Michael
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what kind of creature will I be?
Male
28 years old
COLUMBUS, OHIO
United States
Last Login: 1/12/2009
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Michael's Interests
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| Music | Tori Amos, Noe Venable, Crash Test Dummies, Counting Crows, Moxy Früvous, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Vinegar Hill, anything from Brasil, anything from Ireland, da Vinci's Notebook, F'Loom, Natalie Merchant, Uncle Bonsai | | Television | Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Columbo, The Red Green Show, Buffy, Angel, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Are You Being Served?, The Bob Newhart Show, Alias, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood | | Books | Don Quixote; Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul; Terry Pratchett's oeuvre; Assassination Vacation; The Partly-Cloudy Patriot; Stephen King's oeuvre; Alice in Wonderland |
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Michael's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Fenton, Michigan | | Body type: | 5' 6" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Mathematician |
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Michael is a mathematician. Posted at 8:12 PM Aug 8, 2008
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About me:
I am a fourth-year graduate student at OSU, where I study automorphic forms with my advisor Jim Cogdell; I am a mathematician for aesthetic reasons, because I know that, like poets and musicians, mathematicians are makers of patterns.
I am, when time permits, a writer of fiction, a poet, a designer of games.
I am an ELCA Lutheran, and I also study Buddhism, finding Christian faith and Buddhist practice a natural, healthy, and spiritually fulfilling complementation.
I am enamored with Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Cosmic Encounter, and Robo Rally, and I think that the minds behind Kingdom of Loathing are some of the cleverest people on the Internet.
I feel more comfortable with cards in my hand, and play a solitaire version of the Blank Card Game with an unsettling compulsion.
I am partially wolf...oddly furry, stronger and smarter when the moon is full, and allergic to belladonna.
I am owner and caretaker of two adorable cats, Chloë (calico) and Tori (tortoise-shell), who have inherited my addiction to NPR; I am housemate to Analysis "Annie" Latte, a feral mad-scientist bunny rabbit who lives in my basement and secretly plots against me.
I am a lover of language, words and wordplay, witty repartee and belles lettres; I am a speaker of English, Portuguese, and Spanish, a reader of French and Russian.
I believe that Garrison Keillor's voice is what God should sound like, and that Sarah Vowell's voice is sexy.
I am half of MOE, an NTN trivia force to be reckoned with on Tuesday nights at the local bw-3.
I find jigsaw puzzles a Zen experience, and my lifetime goal is to do one of those 18000 piecers from Ravensburger...maybe when I'm tenured.
I am addicted to learning things and acquiring skills; in free time that, in retrospect, I may or may not have had, I have in recent years learned, among other things: an Irish drinking song repertoire, the soprano and tenor recorders, tin- and pennywhistles, hypnosis, advanced smoothiecrafting, and how to make mouthwatering chai on the stove, in a saucepan.
Also, I have a blog (which I don't update often enough, but I'm working on that) on Livejournal, where my user name is also "tweedcap". Oh, and I wear a tweed cap. Did you figure that out?
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Who I'd like to meet:
...anyone who will tickle my dendrites
...anyone who speaks Portuguese and will help me practice
...anyone with something to teach me, who wants to teach it to me
...the makers of music, the dreamers of dreams
...anyone who likes to play games half as much as I do
...myself, ten years younger
...myself, ten years older
...Thich Nhat Hanh
...John Cleese
...Michael Palin
...Sarah Vowell
...Garrison Keillor
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