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Name: Jacob Norlund
Location: Hermantown, Minnesota
Date and Place of Birth: September 22, 1986, Brainerd, MN
Ham Radio Callsign: KC0LTV
Height: 5'9" (? cm)
Religion: Roman Catholic
Political Position: Varies; conservative on most social issues, distributivist tendencies in economic matters
Educational Status: 2005 Graduate of Hermantown High School - entering university studies in Fall 2006
Languages: English (native), Spanish (decent), Italian (very limited)
Occupation: All-around employee of our family business, Nor-Floors
Hobbies: Ham radio, DXing (of all kinds), free-to-air satellite reception, computers, photography, Linux, cycling, keyboards and synthesizers, travel, hiking, reading, conlangs, and most other things known to man
Intellectual Interests: History, Catholicism, Geography, Demographics, Linguistics
Gastronomic Interests: Cereal (Frosted Flakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, etc.), Italian food (lasagna, gnocci, ziti, bruschetti), Indian and Indian-British food (chicken makhani, saag paneer, naan, etc.), some Mexican, Chinese, and Carribean-latin (mmmm...rice and beans)
Favorite Restaurants: 1. India Palace, 2. Bellisio's, 3. Grandma's
Favorite Local Places: The boardwalk (especially past Park Point near Leif Ericson park), the rocks above Skyline Parkway, Carlton Peak, Munger Trail
Most beautiful place I've been at: Probably the beach at Quepos, Costa Rica, as the sun set over the Pacific
Car: 1996 Buick Park Avenue (picture)
Favorite News Sources: NPR and the BBC (despite liberal bias, they seem to be the only ones with thorough reporting on interesting stories, particularly international ones)
Favorite TV Channels: Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Science and Discovery Times, HDNet, Link TV, National Geographic Channel, PBS HD, probably Equator HD once I have a dish pointed at 61.5
Some of my favorite movies: A Beautiful Mind, The Edge, Empire of the Sun
Some interesting international channels: BVN (Netherlands), M2 (Morocco), Thai Global Network (Thailand), TRT (Turkey)
Non-forums/mail website I spend the most time at: Wikipedia
Music preferences: European dance music (progressive/epic trance, italo-dance, Croatian eurodance, cheesy trance, eurodance, etc.), some less explicit R&B/soul/rap music, some progessive/modern rock, a bit of bhangra
A few music artists I like: Colonia, DJ Tiesto, Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte, Karma, Kate Ryan, Master Blaster, Panjabi MC
Favorite form of excercise (something I don't get too much of): Bicycling (in a leisurely, enjoyable fashion)
Things I would like to learn or finish learning: A third language, C++, how to put antennas up, morse code, PHP
Over the past six years I have written a number of papers for school, which I have put on a various free internet spaces and never deleted, and a number of webpages never really linked to anything. Below are some files I have found and moved to this site space for your bored eyes to see:
