Shyela Aberman - Now With 30% Tastier Bits

It is just past the witching hour and I've decided to revise this site a little. I always seem to make these changes sometime around midnight when I ought to be doing more important things. Oh well...

It's been a long time since I last visited this site, and of course, life has changed. I've added Shy's Corrollary to "The more things change, the more they stay the same.": "The more things stay the same, the more they change."

Some Vital Statistics:

• Age: 25
• Birthdate: 24 December, 1972
• Birthplace: New York City, NY
• Sign: Capricorn
• Height: 5' 11"
• Weight: 179
• Gender: Male
• Hair & Eye Color: Dark Brown & Hazel/Green
• Blood Type: Unknown
• Marital Status: Single
• Profession: Technology Thought Worker (aka Programmer)
• On The Net Since: 1991
• Most Recent Musicians Listened To: Garbage, Shawn Mullins, Foo Fighters, Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLachlan, REM, Sheryl Crow
• Favorite TV Shows: X-Files, Homicide, Babylon 5, Millenium, South Park, Ally McBeal, Sins of the City
• Some Places I've Never Been (That I Would Like to Visit): Southern California, Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, London, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy,  Costa Rica
• What Really Turns Me On: TBD

 

Some Miscellaneous Stuff:

• My name is pronounced "shi-'el-a", 3 syllables, emphasis on the second, the i is long, the e and a are short.
• It is a Native American name. There is a story. (I am not Native American and know no really cool names besides mine. Read a book.)
• I dislike bumper stickers because they encourage superficial labeling and categorization of people. If I want you to know who I am, I will tell you. If you want to know who I am, ask. Action always speaks louder than words. Especially when accompanied by a big stick.
• I get paid to be a programmer, which I don't mind. I also do things I don't get paid for, like flirt and have coniption fits. I try not to have coniption fits while programming or flirting, and so on in all combinations.
• I have two sisters, both very cool. In chronological order, they are Noora and Nikka.
• What little spare time I have apart from working and having fits, is taken up by reading, writing, causing trouble, listening to music, hanging with friends, learning more of anything I think is interesting, and generally trying to be a funner and better person.
• In a fit of obsessiveness, I spent way too much time on http://www.expediamaps.com and http://terraserver.microsoft.com and created a geographical chronology of my life.
• I can be reached at: shy@aberman.com (While I am a nice guy, I lack the free time to respond to even my good friends' email. Expect delays if you email me.)

 

I am adequate.
I am attempting to ignore that which would otherwise irritate me very much.

The analogy I described to Kimberly is this:
"I am like some kind of terminator/guerilla warfare guy. They call me in to kill one target, but they don't realize that my modus operendi is killing the whole town (in lot's of very creative ways). And they don't tell me they only want me to kill the one guy. So, I start with the one target and turn him into some kind of watery sludge. But when I'm ready to get the rest, I'm left out in the cold. I try to contact base camp/HQ, but no one's home. Very irritating."

The idea of quitting the business world and becoming a reclusive mountain hermit studying karate for the rest of my life is very attractive right now.



i drink a beer, buy a beer, make a joke, laugh at a joke, laugh at a joke on me, play a computer game, lose badly at a computer game, gossip about friends, talk about my sisters, listen to stories about someone else's sister or brother, play loud music, talk about my parents, listen to other people's problems, watch a cool movie, watch other people hang out together,
watch a woman dance or just move, babble like a madman, every now and then say something that surprises me with its wisdom, work out till i can barely walk, think about what i have achieved in my 25 years, and so on....

 

Old Home Pages:

• Still Me (1 July, 1998)
• Me (14 April, 1998)

 

Last changed on 1 July, 1998.