I am 36, live in Manchester and work as an IT operations specialist (computer networks and servers) for a fortune500 in Downtown Hartford.

Most of my interests are in movies, reading, music, science/technology, history, theatre, and socializing with friends. Well, aside from passionate intimacy with a significant other. ;) However most of the freetime is spent in the reading/movies/friends area with a little bit of side time for writing the book I am working on (non-fiction, should be about 800 pages when done, working title is "Mindshare: What we think and how we think is who we are...and it is being manipulated" so all the subjects attached to that issue, neuroscience, philosophy/psychology, marketing/advertising, propaganda etc.).

I am an Aries/Rat (astrology), INTJ (Myers-brigg personality, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ) with a 32% purity (http://infohost.nmt.edu/~kscott/purity/)

For reading, I have been on a classic literature kick for the past few years. Tolstoy, dante, plato, nietzsche, sun tzu, tolkien, jules verne, etc. A favorite that I read a couple years ago and can recommend is "What our mothers didn't tell us" which was a well researched book on the issues facing modern women in choosing and juggling career and/or family. More recently finished books: War of 1812, the sherlock holmes series, Jules verne "Journey to the center of the earth", Aldous Huxley "Brave new world", Orwell 1984, Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of five rings", The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, and just finished (as of July 16th) Anthony Pagden's "Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West". Still in progress on Clausewitz's "On War" and Marquis De Sade's "120 days of Sodom"(let alone the backlog of some books on consciousness and intelligence testing, plus finishing off the next two volumes of Foucault's "History of Sexuality").

For music, I tend to concentrate on metal, hardrock and alternative...and generally avoid country, rap, and hiphop (though there are some). But listen to almost all genres. I have over 9000 MP3s, so pretty diverse selection. My favorite thing to look for nowadays is weird/unique covers and internet/garage bands worthy of note.

Movies, anything with good dialogue, script/plot, acting and cinematography usually wins me over. We have, I think, 400 some odd DVDs. Things like Seven Samurai (really anything Kurosawa), fight club, matrix, Silent Running, World according to Garp, True Romance, Dogma (or most kevin smith), Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, etc....off the top of my head.

Comedy gold: Mitch Hedberg, Dane cook, george carlin, old school bill cosby...Monty Python...Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.   Send me a message!

Profession: IT Operations Specialist
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