About Me

  • About Me: Die Dachse haben meinen Verstand gefressen!

Travel

  • Places I love: India, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Hawaii
  • Places I've been: Hawaii, Washington DC, the southern half of the US, London, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico
  • Places to see before I die: Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Sikh's Golden Temple, Teotihuacan, go on Hajj
  • Dream Vacation: exploring a sparsely populated tropical isle

Television

  • Favorite Shows: 30 Rock, Family Guy, Futurama, ATHF, Camp Lazlo, Spongebob
  • Favorite Channels: Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, NGC, Discovery Channel
  • Favorite Reruns: Tom and Jerry, The Jetsons
  • Most Addictive Show: 30 Rock
  • Characters you relate to: Fry, Homer Simpson, Two-fer
  • Favorite Theme Song: Futurama
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Taxicab Confessions
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Futurama, Firefly, Invader Zim

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Beethoven, Dvorak, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Gnarls Barkley, Yael Naim
  • Favorite Genre: Classical, Soundtracks, Rap/Hip-hop, R&B
  • Favorite Songs: Beethoven's 5th, Beethoven's Ave Maria, Mozart Requiem, New Soul, St. Elsewhere
  • Songs I hate: Pop
  • Guilty Pleasure: The Supremes

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Star Wars, American Beauty, The Matrix, Edward Scissorhands, The Lion King, Being There, Little Big Man, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Prince of Egypt, LOTR, Airplane
  • Favorite Actors: Gene Wilder, Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Leslie Nielson, Gilda Radner, Tina Fey!!
  • Favorite Directors: Judd Apatow, Cohen brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg
  • Favorite Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Comedy
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Illusionist, Star Wars: A New Hope, Planet Earth, Finding Nemo, Wall-e, The Lion King, Edward Scissorhands, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: All of them...
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: sigh... Jon Heder.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Jewish Deli Cuisine. Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese...
  • Favorite Dishes: Sandwiches.
  • Favorite Desserts: Ice cream, breakfast cereal, blueberries...
  • Favorite Drinks: Ginger Ale, Rootbeer, Orange Juice, Cranberry Juice
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Cheez-its
  • My Original Recipes: Kidney beans and cucumbers in soy sauce, with Basmati
  • Foods I hate: Chocolate, shellfish, crustaceans, pork

Books

  • Favorite Books: Job, Ecclesiastes, Jurassic Park, the Time Machine, the Wind in the Willows, the Epic of Gilgamesh, linguistics books
  • Favorite Authors: Plato, Hans Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Jonathan Swift
  • Favorite Genres: Science Fiction, linguistics, philosophy, humor, cosmology, religious texts
  • Favorite Characters: Hobbes, Mr. Toad, Han Solo
  • Favorite Quotes: "I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!" -Ms. Frizzle Winston Churchill (regarding the rule of English that forbids ending a sentence with a preposition): "It is a rule up with we should not put."
  • Recent Reads: Guide to Getting It On, 3d Ed.; The First Word; The Religions of Man

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Daiborn, Asok, Super Kamiokande
  • Nationality: http://www.myspace.com/asok_yeesrim
  • Heroes: MLK, Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin
  • Interests: Linguistics, playing bassoon, writing, drawing, cartoons, science fiction, comic books, religions, philosophy, sandwiches, primates. Human beings.
  • Expertise: Mediocrity
  • Occupation: http://www.swagonline.net/

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    • Name: Ryan
    • Country: United States
    • State: California
    • Metro: Davis
    • Birthday: 2/17/1987
    • Gender: Male
    • Member Since: 2/12/2005