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Joe

I don't want to miss this distance

About Me

I like to travel and meet a lot of people. I hope to settle down but I'm not sure where and when I'll get to that point. I just moved here from Montreal, where I thought I was going to settle until August when I had problems renewing my work permit for Canada. I want to learn how to play the guitar and to speak and read a lot of languages. I like computers and I use Linux. I enjoy going to shows and watching foreign films. I also like to play pinball and the occasional video game, even though I am terrible at them. I enjoy swimming and try to keep an active life since I spend my days working for a network security firm.
I was born in Southern California and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. I went to high school and university in Iowa. I spent 8 months during college living in the north of France, where I taught English conversation classes in a high school. After I finished my Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies at Iowa State University, I promptly moved to Montreal (it was kind of a random thing). I found a really nice job and made a few good friends there before I had to leave. I haven't met too many people here yet, but I'm starting to get settled.

My Interests



travel, languages, linguistics, friends, linux, telecommunications, photography, guitar, coding, current events, going to shows, reverse engineering, mass transit, french, hebrew, spanish, arabic, dutch, swedish, german, swimming, live music, puzzles, scrabble, movies (especially foreign and independent films).

I'd like to meet:

people who share common interests

Music:

choke, hot water music, your enemies friends, alkaline trio, atmosphere, refused, bjork, millencolin, the offspring, luke, brand new, knapsack, nikola sarcevic, the fugees, the (international) noise conspiracy the jealous sound, taking back sunday, some 90's rap, krs one, mc solaar, cheb mami, u2, rem, rocket from the crypt, tiger army.

Movies:

bonjour monsieur shlomi, crazy, la haine, good bye lenin, l'auberge espagnole, les poupées russes, office space, 25th hour, empire records, friday, die hard series, pulp fiction, kill bill, bourne series (haven't read the books yet), jackie chan, jet li, antitrust, documentaries, audrey tautou (even though she dates creepy guys 25+ years older than her in each film- seriously wtf?), johnny mnemonic, bad scifi, the closet.

Television:

family guy, seinfeld, g4, coupling (uk), dave chappelle, south park, the simpsons, the daily show, kung fu, kung fu: the legend continues, time trax, arrested development.

Books:

the worst case scenario survival handbook, slaughterhouse v, to kill a mockingbird, roald dahl, 1984, animal farm, have gun will travel (the spectacular rise and violent fall of death row records), foreign language textbooks, national geographic, smithsonian, wired.

Heroes:

my grandmother

My Blog

and counting

My myspace has finally broken 1000 views. My sincerest thanks goes out to everybody in creepy internet stalker land who made it happen.
Posted by Joe on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:38:00 PST

feeling much better

Today I took a nap after work and it was perfect. I am now no longer completely wasted from the Philadelphia trip. I just watched this weird French movie, Time Out, that they had at Blockbuster. I'...
Posted by Joe on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:10:00 PST

ehhh what

It appears as though my bank is billing me twice for almost every business credit transaction. Lovely. I wonder how long this has been going on...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:04:00 PST

My poor Civic.

Last night I was driving to go get dinner somewhere and I was turning left right down the street from my apartment... and the guy behind me probably didn't stop at the stop sign because he slammed int...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

This is nerdy but cool.

So, I've had this idea for a long time (I used to talk about random things like this with my boss at Molebio) and somebody beat me to it. I'm still going to do it someday. I have a lot of projects t...
Posted by Joe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

First entry

I got my plane tickets. I'm going to Fuengirola/Mijas Costa (my grandmother lives there) on the 18th and I'm going to be in Paris for the weekend before that. My mom bought me a Nintendo DS and I'm ...
Posted by Joe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST