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Alex Covic

Name: Alex Covic
Gender: Male
Birthday: 01/01/1900

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Address: Rendsburger Landstr 20
Kiel 24113
Germany
Phone: +4904316082461
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Interested In: Computing, Energy, Materials, Biomedicine
Technology Interests: Biogenetics, Quantum Computing, Internet Infrastructure, Materials, Basic Research, Education, Ecology, History of Technology and Social Impact on Society
Favorite TV Shows: Sesame Street, Old Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers Serials, The Muppet Show, Welcome Back Kotter, Futurama, Star Trek, House MD, Firefly, John Adams, Sopranos, Band Of Brothers, Scrubs,
Favorite Movies: Everything by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Hawks, Curtiz, John Huston, Godard, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Cronenberg, Lynch, Malik, Michael Mann, the great late Clint Eastwood (the older the more amazing - since Unforgiven)
Favorite Books: William Gaddis J.R.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
Lawrence Durrell, Alexandria-Quartett
Marcel Proust, Perdu...
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire,Lolita
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Favorite Music: Beatles, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Holly Madison, Neil Young, Orlando di Lasso, NIN, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Bob Dylan,  Chet Baker, Black Sabbath, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Arvo Part, W.A. Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bartok, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler, Bernstein, John Adams, Radiohead, Iron Maiden, Public Enemy, Live, Klaus Schulze, Devo, James Brown, Ronnie James Dio, Deichkind, David Sylvian, Portishead + 1000s of others...
Favorite Quotes: There's always someone smarter than you - Ben Folds
Anything you can do, I can do meta - Charles Simonyi
About Me: I turned into a regular, dull guy - no skeletons in the closet. I guess, age makes me mild. Loner. Never married, no kids. No family left. I forgot completely, how it feels having a relationship, so I continue to live with my books and the ghosts that speak to me through them...
Activities: eating, sleeping, reading, walking, dreaming, typing,  recognizing patterns, walking slightly faster, observing, smelling, touching, shaving, listening, humming, calculating, rethinking, worrying, dancing, writing, erasing what I wrote, drawing, painting, twittering.

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  • [High School] (1985)
    High School Diploma
  • [College] (1990)
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich [College] (1995)
  • Technical University Munich [College] (1990)

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