me
This is the hardest page to write, all because it's about me, the ego behind the keyboard, this being, that sometimes I don't even understand, but I'll do my best to give you a small perspective of what this is about.

First of all maybe you're interested in some of things that go on in my head about certain topics and issues, you'll find them over here.


Also I guess, you may like to read a little bit about me, a brief thing about things that have happened in my life, maybe you should check this:

Some quick facts about me and things that I like.
  • Nickname cranguy
  • e-mail address [email protected]
  • Full name Jose Miguel Solana (if you want it in English it's Joseph Michael, in Italian Guiseppe Michele, and I think you can take it into most occidental languages, which is kinda cool, and you figure out the other forms) as I'd say it's a soap opera name.
  • Birth date December 31st 1980
  • Birth place Mexico city
  • Skin from completely pale to completely tanned
  • Eyes green
  • Hair brown, but will always vary depending how long it is.
  • Height about 1.75 (5'9)
  • Weight about 68 kg (150 pounds)
  • Waist 29"
  • Jeans Levi's 550, GAP, and Pepe's
  • Shoes G&H Bass
  • Clothes Zara (nice spanish brand), G&H Bass, GAP, Levi's and whatever is comfortable and fits my student budget
  • Underwear Calvin Klein, and lately also Polo Ralph Lauren, just for a secret reason
  • Colors blue and green
  • To write I prefer pencils (remember I'm a math boy)
  • Passions music, traveling, isolated places, arts, math stuff, reading etc
  • TV shows Lonely Planet (of course), The simpsons, Ellen, Will & Grace, Friends, Just shoot me, The show of Jools Holland, and mainly everything on People & Arts (a joint venture between BBC and Discovery for Latin America)
  • Favourite movies Lilies (thank you so much Rob for that one), Beautiful thing (thank you Jeremy for that one), The pillowbook, The sum of us, Shallow Grave, and as I remember the rest, I'll keep putting them around here.
  • Car brands I love VW's and Audis though lately I've had also to take on BMW's ;)
  • Food I like all kins of food, from russian, to polish, morrocan, thai, italian, chinese, mexican, spanish, greek, way too many kinds. I simply love to eat; though in my regular diet I try go for natural and healthy things.
  • Heights Right now I'm living in a 16th floor, so that means I don't fear them.
  • Sport Swimming
  • Painter Salvador Dali, Monet
  • Writers Hermann Hesse, Isabel Allende (I love her novel style), Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other more, I try to read as much as I can as my time allows me to.
  • Philosopher Immanuel Kant, he can simply blow me away.
  • Place The mountains, the feel of them thrills me.
  • Passion Music and poetry
As you may have noticed, I'm 19 a year-old guy living in Mexico, I moved to Mexico city last summer, where I'm attending to university. I'm going for Actuarial Science at ITAM (for those of you who have no clue about Actuarial science, it's that profession that requires heavy knowledge of math, economics, stats, finance accouting, to use that in the insurance business most of the time, and also financial things such as risk management). Before moving to Mexico City, I used to live in Cuernavaca, where I grew up, and lived all my previous years

To contact me email me at [email protected] or my ICQ number is 1863339, my AOL IM screen name is "jmsolana" or whatever else you think can be use, I don't chat over IRC a lot lately, but if I get in I'll go of course under "cranguy".