| Online: | 4 Hours Ago | Name: | Roy Latham | |
| Updated: | 2 Months Ago | Gender: | Male | |
| Joined: | 1 Year Ago | Birthday: | - Private - | |
| President: | John McCain (R) | Email: | - Private - | |
| Ideology: | Conservative | Education: | Graduate Degree | |
| Party: | Not Saying | Ethnicity: | Not Saying | |
| Relationship: | Married | Income: | Not Saying | |
| Interested: | - Private - | Occupation: | Self-Employed | |
| Looking: | - Private - | Religion: | Atheist |
| About Me: | I am an engineer in Silicon Valley. My career has been in aircraft navigation and in computer graphics, including graphics for flight simulators. My degrees are in Aero & Astro, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math & Statistics, and Computer Science. |
| Activities: | Photography, being one of the world's oldest anime fans, travel, blogging. Recently I have been trying to learn how to do video. |
| Beliefs: | Many. Gravity and the laws of thermodynamics are high on the list. |
| Books: | This is a tough one. I have lots of favorites. "Good Cheap Food" by Miriam Ungerer "Mark Twain and Hawaii" by Walter Frear Recently, Ian Plimer's book on global warming, "Heaven and Earth." Not books, but I like the DVD lectures put out by "The Teaching Company," for example the one on "The Dark Side of the Universe," which is about the physics of dark matter and dark energy. |
| Movies: | Blazing Saddles, Kung Fu Hustle, Star Wars VI. Inexplicably, anime does not have a category of its own here. Some of my favorites are Haibane Renmei, Rurouni Kenshin, Kino's Journey, Witch Hunter Robin, Chobits, and Mahoromatic. |
| Music: | Hawaiian: Israel Kamakawewo'ole, Darlene Ahuna, Willie K, Amy Gilliiom; some J-Pop; Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi |
| Quotes: | "I'm not afraid to die," I said. "I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes." -- Kinky Friedman; "If there are no cigars in heaven, I won't go." --Mark Twain "An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. " - H.L. Mencken |
| Sports Teams: | none, no interest |
| TV Shows: | I've gotten to like some of the recent "on-the-job reality" series like "Deadliest Catch." I watch a lot of C-SPAN and the cable news channels. Old favorites: Monty Python's Flying Circus; Have Gun, Will Travel; The Red Green Show; Police Squad |
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| College: | Santa Clara University, Graduate Class of 1983
Santa Clara, California, United States
Stony Brook University, Graduate Class of 1974
Stony Brook, New York, United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Class of 1969
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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WTC 7 was a controlled demolition
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Enterprising young Americans should prepare to leave.
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 85 |
| Lost: | 10 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 74 |
| Win Ratio: | 88.10% |
| Percentile: | 99.68% |
 | Updated 8 Months Ago |
