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Some 1978 years, 2 month and 12 days after a little boy reportedly was born from a virgin, it was my turn to be brought upon this earth. The otherwise not-so-memorable occasion happened in Hilversum, The Netherlands. I lived there for 16 memorable-enough years when my parents decided it'd be neat to move to the United States of America. "The United States of America?" Yes, the United States of America. The land of cowboys, indians, the American dream, Hollywood, and, of course, TV commercials. It was in this land that I settled in a pleasant-but-immemorable little town named Freehold, in the state known as the Garden State: New Jersey. As luck would have it the United States of America was also the land of cheap Internet access, so I stopped watching TV and started learning about the Internet, and life was generally good.
17 years after the not-so-memorable occasion mentioned in the first paragraph I acquired a License to Kill (aka driver's license). Not knowing very well what else to do with it, I scanned it in and put the picture on the web.
The next so-called "major event" in my life is the fact that I now attend Carnegie Mellon University where I study electrical and computer engineering. Now that I'm here I am appropriately more disgruntled than I thought I'd be because "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." Food around here is probably the most annoying thing, my CS prof a close second. This doesn't keep me from being quite gruntled indeed. I regularly play ultimate frisbee and I'm also a fairly inactive member of Zugzwang.
Aside from all that good history stuff, I've recently gained the knowledge that Enigma makes the coolest noises on the planet. I don't really have a favorite band after that. Bon Jovi and Van Halen made some damn good songs, as did other peoples like the Urban Cookie Collective and their peers. Lately, I've acquired a good taste for Weird Al. Basically I like most kinds of music, as long as it's varied. While I'm rambling about my interests, I should include books, which I haven't really read in forever. Anyhow, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy in five parts is definitely way up there. The Lord Of The Rings is (are?) just about as good. From there I generally like stuff by Crichton, Clancy, and Grisham (coincidentally written down in almost alphabetical order, but I can assure everybody that this is purely coincidental).
To be continued...
| Tim Newsome, nuisance@cmu.edu | |