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Ryan

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About Me

I'm just your typical twenty-something metahuman, struggling to find my place in the 9 to 5 workaday world. My powers include melting faces with extended guitar solos, bending others to my will through the use of elaborate prose, communicating with machines in any primitive or high-level dialect, wooing women with my Siren-like singing voice, and confusing others with my poorly executed attempts at irony and self-deprecating humor. I am also nocturnal and can function just fine on a few hours of sleep. If I seem socially or physically awkward to you, please try to cut me some slack. It's hard to be engaging in conversation when you've constantly got the fate of the world on your mind, and it's even harder to walk without tripping when you're used to running at the speed of light...
There's more of course, but that's all I feel like writing... for now...
As if this wasn't a foregone conclusion...
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man 70%
Hulk 55%
Iron Man 55%
Superman 55%
The Flash 55%
Green Lantern 55%
Robin 47%
Wonder Woman 43%
Supergirl 43%
Catwoman 35%
Batman 30% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

My Interests

Computers, music, guitar, movies, people with alliterative names (they just might be superheroes), video games, snowboarding, chillaxin' like bill paxton...

I'd like to meet:

Your mother... ohhhhhh, how original... I'd like to meet you, so why not say "hi"? Oh, and I also wouldn't mind meeting Natalie Portman...

The Fibonacci Sequence in Tool's "Lateralus"

Music:

Old Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, QOTSA, Coheed and Cambria, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Gordian Knot, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, The Beach Boys, cheesy power metal, assorted other crap...

Movies:

Star Wars, Hero, Garden State, The Matrix, Serenity, Spider-Man 2, Gladiator, Toy Story, The Emperor's New Groove, The Prestige, The Birdcage, This Is Spinal Tap, Borat, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Memento, Eternal Sunshine, Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Ghostbusters, Dumb and Dumber, Cannibal! The Musical, anything Python, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Kung Fu Hustle, Children of Men...

Television:

LOST, Scrubs, Family Guy, Futurama, Home Movies, Firefly, CSI, The Colbert Report, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Da Ali G Show, Cowboy Bebop, The Office...

Books:

Tao Te Ching, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Lord of the Rings, The Demon-Haunted World, The Prophet, Ishmael, Ich und Du...

Heroes:

Martin Buber (for concisely articulating what it means to be human and live in an intentional, reciprocal relationship with the world), Paul Gilbert (for being a consummate musician and performer)...

My Blog

Who wants to go see Hot Fuzz?

Ooh, I do, I do! Pick me! What is this you kids are saying about Grindhouse? "Tarantino and Rodriguez," you cry? "Feh," says I. I give you the latest from the UK's own Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, wri...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

It's a spectator sport...


Posted by Ryan on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:56:00 PST

How punny...


Posted by Ryan on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:09:00 PST

A serious question...


Posted by Ryan on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:40:00 PST

300, the movie...

Y'know, I really wanted to be blown away by this movie. A few friends and I decided to take in the latest testosterone-and-blood-soaked sword-and-sandal epic on the market on Saturday, and by all acco...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:30:00 PST

Concert event of the century?

So rumors were flying a few weeks ago about a possible reunion tour for the original lineup of Van Halen. Now it looks like it might have been postponed due to several factors, key among them being Ed...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:09:00 PST

Baloney Detection Kit...

This was called to my mind recently and I post it here for the benefit of those who have not studied logic and argumentation. It is a "baloney detection kit", written by the late Carl Sagan. Enjoy!The...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:53:00 PST

Owie, I think my soul is burning...


Posted by Ryan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:57:00 PST

Gwahahahaaa...


Posted by Ryan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

Scary...


Posted by Ryan on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:42:00 PST