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Height: 5'10" Weight: 185lbs(ish) |
Eyes: Green/Brown Hair: Dark Brown |
Professional Resume
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Steven Michael Long, Esq.
Professional Resume |
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I'm a writer. I'm not terribly successful, but I love to write. I love to create and it is by far the medium I'm best at. I've written
over 90 short stories (some here). I've written hundreds of pages of blog entries. I've written mediocre poetry. I've written song lyrics without the
ability to sing them, or put them to music. I dreamed in High School that I'd be a published author when I grew up. In January of 2006 I realized
that dream (Cow Defender-hardcover,
Cow Defender-paperback). I'm working on my second book, it's pretty
far along. I'm an MMA (mixed martial arts) addict. I trained TKD (tae kwon do) as a child, a few weeks of Judo (that is to say, I learned how to fall), I rolled a little with some JJ (jujitsu) but really I learned by watching. I'd watched a whole lot of UFC when I was younger and I studied it. As a manager at Blockbuster I decided to have a 'Submission Fight Club' after we closed, outside on the grass. The rules were: no striking, we go until a tapout, choke out or someone quitting. I did pretty well. Nowadays I'm mainly just an avid viewer of MMA events (UFC, IFL, WEC events as they happen, but I own PRIDE and KotC DVDs). I try to be good. I hold myself to very high standards, morally speaking. I don't really forget my own wrongs and I do everything I can to not repeat them. I've never imbibed alcohol, which often gets questioned. I don't think it has to do with my morality, but it does likely have to do with my resolve. I've never used any controlled substance that wasn't prescribed to me (ignoring OTC stuff). Links to me-related insights: My ideal woman A survey regarding love, sex and romance The ideal man I used to have an anger problem The variety of trouble I'm likely to get into 
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I'm a techgeek. I've programmed in Hypercard, BASIC, Pascal, C++, Java, html (almost all of StevenLong.net was coded by my hand.
I've had HD mp3 players since about 2000 (First a 20GB Rio Riot, then a 20GB Nomad Zen, then a couple of 40GB Nomad Zen Xtras and now
an 80GB iPod Video). I was an addict of TechTV (I'd watch each episode of the Screen Savers an average of twice). I am a member of the
TWiT army. I used paint.Net for pretty much all of the computer generated art on my page. I haven't installed Microsoft Office on any
machine I've purchased for over 8 years (openoffice.org, if you were
curious). I'm such a techgeek that I have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft. I praise them for making tech more mainstream and
for their charitable deeds. I deride them for not advocating their users rights all that well (I fear the OSs after Vista might make it
so our computers aren't our property, more like we have a permanent lease and our rights can be carved up, I could explain elsewhere).
I beta tested webdesign stuff for AOL (it was WYSIWYG stuff) in the long long ago. I have had some website or another since 1997 (I think).
I played on AOL 2.0 with Andy Somerville (when we weren't working on SomSoft games like Spaceships, Llamas and Missles Oh My!). The first game
I programmed was called Omega Cool and it was done in Hypercard. I bought my first DVD player in 1998 for $350. I was the VP of UMKC Law's
Intellectual Property Law Society. I was the Technology Transfer extern with the KU Center for Research. I've done a research paper concerning
international digital defamation (it is mediocre, and educational,
but not to be relied upon for legal advice). I'm a self-proclaimed Moderate. I think it is because there aren't many issues that I don't look at both sides and defer to those that feel passionately about them (and hopefully know what they're talking about). My 'moderate' status has been cemented: from the left: some Liberals have decried me a mad capitalist and demanded I take a Social Stratification class (which I did, and still managed to like capitalism just fine and when I went to Eugene, Oregon for a Public Interest Environmental Law Conference I felt like a crazy Conservative, rolling my eyes at their naivete, really my money ideas rub them the wrong way; from the right: I've been called a Communist because I liked the idea of Universal Healthcare Coverage for Catastrohpic Losses (pretty much each American would pay $12/yr and if an American has a 'Catastrophic' healthcare bill [more than $25k, I think], the fund would pay it, allowing families to not go bankrupt), I am an avid fighter for Stem Cell Research (and have been since 2000; I've lost two grandparents to Alzheimer's), I don't like proselytizing (and I'm accordingly against religious stuff in public schools outside of religion courses), I don't think gays are lesser people than we straights, and I'm Agnostic! |