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About Me

1) Muslim (Hanafi)
2) Hacker
3) Unrepentant Gun Nut
4) BMXer
5) Libertarian

My Interests

Your Bike Setup
Frame S&M Black, Chrome plated, 20.5", no brake mounts
Fork S&M Pitchforks, Chrome, 3/8" dropouts
Headset FSA
Stem S&M Redneck Lt, Polished
Bars S&M Castillo, chrome, cut down 2" on each side
Grips Fly Ruben, 155mm, black
Brake Lever None
Brake cable None
Brakes None
Pedals Wellgo MG4a
Crank Primp Hollowbite, black
Bottom Bracket Primo Euro, RNC Ti Spindle
Sprocket S&M Little Man, 25T
Chain KMC 510
Seat Macneil OG
Seatpost Macneil
Seatpost Clamp RNC Ti
Front Tire Animal ASM, 2.1"
Front Rim Odyssey 7k-a, chrome, 36H
Front Hub G-Sport Marmoset, black
Front Spokes 14/15g butted, stainless
Rear Tire Revenge Industries, 1.9"
Rear Rim Odyssey Duralectra 48H
Rear Hub KHE Geisha Street
Rear Spokes DT, Black
Freewheel/Cog 9t
Pegs 4 Kink Light
Special Mods S&M Made only 5 of these frames.

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I'd like to meet:

Like minded people.

Music:

Here's who is in my iTunes most played playlist:
Pulp, The Verve, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Smiths, Violent Femmes, Spiritualized, Bjork, Radiohead, The Clash, Spoon, Tom Waits

I also listen to a lot of "world" music (I hate that term) notably:
Shahram Nazeri, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ghazal, Zakir Hussein (Tabla beat science inclued), googoosh, datsan ensemble. I definitly prefer Persian and Desi music to arabic music.

Movies:

Kurasawa, Kubrick, Kiarostami

Television:

Mail Call, Nova, Mythbusters, MXC, Maximum Exposure, any kind of "shocking police video/crash/stunts gone wrong" shows... Coupling (uk), Black Adder, Father Ted

Books:

Al Qur'an, Dr. Khalid Abou El Fadl, Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush, Sir Allama Iqbal, Ali Shariati, Dr. M. Hashim Kamali

Heroes:

Muhammad (S.A.W.S.)

My Blog

Draft Guide Part 1, Crank installation (euro):

Comments/Suggestions/Questions are welcome. I will complete this section (chain/freewheel/cassette) next weekend after some parts arrive in the mail, insha'Allah.-jcw(cut here)Part I, The Drive Train:...
Posted by John on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:55:00 PST

Goals for 2006:

1) Marry Miss Rabia Ghazi, insha'Allah. :)2) Memorize at least 10 more Suras from Al Qur'an (the smaller ones) and try to at least understand them from a grammatical angle...3) re-learn brakeless deca...
Posted by John on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:23:00 PST

Article by my friend on "the cartoons" (from a local newspaper)

Making the episode a 'teachable moment' By Adeeba Al-Zaman Last week, local Muslim organizations protested The Inquirer's decision to publish one of the cartoons that has sparked rioting around th...
Posted by John on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:19:00 PST

Here's another one!

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Posted by John on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:23:00 PST

Seriously funny (embedded movie)

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Posted by John on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:22:00 PST

Great short film

http://static.zed.cbc.ca/users/m/Merle/files/Aadan.mov
Posted by John on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:03:00 PST

Mrs President...

Liberia, UK, Finland, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Germany, and who else?? As the "only superpower" (discounting PRC and soon india) in the world and champion of "freedom" and democracy (or somethin...
Posted by John on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:24:00 PST

Great Quote

I got this from one of the fixed gear groups on myspace: "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifi...
Posted by John on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:40:00 PST

SHAADI TIME!!!

As salaamu 'alaykum, Well, I went to a rishta party in Chicago yesterday and thus I would like to announce the pending marriage (insha'Allah) between myself and Rabia. How cool is that? Alhamdulilah,...
Posted by John on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:34:00 PST

YIKES

Posted by John on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:50:00 PST