matthew weidemann

  

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

But seriously, I do enjoy life. I like people, I am not really a "people person," instead, I like watching people. I like culture and the humanities. I have a background in history, so these are the elements of the world which excite me; I enjoy exploring how and why things are the way they are.

I have very little technological prowess. Honestly, if it was not needed for a person to get by in the world today (particularly the the world of information), I would probably not pursue any deeper grasp of technology then how to perform basic functions with my laptop, or how to use my iPhone. It is this lack gap in my knowledge-base that I am trying to bridge. Our university is just initiating an oral history project, I hope to gain some background information in order to be useful in that endeavor. I also see the value in understanding how to navigate the that crazy and mysterious digital information landscape, so I am looking to absorb as much as I can about how to combine my passion and appreciation for humanity and culture with technology. I am a relatively new MLS student at St John's University, and have been enrolling in as many graduate history coures as LIS ones so I think the truth about where my pasion lies is evident.

I just created a Twitter account for the first time, so it is pretty empty.

As a new transplant to NYC, I spent so much of my free time wondering the city and appraising the history, culture, food, humanity, diversity, and various LAM environments that NYC has to offer. I am originally from New England, and spent much of my childhood in Maine. I enlisted in the Army immediately after my high school graduation and served for 10 years until I was wounded in during my last tour overseas, and now I enjoy, the luxuries of a relatively early--albeit well deserved--pension. I enjoy attend classes, reading, walking, and generally watching the world. I have been known to loaf every now and again.

I have other hobbies, I love Ireland and Irish writers, I enjoy cycling, and just being outdoors. I often find myself picturing the world around the way it had been during a previous incarnation, especially in New York, where EVERYTHING seems to have been built on something else.

"Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause."

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