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Scipio

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About Me

Thanks to the collapse of the 3 1/2th Pan-Atlantic Supervillain Alliance and the subsequent destruction of my orbital death laser platform, I've been forced to take a regular job to fund construction of a new orbiting headquarters. Next time, I'll shoot the dog first, then shove it into the volcano. Stupid narrative conventions.

My Interests

I tend to be fairly omnivorous. My bookshelves contain Roman history (including imperial fiscal policy), suicidal Russians, and American political theory. This, however, is but a taste of my true breadth.

I'd like to meet:

My alternate universe double. He owes me twenty bucks and a slightly used Delta-III submarine.Failing that, Wilhelm Canaris, just to see how much was personal distaste, how much was patriotism, and how much was idealism.

Music:

My favorite song of all time is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' American Girl. I keep a lot of Bach and Handel on hand. My collection includes an amount of music taken from videogames that most people would be embarrassed by. Thankfully I am immune to shame.

Movies:

Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon were fun; too many movies before 1950 have stilted acting.
Vampire Hunter D was my introduction to anime, and now that my tastes have matured (ha!), I find it difficult to sit through.
I love David Lynch's version of Dune. Drug use isn't widespread enough these days to make a really convincing version of Herbert's classic novel, but Lynch managed it well enough for me (even if he did strange things to the army concept).
Godzilla, King of the Monsters comes off as a very serious peace about the dangers of nukes even with the American overlay of Steve Martin as Raymond Burr.
Plan 9 from Outer Space is so bad it's good. Let's hear it for gun safety!

Television:

Original Star Trek.
Firefly was all too brief.
Dr. Who, even after all these years.
The new Battlestar Galactica is great, and not just because Grace Park is the cutest thing since baby seals were genetically spliced with kittens.
My mother doesn't let me watch The Twilight Zone when she's in the room, and that was a great hardship in high school.
Unwrapped, hosted by former obsessive-compulsive slime maven Marc Summers, tells me as much as I ever dreamed I would know about desserts and snacks. I loved the pie episode particularly.

Books:

It took me a year to finish The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm glad I did, because I enjoyed the debate between Ivan and the Devil.
The Hobbit. No world-shattering wars, no great evil, just a road trip through an Englishman's mind.
Yendi. Not your average fantasy novel.
Starship Troopers.
The Three Musketeers.
The Stars My Destination, which has forced me to put The Count of Monte Cristo on my list.

Heroes:

Galileo Galilei, who didn't run as I would have, and Voltaire, who did.

My Blog

Magnum Opus

It strikes me that an image found in my pictures here on the Myspace may require some explanation. The image is called Utilities, Regulatory Bodies, and the Public, and it is an allegory for the comp...
Posted by Scipio on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:41:00 PST

Buran (snowstorm)

For the first time in my life, I saw real snowfall. And I played in it, because that's what you do.It was the most magical thing ever. EVER.Shitty cellphone pictures may be found in the usual spot....
Posted by Scipio on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:31:00 PST

X-Mas Greetings from Satellite X

That's the Greek letter chi, thank you very much, which was used by early Christians as an abbreviation for Christos. Now you know.This Christmas is the end of a year of changed circumstances for me. ...
Posted by Scipio on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:10:00 PST

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I am now Wii No. 2669 5435 1312 4600. Add me and give me your Wii code; Mii Plaza looks so empty right now.
Posted by Scipio on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:02:00 PST

Endpoint

And now the news.The original plan when I moved to Pine Bluff was to go in on a rental house with two friends of mine. Unfortunately, about the time we found a house to suit us, one of the guys (speci...
Posted by Scipio on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:08:00 PST

Dichotomy

Crossposted, mostly, from the other blog:So I'm on a website trying to help someone I don't know pick the best possible date as decided by the Internet through the medium of a Perl script, and I am pr...
Posted by Scipio on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:37:00 PST

This Probably Says a Lot About Me

I put more effort into having sonar as a ringtone on my phone than in cleaning up the kitchen. You may speculate how much effort I put into either.
Posted by Scipio on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:03:00 PST

Sweet!

I just realized that I'm right on the verge of needing six bits to count my MySpace friends. Woohoo!
Posted by Scipio on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:47:00 PST

Return to Pine Bluff, Part 3!

This may have come as no shock to the few of you who read ye olde blog, but I've moved back to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I'm sure this seems like a fait accompli to a few of you, considering I interned he...
Posted by Scipio on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:50:00 PST

Oh, Look, I'm Finally Getting Some Sort of Response

Oh, sure, MySpace tells me I have five friends right now, but how many of them would give up there current lives and become my henchpersons?
Posted by Scipio on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:10:00 PST