Chris Simon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Student/Apprentice Embalmer/Funeral Director |
| Location | Birmingham, AL, United States |
| Introduction | I am, and for that I am most grateful. I enjoy the excitement of knowing that the amount that I realize I don't know grows exponentially the more that I learn. I enjoy intellectual stimulation and ideas, and have a deep fear of boredom. I love to travel and explore...to find myself lost in a foreign city. I am the father of two boys, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend. I isolate myself emotionally more than anyone should. I am insecure. I am very critical, but I am only critical of those things I think are good enough to merit criticism. Of everything else I am simply embarrassed. If it's worth doing, it's worth at least shooting for perfection. I don't believe in perfection, but I admire those who, through talent, hard work, and perseverance bring those things into existence. I could be considered a snob, but really I just appreciate quality in an environment where few others do. I detest intolerance, and believe deeply in freedom of thought and expression. |
| Interests | reading, ideas, learning, writing, travel, books, bFench language and culture, literature, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive psychology, time, new concepts in astrophysics (on a layman's level), mortuary science, evolutionary biology, religion, politics, fountain pens, stationery, hand-written letters, cooking, being alive |
| Favorite movies | Amelie, To Catch a Thief, Dr. Strangelove, The English Patient, Burn After Reading, The Seventh Seal, Harlan County, The Black Book, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, On Golden Pond |
| Favorite music | Dylan, George Jones, J.S. Bach, Blossom Dearie, Counting Crows, Johnny Cash, Verdi, Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson, Big Time Sarah, Sinatra, Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr. |
| Favorite books | Money, London Fields, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, As I Lay Dying, Herodotus--The Histories, Waiting for Godot, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dante's Inferno, L'etranger (Camus), Shadows on the Hudson, The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Selfish Gene, The Greatest Show on Earth, God is Not Great--How Religion Poisons Everything, Faust, Hamlet, Practical Ethics (Peter Singer), The God Delusion, Crime and Punishment, Hitch-22, Larsson's Millennium Trilogy |
Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?
Because on the planet of Rasp, all visible light is viewed only through that part of the spectrum consisting of blue, indigo, and violet. Early Rasperians instilled in Earthlings the convention of blue for all things Rasperian.