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al.

I am here for Friends

About Me

I just realised that I took this thing WAY too seriously when I first described myself. You're just gonna have to guess from now on, because that was embarrassing.

My Interests

volleyball. movies. weather. music. electronics. mostly volleyball.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Sleater-Kinney, Coldplay, Luscious Jackson, Fiona Apple, Little League Hero, Nirvana, Blackalicious, Mos Def, Black Star, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Pavement, Sunny Day Real Estate, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Toadies, The Cranberries, Madonna, Pearl Jam ...

Movies:

The Princess and The Warrior, The Professional, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Memento, Pi, Amelie, The Big Lebowski, Little Darlings, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Mars Attacks, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, The Virgin Suicides, Drowning Mona, That Hamilton Woman, Trainspotting, Anything Kubrick or Scorsese.

Television:

The Daily Show, Tough Crowd (admittedly it is hit or miss), Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Significant Others (bring it back, bring it back!), Frasier. I don't watch anything regularly other than TDS and CYE. And I grew up on Family Ties, The Cosby Show and Three's Company if that tells you anything.

Books:

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Feynman); Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein); Zero (Seife); 1984 (Orwell); Siddhartha (Hesse); Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck); The Enormous Room (Cummings); The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger); One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey); The Heart of Darkness (Conrad); A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace). Anything by Steinbeck.

My Blog

guesstimate

Main Entry: guess·ti·mate Pronunciation: 'ges-t&-m&t Function: noun Etymology: blend of guess and estimate : an estimate usually made without adequate information - guess·ti·mate /-"mAt/ transi...
Posted by al. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

gasoline boycott rant

Here's my grievance about the three emails I've received in the last week about the supposed boycott today: A boycott is not going to help. One ought to know a little something about economics, an...
Posted by al. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST