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Created on 2004-02-01 03:39:19 (#2074503), last updated 2009-07-01
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Basic Info| Name: | A Born Again (And Again) Buddhist |
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BioPolitics: Anarcho-capitalist, meritocrat
If I was a citizen of X I would vote for::
- Poland : Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), a moderate right-wing party.
- California : Schwarzenneger
- other United States : Democrats, though it'd be a hard choice...
Allegiance: Europe with its roots in ancient Greece, Japan in late Edo period, New Zealand
Ethics: Liberal, Zen/Theravadin Buddhist, Great Ape Project supporter
Diet: Vegetarian + animals with nervous system more primitive than vertebrates (i.e. seafood except octopi; snails and insects allowed but I've never tried them :) ).
Preferred theories about origins: Big Bang theory combined with the multiverse hypothesis - our universe as a bubble on the surface of a bigger system -> Origins of life by abiogenesis possibly combined with panspermia (life as an epidemic disease of planets ;)) -> Out-of-Africa model of human evolution
Favourite music: Goth & metal (obvious, isn't it?)
Favourite bands: Type O Negative, Black Sabbath, Evanescence, 30 Seconds To Mars, COMA
Movies and series which influenced me the most:
1. The Matrix (the first movie and Animatrix - forget about the sequels).
2. Serial Experiments: Lain
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Shinsengumi!
However, it doesn't mean that they are my favourites. I tried to think out my list of favourite movies and failed. I guess I treat movies likes sandwiches - I watch them, and I know when a movie is great, good, or bad, but I can't say which are the best the same way I can't say "the best sandwich I ever had was The Greek Sandwich at HotSpot in Warsaw's centre" - because I simply don't classify them like that.
Favourite fiction books:
1. Literally everything by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. 'Hyperion' series by Dan Simmons
3. 'Oath of Empire' series by Thomas Harlan
Other favourite books:
1. "Cybernetyka i charakter" ("Cybernetics and character") by Marian Mazur, PhD.
2. Sutta pitaka, Buddha's speeches written down in the first century BCE
People who influenced me the most (apart from my parents):
1. My almost ex wife.
2. Eugeniusz Dadzibug, my former karate kyokushinkai sensei. One year of training at his dojo forged an entirely new person.
3. #anime-pl, as a whole crazy group of teenagers and anime fans who made me go to fandom conventions where I had to learn responsibility, self-sufficiency and danger prediction in order to survive.
4. Tomasz Traczyk, PhD, Mathematics and Information Sciences department, Warsaw University of Technology. His lectures broke my mind into pieces and then were happily jumping on it. Stretched my imagination to absolutely new levels and taught how to handle logic chains tens implications long.
5. Andrzej Bazylko, my former aikido aikikai sensei. The knowledge how to break someone's wrist in twenty ways can be very inspiring and gives a lot of self-confidence.
6. Siddartha Gautama, the coolest prophet ever.
7. Friedrich Nietsche, a very good philosopher for implementing a certain amount of boldness in an introvertic teenanger.
Rankings:
- Aikido, aikikai, Christian Tissier-sensei line : 1 kyu
- Kenjutsu, kashima shin-ryu : as there are no official ranks for students, let's say I'm lower-intermediate ;)
- Karate, kyokushinkai : 8 kyu
- Go, KGS ranking : 7 kyu
- official education: MSc in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence field
Languages:
- native: Polish
- fluent: English
- basics: French
- started to learn: Spanish, Japanese
- want to learn one day, in order of importance: Vietnamese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Maori, Pali, Mandarin
Computer languages:
- advanced: C/C++, Java
- intermediate: Lua
- being able to write simple programs: C#, Python, PHP, Pascal/Delphi, Groovy
- started to learn: Prolog, Perl, Lisp
If I was a citizen of X I would vote for::
- Poland : Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), a moderate right-wing party.
- California : Schwarzenneger
- other United States : Democrats, though it'd be a hard choice...
Allegiance: Europe with its roots in ancient Greece, Japan in late Edo period, New Zealand
Ethics: Liberal, Zen/Theravadin Buddhist, Great Ape Project supporter
Diet: Vegetarian + animals with nervous system more primitive than vertebrates (i.e. seafood except octopi; snails and insects allowed but I've never tried them :) ).
Preferred theories about origins: Big Bang theory combined with the multiverse hypothesis - our universe as a bubble on the surface of a bigger system -> Origins of life by abiogenesis possibly combined with panspermia (life as an epidemic disease of planets ;)) -> Out-of-Africa model of human evolution
Favourite music: Goth & metal (obvious, isn't it?)
Favourite bands: Type O Negative, Black Sabbath, Evanescence, 30 Seconds To Mars, COMA
Movies and series which influenced me the most:
1. The Matrix (the first movie and Animatrix - forget about the sequels).
2. Serial Experiments: Lain
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Shinsengumi!
However, it doesn't mean that they are my favourites. I tried to think out my list of favourite movies and failed. I guess I treat movies likes sandwiches - I watch them, and I know when a movie is great, good, or bad, but I can't say which are the best the same way I can't say "the best sandwich I ever had was The Greek Sandwich at HotSpot in Warsaw's centre" - because I simply don't classify them like that.
Favourite fiction books:
1. Literally everything by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. 'Hyperion' series by Dan Simmons
3. 'Oath of Empire' series by Thomas Harlan
Other favourite books:
1. "Cybernetyka i charakter" ("Cybernetics and character") by Marian Mazur, PhD.
2. Sutta pitaka, Buddha's speeches written down in the first century BCE
People who influenced me the most (apart from my parents):
1. My almost ex wife.
2. Eugeniusz Dadzibug, my former karate kyokushinkai sensei. One year of training at his dojo forged an entirely new person.
3. #anime-pl, as a whole crazy group of teenagers and anime fans who made me go to fandom conventions where I had to learn responsibility, self-sufficiency and danger prediction in order to survive.
4. Tomasz Traczyk, PhD, Mathematics and Information Sciences department, Warsaw University of Technology. His lectures broke my mind into pieces and then were happily jumping on it. Stretched my imagination to absolutely new levels and taught how to handle logic chains tens implications long.
5. Andrzej Bazylko, my former aikido aikikai sensei. The knowledge how to break someone's wrist in twenty ways can be very inspiring and gives a lot of self-confidence.
6. Siddartha Gautama, the coolest prophet ever.
7. Friedrich Nietsche, a very good philosopher for implementing a certain amount of boldness in an introvertic teenanger.
Rankings:
- Aikido, aikikai, Christian Tissier-sensei line : 1 kyu
- Kenjutsu, kashima shin-ryu : as there are no official ranks for students, let's say I'm lower-intermediate ;)
- Karate, kyokushinkai : 8 kyu
- Go, KGS ranking : 7 kyu
- official education: MSc in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence field
Languages:
- native: Polish
- fluent: English
- basics: French
- started to learn: Spanish, Japanese
- want to learn one day, in order of importance: Vietnamese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Maori, Pali, Mandarin
Computer languages:
- advanced: C/C++, Java
- intermediate: Lua
- being able to write simple programs: C#, Python, PHP, Pascal/Delphi, Groovy
- started to learn: Prolog, Perl, Lisp
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aikido, alternate history, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, anime, aotearoa, archeology, artificial intelligence, baileys, beliefs, bodhidharma, buddhism, c, c++, c/c++, caffeine, capitalism, career, cats, computer games, computers, conlang, cybernetics, cyberpunk, daito-ryu, dinosaurs, ethics, evil, evolution, evolutionary programming, fanfiction, fantasy, genetic algorithms, go, goth, hiking, japan, java, jujutsu, karate, kenjutsu, liberalism, lord of the rings, manga, maori, metal, movies, neanderthals, neural networks, new zealand, nietsche, paleolithic period, paleontology, peter steele, philosophy, politics, programming, pure evil, raptors, religion, rpg, sailing, sf, sheer evil, sinfest, theravada, tolkien, transhumanism, true evil, type o negative, vietnam, vipassana, what-if, x-men, zen
Schools:
Unseen University - Ankh-Morpork, England - Wiltshire, United KingdomPolitechnika Warszawska - Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland (2000 - 2005)
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