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Jim

2X2L calling CQ New York, is there anyone on the air?

About Me

Born in Miami and I live in Riviera Beach, FL.
Went to the University of Miami, studied engineering, played football, graduated in 2002. Finished graduate school at UM in '04. I work in Jupiter, FL as a mechanical engineer and I love my job.

My maternal grandmother once said, "Look. He has music in his head..."

Titles: Universal Remonster, Burninator, Renaissance Jock Geek Extraordinaire.

My Interests

I LOVE music.
Check out what I love .

What I just listened to:
I love my Camaro.

I dig physics and math.

I'd like to meet:

Cool people and uncool people. Geeks, outcasts, foreigners, the socially inept, old-school hipsters and new-school L.A. anti-hipsters, Silverlake scenesters, moderates, and intellectual yuppie snobs.

Music:

Perennial Favorites: Braid, Hey Mercedes, Hum, Thursday, 311, The Smiths, New Found Glory, System of a Down, A Tribe Called Quest, Sunny Day Real Estate

Current Players: Last.FM, Brother Reade, Interpol, The Shins, Rogue Wave, Killswitch Engage, Ray Lamontagne, Architecture in Helsinki, Broken Social Scene, Dredg, Amusement Parks on Fire, The Mars Volta, Pinback

Influences: The Pixies, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Moody Blues, Steely Dan, Rush, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Hendrix

Movies:

Indie flicks, artsy flicks, documentaries, dark comedies...

Television:

The History Channel is my drug.
Discovery, TLC, CSPAN and cable news (with one glaring exception).

Law & Order, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Frisky Dingo...

Books:

Reading:
Geek magazines.

Currently reading:
"Island" -Aldous Huxley

Next in the queue:
Some collection of essays by HLA Hart.

After that:
"Godel, Escher, Bach" -Douglas Hofstadter

"The Emperor's New Mind" -Roger Penrose
"A New Kind of Science" -Stephen Wolfram
"The Catcher in the Rye" -J.D. Salinger
"The Fabric of the Cosmos" -Brian Greene

I should throw my television in the trash.

Heroes:

Charles V. Hyde, Esq.
Ryan Joseph Shaughnessy
D. Ryan Reeb

My Blog

I woke up this morning and still can't get this song out of my head.

Not that I particularly mind, but this song has been in my head all morning.Blue Light by Bloc Party ...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:44:00 PST