Don Roberto
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Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre. (In life, nothing is to be feared, everything is to be understood.) - Marie Curie
Male
30 years old
Houston, Texas
United States
Last Login: 12/23/2009
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Don Roberto's Interests
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| General | Academic: psychology, sociology, anthropology, quantum physics, oh hell, just about everything...
Activities: restoring vintage cars and motorcycles, painting (cars or canvas), camping, hiking, rock climbing, bicycling, snorkeling, diving, sailing, going to museums, looking at art, theater, going to new restaurants, writing | | Music | Here, you asked for it. A complete (mostly) listing of the bands I listen to.
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A Perfect Circle, Addison Groove Project, Air, Al & The Transamericans, alice in chains, alvin lee, arvo part, , arenaked ladies, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Belle And Sebastian, Bjork, Black Sabbath, Blonde Redhead, Bloodhound Gang, Blue October, Bluegrass, Blur, boards of canada, bob marley, CCR, coldplay, Critters Buggin, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Daft Punk, Dave Matthews, david bowie, Dean Martin, DICK DALE, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, Entrance, explosions in the sky, Filter, Frank Sinatra, frank zappa, George Clinton, god speed you black emperor, GoldFrapp, grateful dead, Iggy Pop, Inouk, Jaffa, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Lee Lewis, jimi hendrix, korn, le tigre, Linkin Park, Lords of Acid, Mana, Marilyn Manson, massive attack, Modest Mouse, Mofro, Mogwai, Mojo Nixon, Mum, new order, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Page & Plant, Paul Simon, Pete Yorn, Phish, Pink Floyd, Pogues, Portishead, Queen, Radiohead, Ravi Shankar, Richard Cheese, Rolling Stones, Santana, Shins, Sigur Ros, Solex, Stevie Ray Vaughn, String Cheese Incident, System of a Down, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, The Dandy Warhols, The White Stripes, Three and a Quarter, Tom Waits, TONTO Rides Again, Tool, Velvet Underground, Voltaire, Weird Al Yankovic, White Zombie, Yann Tiersen, Zero 7..
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A Flock of Seagulls, Berlin, BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE, The Clash, Dead or Alive, Depeche Mode, Devo, Duran Duran, Joy Division, Mike Oldfield, New Order, OMD, Pet SHop Boys, Pixies, Psychadelic Furs, The Cult, The Cure, the faint, The Residents
--Industrial and such---
16 Volt, And One, Apoptygma Bezerk, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Bella Morte, bigod20, Cabaret Voltaire, Christian Death, Claire Voyant, cocteau twins, converter, Cool Devices, Covenant, Das Ich, Decoded Feedback, die form, die warzau, Diva Destruction, Dreadful Shadows, dust of basement, Einsturzende Neubauten, electric hellfire club, evils toy, Feindflug, fluke, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, Godflesh, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Hate Dept, haujobb, Heaven 17, Hocico, Human league, ICON of COil, Incubus Succubus, Informatik, Innerflux, instrict confidence, Juno Reactor, KMFDM, kraftwerk, Laibach, lame immortelle, London After Midnight, Machines of Loving Grace, melotron, Mesh, Ministry, Neuroticfish, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Nosferatu, Paradise Lost, pitchshifter, project pitchfork, Ramstein, razed in black, Real Life, schleimer, siouxsie, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, snog, Suicide Commando, switchblade symphony, the cruxshadows, TYPE O NEGATIVE, Velvet Acid Christ, Vicious Pink, VNV Nation, Wol, sheim, Wumpscut, Zeromancer
---Jazz---
Dave Brubeck, Etta James, from devon, Galactic, Glen Miller, Les Primitifs Du Futur, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Sloane and Clark
---Middle Eastern---
Al-Ahram Orchestra, Alain Brunet Didgeridoo Orchestra Shargh Ensemble, Alireza Mortazavi, Amer Ammouri, Andelus Ensemble, Anouar Brahem, Dina, Dirk Campbell & Jan Hendrickse, Hamdi El-Khayyat, Mosavo, Nour Ensemble, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Roger Abboud, Sami Nossair Orchestra, Soheil Nafissi, Turku, Upper Egypt Ensemble
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10 foot pole, AFI, Assorted Jelly Beans, Atari Teenage Riot, Bad Religion, Blink-182, Dead Kennedys, dropkick murphys, Dwarves, Electric Frankenstein, Flogging Molly, Fugazi, GreenDay, Hi Standard, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Link 80, Macc Lads, Misfits, Mustard PLug, MxPx, Nobodys, Pennywise, Punk Ska Covers, Ramones, Rancid, reel big fish, Sex Pistols, Vandals, Voodoo Glow Skulls
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Buckwheat Zydeco, Flametrick Subs, The Frantic Flattops, Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture, Tales From the Dead West, Th' Legendary Shack-Shakers, The Hillbilly Hellcats
And a ton of lounge music, bossa, and other goodies you can hear on SomaFM.com | | Movies | Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Elegant Universe TV Show with Brian Greene, Sliding Doors, Lost In Translation, A Very Long Engagement, Amelie, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Donnie Darko, A Nightmare Befpre Christmas, Anything Depp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Crash, Coneheads, Pirates of the Carribean, Butterfly Effect, anything Monty Python, From Hell, Cowboy Bebop, Metropolis, Happiness, Kill Bill 1 and 2 | | Television | I don't watch much TV anymore since it broke. When I did it's usually PBS since we don't have cable, and without religiously following the TV shows these days it's hard to know what the hell is going on anyway so screw it. Though I do enjoy the occasional House, Bones, or CSI, while eating dinner (why do they come on then??). Chris and Rory also recently turned me onto "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" which is the best show I've seen in a while. | | Books | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance, Candide, A Tale of Two Cities, Eating Well for Optimum Health, Savage Inequalities, Kitchens, Influence science and practice, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Adapted Mind, How the Mind Works, A Brief History of Time (you know, light reading...) I also have a nice selection of custom paint books and service manuals in my bathroom. | | Heroes | Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammed, Jimmy Carter, Mother Theresa (even though she's a nun), Hunter Thompson, Spike Spiegel, Old VW mechanics and Marvin Heemeyer |
