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Howdy. I am Samuel Alexander Baldwin, and I look like this (most recent), this, this, and this.

I'm an American citisen by birth, currently residing in Massachussetts while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst for Linguistics and Computer Systems Engineering. As a result, I program a fair bit, mostly in C, Perl, and most recently Go, Scheme, and Python these days, but I have interest in Haskell, Erlang, and several other languages. I particularily enjoy studying Germanic, Finno-Ugric, and select constructed languages, such as German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish, Klingon, Lojban, Quenya, and the Black Speech. I'm also quite interested in mathematics and logic, including pure mathematics, symbolic logic, computational mathematics, and quite a bit more. I do athletic things from time to time (although not often enough), mainly playing ultimate frisbee in tournaments, leagues, and pick up games. Breaking the theme of starting sentences with 'I', I'm also a gamer and strategist, mainly playing highly strategic games like go and chess, as well as other board and computer strategy games, as well as various SNES games such as Super Mario World. I am also a vexillologist, cartographer, calligrapher, philosopher, nuisance, debater, lecturer, audiophile, secular humanist, atheist, and probably many, many other things (including a strange loop!).

I read quite a bit, mostly science fiction and fantasy, but also noted fiction and comics (both of the Calvin & Hobbes and the V for Vendetta varieties), as well as non-fiction, mainly programming, mathematics, and linguistics books. Take a look at reading.

I also listen to a fair bit of music, primarily progressive rock and metal, but also including death, black, viking and folk metal, ska, jam/improg music, psychedelic music, space rock, and experimental music. You can view a full list at my Last.fm page.

Politically I am probably best described as a 'centre-right social libertarian', but labels only go so far. I don't agree with most 'libertarian' parties, though. Socially liberal and economically semi-conservative. I support the Piratpartiet.

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