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- http://twitpic.com/17d5tu - First flowers of the season! We still have winter weather in The Hague, but on Sunday 7 March I noticed these fl
- Installed the newly released (3 March 2010) Nvidia 195 driver for 64-bit Linux: http://is.gd/9Jm2A
- http://twitpic.com/16j0av - Seawater blasting through a hole in a rock overhang, Costa Adeje, Tenerife on 28 February 2010.
- Back home in The Hague.
- Waiting to board at Tenerife Sur airport.
- Got food poisoning yesterday; lost 3 kg overnight!
- Sipping sangria in the shade by the sea.
- http://twitpic.com/15mfet - Many restaurants here serve Dorada beer, which is brewed on Tenerife.
- http://twitpic.com/15fszl - The Canary Islands were formed by volcanic activity. I picked up these pumice stones at a stretch of black sand
- My recent interview with @AntiwarScott regarding polygraphy and the anthrax mailings: http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/02/25/george-maschke-2/
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About Myself
With UCLA’s Bruin Statue on New Year’s Day, 2007
I was born an raised on Long Island, New York and graduated from Westhampton Beach High School. After a four year stint in the U.S. Army, I moved to Los Angeles, California. I studied at UCLA where I received a bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern Studies followed by master’s and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. My dissertation was a study of proverbial and idiomatic language in the context of a modern Persian novel. Since 1997, my wife and I have been living in The Hague, The Netherlands, where I work as a legal translator.
I am a co-founder of AntiPolygraph.org, a non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of polygraphs and other purported “lie detectors.”
My interests and activities include languages (I have some proficiency in Persian, Arabic, and French), computers, politics, weightlifting, and poetry.