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mattical

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm into my family, my work, science, and music...
...and of course philosophy:
"Thomasina: Every week I plot your equations dot for dot, x's against y's in all manner of algebraical relation, and every week they draw themselves as commonplace geometry, as if the world of forms were nothing but arcs and angles. God's truth, Septimus, if there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose? Do we believe that nature is written in numbers?
Septimus: We do.
Thomasina: Then why do your shapes describe only the shapes of manufacture?
Septimus: I do not know.
Thomasina: Armed thus, God could only make a cabinet."
- from Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard

My Interests

Erudition (look it up), music, skepticism, snowboarding

I'd like to meet:

If you like metal add my band:

Music:

Tenacious D, Dragonforce, Between the Buried and Me, Soilwork, Atmosphere, Reflux, Into the Moat, Murs, Refused, the Dillinger Escape Plan, System of a Down, Propagandhi, Misery Signals, In Flames, Caliban, Tom Petty, Death by Stereo, He Is Legend, Dredg, Norma Jean, Jets to Brazil, Hiero, Bach, Radiohead, Shadows Fall, Stone Temple Pilots, Pink Floyd, Deftones, Del, Beloved, AC/DC, Sage Francis, Bad Religion, Robert Johnson, alexisonfire, Weezer, Poison the Well, Jimmy Eat World, As I Lay Dying, the Faceless, Darkest Hour, August Burns Red, the Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, the Roots

Movies:

Clerks, the Big Lebowski, Once Were Warriors, PI, Army of Darkness, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, Donnie Darko, Breakfast Club, the Cube, Private Parts, Willow, Friday, Grandma's Boy, 40 Year Old Virgin, Spinal Tap

Television:

Dirty Jobs, How It's Made, the Shield, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Mythbusters, Reno 911, Malcom in the Middle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Kids in the Hall, Nip/Tuck, Scrubs, 24, Lost

Books:

Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Just Six Numbers, Steven Pinker, Still Life with Woodpecker, Kurt Vonnegut, Aztec, the Illiad, Guns Germs & Steel, Moby Dick, Plato's Republic, Fooled by Randomness, Benoit Mandelbrot, Emergence, the Tipping Point, Freakonomics, the Undercover Economist, Black Swan, Blink

Heroes:

Carl Sagan, Steven Pinker, Steven Hawking, Robert E Lee