Who am I? Name: Adrian Black DOB: April 30, 1975 Birth Place: Montreal, Canada Current Location: West Hollywood, California, USA Physical Desc.: White male, brown hair, average size. Height: 6' 0" Weight: 150lbs Heatth: Good, except I'm a Type-1 Diabetic Eye Color: Blue-Green Habbits: No smoking, no drinking, no drugs, not enough sleep, too much technology sometimes. :-) Things I like: Food: Most types... including Mexican, Italian, Greek, In & Out, Japanese, Chinese, fruit, salad, healthy stuff --- and some not so healthy Movies: Sci Fi. Sad Movies. Dark City, Magnolia, Brainstorm, Real Genius, Dune, Frago, Contact, Gattaga, Alien(s), Terminator(s), Star Treks, Blade Runner, Seven, Remains of the Day, Poltergeist, Beautiful Thing, unsual films (love IFC and Sundance Channel, and more TV: Discovery Channel (especially Discovery Science), The Learning Channel, NOVA, Will and Grace, Frontline, Junkyard Wars, Enterprise, BBC World News, CNN Headline News, Sex and the City, 6ft Under, Sopranos, Queer As Folk Vehicles: Cars and motorcycles Computers: I love to hate them. It's my job and takes up plenty of my personal time too. Gadgets: TIVO, games, electronics in general, X-10 To do: Work on my car and motorcycle, work on/with my computer, Watch Tivo (lots of Science stuff), listen to music (huge collection of MP3s), movies, eating out, out doors, rollerblading, bicycling, camping, skiing, theater. (Not neccesarily in that order.) Other stuff: I like cats and dogs. I like to read. I love photography. I love taking long drives. I love to cuddle. I love to learn. I love the theater. Things I Dislike: Food: Seafood, Liver, egg plant Habits: Mean people Peeves: Bad drivers, smoking, drunks. To do: Fix my computer when it breaks, wait in line at the INS How to reach me: Email: Old Email: acblack@thegrid.net NOT WORKING ANYMORE! Old Email: acblack@csupomona.edu NOT WORKING ANYMORE! Old Email: acblack@outwest.net NOT WORKING ANYMORE! The first picture is of me with my Apple //c. It was taken when the machine was new, back in 1985. The second picture is of me sleeping at Zuma beach near Malibu. (taken many years ago.) It was a nice day and I needed a little rest! The 3rd picture is of me and my Dad at the beach near San Fransisco. It was taken in July 97. [Also pretty old] People tell me I like to take stuff apart. You know what? It's true. I used to have a habbit of never putting the stuff back together again. But.... I've learned the fine art of reassembly. I pretty much take everything apart. And more recently I've wanted to get more into electronics. I've purchased an Osciloscope and some other test gear. Now, when I take something apart I want to be able to do analysis on it as well. Examples of things I've taken apart: My car, my motorcycle, microwave, DVD player, cell phone, Tivo, stereo, computer monitor, TV and it goes on and on... What can I say? I'm curious. And it's fun to see how it works. So as you can see, I'm pretty inquisitive. If it's technology, I'm pretty interested in it. I work as a System Engineer at work and it keeps me busy and relatively up to date. I make sure I visit lots of tech sites to keep myself informed. I like to stay somewhat fit. I have tried to make it a habit to get to the beach every weekend for some rollerblading. Friends almost always come with me -- and we always stop for Lemonade at the Hot Dog on a Stick near the peir. I try to walk around in West Hollywood instead of drive too. Lucky for me, I stay somewhat fit from this. I don't go to the gym and don't have any interest to. I definitly don't do any of this to look better -- I just want to be healthy. :-) I think with all the things I like to do I would do more of them more often! It doesn't seem to happen. I love to ski but havn't gone in a few years. I like theater but I always seem to miss the shows I want to see when they are in town. I like to work on my car but I can hardly find time to change its oil. I like to camp but I havn't done that in years either. Travel? I want to also but I just never seem to make time. I have plenty of vacation time stored up, though .. just no one to use it with I guess. :-) I love music. I listen to it all the time. I have a rather large collection of MP3 files at work and at home and also a large CD collection. I also love to break out the old LP's sometimes and listen to them as well. There has been many a times at work when I've needed to concentrate so I put on a pair of headphones and put Winamp on random. I have very wide range of music tastes. It pretty much runs the gamut. The only types I'm not very interested in is Rap/Hip-hop and Country. Though there are exceptions to that as well. I love Jazz, Classical, Electronic, House, Pop, Soul, oldies, Rock, indie, mainstream, off-beat, ambient, trance, and more. KCRW Morning Becomes eclectic is a wonderful program. Personality wise, I'm pretty easy going. I'm sure I've been know to say: "Whatever you want to eat" or "wherever you want to go" more than a few times. (Maybe too often.) I was an only child so I'm very good at self-entertainment. (No pun intended!) I can easily keep myself busy for hours on end. I am the type of person that if I didn't have a job I could easily keep myself locked in my apartment all day, every day and never complain about boredom. So overall, high level of independance. But then, I do value greatly human contact as well. I know all my neighbors quite well and am friends with some of them. Something I think isn't very common in Los Angeles. Sometimes people come over to visit and are amused how I end up talking to one or two or more of my neighbors on the short distance from my front door to the front gate. Haha. I'm a major computer geek. I love 'em. I have several at home. A have 3 on my desk at work. They are just such useful tools and they provide me a nice living as well. But then, even though I use them so much, I love to get away from them too. Take a nice vacation and not even look at one. I would love to have a house out in the country somewhere with no technology. Curl up next to the fire with a good book. I love that. OK, here are LOTS more pictures of myself: Pretty current: Christmas 2001 - B&W Taken by my step sister September 2001 - Shot of me in Chester, Nova Scotia September 2001 - I had to sleep on the sunporch. It was VERY cold in Chester at night. Jan 2002 - Taken at the ATM machine Sept 11, 2001 - After hearing the news of what had happened (In Chester) Feb 2002 - Self Portrait [Pondering the screen] Dec 2001 - Me in the garden Sept 2001 - Self portrait on Saddle Island in Nova Scotia April 2001 - Sitting with the bike in Malibu April 2001 - Smile for the ocean! Jan 2001 - Looking like a dork on my rollerblades Jan 2001 - This past winter up in Angeles Crest Late 2000 - Relaxing with the headphones on April 2001 - Yep, do my own maintenance April 2001 - I guess the oil works June 2000 - I wore this wig wile doing Kareoke! Oh my... April 2000- Enjoying the LA Sun That's me in the reflection of my friend's glasses My and my grandmother at Christmas Just got the bike... Nov 2000 Nov 2000 - Me on my bike Passing by on my bike Work Christmas Party, Dec 2000 Christmas Party 2000 - I sure do look silly Me and the baby and my friend Toni Me and my boss at the Christmas Party, Dec 2000 Sometime in Nov 2000 after bleaching my hair Early November 2000 on the way to lunch Sometime in August 2000 at work with Toni (I'm quite unshaven!) Nov 2000 at work with my hair! Another Aug 2000 shot at work May 2000 at Lisa's Graduation -- that's Lisa Nov 2000 -- wow, what a mess Jun 2000 at the beach -- I just wiped out, OUCH Dec 2000 -- we're blading! Yeah Older Ones: Self Portrait sometime in 1998 Sometime in 1998 at the races Just a little kid in elemetry school Email me if you want! webmaster@soliton.net