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mikewb1971

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

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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: Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Robert A. Heinlein
Interests: Science Fiction, Shooting, Politics, Science, Computers, Dating
Expertise: Jack of all trades
Occupation: Security / Customer Service
Website: http://mikewb1971.xanga.com

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I'll be on 770 KKOB-AM today at 5 PM with LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath. Sounds like fun! http://770kkob.com/
- Posted 11/22/2011 3:03 PM
- by mikewb1971
Re: We Have a Public Option Already Apparently, that's just not good enough for the oppressives and regressives in the Obama Administration. Remember back in 1998, as Governor Johnson was running for re-election with Slick Marty Chavez as his opponent? Slick complained that Johnson wasn't enrollin
- Posted 3/19/2010 1:50 PM
- by mikewb1971
Re: How Much does New Mexico spend on prisons vs universities how much does New Mexico spend collectively on prisons and universities? Whatever the numbers, it's probably too much being spent on both. Don't forget that the budget and spending books are most likely cooked, both at the Santa Fe end
- Posted 3/19/2010 1:43 PM
- by mikewb1971
Re: How Much does New Mexico spend on prisons vs universities The rule of law is only as good as those that are enforcing it, the men in black who view themselves as honorable and depend on campaign contributions as do the elected body of any state, pander to the prison industry. Just wanted to ad
- Posted 3/19/2010 1:42 PM
- by mikewb1971
Re:The Coffee Party???? I LOVE the fact that it took the Obamatons, along with their like-minded oppressive and regressive allies, the better part of a year to come up with this "Coffee Party" schtick. This bodes well for the libertarian movement and its conservative fellow travelers, in my opinio
- Posted 3/19/2010 1:41 PM
- by mikewb1971
Happy New Years mike, is it cool if I add you? graphic design artist san diego
- Posted 1/1/2010 5:05 PM
- by pinkplayhouse
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