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Created on 2009-04-25 01:55:06 (#19765302), last updated 2009-12-12
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Basic Info| Name: | come_to_think |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1937-10-28 |
| Location: | Malden, Massachusetts, United States |
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joe_f@verizon.net BioAffectionate, officially bisexual but in practice queer, Caltech and commune alumnus, comfortable, compulsive, concupiscent, convivial, hospitable, male, malicious, mirthful, misanthropic, neurotic, nonlimerent, reliable, self-centered, sentimental, skeptical, timid, unfashionable.
69 in. (175 cm), 140 lb (10 stn, 64 kg), 71 yr; trimmed gray beard; gray hair cut once a year, in the spring. NBCS .B2 t- w- g+ k+ s++ r p.
Freelance copyeditor, work at home, edging into retirement.
Magazines: The Washington Post Weekly, The New York Review of Books, American Scientist, Harvard, Engineering & Science. Also browse in Science and Nature at the library.
Newsgroups: alt.books.george-orwell, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.usage.english, comp.emacs, gnu.announce, gnu.emacs.announce, gnu.emacs.bug, gnu.emacs.gnus, gnu.emacs.help, gnu.misc.discuss, ne.transportation, rec.music.folk, sci.lang, soc.motss, alt.suicide.methods, alt.quotations
Comic strips & cartoons: Dilbert, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse, Danziger, Pluggers, xkcd, Bear with Me.
Mailing lists: copyediting-l, ballad-l, Bi_Bears, GayCruisinginNewEngland, Boston Bears, BrotherhoodOfBears, etc.
TV: None, ever.
Formative books (roughly in order of first reading them): Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Road to Wigan Pier; Dos Passos, U.S.A.; Koestler, Darkness at Noon, The Age of Longing; Vonnegut, Player Piano; Tolstoy, War and Peace; Warren, All the King's Men; Wiener, Cybernetics; Stewart, Earth Abides, Storm; Burdick, The Ninth Wave; Luce & Raiffa, Games and Decisions; Parkinson, Parkinson's Law; Kornbluth, Syndic; Huie, The Revolt of Mamie Stover; Agee, A Death in the Family; Skinner, Walden Two; Lovejoy & Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity; Kipling, Captains Courageous.
Favorite short stories: Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; John Collier, Witchs Money; J. J. Coupling, Period Piece; Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp; Chan Davis, Adrift on the Policy Level.
Musical tastes: Sentimental about classical music, but don't have the attention span or empathy to appreciate it as most people seem to. Folk. Popular, up to about 1940.
Places I have lived: southern California, southern Vermont, Scotland, Boston area, Long Island, central Virginia.
Medications: None.
I am the most marginal person I have heard tell of. I am attracted to fringe groups (queers, folkies, libertarians) & therein to the fringes of those fringes (bis, bears, singing groups), and even there I don't belong.
69 in. (175 cm), 140 lb (10 stn, 64 kg), 71 yr; trimmed gray beard; gray hair cut once a year, in the spring. NBCS .B2 t- w- g+ k+ s++ r p.
Freelance copyeditor, work at home, edging into retirement.
Magazines: The Washington Post Weekly, The New York Review of Books, American Scientist, Harvard, Engineering & Science. Also browse in Science and Nature at the library.
Newsgroups: alt.books.george-orwell, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.usage.english, comp.emacs, gnu.announce, gnu.emacs.announce, gnu.emacs.bug, gnu.emacs.gnus, gnu.emacs.help, gnu.misc.discuss, ne.transportation, rec.music.folk, sci.lang, soc.motss, alt.suicide.methods, alt.quotations
Comic strips & cartoons: Dilbert, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse, Danziger, Pluggers, xkcd, Bear with Me.
Mailing lists: copyediting-l, ballad-l, Bi_Bears, GayCruisinginNewEngland, Boston Bears, BrotherhoodOfBears, etc.
TV: None, ever.
Formative books (roughly in order of first reading them): Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Road to Wigan Pier; Dos Passos, U.S.A.; Koestler, Darkness at Noon, The Age of Longing; Vonnegut, Player Piano; Tolstoy, War and Peace; Warren, All the King's Men; Wiener, Cybernetics; Stewart, Earth Abides, Storm; Burdick, The Ninth Wave; Luce & Raiffa, Games and Decisions; Parkinson, Parkinson's Law; Kornbluth, Syndic; Huie, The Revolt of Mamie Stover; Agee, A Death in the Family; Skinner, Walden Two; Lovejoy & Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity; Kipling, Captains Courageous.
Favorite short stories: Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; John Collier, Witchs Money; J. J. Coupling, Period Piece; Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp; Chan Davis, Adrift on the Policy Level.
Musical tastes: Sentimental about classical music, but don't have the attention span or empathy to appreciate it as most people seem to. Folk. Popular, up to about 1940.
Places I have lived: southern California, southern Vermont, Scotland, Boston area, Long Island, central Virginia.
Medications: None.
I am the most marginal person I have heard tell of. I am attracted to fringe groups (queers, folkies, libertarians) & therein to the fringes of those fringes (bis, bears, singing groups), and even there I don't belong.
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a taste of honey, ace in the hole, affection, beards, bears, bertrand russell, bisexuals, c.m. kornbluth, chipmunks, chord progressions, classical music, conviviality, cybernetics, cyril tawney, dandelions, domesticity, dragonflies, dwight macdonald, ethics, ewan maccoll, folk music, frederik pohl, fur, george orwell, george r. stewart, getting laid, h.l. mencken, harvey pekar, hospitality, hugs, ikiru, james agee, kipling, kissing, koestler, language, logic, man for all seasons, margaret macarthur, marlene dietrich, mathematics, miracle on 34th st., paths of glory, physics, poetry, politics, popular music before 1940, r. crumb, reading, robert a. heinlein, robert burns, science, science fiction, singing, stan rogers, suicide, the ninth wave, tom lehrer, w.h. auden, writing
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Schools:
Putney School - Putney, VT (1950 - 1954)California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA (1954 - 1958)
University of St Andrews - St Andrews, Scotland - Fife, United Kingdom (1958 - 1959)
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