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Assume a virtue, if you have it not
Male
30 years old
Somerville, Massachusetts
United States
Last Login: 3/1/2009
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J.'s Interests
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| General | Writing, literature, philosophy, progressive politics, science, photography, backpacking/travel, nonprofit work/volunteering, taking things apart, putting things back together(when possible), internet culture and tools, gaming, the indie rock, playing soccer, obsessing over baseball, drinking good beer, conversation, cities, everything, you | | Music | Alltime top 40, per last.fm: Low, Pinback, Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Cat Power, Björk, The Wrens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Talking Heads, Johann Sebastian Bach, My Bloody Valentine, Seam, Radiohead, Fugazi, The Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, John Vanderslice, Minutemen, Poster Children, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Beatles, Sigur Rós, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, Archers of Loaf, Juno, The Shins, Burning Airlines, The Mountain Goats, Beck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mission of Burma, Wire, Sleater-Kinney, The Dismemberment Plan, Unwound, Castor, Circulatory System, XTC.
I listen to more hip hop and embarassing pop than this would indicate, but apparently not a lot by any one artist. Which would make sense, since most of it is singles-based and all. | | Movies | brazil, ghost world, amelie, pi, M, dark city, dead poets society, wings of desire, dr. strangelove, the royal tenenbaums, taxi driver, contact, the usual suspects, the conversation, rushmore, john hughes/80's teen romps, coen bros, miyazaki, hitchcock, kurosawa, monty python, mel brooks | | Television | Daily Show, Mythbusters, Adult Swim, PBS, Simpsons, News and Sports | | Books | bros. karamazov, anna karenina, the plague, jane eyre, catch-22, tristram shandy, the gold bug variations, pale fire, four quartets, invisible cities, 100 yrs of solitude, foucault's pendulum, yeats, keats, cummings, stevens, dickinson, borges, poe, dahl, l'engle, cs lewis | | Heroes | "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." - Fred Rogers, who was definitely one of those people.
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| Details | | Hometown: | Mattoon, IL | | Bats/Throws: | L / R | | Body type: | Slim
/ Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Smoke / Drink: | On Occasion | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Aspiring Polymath |
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University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign,Illinois
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Cell Biology and Philosophy
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Mattoon High School
Mattoon,Illinois
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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Mattoon High School class of
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Mattoon, IL | | Body type: | Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Aspiring Polymath |
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Technology - Internet - Web Designer
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I mostly do volunteer and personal projects, but I do occasionally pick up freelance work if the timing is right and the job is interesting.
http://jareddunn.org/web/history/
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA US
Lab Manager
PILM / BCS
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2003-Present
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About me:
I've been in Boston for about four years now, and after much hemming and hawing and complaint, I think I may actually be starting to like it here. Right now I work at MIT and pursue lots of other interesting shiny things on the side, as per my lists of interests and stuff. I'm sort of in the middle way, trying to figure out what's next, and how it all works.
I'm ambivalently ambitious, and I take myself and my life seriously, but not so seriously as to be incapable of good wacky fun when the opportunity arises. I'm a media and culture junkie, both highbrow and lowbrow. I write semi-compulsively, and read fully compulsively. I spend the rest of my time walking around the city aimlessly, exploring, people-watching, and taking pictures, and hanging out in various coffee shops and dives, in search of good conversation and potent potables. I'm rarely bored, and hopefully by corollary, rarely boring. I'm trying hard both to be a good person and to be a grownup, but both are incredibly more difficult and complicated than they ever let on in school. I figure it will all come out in the wash with time, and along the way, I'll hopefully learn a bunch and amass a lot of interesting stories to tell.
jareddunn.org | the bell | MHS97.org | flickr
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Who I'd like to meet:
People who are kindhearted, curious and open minded and generally geeked out about the world and the people around them. People who are mature / serious / critical about life, but not without retaining a certain childlike sense of wonder and mischief and suchlike. You know... cool people.
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