User:TheTomato

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Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

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Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.

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Hic usor simile nativi latine loquitur atque contribuere potest.

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TheTomato is also sometimes known to go by the name of Alex, and has been a member of the Wikipedia community since November 2005.

1 Basic info
2 Other interests
3 Contributions
- 3.1 Created by me
- 3.2 Major edits
4 The universe in a nutshell

[edit] Basic info

I am a film student, professional photographer and semi-professional animator who grew up in Boston and currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Before I went to film school, I was working on a degree in linguistics, but I dropped it about a semester before graduation to pursue my childhood dream of being a cartoonist and photographer.

My main interests besides languages and film are Futurama, astronomy and physics, and neuroscience. With my linguistics degree I had intended to go into the field of psycholinguistics and hopefully study the language system of cats (which is very interesting and sophisticated) and the development of the modern human psyche and social structure through the development of human language (my emphasis was in "dead languages").

Politically I tend towards the libertarian party, but I don't consider myself an extremist towards any one philosophy. To me they're all a little flawed. I am also an ignostic.

[edit] Other interests

[edit] People

Stanley Kubrick- my personal hero; he may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing director (don't get me wrong, his work was beautiful), but he had the most profound philosophy on art, and he had a similar childhood to mine.
Edward Gorey- just plain fun guy.
Billy West- a god among the voice-acting world.
Kurt Vonnegut
Tom Waits
Professor Hubert Farnsworth

[edit] Places

Heidelberg- the most beautiful city ever.
Boston- just my hometown.
The Eagle Nebula
Any place that is not Lincoln, Nebraska.

[edit] Things

Sexology
Fooling around with graphic design software; currently I am learning Blender. Normally I use traditional or experimental styles of animation, but I must say this computer-animated 3D stuff is quite fun.
Computer sciences
Writing- I am a published writer of fiction and non-fiction, some of my essay topics include the sexual philosophy of Maya Deren's Ritual in Transifgured Time and the birth and movement towards the mainstream of cyberpunk and dystopic science fiction.
tattoos- very pretty-looking, very addictive sensation.
Copi-style logic and number theory (I consider most logic systems applied forms of number theory).
Plants and gardening.

[edit] Other

I have many interests that are not nouns. Most of them are verbs. Some are pronouns.

[edit] Contributions

Mostly I consider myself a grammar-checker and polisher. Most of my edits are for style and flow of the prose, or to fix typos and spelling mistakes. Here are a few of the more major and/or recent articles I have created or worked on.