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| User: | matt_arnold (2882778) 
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| Name: | Matt Arnold |
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| Website: | Matt Arnold's homepage |
| Location: | Hazel Park, Michigan, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1974-06-17 |
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| matt_arnold | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| AOL IM: |  nemorathwald (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
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| Bio: | Today the Surrealist Compliment Generator told me, "The expanse of your intelligence is a void no universe could ever fill." Uh, thanks (I think)...
I was born in 1974, shortly after the vernal equinox, when science fiction author Philip K. Dick went insane. Those three events have no connection. I learned to read at the age of two, so in kindergarten all the other kids kept asking me to read to them. I still like reading to people.
My grandfather used to take my family to Walt Disney World in Florida every year since I was born until I was about eighteen or so. This was more important to me than Christmas. He still takes some of us every once in a while, and for me it's almost a pilgramage. I've been there more than twenty times, but the exact number depends on whether you count the trip I was in the womb.
Instead of attending an animation school and pursuing my dreams, when I was 18 I believed it was God's will that I get a useless art degree at Pensacola Christian College in Florida, a school that puts the "mental" in "fundamentalist." Later I became what some people call a "devout secularist" but which I refer to as a "recovering ex-Christian." Just to see what all the fuss was about, I drank my first taste of alcohol at the age of 29; a Chardonnay. It tasted like Drano but I was open-minded enough to try a margarita and that was OK. I also intend to learn this ritual convulsion called "dancing" which people seem to like so much for reasons that escape me.
These days I participate in running all-volunteer not-for-profit science fiction conventions. I work as a print producer and do freelance graphic design on the side. I have one very amicable divorce and no children. My website of essays, games, and wacky calendar/spelling/metric reform schemes is www.nemorathwald.com. I have a podcast (point your audio feed aggregator here) about an artificial language which I speak called Lojban. On Yudkowsky's Future Shock Scale I rate a 3.
My social bookmarks are at http://del.icio.us/Matt_Arnold.
Look me up on Second Life with the handle Nemo Benmergui.
Forecast: Uncertainty is up, expenses are down, issues remain stable. Slightly scheming today with 80% chance of improvement over the weekend. As of 5:00 p.m. I had 1,371,624,462 seconds estimated left to live. |
| Memories: | 62 entries |
| Pictures: | over 200 public |
| Interests: | 52: abstract games, advanced technology, agnosticism, animation, anti-authoritarianism, apple computers, atheism, books, childfree, clay animation, coffee, coffee shops, creativity, douglas adams, e-books, enya, epcot center, go, humanism, icehouse, intelligence, interactive fiction, libertarianism, lojban, nanotech, nonmonogamy, open cola, open relationship, palm os, penguicon, philosophy, polyamory, reading, real-time strategy, science, science fiction, science fiction conventions, sculpting, secularism, singularity, skepticism, special effects, they might be giants, tom lehrer, transhumanism, universism, urban tribes, utopia, vangelis, whuffie, writing, zendo |
| Schools: | Gilead Baptist Academy - Owosso, MI
Roseville High School - Roseville, MI (1990 - 1992)
Pensacola Christian College - Pensacola, FL (1992 - 1997)
