An Enlightened Fellow

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Tomfoolery (It's my middle name)
Introduction I am one who seeks to understand what it means to be human on this planet. I believe part of the answer is in striving to inspire others toward that goal.
Interests Rock Climbing, Photography, Backpacking, Guitar, Supersymmetric String Theory, Languages: English Czech Spanish Russian, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and Their Strategic and Tactical Uses in a Post-Coldwar Geopolitical Climate, Music, Religion, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Anatomy, Cognitive Science, Neurology, Physical Rehabilitation, Greco-Roman History, Judeo-Christian History, European History, Quantum Physics, Prions, Relativity, Irish Whistle, Harmonica, Percussion, Czech Republic, Medicine, Art, Paranormal Phenomena
Favorite Movies Baraka, Pelisky, I am Sam, Big Fish, Memento, Citizen Kane, Kolja, The Bourne Identity, Train of Life, Life is Beautiful, Run Lola Run, Amelie, Good Bye Lenin!, Groundhog Day, The Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, Saving Private Ryan, Lost in Translation, Crash
Favorite Music Rachmaninov, Bach, Liszt, Josquin Desprez, Thomas Tallis, Elizabethan Lute Music, Radiohead, Cake, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Joanna Newsom, Dvorak, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Soul Coughing, Nicole Nordeman, Solas, Marcio Faraco, Simon and Garfunkel, Jars of Clay
Favorite Books Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude, Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England, The Chosen - Chaim Potok, The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino, Richard Feynman: What Do You Care What Other People Think, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Hiroshima - John Hershey, Night - Elie Weisel, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Manalive - G.K. Chesterton, Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig, Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran, Oliver Sacks

Try making up the rules to a game where you tie knots in a yo-yo string just to see if you can get them out:

I've played this game before. I won, but it took over an hour.