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| User: | john_holton (1101485)  Chief Jack's Galley
Screw 'em if they can't take a joke! |
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| Name: | John Holton | |
Message | Send john_holton a text message on his/her cellphone/pager. | |
| Website: | http://www.john-holton.com | |
| Location: | Marietta, Georgia, United States | |
| Birthdate: | 1956-03-25 | |
| Bio: | I am the survivor of a cerebral hemorrhage, and as of this writing am still typing with one hand, but it's getting better. I am married to Mary and the caretaker for twenty cats: Pepper, Judi, Lovey, Tuffy, Cashie, L'il Linda, Jackie, Toby, Lucy, Amy, Jasmine, Bucky, CeCe, Homer, Jethro, Milton, Minnie, Max, Thumbs and Molly. I work as a technical support person for the hosting division of an up-and-coming software company in the Atlanta area. My home computer is a Mac Mini, running Mac OS X Tiger. My other personal computer runs Ubuntu Linux. My work computer runs Windows XP, which is part of the reason I don't use Windows unless I have to. I am an Irish Catholic from the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, living in the Atlanta area since November 1987, and probably for the rest of my life. My two favorite baseball teams are the Chicago White Sox (though I'm from the North Side, my family is from South Shore and Mary's family is from Back of the Yards, and I really hate the Cubs) and the Atlanta Braves. Baseball is the only sport I really care about. I like pretty much any form of jazz, '60's rock'n'roll, and world music, particularly Gypsy, Middle Eastern and Asian, among other things. My politics are determined by my economics, and my economics are best described in the book Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. Which is why I tend to hold my nose and vote Republican. I also tend to favor the right side of the blogosphere, and when I post an article I find interesting, it generally comes from there. I'm also a member of the NRA. I do like to write, and occasionally will post in character. You can opt in on that. I also have a strange sense of humor. You'll know it when you see it. Feel free to add me to your friends list, and be sure to let me know why. You can also find me on Facebook as john_holton, and on MySpace as johnholton. I might start using them more if people give me a reason. | |
| Memories:: | 4 entries | |
| Pictures: | over 70 public | |
| Interests: | 53: acoustic alchemy, anarcho-capitalism, austrian economics, baseball, bebop, books, broadcast history, capitalism, cats, chicago, chicago white sox, chocolate, chuck loeb, classical liberalism, coffee, comedy, computers, cooking, creativity, dynamism, economics, fiction, free markets, friedrich hayek, guitar, humor, individualism, jazz, jazz guitar, joyce cooling, larry carlton, lee ritenour, libertarian, libertarianism, ludwig von mises, milton friedman, mindi abair, movies, music, mystery, radio, radio history, reading, reason, smooth jazz, sudoku, television, television history, television writing, the atlanta braves, the chicago white sox, virginia postrel, writing | |
| Schools: | St. Ignatius Grammar School - Chicago, IL (1961 - 1970) St. Ignatius College Prep - Chicago, IL (1970 - 1971) New Trier West High School - Northfield, IL (1971 - 1974) Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (1974 - 1976) Loyola University - Chicago - Chicago, IL (1976 - 1978) | |
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| Friend of: | 44: adkok, ainabarad, anahata56, anderyn, azbound, bay_chap, bayarts, cadona, cairish1, call_me_isak, crowfirestorm, darth_firefly, dinahmcneill, draiguisge, elevenzeroseven, eviltenet, freyas_fire, friendsafire, gabrieltallant, gunhed, halfmoon_mollie, itzwicks, kraftygal, kywoman, latt, lisapt, lourdesmont, madrigalist, magnetox1, meropa, micklpickl, nancykayshapiro, neanderthalus, rosecg, shaenon, sharonthenurse, summerlady, supedujour, swisscelt, the_paulr, treetown, wicked_x_game, wingguy, writer_chick | |
| Member of: | 11: atlanta, belles_place, chi_white_sox, chicago_el, memory_muse, note_to_asshat, note_to_cat, note_to_self, novel_in_90, paidmembers, smoothjazzclub | |
| Account type: | Paid Account | |
