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Sponge

Your friendly neighborhood Mad Scientist

About Me

Sponge uses mathematics and computers to look study the big picture.
Sponge feels that something strange and awesome is happening. Sponge wonders how it all got here and where it is all going. Sponge Nebson wants to get to the bottom of it before it all passes him by.
Sponge recently earned a B.S. in Mathematics from CSU Long Beach.
Sponge is now working on his master's degree at CSU Los Angeles.
Sponge will eventually earn a Ph.D. and become a professor.
Sponge drives around in:
Wanda "The Baroness" Van Rosecolor

Sponge Nebson has a website:

(Sponge Nebson's website is currently down. It will be back soon!) SpongeResearch.com

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My Interests

evolution, artificial intelligence, artificial life, mathematics, robotics, biofeedback, religious studies, politics, philosophy, psychology, learning disabilities, weight training, ants, sea monkeys, 80's cartoons, LEGOs, physics, biology, science, transhumanism

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet you if you are willing to teach me. It doesn't matter what. I love to learn.

Music:

They Might Be Giants, Video Game Music, Techno, Reggeton, REM, Classical, Beck, Cake, Tool, No Doubt, Bad Religion

Movies:

Dead Man, American Beauty, Fight Club, Memento, Willard, Taxi Driver, Bartleby, Peter Pan, Waking Life

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Rebort, Cartoon Network, Invader Zim, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Yu-Yu Hakusho, Ranma 1/2, Excel Saga, Home Movies, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dragon Ball Z, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Dexter's Laboratory, Spongebob Squarepants, Boondocks, Adult Swim, The Venture Brothers

Books:

buy me more

The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore; Nonzero: the logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond; Evolutionary Algorithms by David Fogel; Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Sipser; 1984;Fahrenheit 451;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Heroes:

Nikola Tesla , Susan Blackmore , Jane Goodall , David Fogel , Benoît Mandelbrot , Howard Bloom , John Smart , Ray Kruzweil , Robert Wright

My Blog

Where did I go?

It's true that I've been playing copious amounts of second life for the past few days. But now I've stopped that. I've stopped... yet I'm still missing! How is that so? Even I don't know, because I'm ...
Posted by Sponge on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:42:00 PST

A time to heal

Some of you may have noticed that I dissapeared off the face of the earth a few days ago. This is in many ways true. I have indeed been away. Main Entry: 2away Function: adjective 1 : absent from a pl...
Posted by Sponge on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:37:00 PST

new blog: 2 years at csula

I'll be documenting the academic component of my life for the next 2 years as I work toward my master's degree. Read it here:http://2yearsatcsula.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Sponge on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:26:00 PST