Roy T Cook - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am married to a wonderful chick named Alice, and I am currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota (after a thre year stint at Villanova, and a four year stint as a research fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before that). In my spare time (when not thinking deeply about the nature of infinity, vagueness, and truth) I build sculptures and mosaics out of LEGO (yes - the building toy supposedly for children - I own almost half a million LEGO bricks!) I also am a big fan of comics and cinema. And yes, my wife is cool enough to put up with this extreme level of nerd-dom.
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My Interests

Philosophy, comics, tattoos, cinema, steampunk, paradoxes, puzzles, lego, reading.

I'd like to meet:

Nobody - I meet enough interesting people as it is (and far more uninteresting ones). Why stress about meeting some famous or dead person when you will meet enough people just doing your thing.

Music:

Old country, rockabilly, old punk.

Movies:

Action, comic adaptations, japanese ganster flicks and horror, sci-fi of all sorts.

Television:

None. Television is crap.Well, okay... Alton Brown's [ital]Good Eats[/ital] is genius. And [ital]Burn Notice[/ital] is genuine art. But the rest is crap.

Books:

Any book, except for self-help and spirituality nonesense. If somebody wrote it, then I am probably willing to read it.

Heroes:

Paul Simon (not for the music, but because he slept with Princess Leia - Carrie Fisher).