Alex Del Giudice: Personal
Alex
spends much
time trying to have an interesting life but the
level of success achieved in this task is debatable. Sure,
he has excuses since being in graduate school forces one to live a
relatively sedentary life style for want of economic fortitude and
temporal freedom, but his passion of traveling is somewhat aided by the
tiny discounts afforded to him due to that very status: student.
There
are photos of him and his travels which
can be found on his picasa
(google) account. More of them can be found on
facebook, if
you're into that sort of thing. Alex has visited and had a
wonderful time in the following countries outside the US (that he
remembers):
Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), Canada, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Australia.
He hopes this list continues to grow. He believes that New Zealand, China, and Mexico are coming up soon.
His favorite pastime is reading books and he does it fairly frequently. He will read all kinds of junk if he finds the time, though his favorite genre is character driven sci-fi (like 'Red Mars'). This interest was planted by his first reading of the Ender's game series and then later nurtured by his encounters with Philip Dick and Kim Stanley Robinson. Most recently, he has loved the Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Below is a list of books that he owns (the majority of which he has actually read).
There
are photos of him and his travels which
can be found on his picasa
(google) account. More of them can be found on
facebook, if
you're into that sort of thing. Alex has visited and had a
wonderful time in the following countries outside the US (that he
remembers):Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), Canada, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Australia.
He hopes this list continues to grow. He believes that New Zealand, China, and Mexico are coming up soon.
Alex loves music but has
musical tastes that are not always compatable with those around him.
He has a digitized collection of music that contains over
9000 songs in various genres and a collection of about 400 CDs.
He began listening to what is
often referred to as "world music" around his 11th birthday because his
uncle gave him an Enya CD. He believes this fostered
both an affinity for unconventional melodies and a mild
indifference to the lyrical content of music. These days, he
is content listening to anything that surprises him, particularly if it
has an unconventional melody and is played in anything but 4/4 time.
According to Last.fm, when the links are actually working,
you can see his
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His favorite pastime is reading books and he does it fairly frequently. He will read all kinds of junk if he finds the time, though his favorite genre is character driven sci-fi (like 'Red Mars'). This interest was planted by his first reading of the Ender's game series and then later nurtured by his encounters with Philip Dick and Kim Stanley Robinson. Most recently, he has loved the Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Below is a list of books that he owns (the majority of which he has actually read).