hyperbola

Military brat (14th generation American) with unassuaged wanderlust. By age 11, schools in four states and three foreign countries (in 3 languages). Left home at 17. Degree from top-five US university. After two years service to my country, PhD and post-docs in top-twenty international universities. Since then, professional scientist/consultant, including with three Nobel Prize winners, in four states and five foreign countries. Spent time in another 30 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Mideast and Oceania (ahora busco algo interesante en America Latina!), partly in projects aiding poorer countries. Fully trilingual in three of the five langauges I have learned. Value highly tolerance, respect towards others and adore learning from human diversity. Detest "religious" fanaticism and "superpatriotism" as two of the worst historical and current malignancies of mankind.

Hobbies / Interests

Tennis and surfing are current passions. Detest professional sports circuses. Can't imagine living without an ocean, beach, fine fish and fresh shellfish nearby. Love living in 'old' city centers without a car (walk 2-3 miles/day since selling my last car 8 years ago). Now mostly abstemious, but a fine duero, SA shiraz, WA verdelho, manzanilla, pinot grigio or oloroso are hard to resist. Read a book/week in any of three languages and wish I could read more in their original language.

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hyperbola comments on article The Secret Plan for Citigroup
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grbarker1 day, 17 hours ago

Hi just joined propeller and have to say you have some good stuff on your page
okpanachi3 days, 18 hours ago

just joined propeller,your article was the most talked about,i couldnt help reading myself,its great and i love it.
keep it up sir.
tipteller4 days, 10 hours ago

Also a Military brat...Germany, Turkey, Belgium, Denmark.
2003volkswagen5 days, 20 hours ago

Hi, your really most active here i see :) Hope we be friends.
jakjobs1 week, 2 days ago

I understand your anger Hyperbola, most of the comment here only leave a link to their site. I also not really like those kind of comment. Perhaps after you explain, they will understand that their link is useless.
mesodude1 week, 4 days ago

Although (or, perhaps, because)I'm only slightly more likely to agree with your posts than to disagree, I just want to say I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. A lot of people here claim to be little "i" independent-minded but I find more often than not that these people are actually neocons who are ashamed to call themselve Republicans. You, OTOH, are definitely no sheep. Thanks for having the guts to be true to yourself.
mydaccount1 week, 5 days ago

Nice 4 you to be number one!
mpchekuri1 month ago

You are the most active member on propeller. Nice to see your profile
hyperbola1 month, 4 weeks ago

Hi. It's me Hyperbola. I just spent the better part of an hour cleaning off all 75 notes that appeared here in the past 2 months. Some comments to those of your new to propeller.

DON'T spam me with advertisements of your sites.

I thank those of you who liked the article list (my submissions) and commented positiviely on them.

Many of you asked to be friends. I like making friends. However, there are so many articles submitted to propeller that I use my friends list to find the really interesting articles (to me) using the friends submissions button. The people I accept as friends are those I have learned are likely to submit interesting stories or make interesting comments. Keeping my friends list short lets me find those stories without sorting through too much chaff. I often accept new friends, but I will look at your submissions and comments before adding you to my friends list. If we have common interests (you need at least a little history here so I can see), welcome aboard. If we diverge too much, I will probably leave you as a fan. No hard feelings - if propeller had a good search function to find interesting stories, I could have a much longer friends list!