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More about me
Posted: Sunday, February 24th, 2008 – 6:22 pm
Within giving too much information, but yet to provide a little biographical sketch about myself, I've fleshed out this page where you can learn a few things about me. I'll try to keep this page up-to-date as things change.
The basics
- Name: Jonathon Cihlar
- Location: Chicago, Illinois (since September, 2001)
- Age: However old I feel at the moment
- Birthday: March 12 - gifts are encouraged
- Marital status: Not single, not married
- Job: Manager of Language Services at IOR Global Services – it's a cool title for a very cool job.
- Previous jobs: I ran around downtown Chicago teaching Spanish at Columbia College and Kendall College. I also had a 1-year stint at Harrington College of Design teaching public speaking. In addition to those three jobs, I worked a software programming job at DNA Digital Media Group.
- Education:
- M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago
- B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- B.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication, also from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Languages spoken: English (native), Spanish (Fluent), Portuguese (Good, but rusty), Catalan (So so), Tagalog (So so), French (Meh), German (Weak)
Favorites
If you believe you can get a sense of someone's personality by their favorite things, here are mine:
- TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica, Project Runway, Top Chef, Futurama, and South Park
- Food: Hummus
- Pastry: Vegan cinnamon rolls
- Restaurants: Pick Me Up Cafe, Crust, Big Bowl
- Fruit/vegetable: Avocado
- Season: Autumn
- Programming language: PHP
- City: Chicago
- Coffee drink: Decaf soy latte
Things that piss me off
Here are just a few things that irritate me to no end:
- Motorists who are overly-agressive when it comes to sharing the road with bicyclists - Likewise, bicyclists who do not obey the traffic rules, running red lights and stop signs
- Cold weather, snow, and ice. Why am I still in the Midwest??
- Smoke
- Inefficient public transportation – Chicago's CTA is a prime example of over-priced, unclean, and inefficient public transportation; that's why I bike as much as I can
- People who put their bags and backpacks on the seat next to them along with people who occupy more than their fair of seat room on buses, trains, and planes. People with ridiculous amounts of carry-on luggage who are in clear violation of the limits really piss me off.
- Unreadable code, particularly HTML code