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(Much) More About Me

As a member of numerous social networking sites, message board communities, and other personalized web services, I have had to create many member "profiles" for myself. These profiles paint a quick picture of me but don't, obviously, go into details. That is, they don't tell you what I'm really like.

To get an idea of what I'm really like -- at least indirectly -- you would visit my website (or, at the very least, Google me). Why? Because you learn quite a bit about someone by seeing what he or she has done on/to his or her personal blog and/or website. I, on the other hand, have generally been more direct than that because, on this website, you can find my resume, a (detailed) writeup on what's going on in my life, and my personal and professional blogs. This particular page, then, is another part of that "telling people about me" thing because it tells you about my social-networking side.

This page's intention is to give you an idea of what I'm all about by listing the things that I like and the things that I do. These lists are not meant to be exhaustive and are far from complete. They merely highlight the things that I like and do the most (or the most frequently). Let me know what you think at ameel [at] insanityworks.org.

In one sentence, who am I?

I am geek, techie, Trekker, drummer & percussionist, Reiki practitioner, and (currently) graduate student.

Things I do:

I drum, read, watch TV & movies, listen to music, and surf the 'net. I also like sleeping and can be a bit of a sleep camel when on holiday.

Things that interest me:

Reading (mostly books, predominantly of the science fiction and fantasy genre), music (most kinds), movies (most kinds), television (most shows), radio (mostly short wave, when I get the time), writing (short stories), computers (everything to do with those), and technology in general (these days: tablet PCs!).

Bands I like:

U2, Moby, Peter Gabriel, REM, Collective Soul, Garbage, Coldplay, Sting, Pearl Jam, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Dire Straits, Goo Goo Dolls, Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruce Springsteen, Junoon, Noori, Vital Signs, and many, many more.

Television shows I like:

Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9), Babylon 5, Space: Above & Beyond, V: The Final Battle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Carnivale, Heroes, Medium, Supernatural, Sapphire and Steel, Charmed, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Perfect Strangers, Boston Legal, Whose Line is it Anyway, Thank God You're Here, Spicks & Specks, Yes (Prime) Minister, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Scrubs, M*A*S*H, The IT Crowd, Frasier, Get Smart, Perfect Strangers, Law & Order (SVU, CI), Matlock, Veronica Mars, CSI, NCIS, Numb3rs, Air Wolf, The A Team, MacGyver, House, Xena: Warrior Princess, Gilmore Girls, Roswell, Eureka, Mythbusters, Top Gear (and associated programmes), The Weakest Link, Parkinson, Looney Toons, Tom & Jerry, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and many, many more.

Movies I like:

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), The Matrix (trilogy), Terminator (trilogy), Star Wars (original trilogy), Alien (series), X-Men (trilogy), James Bond (series), Die Hard (series), Indiana Jones (trilogy), Lethal Weapon (trilogy), Men in Black (series), Bad Boys (both), Back to the Future (trilogy), Monty Python (series), Hot Shots (both), Airplane (both), Naked Gun (trilogy), Pushing Tin, Dead Poet's Society, Memento, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather, Spy Game, Sneakers, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Negotiator, The Usual Suspects, The Great Escape, Braveheart, Das Boot, The Incredibles, Fantasia, The Jungle Book, Shine, The Message, Gandhi, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Moulin Rouge, Almost Famous, The Blues Brothers, and many, many more.

Authors I read (and books I like):

Anything by: Arthur C. Clarke (particularly the Rama series), Isaac Asimov (particularly the Foundation and robot series), Frank Herbert (particularly the Dune series), Vernor Vinge, Richard Bach, Michael Crichton, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, and more.

Websites I frequent:

Google, Google Reader, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Facebook, Space Review, Bad Astronomy, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Airliners.net, [News:] Google News, Digg, Salon, BBC, Reuters, Dawn, Watan Dost, PakPositive, Ain't it Cool News, [Tech:] Slashdot, Engadget, CNET, PC World (Australia) , PC Magazine, ArsTechnica, Web Worker Daily, Geek Sugar, Geek Etiquette, Joel on Software , GottaBeMobile, jkOntherun, Uber Tablet PC , Tablet PC Review, Student Tablet PC, Tablet PC Buzz, [Blogs:] Sumocat's Scribbles, Wil Wheaton.net: in Exile, [Humour/Media:] Overheard in New York, Cracked, Break.com, Compfused, Strange Cosmos, YouTube, Google Video, PhD Comics , User Friendly, xkcd, Questionable Content, Comics.com, GoComics.com, Neurotically Yours, Angry Alien, RedBubble, Flickr, I Can Has Cheezburgr?, among others.