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       I AM Black Flag. Some People prefer to call me Flaggo. I'd prefer not to give my real name, but if you know me, I'm CMW. Some other aliases, by the way: I'm MWard@Javanet.com, Flaggo33 on AOL IM, 35919972 on ICQ, {XCS}Black Flag on Battlezone, though I don't really play anymore. I live in the quaint town of Northampton, Massachusetts, in the great (MMMPH!) nation of the USA. I attend Northampton Public High School, and I am (at the time that I write this; 1/25/2000) 14. Besides sleeping, eating, reading, and playing music, I do very little, so you may find that this page is sort of short. It's meant more as a portal to my other two pages. However, one thing there is besides the aforementioned, is sports.

I'm in no way a sports fan or player, but I try to keep in some kind of shape, so I cross-country ski when it snows, which is not too often, rock climb, and lift weights pretty
regularly.

    Though the 105-pound dumbells pictured here aren't exactly what I use, you can probably get the idea. I enjoy lifting weights, myself, other people, or whatever else I can get my hands on. Right now I'm doing  25 pull-ups (palms toward face), 17 chin-ups (palms away), 100 situps, 19 push-ups, 13 military-presses of 40 pounds, and 20 curls of 32 pounds, plus wall sits, forward and reverse wrist curls, and stretches.

    I really like to climb. I'm not great, and I just really got into it, but I like it a lot. Right now I climb at the local rock gym (Rock Wallabees) with my dad, Ed Ward, about every other week. He's one of the better climbers there, despite the fact that he's in his fifties, so it's cool.

    I also x-country ski a bit, which I enjoy. I skate ski, which is a modern technique, and it's FAR from the old left/right/left/right. The legs' motion for basic skate skiing is just like rollerblades or ice skating, and you double-pole every other step (for righties, every time you place your right ski). There are some other techniques, for various combinations of speed and efficiency, which are used like gears on a bike. To pass someone you might double pole every beat, for a burst of speed, and on a long flat or descending surface, double pole between beats to attain momentum and glide.

    Lastly, I fence with the club at school, mainly because it's a free gym waiver and because some of my friends are in it. But it's not a bad sport either. Lots of finicky technique stuff. I recommend it for anyone with sick dedication and a sharp mind.

    I do none of these things competitively. I don't really know why not, but I guess it's that sports are something I do for fun and for keeping in shape, and not because I want to be good at them.


    Another thing one should know about me is my outlook on life. My quaint town is one of those artsy-fartsy, liberal, progressive, way-leftist cultures, and for the most part, I share that. I attend the Unitarian Universalist Society of Northampton and Florence as part of the Youth Group. I was formerly in the Coming of Age class where I wrote my credo in order to graduate. Like a confirmation or bat/barmitzfah (spelling?...). That's available HERE,if you'd like to look at it. It gives an overview of my beliefs about, well, shtuff. For details and expansion upon the subject, click HERE.

                 GENERAL LINKS

NETSCAPE.COM............I use Netscape Navigator 4. I
                                            think it's a good browser (It
                                            works, reads java) so get it!
                                            Plus, Netscape.com has a decent
                                            search engine and some fun
                                            goodies. It's my fave portal,
                                            d00d.
ALTAVISTA.NET...........Altavista is, in my opinion, the
                                            best search enginge for
                                            information. It lacks in glitz, but
                                            for real info, it's the best.
TRIPOD.COM.................Well, they give you that
                                            annoying little window, and
                                            never shut up, and you have to
                                            update your page every month to
                                            keep it, but it's my home sweet
                                            home. Tripod has a good
                                            pagemaker and services.
                                            Anyway, if they didn't make me
                                            update my page, you wouldn't
                                            get to share in my wonderful
                                            insight, right?
THEONION.COM.........I think it's the only online
                                            satirical newspaper. And it's
                                            funny!
THE KoRn KhIID'S.......Well, his page may seem like the
OrPhAnAgE......................typical ravings of a deranged
                                            lunatic, but in real life he's a
                                            cool person. Check this out, ye
                                            KoRn fans and skater-heads.
JAVANET.COM..............My ISP! Standard fare. They serve
                                          Western Mass, and then some.
                                          Nice guys, too.
 

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