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Alejandro the Great

wit is educated insolence

About Me


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I hate talking about myself. My blog is here: The Hallway .

Attempt Number two at a simple, down-to-earth profile. I've been living and working in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island for a couple of years now. I work in IT at a job which I enjoy but have stopped letting my identity be defined by my work.

I've been de-coupling my identity from obsolete attachments and expectations. What I can say about myself is that I am continually driven by a desire to learn and explore. I seek out originality and insightand the charge I get when I find it is what keeps me going. I really enjoy talking to people and hearing stories and arguing about a topic with a view to uncovering some deeper truth that neither would have found on their own.

I often find myself looking up from a book and seeing that the sun is rising, having lost track of time completely. I find non-fiction and history and science litarature at least as engrossing as most novels.

I love listening to a good band when they play live, or walking and walking until I forget where I was supposed to be going, playing and sometimes hosting pub trivia, discovering some new recipe. The only time I start to feel unhappy is if I find myself doing the same thing too often.

My Interests

Politics, Philosophy, History, Computer Science, Music, Guitar, Cooking, Programming, Simpsons, Cartoons, Being Obnoxious, Pub Trivia, Slothfulness, Looking Bemused,Sounding like I know what I'm talking about, Confectioner's sugar

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes floating.

Music:

Queen, Sarah Slean, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Mahler, Nina Simone, Mendelssohn, They Might Be Giants, Moxy Fruvous, Eels, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Shellac, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Beck, Björk, Black Sabbath, Buck 65, Built To Spill, The Cure, Glenn Gould, John Coltrane, Kyuss, Mastodon, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, David Bowie, Dinosaur Jr., Fear Factory, ISIS, Judas Priest, King Crimson, KMFDM, Sonic Youth, Spacehog, Superchunk, Wintersleep

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Almost Famous, Brazil, The Searchers, Godfather, Lord of the Rings, 61*, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, High Noon, 2001: A Space Oddyssey, The Iron Giant, John Carpenter's Vampires

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama, The Daily Show, The Office, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Kids in the Hall

Books:

Catch 22, Microserfs, Crime and Punishment, The Invisible Man, Childhood's End, Oryx & Crake, White Noise, The Trial, Slaughterhouse Five, 1984

Heroes:

The guy who invented chocolate covered coffee beans

My Blog

The Oracle

                  The Oracle      33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 44% Emotiveness, 59% Perceptiveness&n...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:17:00 PST

Seeker Soul

You Are a Seeker SoulYou are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges.You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions.Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist.Mental...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:45:00 PST

Mexico Pictures Megapost

So yeah, here I am in Mexico, spent the last few days in a little resort at the end of a frightening dirt road where my sister got married, now I'm back chilling in her condo while she's off to Hawaii...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:11:00 PST

Toronto Trip Blogging..

Will be done on The Hallway.I'm too busy to maintain 2 million blogs right now.OK, time to crash.. stupid commute.. stupid corporate monstrosity suburbs.....
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Fri, 19 May 2006 07:04:00 PST

New Pics

I'm such a budding myspace whore. I uploaded a few pics from my San Francisco / Apple World Wide Developer Conference trip last year.I keep most of my photos on my flickr site, http://flickr.com/photo...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Sat, 13 May 2006 02:27:00 PST

New Job

So I'm starting a brand new full-time job on Monday. I won't write about it online just in case they're a big evil company who hates bloggers. And also because if I write about my work it would cause...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Fri, 12 May 2006 12:20:00 PST

Kittycat Update

Kittycat Update Post-op Kittycat Originally uploaded by Alejandro the Great. Just got Kittycat back from the vet's this morning. Now that we've spent money on it she's officially ours. (...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Sat, 06 May 2006 01:05:00 PST

Kitty 2 + Walking in the rain

I don't really have much to say on this blog, since I do most of my posting on The Hallway, but since I've been doing a lot of political bomb throwing there I figured I'd write about my day here. I'v...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:06:00 PST

At least I don't have cholera

You Have a Melancholic TemperamentIntrospective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life.You love silence and solitude. E...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:08:00 PST

Pure Nerd

Pure Nerd 100 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 47% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or s...
Posted by Alejandro the Great on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:47:00 PST