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alex

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I have vague hopes of doing something useful and worldsavey in the future, probably involving economics, complex systems theory, and the like...this seems to require learning a great deal more than I know now..so, I continue the long slog to knowledgeville, play with fitnessy things, toy with super neato mathematical modeling in the land of finance all week, and prancefully dance every weekend...

My Interests

mathematical finance, neurostuff, musicness, food, cooking, jazzyness, symphonying, shows, randomness, snuffles, history, philostuff, excermacise, dorkyness.

I'd like to meet:

anyone interesting. Lunch buddies. Dining buddies. Movie buddies. People who excercise common courtesy.

Music:

rachmaninov, mozart, ladytron, dressy bessy, ted leo and the pharmacists, orbital, royksopp, catch 22, dope, mindless self indulgence, lali puna, saves the day, screeching weasel, the queers, the weakerthans, ramones, clash, atom and his package, the Rentals, texas is the reason, moving units, smiths, pixies, cure, sinatra, cursive, bright eyes, commander venus, anniversary, getup kids, faint, adult, joy division,, pulp, suede, Lifetime, alkaline trio, lali puna, freezepop, tracy and the plastics, nirvana, oldies, 80s, dandy warhols, mates of state, weezer, kings of convenience, soviet, sleater kinney, epoxies, chicks on speed, tracy and the plastics, helium, placebo, bach, ravel, debussy, vivaldi, corelli, ella fitzgerald,dean martin, glen miller,libertines,dashboard confessional,even in blackouts,ima robot, chopin, martin marais, berg, scriabin, tchaikovsky,raveonettes, buddy holly, dion and the belmonts,decemberists, french kicks, heatmiser,the rapture,the buzzcocks,desaparecidos, pilot to gunner,my bloody valentine,christian death, the magnetic fields, nirvana, pulp, suede, protokoll, the tears, oasis, the chalets.., more...

Movies:

sabrina, roman holiday, breakfast at tiffanys, an affair to remember, notorious, the grass is greener, donnie darko, swingers, amadeus, casablanca, dirty rotten scoundrels, fright night, night of the living dead, the howling, interview with the vampire, dracula, nosferatu, go, dangerous liasons, beavis and butthead do america, the royal tenenbaums, napoleon dynamite, la dolce vita, bad horror and sci fi movies by the bucketful..

Television:

Buffy, Star trek (tng, dsn9, tos), frasier, Hardball, Daily/Colbert, cartoons from the 80s, sex and the city, scrubs, countdown, pbs, meet the press...

Books:

Poe, kundera, tolkien, godel escher bach, the decline and fall of the roman empire, civilization in the middle ages, neitzsche, dragonlance, seven pillars of wisdom, borges, plath, kafka, lolita, gibbon, cantor, feyerabend, camus, dostoyevsky, voltaire, durant, probability models, nonlinear dynamics (strogatz), bell jar, montaigne, in the wake of the plague, the importance of being earnest, hyperspace, mozart in vienna,the twelve caesars,newtons madness, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, anne rice stuff (its pulp but owell!),partial differential equations for scientists and engineers ( farlow),all those will and ariel durant books, those boorstin universal history books, a cabinet of medical curiosities, confessions of an english opium eater, cookbooks, suspended license... etc...

Heroes:

DALEKS

My Blog

why can’t I leave this blank?

So I am finally well and physically recovered (excepting a few more days of a levaquin course to clear out the bronchitis) from the DoomPlague of last weds-Sunday...and it is 73 out today!  Work ...
Posted by alex on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:16:00 PST

hamsters!

Database programming is so amazingly boring. Sadly, it is occassionally neccessary for me to brush up on my ADO crap and write boring things to do boring things boringly.  It just never feels as...
Posted by alex on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:01:00 PST

Daleks do not take ORDERS

Meep! Things are going.  I should be doing better en clase, but I seem to be surviving at any rate.  Might do a project on neural nets with my old prof, if I am sufficiently unstupid to man...
Posted by alex on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:56:00 PST

awesome

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eISBTBwWKeE   GLORIOUS
Posted by alex on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:03:00 PST

Belgium

Looks like I am going to Belgium for a week, in a week. Apparently mr expert witness dude liked me and wants me to visit and teach his crew things. Then, straight to tejas and kittenhugs after that!...
Posted by alex on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:04:00 PST

Mr. Frumpwick

This week was pretty productive, so yay. Coding was done, and BAE work was done, and there may be something to all this Nomura cat linked variable strike asian put contingent issue bidness. Londoner...
Posted by alex on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:54:00 PST

sleep

I think I slept more or less decently for the first time in over two weeks last night. Definite yay for this.  I keep listening to the new ravonettes stuff on loop, ever since sunday night. Fina...
Posted by alex on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:05:00 PST

jeepers this is confusing

I wish my body would play nice.  Sick for a week, well for two days, sick again for, well coming up to a week, and during the course of a day, WILD SWINGS. I felt like I was going to pass out abo...
Posted by alex on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:56:00 PST

sad kittens

mr butch died! http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007 /07/13/street_icon_mr_butch_dies_at_56/?page=1   sad kittens....
Posted by alex on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:03:00 PST

fabulosity

mmm girls and mmm boys, the fabulous boston dining week has returned! Who is going to come munch with me? http://www.opentable.com/promo.aspx?m=7&ref=1348&pid =90   mm hmmm. The trick is t...
Posted by alex on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:41:00 PST