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About Me

I'm Adam, 28. I'm from New York, but moved to New Mexico about 14 years ago.I have worked as a stainless steel fabricator, and in the exotic animal trade/breeding/rescue/rehab business for the past 15+ years.I currently work for the state of NM through an agency, providing Personal Care services to individuals with developmental disabilities. I've been doing that for ~7 years (officially). I also am the sometime tech support for the agency.I also am a coach and official for Special Olympics New Mexico. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Swordfighting (I have been swordfighting with Amtgard for about 13 years), Herptiles, birds and other exotic animals, dickin around on my computer.

I'd like to meet:

People not utterly indoctrinated into the sheeple mentality. That is to say, independent thinkers are the kind of people I like.

Music:

Mostly classic rock, Queen, Queensryche, Def Leppard, Ted Nugent, etc. I also like the stuff Flogging Molly does, as well as NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Bad Religion, etc.

Movies:

I like a lot in the way of movies. Action (so long as they have plot), Comedy (so long as they are actually funny), Drama, a big fan of the Romero Living Dead series.

Television:

ER, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, Charmed, Knight Rider, Simpsons, most anything on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel. Oh, and Definitely Penn & Teller's Bullshit.

Books:

Anything by David and Leigh Eddings, big fan of Harry Turtledove, and overall, just a big fan of the science-fiction and fantasy genres.

Heroes:

I look up to people who have made me think in ways that I hadn't done before.

My Blog

I am honestly terrified to be an American right now.

First read this:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_LETHAL_IN JECTION?SITE=MAQUI&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULTThe Supreme Court basically said that, because you cannot voice that you ...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:50:00 PST

Yet another reason to be a misanthrope...

I am a coach with our local Special Olympics team, as it says in my profile. This weekend, we were down in Las Cruces, NM for the Special Olympics NM state basketball competition, and after the compet...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:03:00 PST

One into four. It’s like magic.

So right after my birthday, I bought myself a baby Leopard gecko (I've done a lot of reptile rescue rehab/relocation/breeding/etc. in the past) at Petsmart for $30. I picked him because he was a circl...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:53:00 PST

Very rough treatment for a zombie story.

This is not the story, it is just a rough treatment for one. I'm still fleshing it out.Damn, that's a bad way to put it, all things considered.Meh.Cheap Labor Just like zeks in a gulag. Just lik...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:40:00 PST

Life's a Beach

A very short story. This one borrows the title character from John Updike's "The Lifeguard." I inserted myself as a character as well. Life's a Beach "Good God," I complained...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:55:00 PST

Short Stoy 2

Same warning as in the first one. The Game Prologue It was a dark and stormy night. Okay, so it wasn't really dark or stormy, but it sounded cool; actually it was a bright and cle...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:58:00 PST

Short story

Be forewarned, much of this won't make sense to you non-D&D players. -Being an excerpt from the personal diaries of Phadian Gess ...but no; that bloody fool had to cast it. I t...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:17:00 PST

Piracy and Society

I wrote this last year, but decided to put it up now. By now we've all read, hear, seen or otherwise assimilated some knowledge on piracy. It is unavoidable, we hear about it all the time, from the ...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:13:00 PST

Who's that Spartan with junk in the trunk?

So I'm back in the desert, and there is a chicken in my yard. A funky looking one at that. Now, granted, I am not in the middle of the city, but really, a chicken?And it's an agro chicken too. Little ...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:39:00 PST

Ponderings of an irritable sot.

I last cut my hair (besides the yearly take an inch deal) 11 years ago, just before I had my surgery for skin cancer. I donated the ponytail to Locks of Love back then. Which is somewhat ironic, all t...
Posted by Pragmatic Contrarian on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:57:00 PST