#define NAME Thomas_McDonley How do I encapsulate infinite moments in time into a tiny page that is short enough to keep attention, while long enough to accurately define myself? Name: Thomas A. McDonley Age: 22 (Product of 1985) Pictorial Description: <(^_^<) <(
^_^ )> (>^_^)> = Location: University of Flordia Top 5++ Interests: Computers and Electronics, Math and Rational Thinking, Poetry and Art, Guitar, Sword Play (Fencing and Kendo), Archery, Bartending.. Top 4 CE Interests: Operating Systems, AI, Math/Algorithms,
Assembly Top 5 Favorite Books: Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Predjudice, A Brief History of Time (series), Hamlet, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Top 5++ All Time Favorite Bands: Smashing Pumpkins, DMB, Evanescence, Tonic, A Perfect Circle, The Decemberists, Do As Infinity Top 10 All Time Favorite Songs: Smashing Pumpkins - Soma, Pachbel - Canon, Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence, Yasunori Mitsuda - Pain, BoA - Duvet, Beatles - Imagine, Faye Wong - Century of Loneliness, The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle, DMB - Mother Father, DMB - Gravedigger Top 5++ All Time Favorite Shows: My So Called Life, Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, The Understanding Festival on TLC (Which Doesn't air anymore), Modern Marvels, Family Guy Areas of Interest and Research: IC Design, Autonomous
Robotics, Scratch OS Design and Programming, Programming AI and Human
style solvers, Digitally controlled/configurable analog sound processing My life goals include finding the preverbial 'soul-mate', and creating something as beautiful and revolutionary as language itself (In my field of CE/EE). Before everything else that I am however, I am very caring and loving. The later goal of creating something as beautiful and profound as
language itself is kind of a burning emotion I have. I would hope
to work in a field that constantly challenges me in the areas of programming,
math, robotics, ect. Where I could develope and invent new technologies
and from that my goal may be realized. I enjoy science simply because truly and intuitivly understanding the things around us is such a wonderful feeling. Also the ability to take that knowledge and apply it to new situations and figure things out on ones own is amazing! I enjoy art, writing, music, and movies because they give us the opportunity to delve into someone else's conscience and perspective. So much of reality is perspective and the way we precieve things to be. In such, truly understanding someone else is nearly impossible because first one would have to experiance and understand everything that person went through before this moment. More simply, if I say 'blue' I think of the first time I associated the color blue with something... say in winter I saw and felt some really cold ice on a frozen lake. To someone else they may imagine the sky, or even their lover's eyes. So my concept and realization of what 'blue' actually is, is completly different than everyone else's. And the only way to understand what someone is actually saying and feeling is to know everything about that person. However, through art, music and ect, one can precisely convey a feeling or emotion if the reciever is willing to anaylize what is being 'said'. At one time I was president of the UF Gator
Kendo Club. Now I am just an occasional member because of my school/work
load. For now, that is just a broad definition of myself with highlights and such.
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