Hi!
Quickly about me.
I'm Martijn Schackmann. I live in The Hague, Holland. I was born October 8 1977. I speak Dutch and English.
I studied General Arts at the University of Utrecht. These arts included Literature, Art, Music history, History among others. For my major I chose the direction History of Western Culture from the Enlightenment until now. My thesis was about the founding of the Wilhelmina Park in Utrecht. It's on archive.org.
I also did a minor in Journalism.
Before studying in Utrecht I studied Civil Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Because I lost interest I dropped that after finishing only 1,5 years.
I've now been working for Operator Groep Delft for a couple of years,. OGD is a company that hires out ICT personel. Through OGD I've worked at several places, the longest at the Delft University of Technology. That does qualify as irony, however it was at a different faculty from where I'd studied 10 years before, I worked at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.
These are some things I like.
The Internet. The Internet is cool because there's some cool stuff on it. I like Wikipedia. I've grown accustomed to searching for alot of subjects I read about almost immidiately. I mostly do this through built in search plugin of Mozilla Firefox.
I go to some other sites to search stuff. I visit Dictionary.com, a very good dictionary, thesaurus and etymology source. For dutch spelling, meaning of words and explanation of grammar I go to nederlandsewoorden.nl, vandale.nl and onzetaal.nl.
For information and discussion about movies I go to IMDB.com.
I post on several musicforums, I read articles on allmusic.com, I search for entries on discogs.com and I use last.fm.
I like watching YouTube videos.
I'm a musician. I used to play guitar in a band called MeDium. We put out two cds on our own. The third cd is a compilation of other recordings I made and mixed. It's called extraMedium and it's on archive.org.
Now I make experimental electronic dance music. My artist name is biggiesmartypants. I put out an album, biggiegoodies, on planetarium records. New stuff I put on my own website, myspace and last.fm.
I like to write. I write for myself and sometimes I blog.
I like arts and enjoy music.
I'm interested in culture, western society, the news and human interest.
I don't like organised religion but i'm into Buddhism. I practise Yoga.
I've practised Wing Chun Kung Fu for over three years but quit.
I run to keep in shape.
And I party.