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NIGHTFUNCTIONS.COM & CHILLEDSHOTS.COM, Houston Band Coalition, Black comedy, The New Jerseys Fucking Rock My Ass, Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, Behavioral Genetics, & Neuroscience
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Don Roberto's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | I've lived all over. | | Body type: | 6' 3" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | IT Analyst / DBA |
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Don Roberto's Networking
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Technology - IT - DBA
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MSSQL DBA, Business Objects Admin, Crystal Reports Developer, Software Analyst, Tester, Technical Writing
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Technology - IT - Tech Support
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Support the enterprise's applications, custom built and otherwise. Take requirements and interface with development team to implement, test, and document new features.
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Don Roberto's Companies
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NWN
Houston, TX US
Account Manager
IT
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7/23/2007-4/14/2008
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Harris County Department of Education
Houston, TX US
Software Support Analyst - DBA
Technology
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1/15/2009 - present
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About me:
First off, I gotta plug these guys. I listen regularly and you should too. If you have a few extra bucks and you like em you should donate. Commercial free kickass music all day long.
I'm a bit of an existentialist, somewhat jaded, occasional nihilist, bohemian hedonist, de-winged extremist, contemplative agnostic. (I believe in the existance of GOD though I won't pretend I have more than a shred of an idea what that means and don't try to convince me otherwise). I think existance has a purpose higher than entertainment, though it seems most of the time that it doesn't. I wish people could stop and realize there is a bigger picture than their day to day, than what is playing on TV, different than what "they" want us to think.
I hate how people separate themselves from reality in order to make themselves comfortable. It bothers me that we put the elderly into retirement "homes" because we're just too busy to care, after all they did it for us for 18 years. Or maybe we ourselves are too afraid of the eventuality of death to be around them. Premeditated ignornce.
You could call me "progressive", I prefer independant, but even that is a label. I have a mind and I use it. I spend alot of time thinking, mental shortcuts usually yield low-quality results. I'm all for a self governed egalitarian society free of the stratification and the strife that exist now, that will probably never exist. I think war is unnecessary. I hate playing the game on either side of the coin. I hate mob mentality and the effects of group think. I enjoy debate and logical, rational discourse. I get scared when people start talking about liberating people, and going on crusades. I think everyone has the right to their own opinions, but must be equipped with all the information available BEFORE having them and still be open minded AFTERWARDS. I think ignorant people and mindless followers shouldn't vote. Hunting doesn't make you manly. Fighting doesn't make you brave. It takes much braver of a person to make peace and a stronger one yet to maintain it.
I think the popular media distorts everything to sell you stuff, ideas, products, values, beliefs, presidents. I think birth control pills should be sold in vending machines for a dollar a pack, no hell make them free. I'm sick of disease, of people starving because they can't afford to buy the food grown on the land bought by the corporate farms their ancestors farmed for generations.
I believe in animal rights, and I'm anti-cruelty, but I'm not an activist. I think cows are just as cute as kittens. That happy meal is the result of another animal's (and probably alot of south american natives) unhappiness. But I'm not a vegetarian (anymore) and I do enjoy a good cheeseburger.
People tell me if I don't like this country I should leave, instead of wanting to "fix" it. People tell me I'm un-American because I don't think we should blow up other countries and support political agendas that include the building of Wal-Marts, Targets, and shopping malls in the cleared land left behind, to sell crap made in China and take more jobs away from middle class Americans. I tell them that I'd rather have been born in a tribe on some island in the middle of nowhere, without ever having to worry about Catholic crusaders or shithoarding imperialists coming there and ruining everything, but it's too late for that. So, while I'm here I'm going to be the best person I can be, and do what I think is right.
I don't hate everything. Don't get me wrong. I think we are all (potentially) beautiful, wonderful people inside, but some of us refuse to believe it. I'm tired of being judged. I'm tired of being labeled. I'm tired of hating things, being sick of things, and feeling like I always preach the obvious. I'm tired of feeling judgmental, but happy I'm not a hypocrite.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Open minded people, progressive thinkers, geeks, other art car weirdos, other psych majors, people interested in uncovering the secrets of the universe, quantum physicists, improvisational jazz artists, people that turn lights off when they leave the room / house, and oh yeah, just all around cool people to chill with. :)
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