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About Me

last modified: 2002-03-25

I am 20 years old, and 6 feet 3 inches (about 190 cm) tall. I lived with a cat for as long as I could remember (which makes sense, since I was about a year and a half older than her) until July 1997. I also lived with a dog, mostly beagle, which we got in October of 1995. Fortunately for me, a cat person, I left the dog behind when I went to college.

So anyway... I am a cat (person), fascinated by anything mystical, which currently includes philosophy, ethics, psychology, poetry, art, computers, video games, science fiction, fantasy (the unreal), transformation, and modern physics. I like anything chaotic as well, such as fire, water, glitter, rain falling on puddles, breaking glass and ice, snow or leaves in the wind, and screensavers (so much so that I'll have to switch to a dull blank screen when I get a job.) I also love anything fast... cars, computers, video games. I built a reasonably fast and cheap computer in October 2000, which handles all of my work with 99.5% of its time spent idling (except when I'm running the GIMP to do some heavy image work.)

I enjoy nature, too. There is a surreal beauty in the woods that can't be transferred to film or paper, because those aren't as immersive: they can't carry the sound, scent, and presence, only the sight. This nature-love shows through in my poems.

I'm attracted to the unknown and the mysterious, and I love to drive other people crazy at times.

As for humor, I enjoy puns, paradoxes, and irony, and I'm often sarcastic (which gets me in trouble online...) This goes with the fascination with the mystical. {Interestingly, humor is also chaotic, since it depends on being spontaneous: a joke isn't funny when it's explained, because the connection isn't instantaneous. Similarly, once the connection is made, the humor value decreases, since it (the connection) is already present the next time.}

If you haven't noticed, I'm continually interrupting myself (like this), so I parenthesize a lot. The curlies {} are used when I'm planning on diverging, like in the humor discussion above.

Since what I like is only part of the picture, I added what I don't like. I don't like George W. Bush, who led Texas to the top of the charts for pollution and backed out of the Kyoto Protocol (although that may have been the right thing to do, in which case I don't like the media for not focusing on why the protocol was broken). I don't like Hillary Clinton (who, unfortunately, is my senator, theoretically representing me after spending eight years as First Lady and some time in Arkansas.) And I can complain, because I voted against both of them.

Let's see if I can mention this without going into lecture mode... I can't stand it when people confuse "you're" and "your". Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!! Other things on the annoy-list are people who can't turn left (get in the turn lane and THEN slow down!), low-fat foods (you can't take 50% of the fat out of an 80% fat salad dressing and still expect it to taste good), and Windows {Linux is easy to make too secure; Windows is nigh impossible to make even pretend-secure.} The only foods I've ever met that I actually hate are sauerkraut and cranberries.

I'll try to keep the computer discussion short. I have a 900 MHz Athlon on an Asus A7V motherboard, with 256 MB PC133 SDRAM, 15GB 7200rpm ATA-100 hard disk, internal ZIP-100 disk, and 32/10/4x CD burner. I'm planning on switching to a Soyo Dragon+ board with 512MB of DDR memory when I get enough money together to do it. It all runs under the watchful eye of Red Hat Linux 7.0 with some random additional software (most notably, kernel 2.4.17 and Mozilla 0.9.9. Don't use the 2.4 kernels on a system unless you absolutely have to.) The whole system can boot up (to the console) in under one minute.

My favorite Web browser (everyone needs one!) is Mozilla, although I randomly advocate Lynx to annoy people. Lynx is text-only.

And here's a shot of my computer screen (from Linux) as I was coloring the were-demon a year ago (which has still not been finished):

I scaled it down to the point where it should fit relatively nicely on 800x600 screens; full size is 1152x864. I also shaded the windows in the upper right so that the unicorn could show... that wallpaper is a picture from Jewel.

On a more personal note: I used to include at this space the most wonderful thing I ever experienced. But now, I can't decide on which is the most wonderful; of the things I'll mention, the sensation of touching someone's heart and of having a prayer answered are top contenders. Also fighting for dominance are a couple of my favorite foods, which are more like drugs to me... but everyone who needs to know about them does.

While I am more than my sexuality, leaving it out of an About Me page would be incomplete. I do not really exist within language; although I am comfortable being male, I refuse to conform to the stereotypes that go with it. I crossdress a little, and I have no desire to pass as a woman. I am sexually attracted to women. Almost everyone is cute. I have loved more men than women. Trying to bring out my "feminine side" also makes my masculine characteristics stronger, and vice versa.

I am also a little into BDSM play. I am naturally submissive, although I can be dominant as well. Yet I prefer not to take the negative connotations that come with being labeled as a switch. Nor do I accept or give humiliation or pain.

I prefer to think that love is an individual thing; not only is one's concept of love individual, but one falls in love with an individual rather than all members of a particular sex or gender. Maybe there are no words for my sexuality, but that just means that I am free to be myself rather than someone's expectations based on my label.

Enough about me. I'm sick of talking.

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