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Clifton

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About Me

Life is a journey, not a destination...

I have new priorities. Over the last two year some have taken precedence over the others. If you asked me to give you a top five it would be like:
    Grinding out my Masters Working out, running, and strength training Improving my relationships with my friends Becoming the next big poker sensation Being true to myself
I love what I have accomplished and done in the past year and that list isn't about to change now.
I am currently a graduate student in computer science with a concentration in network information security who is contemplating a doctorate in computer forensics. On the side I work with some of the coolest people in the world; the pay horrible but one has to sacrifice. When I am not in school or working I'm probably 1,000 miles away with my feet in the sand.
AIM - thesweendog35
gTalk - cesweene

My Interests

Netflix
Working Out
Running
Ladies
Road Trips
Tennis
Baseball
Texas Hold'em
Chess
Hockey
Football
Cameras
Fine Art
American Literature
Sushi
Golf
Cooking
Vegetarians
Vegans
Photography
Painting
Tatoos
Sci-Fi
Bowling

I'd like to meet:

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Lets go to sleep in Paris, Wake up in Tokyo
Have a dream in New Orleans, fall in love in Chicago
We can land in the motherland, camel-back across the desert sands
Take a train to Rome,
or Home,
Brazil,
for Real

Music:

What's on my iPod:
Akon
Chamillionaire
Daft Punk
The Dead Guys
Dane Cook
Dean Martin
Dirty Vegas
Fort Minor
Frank Sinatra
Gnarls Barkley
Gorillaz
Gym Class Heroes
Jack Johnson
Jay-Z
Jimi Hendrix
John Legend
John Mayer
Journey
Justin Timberlake
Kanye West
Linkin Park
Ludacris
Lupe Fiasco
Men, Women & Children
N.E.R.D.
Nas
Nelly
Prefuse 73
Rage
Sammy Davis Jr
T.I.
T. Pain
Timbaland
The Alkaline Trio
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Notorious B.I.G.
The Streets
UGK
Wyclef Jean
Yellowcard
Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts
Young Buck
Young Dro
Yung Joc
Will Hoge

What random other stuff I like:
10 Years
50 Cent
Angels and Airwaves
Armor for Sleep
Austin Powers Soundtrack
Beastie Boys
Beatnuts
Ben Folds
Black Eyed Peas
Bobby Valentino
Briano McKnight
Busta Rhymes
Chris Brown
Chris Cornell
Floggin Molly
Jump Little Children
Fury in the Slaughterhouse
Gilberto Gil
Vince Guaraldi
OK GO
Herbie Hancock
Hotel Full of Cops
Irakere
Iron & Wine
King Changó
Los Amigos Invisibles
Massive Attack
Charles Mingus
Morcheeba
Morphine
Jean-Jacques Perrey
Red Prysock
Lou Reed
Otis Redding
Robbie Robertson
The Rolling Stones
Bob Schneider
Sex Mob
Shakkazombie
Soul Coughing
Country Joe McDonald
Fatboy Slim
Jack Johnson
Huey Lewis and the News
Smothers Brothers
James Grote
Masada
Silent Warrior
Johnny Cash
Brandston
4Hero
8 Bold Souls
The Bad Plus
Angelo Badalamenti
Barefoot
Beck
Jorge Ben
The Black Dog
Art Blakey
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Camper Van Beethoven
The Fugees
Cannonball Adderley
The Clash
Clinton
Black Eyed Peas
John Coltrane
Harry Connick Jr
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crooked Fingers
Syd Dale
Miles Davis
DJ Food
DJ Shadow
Elysian Fields
Thievery Corporation
Trio Mocotó
Tuatara
Luke Vibert
Wheat

Movies:

It would be nearly impossible to narrow down my top 10 favorite movies, but here's a small list of my absolute favorites:
Across the Universe
The Big Lebowski
The Boondock Saints
The Bourne Identity
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Constant Gardener
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ghost in the Shell
The Godfather
Good Will Hunting
Hero
Howl's Moving Castle
Inside Man
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2
The Last Samurai
Layer Cake
Lord of the Rings 1, 2, & 3
The Matrix
Metropolis
Noir
Office Space
The Professional
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reservoir Dogs
Samurai Champloo
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars IV, V & VI
Steamboy
Swordfish
Taxi Driver
The Usual Suspects
V for Vendetta
A Very Long Engagement
The World's Fastest Indian

Television:

Dexter
Ninja Warrior
House
Good Eats
Mythbusters
Chuck

Books:

Currently:
The 4-Hour Work-week
Previously:
Harry Potter
Eye in the Sky
The Unteleported Man
Counter-Clock World
The Ganymede Takeover
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
A Maze of Death
We Can Build You
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemuth
Puttering About in a Small Land
In Milton Lumky Territory
The Broken Bubble
Vengeance
A Dame to Kill For
Angels and Demons
The Art of War
The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories
The Big Fat Kill
Booze Broads & Bullets
The Da Vinci Code
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Dreamland
Dune
Family Values
The Hard Goodbye
Hell and Back
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
Just Another Saturday Night
Life The Universe and Everything
Lord of the Rings
Mostly Harmless
Plan of Attack
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Shadowrun Series
Silent Night
Sin City
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
State of Fear
Storming Heaven
That Yellow Bastard
The Tin Man

Heroes:

Arthur Frommer
Carl Sagan
Isaac Asimov
Tucker Max
Jim Butcher