Detailed personal information

Various facts

Full name

Paulus Arnoldus Johannes Wilhelmina Cooijmans

Birth

6 April 1965, Lieshout, the Netherlands

Birth order

Eleventh of eleven

Sex

Male

Height

1.78 metre

Mass

66 kg

Hair

Dark

Eyes

Brown

Handedness

Right

Preferred part of day

Morning

Marital status

Single

Character

• Honest; truthful regardless of consequences;
• Incapable of lying, cheating, manipulating, posing, psychological tricks; therefore without defence against who do use such methods; therefore not recognizing such methods as a bona fide part of human interaction; therefore having no tolerance for who use such methods;
• Complete lack and incapability of prejudice (on the understanding that prejudice is judgment not based on fact); able to observe objectively without being influenced by "emotion" or "empathy"; able to revise a held view when new evidence requires such, and repeatedly having done so; therefore always learning, improving, advancing, and in some fields arriving at conclusions so advanced, so far removed from ruling doctrine and cliché, that those of lesser judgment can no longer recognize them as such and mistake them for rigid or prejudiced;
• Incapable of dogma or doctrine, always using objective facts and logic to independently form one's own mind; everything comes from within, nothing is accepted from others; immune to suggestion, immune to "nonverbal signals" and not recognizing the latter as part of human interaction;
• Absolute sense of justice (wherein "absolute" means "opposite to relative", or means "objective", and not "divine", and wherein "justice" means "righteousness", not "law").
• The character features here described are possessed not by choice but by birth; in case this is not clear enough: There has been no "decision" to "stop" lying, there has been no start to lying at all as a result of incapability.

Peculiarities

First-year memories; eleven toenails; endowed with the gift of being exceptionally funny without anyone noticing it.

Languages

Netherlandic, English, German (understand written and spoken German well) and a bit of French (reading).

Hobbies

Walking, cycling, weight training

Interests (other than already mentioned elsewhere)

Human evolution, eugenics, exact sciences (theoretical physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence).

Favourite television series

Inspector Morse, Catweazle, Dad's army, It ain't half hot mum!, Bergerac, Doctor Who, The Avengers, Blackadder, All creatures great and small, Absolutely Fabulous, Takeshi's Castle

Favourite movies

• "Blow up" (M. Antonioni);
• "Victim of the brain" (P. Hoenderdos, about Douglas Hofstadter);
• "Vanishing point" (Richard C. Sarafian; the original 1971 version is meant here, not the remake).

Books

Tom Poes (M. Toonder), Gödel, Escher, Bach (D. Hofstadter), Kafka, Roald Dahl (favourite story: "The Visitor", from "Uncle Oswald"), Paling en Ko (Mortadelo y Filemón).

Music

Van Halen (the David Lee Roth period), Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Frank Zappa, J. S. Bach, Dowland, Led Zeppelin, Erik Satie, AD/DC (the Bon Scott period) medieval and Renaissance polyphony.

Food

Chips (that is: "French fries", "pommes frites", not "crisps")

Education

• Conservatory, composition and guitar (1986-1993);
• Programming courses (2002);
• Web design courses (2003-2004);
• CompTIA Network+ (2004, not certified);
• Cisco C.C.N.A. certified (2004);
• Basic Bookkeeping (2006).

Driver's license

Since 1983 (passed driving test the first time)

Achievement

• Composition and literature prizes;
• Founding six "I.Q. societies" with over 300 members (per 2010) in total;
• Sheet music and book with short stories published (other than self-published materials);
• Many performances of compositions took place (mainly in the early 1990s);
• Several newspaper interviews;
• Two television performances as guitarist playing own compositions;
• Creating the world's hardest I.Q. tests attracting over 2000 candidates;
• Introducing to The Netherlands and Europe the concepts of high-range I.Q. test and higher-I.Q. society;
• Innovative work in music theory (e.g., discovering 96 chords that have never yet sounded);
• Discovering hidden message in Rider-Waite Tarot deck that went unseen for 95 years.

Experience

• Founding rock band (Catweazle), composing songs for and playing guitar in it (1982-1987);
• Playing guitar and bass in jazz ensembles (1986-1989);
• Playing classical guitar (since 1986, preference for Dowland lute music and Bach);
• Playing contemporary serious music in ensembles (1991-1993);
• Playing own guitar compositions (since 1981);
• Playing Dowland lute songs with singer (1992-1993);
• Guitar teaching (1990-2000);
• Constructing and administering high-range mental tests and performing statistical analysis and norming studies thereon (1995-present);
• Making and maintaining web sites (since 2001);
• Programming, specifically for statistical data processing and automated test scoring (since 2002).

Positions held (currently)

Administrator of The Glia Society (1997-present) and The Giga Society (1996-present); Psychometitor at "I.Q. Tests for the High Range" (2005-present).

Publications

(Mostly self-published) More than 40 compositions for various casts up to symphony orchestra, prose (short stories), several I.Q. tests and statistical reports thereon, articles in I.Q. society journals, report on early memories research, treatise on music theory, interpretation of Rider-Waite tarot, articles on web locations.

Note on the surname "Cooijmans"

The name "Cooijmans" is pronounced approximately as an English-speaking person would pronounce "Coymans". A bit more precisely it can be said to rhyme with "Zoë runs", rapidly spoken.

It is an original Netherlandic name and really identical to the name "Cooymans"; the difference between the consonants "ij" and "y" is arbitrary in Netherlandic.

"Cooijmans" is also related to a number of similar names that have "K" in the place of "C", "o" in the place of "oo", "y" in the place of "ij", and/or lack the "s". When the "s" is missing, "de " (the ) is sometimes prepended, as in "Rutgerus Gerardus de Koijman".

The "Cooij-" in the name is probably an old form of "koeien" (cows), so that the name "de Coyman" means "the cows man", and "Cooijmans" means "cows man's son". I descend from a long line of of slaughterers (so watch it). The coat of arms associated with the name has three cows on it (some say "bulls" or "oxes"), and also appears as such on a few portraits painted by Frans Hals, of a person named Cooymans, hanging on the wall (on the painting). Two portraits and several variants of the coat of arms can be seen at http://picasaweb.google.com/armando348/CoymansCoijmansCooijmansCoeymansFamiliewapen# .

The southern part of the Netherlands was populated by Franks (a Germanic people) in the early Middle Ages, their main source of living being the keeping of cattle for the meat, and most of those currently living here are of Frankish descent, many of them, including we, being genealogically linked to the Emperor Charlemagne. When the existing European order collapses, we will in the utmost modesty yet without hesitance commend ourselves to the imperial throne.