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Alex

Pseudomagnate Philomath

About Me


Your Political Profile


Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal
Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal How Liberal / Conservative Are You?
You are a
Social Moderate
(41% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(21% permissive)
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You are dependable, popular, and observant. Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness. In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.You are unique, creative, and expressive. You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while. And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming! The World's Shortest Personality Test
Your Birthdate: May 25
Your birth on the 25th day of the month (7 energy) modifies your life path by giving you some special interest in technical, scientific, or other complex and often hard to understand subjects.You may become something of a perfectionist and a stickler for details.Your thinking is logical and intuitive, rational and responsible.Your feelings may run deep, but you are not very likely to let them show.This birthday makes you a more private person, more introspective and perhaps more inflexible.In friendships you are very cautious and reserved.You are probably inventive, and given to unique approaches and solutions. What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
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My Interests

Reading, writing, computer graphics, art, music, music sequencing & composing, 3D art and modeling/rendering, history, archiving, science fiction, fantasy, Myst, ... and most importantly, my girlfriend Jordan!

Music:

A great wide range of interests, most notably in Progressive Rock, Ambient, and Electronica.For those more interested: 10cc ABBA AC/DC Bryan Adams The Alan Parsons Project Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe [Yes] Jon Anderson Aphex Twin Aphrodite's Child Asia ATB B-52s Barenaked Ladies The Beach Boys Beastie Boys The Beatles Ludwig Van Beethoven Belle and Sebastian Berlin Black Tape for a Blue Girl Blink 182 Boston David Bowie Michelle Branch Bread James Brown Buggles The Byrds Belinda Carlisle Vanessa Carlton The Cars Gene Chandler Cheap Trick Frédéric Chopin Petula Clark Phil Collins The Cowsills The Cranberries Creed Jim Croce Christopher Cross Taylor Dane Def Leppard Deftones Delfonics Depeche Mode Devo Neil Diamond Dire Straits Disturbed DJ Sammy The Doors Duran Duran Antonín Dvo..ák Eiffel 65 ELO Emerson Lake & Palmer Emerson Lake & Powell 3 (Emerson Berry & Palmer) Enigma Brian Eno Enya Esquire Evanescence The Four Seasons The Four Tops Robert Fripp Peter Gabriel Marvin Gaye Genesis Mark Germani Gigi D'Agostino Howard Goodall The Goo Goo Dolls Grand Funk Railroad Grass Roots Edvard Grieg GTR Guns and Roses Jan Hammer Richard Harris Jimi Hendrix Don Henley Herman's Hermits Joe Hisaishi The Hollies Steve Howe Iron Butterfly Burl Ives J Geils Band Terry Jacks Michael Jackson Jean Michel Jarre Jefferson Starship (Starship) Billy Joel Elton John Jon & Vangelis Journey Kansas Nick Kershaw King Crimson Kool & The Gang Kraftwerk Tim Larkin Led Zeppelin John Lennon Annie Lennox Linkin Park The Mamas & The Papas Barry Mann Bob Marley Matchbox 20 Paul McCartney Men Without Hats Mercy Me Metallica Robyn Miller Moby The Moody Blues Patrick Moraz Mötley Crüe Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Naked Eyes Napoleon XIV Nena New Radicals Thomas Newman Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Mike Oldfield William Ørbit Oasis Opeth The Orb A Perfect Circle Steve Perry Michael Peters Tom Petty Phish Pink Floyd The Police The Presidents Elvis Presley The Pretenders Procol Harum Queen R.E.M. Sergey Rachmaninoff Radiohead The Ramones Maurice Ravel Red Rider REO Speedwagon Return To Forever Righteous Brothers The Rolling Stones Linda Rondstadt Roxette Run-DMC Rush Saga Savage Garden The Seekers Semisonic Lalo Schifrin Klaus Schulze Simon & Garfunkel Simple Minds Dudley Simpson Michael W. Smith Soundgarden Spin Doctors Starcastle Static-X Sting Johann Strauss Jr. Styx Supertramp Talking Heads Tangerine Dream James Taylor Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tears For Fears Third Day Billy Thorpe The Time Lords Tommy James And The Shondells Tool Imahori Tsuneo Bonnie Tyler U2 Van Halen Vangelis Guiseppe Verdi The Verve Antonio Vivaldi Rick Wakeman Jack Wall Joe Walsh John Williams Eric Woolfson Wierd Al Yankovic Yes Young Rascals ZZ Top ...and the list keeps growing!

Check out my own MySpace Music page.

Previous songs played on my page:

Black Tape for a Blue Girl - I Wish You Could Smile
Brian Eno - Needle in the Camel's Eye
Genesis - In the Cage
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Movies:

It is hard to describe all I like. It all depends on a lot of things. I have not seen many movies.

Television:

Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Red Green, Mr. Bean, and a few other sitcoms. Pretty much anything British too.

Books:

Mostly non-fiction of the thousands of subects that interest me, and literature and science fiction/fantasy. I've only read 5% of the books I own. What can I say? I love books!!

Heroes:

Jesus, Constantine, Charlemagne, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Jon Anderson, Brian Eno, ...just a small sample. I have heroes in many of my interests; too many to list here.

My Blog

a hopeful Happy Birthday to me

Happy Birthday to me! The problem that was tearing me apart in the last blog has been finally been solved for Jordan and I by me sitting and discussing the problem. By trying to work on it and checkin...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 25 May 2006 10:07:00 PST

Worried

I wish I could keep a balance of things right now. It's hard for me to talk about things with the complication there is. The best way to describe the situation is that I just wish that everyone could ...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 23 May 2006 09:47:00 PST

Great wonderful surprise

Very exciting news! At least for myself. My laptop just came back from Gateway on Thursday. After booting it up the first time, a great surprise I found. All my files were on the computer and everythi...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:49:00 PST

Recovery

My Gateway Notebook which I have used for two months has finally gone "Blue Sceen of Death" on me! Fortunately, backing up most of my files two weeks ago has made this the least damagin...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:28:00 PST

Midterm

So it's about mid-term time. However lucky for me I will not have any midterms. On the other hand, I have a research paper on Ayn Rand's wonderful novella, Anthem. It is due next week on Wednesday and...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:37:00 PST

Monthly Update

So it's been a month since I've posted a new blog and much has happened since then. The newest thing being the laptop I got about a month ago, which hardly seems to have been that long ago. Even if it...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:00 PST

Spending $700 ?

So the 4 year old laptop that I got for free and has worked fine for the 6 months I've had it, even without a functional CD Drive, has finally given up on life. The parts on the inside ...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:50:00 PST

1st Blog

So this is my first blog. All I know about them is I post stuff and what I think about the stuff I post about. Why is the date and time off?? Anyhow, I'll add more blogs another time. Check back....
Posted by Alex on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:35:00 PST