished "Response - The Complete Guide to Profitable Direct Marketing" by Lois K. Geller, "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell, as well as "How to Sell Well - The Art and Science of Professional Selling" by James F. Bender, which I highly recommend. Other notable books I've read recently include "Why We Buy", by Paco Underhill, "Crossing The Chasm", by Geoffrey A. Moore, "The Psychology of Everyday Things", by Donald A. Norman, "Succeeding in Corporate America - A Case Study of a Black American Against the Odds", by William R. Spivey, Ph. D, and "Bankers In The Selling Role: A Consultative Guide To Cross-Selling Financial Services" by Linda Richardson. Fiction is great too, I recently read "Kite Runner", by Khaled Hosseini, and the classic "Bonfire of the Vanities", by none other than Tom Wolfe, both of which I loved. Other books in the past that I have read, and I apologize to the authors for excluding their names, include: Les Miserables, Kryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Barrel Fever, Neuromancer, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, Too Far Afield, The Da Vinci Code, The Code Book, A Confederacy of Dunces, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Soul Mountain, The Death of Vishnu, The Diamond Age, The Proving Ground, The Tooth Fairy, The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Stream Lined Baby, Galatea 2.2, The Active Side of Infinity, The God of Small Things, The Entrepreneurial Age, Malcolm X, The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Life of Milarepa, Norwegian Wood, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Gantenbein, American Foreign Policy Since World War II, The Optimists Daughter, Letters to a Young Poet, Gilgamesh, Beyond Good and Evil, Animal, Zoo, The Feast of The Goat, A white merc, Naked Lunch, Siddhartha, Are You Experienced, We Die Alone, Tell Me A Riddle, Barrabas, Ender's Game, A Personal Matter, The Blue Nowhere, Vernon God Little, and Catcher in the Rye.

