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mikewb1971

- Name: Mike
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 8/23/2007

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Mike Blessing Extropy Enterprises Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87120 US	Work: 505-515-7015 mikewb1971@gmail.com http://mikewb1971.xanga.com

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Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here?
Where are you going? Where have you been?
Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who wipes your ass?
Who should -- you or someone else?

Hi! My name is Mike. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and check out my profile.

The basics -- I am friendly, outgoing once I know you, good listener, sincere and honest, with a wicked sense of humor, and a very experimental nature. I love being spontaneous with the ones who can handle it.

SOME SPECIFICS

Philosophy of life -- I'm a live-and-let-live guy. If you're not hurting anyone else with what you do, you've got every right in the world to do it. As a corollary to this, that means that everyone else has the right to do whatever they want as long as they're not hurting anyone else.

Attitudes -- I'm protective, not possessive (well, maybe a little), towards my partners and friends. I try to be open-minded. I like it when things make sense, and try to understand what I'm missing when they don't. I prefer to deliver more than I promise. Where friends are concerned, I prefer quality over quantity: someone who I can trust implicitly as opposed to shallow chumminess.

Politics -- My politics tend to flow from my personal life and experiences (see above for the basics) -- I'm an anarchist-leaning libertarian transhumanist or extropian. While I am involved in the political process (some friends tell me that I'm too involved, for various reasons), I won't bore you with that here -- check out my subpage here or my other site for that.

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About Me -- Some Details

Nicknames: StarshipTrooper, GunsSaveLives, among others
Nationality: Polish / German (?)
Religion: Agnostic, apatheistic
Heroes: Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei
Interests: Science Fiction, Shooting, Politics, Science, Computers
Expertise: Jack of all trades
Occupation: Security / Customer Service
Industry: Retail

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Hello Mr. Blessing, You made your site fancy and elegant. I see that you are a student. I’m glad that’s all over with for me! I like to write articles about Jehovah God on my site to help people to really get to know Him and His plans for us, especially in these troubled times. 44 "And in the days
- Posted 5/20/2009 12:59 PM
- by The__True__Path
A few notes from this week --1. Got a B+ (89.9) in my Linux course this semester. I'm MUCH more comfortable with it as an operating system than I was before starting the course. I'm not dropping Windows, but I'm not locked into Windows any more. And that is a good thing.2. Now I've just got three la
- Posted 4/17/2009 1:00 PM
- by mikewb1971
"A regulation can be for a fool to obey and a wise man to break." -- Sir Hugh Trenchard, founder of the [British] Royal Air Force
- Posted 12/30/2008 5:11 PM
- by mikewb1971
Every so often, I get an unsolicitied "spam" message from the "Defenders of Wildlife." The only way that I can see is back in July of this year, I posted a message to Martin Heinrich's campaign site, telling him that his "universal health care" plan was garbage. The site required me to enter an emai
- Posted 11/12/2008 3:12 PM
- by mikewb1971
Yesterday I found out that the CNM Photonics program is in danger of being killed off for at least a year, due to problems with the administrative people who are supposed to support the program. This is really frustrating -- I had planned on taking enough courses to complete the degree program. Luck
- Posted 10/15/2008 3:10 PM
- by mikewb1971
Reposted my links pages and such after the versions I had posted to Google and linked to from here were disabled by the Google admin people -- see the sidebar on the main page. Also posted a couple more Twitter updates.
- Posted 10/9/2008 3:30 PM
- by mikewb1971
Just updated my Zorpia page a bit. Haven't had much action there (mostly on myyearbook.com these days), but what the hell, why not?
- Posted 9/2/2008 4:12 PM
- by mikewb1971
I just figured out how to customize the link to my MyYearbook profile from the default gibberish.
- Posted 8/14/2008 11:42 AM
- by mikewb1971
My laptop is down again -- won't even boot up this time. Really pisses me off, as I basically live from it -- all of my files, notes, etc., are on its hard drive. ARGH. Really MUST put more of my stuff online so I can get to it without being dependent on one machine.
- Posted 7/9/2008 3:51 PM
- by mikewb1971
Another blog entry -- Trying Linux (Again!)
- Posted 6/7/2008 11:18 PM
- by mikewb1971
Two new blog entries here -- My Worst Dating Experiences? and New Laaz Rockit Album after 15 Years
- Posted 6/7/2008 10:34 PM
- by mikewb1971
Another "get-to-know-you" question from OKCupid --In your ideal sexual encounter, do you take control, or do they?[ ] I take control [ ] They take controlMy answer? We take turns -- I know, it's a really radical, unconventional answer. I have a habit of coming up with that sort of thing.
- Posted 5/29/2008 12:18 AM
- by mikewb1971
I was just answering some questions at OKCupid, and the following one came up --Should drugs be legalized, regulated, and taxed?The only three choices were "Yes," "No," and "I'm not sure." Since my answers to this three-in-one question are "Yes," "No," and "No," I went with "I'm not sure."
- Posted 5/9/2008 3:41 PM
- by mikewb1971
On the way down to and back from CNM, I noticed that the red temperature light on my dashboard kept blinking on and off. And I do NOT remember having brake problems BEFORE turning the car over to be worked on. If the temperature light is still blinking after Saturday (3 May '08), I'll take it over a
- Posted 4/29/2008 2:16 AM
- by mikewb1971
I went to CNM today to enroll and register in the Photonics program. I had to go physically down to the Admissions Office at the Student Services Building (vicinity of Buena Vista and Coal SE in Albuquerque) after I tried to enroll online and got nothing but an error message. (See here for more.) So
- Posted 4/29/2008 2:13 AM
- by mikewb1971
New modus operandi for me here -- notes that take a five-line paragraph or less go here. Anything I can say in a sentence or less that doesn't need any HTML coding goes in the Pulse section. Anything bigger than a five-line paragraph goes to the blog.
- Posted 4/29/2008 2:08 AM
- by mikewb1971
Is it time to bail out from Myspace? About a month ago, I was comtemplating bailing from Yahoo! because of problems I had been having with them. At the same time, I've been having problems with Myspace -- glitches that occur when posting blog entries, the fact that they convert any URLs you post to
- Posted 4/29/2008 2:04 AM
- by mikewb1971
The 17-year-old (or undercover cop, or spammer) who had sent me the "let's get to know each other" message to my campaign site had his/her/its Myspace account deleted (probably by the Myspace sysadmin pukes).HA !
- Posted 4/29/2008 12:24 AM
- by mikewb1971
The head-gasket replacement job on my car was done yesterday -- the total bill was 750 bucks. Apparently, the tensioner (keeps tension on the serpentine belt) was shot, as well. Now I need to have my brake shoes replaced. ARGH.
- Posted 4/28/2008 1:18 AM
- by mikewb1971
Taking my car in to have the head gasket swapped out tomorrow morning, and then to work by 1 PM. Closing shift tomorrow -- YUCK. I'm looking at a 600-FRN repair bill, which is one-third of what the guy at Richard's Automotive (the Goodyear franchise in the Ladera Shopping Center (Coors and Redlands)
- Posted 4/21/2008 11:57 PM
- by mikewb1971