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Devin

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About Me


Philosophies: Epicurean materialism. Marxist-Leninist historical and dialectical materialism. Nietzschean existentialism. Reductionism, gene-centric evolution, the Tao, Clausewitzian military philosophy. A belief in causality as the only arbiter of the universe. Somehow after all that I'm not a nihilist, have morals, and get out of bed in the morning. That probably all sounds horribly pretentious, but what do you think I do with all my free time other than think a hell of a lot. In case all the hints at being incredibly left wing don't get through to you, I am anti-fascist but man do I love World War 2, and will talk to you about it if you're willing or not. I'm a pretty direct person, but not at all serious. I'm forced to add my opinon of myself comes from a biased source, so it should be taken with that in mind.

My Interests

sleeping, living, video games, history, all fields of science and mathematics, computers, art, music, politics, philosophy, designing things, good times.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

A Perfect Circle, Beatles, Deftones, Dredg, Dragonforce, Faith No More, Hendrix, Hanzel und Gretyl, Isis, Rammstein, Led Zeppelin, The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age & all things Josh Homme, Pelican, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Weird Al, a ton of stuff from the 30s and 40s, Video game music, Wagner, Brahms, Dvorak, Haydn, Bach, Beethoven, let's just say everything.

Movies:

Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bertolucci, Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, Das Boot, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Talvisota, All Quiet on the Western Front, Adam Curtis documentaries, nearly all 1980s action and sci-fi movies.

Television:

Rome, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Trailer Park Boys, The Office, Deadwood, The Outer Limits, other crap everyone watched growing up like the Simpsons. I had an anime phase, until I suddenly realized it was pretty much all retarded.

Books:

Brian Greene, Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Stephen J Gould, Feynman, Noam Chomsky, History & Philosophy, WIKIPEDIA, A Song Of Ice and Fire, I managed to somehow read the Bible.

Heroes:

Richard P. Feynman

My Blog

Free speech goes up in smoke at school

From the Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070620. wpot20/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070620.wpot 20 Free speech goes up in smoke at school Saskatchewan ...
Posted by Devin on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:14:00 PST

fuckin overdue blog

I got back from Europe last month, I was intending to write about it but I was distracted by my busy life of playing Hearts of Iron 2. I actually had a little journal I wrote about every day in before...
Posted by Devin on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:29:00 PST

A few pictures

Frankfurt: Annaberg: Autobahn: Dresden: Sansoucci, Potsdam Berlin Amsterdam: Still in Amsterdam, at the Flying Pig hostel. Good times here man, good times. We leave...
Posted by Devin on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:49:00 PST

we're alive

After 2 plane rides and an unknown number of train rides, plus one bus ride we are in Annaberg-Buchhholz. Traverssed most of Saxony and only got lost twice. I have Daniel's cold. The adventure continu...
Posted by Devin on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

bon voyage

Jesus christ, I had to refresh this screen several times before the huge overlay Telus ad went away so I could see what I'm typing. Some might be aware I soon depart for "Old Europe" as Donald Rumsfel...
Posted by Devin on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:56:00 PST

Making a good sandwich

Making a sandwich: part 1. To make a sandwich, you obviously need bread. Today we will be using the heavyweight class bread, LANDBROT. You can't get it sliced at the bakery because it break...
Posted by Devin on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

Lego Town: a far reaching psyche experiment

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml The article. If you don't read it you won't know what I'm talking about. This was some pretty insightful stuff, and I commend the teachers f...
Posted by Devin on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:56:00 PST

A venture into politics

I got some typical single issue raiser pamphlet in the mail from the Sask party, about a sexual assault scandal involving a NDP member. They want people to write their condemnations and outr...
Posted by Devin on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:15:00 PST

Top Secret

A new power has risen from the ashes of war torn Europe. Since last year groundwork was being laid and justifications created for the invasion of Germany, under the auspices of the Reic...
Posted by Devin on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:03:00 PST

TV

Well brothers and sisters, Rome the series finally ended last night. It was truly the princeps among television, with some of the best acting, best sets, and best stoytelling seen recently. I'm not di...
Posted by Devin on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST