J. Adam Moore is a computer scientist, humorist, and author of the widely unheard of underground smash hit 'The Losers Book of Compromise'. Known as @DieLaughing on Twitter, where he regularly posts excerpts from his book, or random thoughts like 'My ass cheeks are the Lance Armstrong of sitting in front of a computer.' 'Arguing with religious fundamentalists is like trying to convince Santa that children don't exist.' and '"Live off your girlfriend for a while to verify if she will be able to raise your children by herself" my Dad would have said if I knew him.'
He is currently negotiating with a publisher on expanding his first book for reprint. These are some excerpts from a magazine interview on 07/13/08:

When did you first start using computers?
Wow. It seems like my whole life. The absolute first time had to be at Westlake Elementary School library when I was eight years old and in second grade. They had those green screen Apple II's that you could play a game called 'Lemonade Stand' which featured rules unfortunately close to the economic model for selling illicit narcotics.

When did you first know that you wanted to work with computers professionally?
My father had a friend from his church get me a job programming a simple file conversion tool for Stanford's Satellite Development Laboratory. Just knowing that I was helping, even if it was busy work for PhD students... I really fell in love with it.

What has been your favorite job so far?
Well, there's a lot of jobs I can't talk about, but I really enjoyed working at Apple Computer, Inc. Just getting to work with the OS team in the mid '90s was exciting and I'll always remember it fondly.

How did you become involved with Human Behavior Modeling? And what exactly is that?
I like to think that Human Behavior Modeling, or HBM, is measuring and associating the behavior of individuals within groups which allows inferring internal motivation and predicting future action based on aggregate data.

Okay, but what do you do?
I use social networking sites to collect data which I can sell to advertisers and other businesses that believe they can benefit from understanding the shifting of popularity.

So why all the humorous writing? How come you're on Twitter so much? What's that all about?
Geez, I don't know. I do it to relieve stress. I love writing and telling stories because the listener or reader can walk away a completely different person afterward just for being exposed to new information. That always facinated me. So trying to make people laugh is an exercise in spreading happiness through forcing an unexpected perception of the world. I do it because I like it.

What projects are you working on now? What ever happened to all the multi-touch screen stuff?
I have focused more on my pseudo-AI named Machine Hilton. When I was collecting all the social data, I thought the whole data set could use a representative with a name and location. So Machine Hilton is a crowd source AI personality. When you twitter or do anything on a social site that I am tracking, then you are like one aspect of Machine's personality, influencing his behavior subtly.

Where do you see this headed? If you know the future, then what is the next big thing? What stocks should I buy?
I'd tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.