Profile of Paul Cooijmans

Full name

Paulus Arnoldus Johannes Wilhelmina Cooijmans

Birth

April 6, 1965, Lieshout, The Netherlands

Sex

Male

Height

1.78 m

Hair

Dark

Eyes

Brown

Handedness

Right

Marital status

Single

Performance

Can hold breath 3:15 minutes and run 1000 meter in that same time; but not at the same time.

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 of prejudice (on the understanding that prejudice is judgment not based on fact); Able to observe objectively without being influenced by "emotion";
• Absolute sense of justice (wherein "absolute" means "opposite to relative", or means "objective", and not "divine").

Peculiarities

First-year memories

Languages

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

Hobby

Running

Interests (other than already mentioned elsewhere)

Exact sciences (theoretical physics, cosmology, Artificial Intelligence). That they are mentioned here as interests does not imply I have studied or am an expert in them; if so, they would have been mentioned elsewhere in this profile.

Favourite TV series

Doctor Who, Inspector Morse, The Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Catweazle

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 later remake)

Books

Gödel, Escher, Bach (D. Hofstadter), Kafka, Roald Dahl (favourite story: "The Visitor", from "Uncle Oswald")

Music

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

Food

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

Drink

Cola light

Education

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

Driver's license

Since 1983

Achievement

• Composition and literature prizes;
• Founding three IQ societies with over 300 members (per 2007) in total;
• Sheet music and book with short stories published (other than self-published materials);
• Many performances of my compositions took place (mainly in the early 1990s);
• Several newspaper interviews;
• Two TV performances as guitarist playing own compositions;
• Creating the world's hardest IQ tests attracting over 2000 candidates;
• Introducing to The Netherlands and Europe the concepts of high-range IQ test and higher-IQ 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 (a real one, not an imaginary one).

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);
• Making and maintaining web sites (since 2001);
• Programming, specifically for automated test scoring and processing of statistical data (since 2002).

Positions held (currently)

Administrator of Glia Society (1997-present) and Giga Society (1996-present); self-employed as artist and scientist (2005-present)

Publications

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

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 Coyman".

The "Cooij-" in the name is an old form of "koeien" (cows), so that the name means something like "the cows man" or "cows man's son". There have been generations of slaughterers early on in the family's history. The coat of arms associated with the name has three cows on it.