As you can see my name is Calvero... in the computer
world that is :). In the "real" world I am commonly called Kim. I am 27 years
old and live on the west coast of Florida. My interests are at little out of the
ordinary...especially for someone my age. But before I tell you anymore about myself, I'll
explain about my nickname :)
What does "Calvero" mean?
This is the most asked question that I receive from
people. As far as I know, it doesn't mean anything. I picked it from a Charlie Chaplin
movie, "Limelight" (1952). When I first started out on the internet,
specifically BBSs, I wanted to choose a Chaplin related name. (You will find later in this
page that I like Chaplin a lot :) ). "Charlie" was already being used on the BBS
that I first logged on to, and there weren't that many names that Chaplin actually had in
his films. Other than "Charlie" there was "Hynkel" from _The Great
Dictator_, "Verdoux" from _Monsiur Verdoux_, "Calvero" from
_Limelight_, and "Shadov"from _A King in New York_. Hynkel and Verdoux were out
because both were mass killers. Shadov I liked but wasn't quite right. I liked both the
character of Calvero and the way it sounded, so I decided to use that. And so since March
25, 1995, I have been called that on the computer :).
My Hobbies...
My main interests are watching old comedy movies. My
favorites are Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, Laurel &
Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, and Martin & Lewis (their TV stuff
more than their movies). The guys who I hold responsible for me getting interested in all
of these other fellas are the Smothers Brothers, who I have liked for ten years now. I
love those guys :)!
I am working on rebuilding my "Chaplin
Fans UNITE!" page. My old page got
erased when Angelfire's system got erased. Angelfire is another free homepage thing on the
web, in case you didn't know :). Anyway, I've been receiving questions and requests about
it and so I am *hoping* that this new one will have a chance to be better :).
I am also working on rebuilding my cleft lip/palate page. This was a page where I told about what it's like to live with
a cleft and also to help those of you out there who are dealing with the same thing. It's
not all bad, believe me :). I have been receiving questions about that too and I hope to
cover all of the questions, and then some.
And the other page that I had before it got erased was
my circus page. During the summer of '96 I worked with a little circus called
Hendricks Brothers Circus. That was quite an adventure!
Other hobbies of mine has been *trying* to update my
pages, but for those of you who have come to see if anything has changed in the last
couple months, you can tell that I'm a little behind on things :).
ICQ
If you have ICQ, I'm #3193654. My handle is Calvero,
with a capital C, not to be confused with calvero who is someone that I don't know. If you
don't know what ICQ is than check out their
site. I require authorization, so please say why
you want to be added to my list, that way I can keep it organized :)
My other pages:
Chaplin Fans Unite! - This
is my Charlie Chaplin page that I *FINALLY* got online again :). Ever growing and
changing, I give list of books, videos, documentaries, the newsgroup, links and anything
else that I think of :).
Born to be Cleft :) - This is where I tell my personal story about being
born with a cleft lip and cleft palate (both common forms of facial birth
"defects"). I turned this once one page into a multi-page site, and added
some beautiful borders! Much better than what it used to look like! :)
Circus Days - This is my story about my interesting job for the
Hendricks Brothers Circus, a small one-ring circus, back in 1996.
Circus
Web Ring -- A ever growing list of circus sites from all around the world are
members of the ring. If you are interested in the circus or have a circus site, be
sure to check this out! :)
Light A Candle
-- This is a new ring I started to help promote the positive sites out there that promote
anti-violence, anti-racist, and have encouraging stories of survival. Since this is
a new ring, it's very small, so I encourage anyone who has a site siting the category to
submit you site! :)
This is a great site! If you ever played
with those virtual pets, that's what this is, but with a twist....you can choose from at
least a dozen different kinds of neopets and buy them food, do auctioning, play games,
raise your pet's level, send and receive neomail, and a whole bunch of other things :).
Each pet gets his/her website, automaically made! It can also be edited.
A great site for kids and adults alike :).
These are my pets:
This was the first Neopet I got. Her name is orevlac (my name spelled backwards),
a Chia.
This is Mepo, a Wocky. He is the second Neopet I picked. Although he's
younger than his Chia sister, he's tough!
I have moved the links that were listed here to another
page, and added some to it. Click here to see it :).
Webrings:I just started
this page for the webrings that I belong (or will belong) to.
Chat with me live
If the below image says that I'm online you can text
chat with me live. If not you can send me a message.
BeeCall is a new way of voice chatting. Unlike HumanClick, though,
you have to download BeeCall to use it (along with having a microphone & speakers, or
headset)
MISC.
If this
page looks like it's a bunch of gobbilie gook, it is. It's a way to try to knock down
the number of spammers that search for email addresses through web pages. For more info
check out it's home page.
