Alan Blover
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | Alan Blover is not my real name. All else is accurate. Born in Carlsbad, NM, 1945. Got ham license, 1961. Knew I was gay, 1962. Moved to Lakeland, FL, graduated, 1963. Attended NMSU as EE major, 1963-1964. Graduated from UF in Psychology, 1968. Joined Twin Oaks (commune) in central Va., 1970. Worked as resident teacher/staff at Green Valley School in Orange City, FL, 1971. Worked as teacher at Edgemeade group foster home in Md., 1972-1974. Moved to NW Chicago suburbs, worked as electronic technician, designer, and software engineer for Motorola, 1974-1985. Met domestic partner, 1982. Created and operated computer matching service for gay men, 1982-1993. Moved to Los Angeles,1993. Moved to Atlanta, 1997. Worked in IT for corporate headquarters of hotel chain, 1997-2002. Opened a SuperSlow® personal strength training studio, 2001. Domestic partnership ended, 2003. Business failed, moved to Seneca, SC, 2004. Was entrapped and arrested by undercover feds and pled guilty to abusing a channel of interstate commerce, 2005. Spent 29 months in federal prison. Was released to Los Angeles, 2008. Off probation in 2015. |
| Interests | Playing the piano, playing the cornet, riding my bicycle, electronics, amateur radio, science, astronomy, cosmology, binary economics, watching boys, sunbathing, watching coming-of-age films, studying and thinking about consciousness. |
| Favorite movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Basketball Diaries, Billy Elliot, The Client, CrissCross, The Cure, Duma, The Dust Factory, Empire of the Sun, Finding Neverland, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter, Holes, Home Improvement, The Island on Bird Street, Jungle 2 Jungle, The Karate Kid, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Secrets, Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, Malcolm in the Middle, Man without a Face, Meatballs, Mysterious Skin, October Sky, Ode to Billy Joel, Oliver Twist, The Outsiders, Pay It Forward, Peter Pan, The Prince and the Pauper, Rookie of the Year, The Quick and the Dead, Sandlot 1-3, Searching for Bobby Fischer, SeaQuest DSV, Secondhand Lions, The Secret Garden (WB version), Shipwrecked, Stand by Me, Star Wars, Star Trek, To Kill a Mockingbird, Trading Places, Toy Soldiers, Vitus, The War, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Where the River Runs Black, Wizards of Waverly Place. |
| Favorite music | Boy choir, classical pipe organ, classical piano, jazz and new age piano, popular ballads:, Libera, Vienna Boys Choir, Mozart piano concertos, Chopin, Debussy, Aaron Copland, Michael Jackson, George Shearing, Elton John, George Winston, Yanni, Enya, Ray Lynch, John Serrie, Andreas Vollenweider. |
| Favorite books | Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, Papillon by Henri Charriére, The Journeyer by Gary Jennings, Binary Economics by Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare, The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, Out of Our Heads by Alva Noë, and books by:, Isaac Asimov, Robert C. Atkins, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Brandon, Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel R. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Charles Dickens, Casimir Dukahz, Albert Ellis, Richard Feynman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Paul Goodman, Robert C. Heinlein, Jim Hightower, John Holt, Chris Hunt, Christopher Isherwood, Molly Ivins, Louis O. Kelso, Chris Kent, Ray Kurzweil, George Orwell, Karl R. Popper, Ayn Rand, Mary Renault, Anne Rice, Paul Russell, B. F. Skinner, I. F. Stone, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Edmund White, Walt Whitman, Howard Zinn |