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| Friends: |  | 146: | 1atomtan, 666notgrey666, aaronthul, algebradancer, amanda_lodden, asteichmann, atdt1991, atropis, autopope, avt_tor, bardicwench, blastedbill, blue_duck, blue_lucy, bluehamster98, brendand, broca, caffeinatedelf, camgusmis, cathyr19355, cdrodeffer, celticavatar, cmdln_user, commonsense, copingwithcows, cosette_valjean, crywolf, cymbelline, darthpenguin, davroz, dawnwolf, ded_guy, delosd, dj_brick, dnance02, dober_woman, draco_the_goth, dresdencodak, drewfer, drkelso, earthgoat, ecolabrat, eevee4, eilrahc, elizabethbear, elizilla, ellalthea, entwined_in_ivy, eposia, escapepodcast, etain, eternalmaiden, fortuna_juvat, fraggedone, fuzzyjelly, hoshi_sato, howardtayler, i_amanuensis, iamgeek, ianmcdonald, infowidget, jeffreyab, jer_, langmaker, lazaruslong42, le_bebna_kamni, li885, loop_bell, lorrraine, magnus1ab, marahsk, matt_arnold, medha, minnehaha, mjwise, murphyw, muteid10t, netmouse, nionecalima, overthesun, palindromeg33k, paltergo, par4n0idandr0id, paranthropus, phecda, podcastle, profchaosofpcon, protoblues, rachelann1977, rachels_dreams, raendrop, rainbowgnosis, rbradakis, renniekins, rikhei, rlpowell, rmeidaking, robyn_r, rubywitch, rwhe, sacredsideshow, samurai_jkm, sandygood, sarahmichigan, scottym, sfeley, shadowriderhope, shatteredglobe, sheryl67, sibbidy, sigstoat, spevack, star_gazersusan, storm_lord, stormgren, superchar42, systemsthinker, takeoverworld9, tammy212, tammylc, tammypierce, telkakitty, temujin9, thatguychuck, the_leewit, thefile, thepiercedrose, thornn77, tlatoani, todfox, toni_rey, treebones, twoofdtm, universaloved1, universism, uplinktruck, vesperto, wolfger, wormquartet, writer_girl23, wulfthestampede, xkobo, yanis_batura, zencuppa, zifferent, zillafan |  | 7: | cf_singles, lojban, naviadratp, pccboarders, penguicon, stilyagiaircorp, universists |  | 9: | dorktowerfeed, lojbanwiki, nanodot, notanemployee, penguicon_blog, randomsynapse, scalzifeed, sinfestfeed, xkcd_rss |
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| Mutual Friends: | 112: 1atomtan, 666notgrey666, algebradancer, amanda_lodden, atdt1991, atropis, autopope, avt_tor, bardicwench, blastedbill, blue_duck, blue_lucy, brendand, caffeinatedelf, cathyr19355, cdrodeffer, celticavatar, cmdln_user, copingwithcows, cosette_valjean, crywolf, cymbelline, davroz, dawnwolf, ded_guy, dj_brick, dnance02, dober_woman, drewfer, drkelso, earthgoat, ecolabrat, eevee4, eilrahc, elizilla, ellalthea, entwined_in_ivy, eposia, etain, eternalmaiden, fraggedone, fuzzyjelly, i_amanuensis, iamgeek, ianmcdonald, infowidget, jeffreyab, jer_, lazaruslong42, le_bebna_kamni, li885, loop_bell, magnus1ab, marahsk, matt_arnold, mjwise, muteid10t, netmouse, nionecalima, overthesun, palindromeg33k, paltergo, phecda, podcastle, profchaosofpcon, protoblues, rachelann1977, rachels_dreams, raendrop, rainbowgnosis, rbradakis, renniekins, rikhei, rmeidaking, rwhe, sacredsideshow, samurai_jkm, sandygood, sarahmichigan, scottym, sfeley, shadowriderhope, sheryl67, sibbidy, star_gazersusan, storm_lord, stormgren, superchar42, systemsthinker, takeoverworld9, tammylc, tammypierce, telkakitty, temujin9, thatguychuck, the_leewit, thefile, thepiercedrose, thornn77, tlatoani, todfox, toni_rey, treebones, twoofdtm, uplinktruck, vesperto, wolfger, wormquartet, wulfthestampede, zencuppa, zifferent, zillafan |
| Also Friend of: | 43: artemisia_starr, asfi, beamjockey, cadmus, cat_paw, chance_sparhawk, cylithria, dbvanhorn, doubleg, dragonsmith0, drgnfly, earthenwood, eks2005, evilbitch316, fannyclown, frey_nance, fromrain2smiles, giamatti, graywyvern, gregvb, hoboslobo, jencendiary, kirkt68, liquidice0716, lverhulst, mdaniel, mr_verne, nealzilla, novapsyche, polykardia, pooh27bear, psi_babe, ricas_kibu, shadowspar, sisucore, sloviksa, tallizen, tenebram, tesral, trav13369, xah_lee, yellowmouser, zpgf |
| Member of: | 8: cf_singles, lojban, paidmembers, pccboarders, penguicon, polyamory, stilyagiaircorp, universists |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
