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All About Al

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About Me

.. ..Carefully selected words to describe me: Clever, Entertaining, Fun-loving, Humorous, Compassionate, Confident, Audacious, Intelligent, and Virtuous.
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself." -Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
A quote that rather defines my life:
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much of the stories in the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positive fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the State through lies. It was a crushing impression. Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude towards the convictions which were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude which never left me, even though later on, because of a better insight into causal connections, it lost some of its original poignancy. - Albert Einstein
A Eunuch's Dream by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ

You are all invited to... My Party!

My Interests

conversation, culture, DMB, Evolution, food, humanity, idealism, learning, live music, movies, outdoors, paleontology, philosophy, reading, science, sports, teaching, travel, Umphrey's McGee, University of Michigan, wine

My Team, Who Dey!!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who thinks they share an interest with me and people in Ann Arbor who relish living. I love to travel, maybe I'll be in your neck of the woods soon.

Music:

Umphrey's McGee, Dave Matthews Band, Dave and Friends, Galactic, Sound Tribe Sector 9, John Butler Trio, Nirvana. Damien Rice, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, The Black Crowes, ekoostik hookah, Dark Star Orchestra, Jazz Mandolin Project, Yonder Mountain String Band, Moxy Fruvous, The Refreshments, 2pac Shakur, The Word, Widespread Panic, Phish, North Mississippi Allstars, Warren Haynes, Govt Mule, Particle, The (Grateful) Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, Nelly McKay, The Whoa Daddies

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Check out this photo of Sweeney of ekoostik hookah from the HoB in Cleveland:

It was a great show but not as good as the Southgate House and Blind Pig shows (never see a show at the HoB). It was great catching the last run of hookah before the split. I got my live music/dancing fix and now I can get back to work.

Movies:

Recently viewed good flick: Children of Men

Television:

No thank you.

Books:

Let's just say that I keep myself busy with this one.

Heroes:

Edward O. Wilson, Carl Sagan, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Steve Gould, Jim Shafer, Granny D, Marianne Williamson, Howard Dean, Cindy Sheehan, Arianna Huffington, Jack Kerouac, Mother Theresa, Plato, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Tupac Shakur, Pope John Paul II, Lao-tzu, Bob Marley, Thomas Huxley, Abraham Lincoln, Alfred R. Wallace, The Dalai Lama, My mom