Mark (Monty)
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Geek of Many Things
Male
41 years old
ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 3/14/2009
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Mark (Monty)'s Interests
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| General | (filling this in slowly, there's a lot) computer graphics, cephalopods, biology (particularly neurbiology), emergency medicine, forensic medicine and criminology, almost anything science or technology geeky, spacecraft, systems engineering, failure analysis, some higher math, auto mechanics, building things, Tai Chi, power tools, locksmithing, much computer stuff (linux, unix, lisp, particularly) See my web site for a bunch more. It's probably telling that I try to carry what most people consider an unreasonable number of tools on my person most of the time (I particularly recommend a leatherman crunch! The only pocket tool I know of with vise grips!) backpacking & hiking, SCUBA diving & snorkling, running (but I need to get back in shape), skiing (mostly downhill), sailing, ... | | Music | Joe Jackson, Lou Reed, The Who, The Eagles, Cowboy Junkies, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, The Tubes, Traffic, Talking Heads, The Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Was (Not Was), Blue Oyster Cult, Mary's Danish, Dave Mathews, Huey Lewis, Dire Straits, The Blues Brothers, Miles Davis, Bach, Rainbow, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Kingston Trio, The Beach Boys, Todd Rungren, ... I'll add more later... | | Movies | Until The End of the World, Casablanca, Johnny Dangerously, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (and other Sergio Leone films), James Bond movies with Sean Connery, The Incredibles (and all other Pixar movies), The Seven Samaurai, Kill Bill, UHF, Silence of the Lambs, When Harry Met Sally, Peggy Sue Got Married, Bubbahotep, Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Fog of War, North by Northwest, DOA (both versions), Risky Business, Tapeheads, Better Off Dead, The Spanish Prisoner, The Pink Panther (the old one, with Peter Sellers), Being There, The Blues Brothers, Mars Attacks!, The Nightmare Before Xmas, Heathers, Beetlejuice, .... | | Television | Adult Swim: Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist, Futurama, Family Guy, Venture Brothers... many others, but a lot of the recent stuff sucks, like Tom Goes to the Mayor.
The Daily Show, Max Headroom, Jerimiah, Buffy, The Greatest American Hero, Herman's Head, All those Forensics documentary shows: The New Detectives, the FBI Files, Cold Case Files, stuff like that-- CSI is for wimps. Battlestar Galactica (old and new). Most of the Star Treks, B5, Buffy, Quark (although I barely remember it), Monty Python, Pen & Teller's Bullshit, Numb3rs, Wild Kingdom, MythBusters, Inside the Actor's Studio, South Park, Simpsons, 24 (although I really only watched the first 2 seasons), The West Wing, Hill Street Blues, M*A*S*H, China Beach, Quincy, Colombo, Monk, Scooby Doo.... | | Books | Authors: Thomas Pynchon, David Gerrold, Madeline L'Engle, Sheri Tepper, Alan Moore, JRR Tolkein, Matt Wagner, Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Richard Feynman, Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, ...
Fiction: Earth Abides, A Cantacle for Liebowitz, ...
Non-Fiction: Visual Complex Analysis, The Design of Everyday Things, Godel Escher Bach, QED, Wilson's Ghost, ... | | Heroes | The Apollo 13 Mission Controllers, Isaac Newton, Richard Feynman, Christopher Reeve, Stephen Hawking, Ghandi, Sally Ride, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jaques Cousteau. Tom Stoppard, Arland D. Williams: the "sixth man" in the Potomac airline crash rescue (see wikipedia:Air_Florida_Flight_90, Linus Torvalds, JZ Young.... |
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Caltech, Deep-Sea Biology, Octopus will Rock Your Face Off, TONMO, Cthulhu, Accelerate Trainings
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Mark (Monty)'s Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Menlo Park, CA | | Body type: | 5' 11" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Computer Graphics Weenie |
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Mark (Monty)'s Networking
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Nightlife - Entertainment - Go-Go Dancer
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They don't have a "science" category. How pathetic. Since they don't have anything remotely close, as a protest, I'm choosing "Nightlife:Entertainment:Go-Go-Dancer" to mean "Biology, particularly Neurobiology and Marine Biology of Cephalopods"
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About me:
I'm not actually hip enough for myspace, but hey, it's free! If you actually want to know something about me, try looking at my web page. You can also find my pages for other networking sites, like orkut, friendster, linkedin, livejournal, etc., there, if you're into that sort of thing, which you probably are if you're on myspace. And hey, I was a geek before there was "geek chic," so all you geek poseurs who jumped on board because it was trendy can, er, I dunno, laugh at me when geekiness goes out of fashion or something.
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Who I'd like to meet:
People who are into "cool and interesting" stuff-- I generally enjoy talking to people who are outside the mainstream and perhaps a bit obsessive about their avocations or vocations... If you're interested my friending you, though, if I already know you, great, go ahead (and maybe tell me who you are if it's not obvious from your username), but otherwise I'm only interested in people who are willing to start some intelligent discourse first, so please send something that makes me thing you're not a spammer or friend-collector, and makes me think you actually are interested in interacting with me. Thanks.
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