Listening to and creating music is also a passion of mine. An incomplete list of musical artists whose works I greatly appreciate includes: Nino Rota (think La Dolce Vita), Aceyalone, Wu Tang, Primus, RJD2, The Venga Boys, TV on the Radio, Black Flag, The Misfits, Blondie, Mobb Deep, especially the new track Kanye produced - throw your hands in the air, Daft Punk, Bjork, Paul Oakenfold, Herbaliser, Frank Zappa, Luke Vibert, The Hives, House of Pain, Jaffa, Jeff Buckley, Jem, Jinx, John Coltrane, KMFDM, Kid Loco, Coldplay, Beatnuts, Kind Sunny Ade, K & D, Lemon Jelly, Lord Finesse, Mozart, Machines of Loving Grace, Manu Chao, Mary J Blige, Massive Attack, The Meters, Miles Davis, Milk, Ming & FS, Brand Nubian, Zero 7, X-Press 2, Wynton Marsalis, Wolfgang Dauner, Weather Report, Wilco, Ween, Warlock Pinchers, Violent Femmes, Underworld, Various Artists, Amom Tobin, Andrea Parker, Aphex Twin, Antonio Vivaldi, Angelo Badalamenti, Andy Votel, At The Drive In, Automator, Baby Mammoth, Bach, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Badly Drawn Boy, Bauhaus, Bally Sagoo, Barrington Levy, Bang on A Can, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Sidran, Bernard Purdie, The Beta Band, Big Boys, Billy Goat, Sprawl, Binary Star, Bizet, Black Sabbath, Black Uhuru, Blackalicious, Blind Melon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Caldwell, Bobby Hutcherson, Boom Boom Satellites, Bruce Springsteen, Bullinuts, Bullfrog, Bunny Wailer, Carol King, Cassius, Cal Tjader, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Chris Clark, Cibo Matto, Cinematic Orchestra, The Clash, Cold Cut, Cujo, Crazy Town, Cypress Hill, Dambuilders, David Axelrod, David Gray, Dead Can Dance, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Del, Descendents, Dexter Gordon, Divine ÂStyler, Dilated Peoples, DJ Food, Dinosaur Jr, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, DJ Premier, DJ Logic, DJ Vadim, DJ Wally, DJ Ideal, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Radar, Doc Watson, Doctor Octogon, Don Byron, Dr. Dre, Ultramagnetic MC's, Dropkick Murphy's, Dynamic Syncopation, Eminem, Eddie Henderson, Eligh & Grouch, MF Doom, KMD, MF Grimm, Enya, Eric B and Rakim, Erik Satie, Erykah Badu, Faith No More, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Fear Factory, Fela Kuti, Fila Brazillia, Finley Quaye, firehose, Flaming Lips, Foreskin 500, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Fugazi, FSOL, G Love, Gabor Szabo, Genius, GZA, Gary Jules, George Acosta, George Winston, Gil Scott Heron, The Goats, Gorillaz, Heiroglyphics, Casual, The Hives, White Stripes, The Killers, Jel, Jimi Hendrix, Jet Jaguar, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Keith Jarrett, Kelis, Chingy, KRS-One, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Peace Orchestra, Theivery Corporation, Layo and Bushwacka, Led Zeppelin, Lamb, Lalo Schiffrin, Kyu Sakamoto, Lee Perry, Living Legends, LL Cool J, Lords of Acid, Ludacris, Louis Armstrong, Lovage, Tomahawk, Parts and Labor, Mamas and the Papas, Marc Ribot, Matters and Dunaway, Ministry, Mister Bungle, Mussogorsky, Moby, Monster Voodoo Machine, Morcheeba, Mr. Scruff, Operation Ivy, N.E.R.D., Nas, N.W.A., Natalie McMaster, Mumbles, Nightmares on Wax, Nickleback, Nice and Smooth, Nine Inch Nails, NoFX, Oliver Nelson, Norah Jones, her father, Orbital, The Orb, Organized Konfusion, Outkast, Orishas, Otis Redding, Peter Gabriel, Pharcyde, Pigface, Pharoe Sanders, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Plaid, Plastikman, Plug, Poison Idea, Polysics, Portishead, Praxis, Prefuse 73, Primus, Prince Paul, Prodigy, Prototype 909, Push Button Objects, Neotropic, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Snapper, Rich Kids On LSD, Roy Budd, The Roots, Sasha, Saul Williams, Sausage, Scott Hardkiss, Seal, Sean Jean, The Selecter, Sepultura, Stefan Grappelli, The Shins, Shuggie Otis, Sidestepper, Sigur Ros, Sisters of Mercy, Slipknot, Sneaker Pimps, Soggy Bottom Boys, Soul Assassins, Soul Hooligans, Souls of Mischief, Soul Coughing, Soul Position, Social Distortion, Space Program x29, Squarepusher, St. Germain, Soundgarden, Sphongle, Steinski, Styles of Beyond, Sublime, Swollen Members, System of A Down, Talking Heads, Talvin Signh, Takako Minekawa, Tenacious D, Them, Tom Waits, Timbaland, Tool, Tortoise, Tosca, Transonic, Tricky, Tyondai Braxton, U2, Twista, White Zombie, Wilco, Yin Yang Twins, 50 Cent, G-Unit, LLoyd Banks, 808 State, Air, All, Daktaris, Richard Devine, Gleise, Q Burns, Offworld Ensemble, Tony Allen, Clappas Riddim, Cleveland Lounge, Hani, and mu-Ziq. Jesca Hoop, too.

Travel is exciting and educational for me. My travels include most of America, Brazil, Bonaire, most of Europe, and Japan. I love my home, Boston, and Maine, California, New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Amsterdam.

I am a graduate of Tufts University, where I received a Batchelor's Degree in Science for my studies in Human Factors Engineering under Professor Kreifeldt. My other studies included art, philosophy, history, writing, religion, languages, and computer science. I have since studied at UMass Boston where I greatly enjoyed and benefited from a class in accounting.