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Karl

I am here for Friends

About Me

Indescribably huge, indescribably blubbery, and indescribably mid-to-dark green.

My Interests

Music (most), Computers (all), People (some) and Coffee (strong and black, like my...).

I'd like to meet:

People who don't suck. And Elvis.

Music:

Vangelis, Cake, Ian Boddy, David Bowie, Anthrax, Andy Pickford, Peter Gabriel, Moby, Samira Said, Yes, Sven Vath, The Cure, KMFDM and/or MDFMK, Fear Factory, The Descendents, U2, Hisham Abbas, Dwight Yoakum, Madonna, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leftfield, Van Halen, Tori Amos, At The Drive In/Sparta/Mars Volta, Keiko Matsui, Herbie Hancock, Dead Can Dance, Melissa Etheridge, Joe Satriani, Orbital, Yoko Kanno, Todd Rundgren, Paul McCartney, Daft Punk, Rammstein, The Pet Shop Boys, BT, Alice Cooper, Kansas, Clannad, La Vienta, Judas Priest, and Oingo Boingo or anything else with Danny Elfman involved. And YunYu.

Movies:

Blade Runner, Happy Gilmore, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Scarface (Al Pacino), Star Wars (unspecial edition), Legend, The Princess Bride, Resevoir Dogs, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Omen, and the first 10 minutes of Ishtar.

Television:

The Food Network, CNN Headline News, the various Discovery Channels, the various A&E/History Channels, and whatever the Cartoon Network is playing during "Adult Swim". And sometimes, PBS.

Books:

Various Peter F. Hamilton, Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, C.J. Cherryh, Andre Lamothe, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Orson Scott Card, CS Lewis, Fred Saberhagen, David Brin, JRR Tolkien and Jean M. Auel books, Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, Code Complete (Microsoft Press) and Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill.

Heroes:

Anyone who can follow their heart, chase their dreams, and still get things done without becoming a psychopath.

My Blog

Ask Not, For Whom The Vote Tolls

As the overwhelming choice for a new "Top Friends" theme was the impressive Ubi's "Friends Who'd Make the Hottest Sci-Fi Heroines", the sad task before me is in finding a fair and balanced (ha!) metho...
Posted by Karl on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:41:00 PST

My Latest Unrequited Love

She's Chinese, lives in Australia, and is fond of Edgar Allen Poe and spiders.  And loses her keys for days at a time.And just downright adorable, in a creepy post-goth sort of way... width="425"...
Posted by Karl on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:19:00 PST

My Apologies to Al

I've been struggling with a self-imposed deadline (that has since passed), and feeling somewhat crummy after the fact.  One of the things that always cheers me up is poetry... Of the slightly les...
Posted by Karl on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:33:00 PST

Vivid Imagery - DO NOT READ!

So, why are you still reading this?Well, you can't say that I didn't warn you.  Sickos.As many (or most) of you already know, I have been having fun and exciting things happen in and around the t...
Posted by Karl on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:20:00 PST

Cruel Fate, & the Gall of Some Bladders

Many people probably couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, partly because most people didn't know there was something to figure out.  Besides the blatantly obvious, of course.Fortunately, I...
Posted by Karl on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:26:00 PST

Consume, and Destroy!

Alternate Title:  Resistance is Futile! - The Borg Shopping Network This is not a rant about Consumerism" or its inate ability (or tendency) to destroy everything in its path.  Oh, please!&n...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:29:00 PST

Miscellany, and Other Crimes

I finally joined MySpace (with no small prodding from Della) in a fit of guilt, for losing contact with so many friends.  Some have moved out of my "Sphere of Affluence" (patent pending) but most...
Posted by Karl on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:15:00 PST