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About Me

Some would say I'm a complicated puzzle. The pieces don't always fit together.
Puzzle
n., v., -zled, -zling.
n.
1. a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
2. something puzzling; a puzzling question, matter, or person.
3. a puzzled or perplexed condition; bewilderment.
4. a crossword puzzle: Did you do the puzzle in the newspaper today?
5. a jigsaw puzzle.
v.t.
1. to put (someone) at a loss; mystify; confuse; baffle: Her attitude puzzles me.
2. to frustrate or confound, as the understanding; perplex: The problem puzzled him for weeks.
3. to exercise (oneself, one's brain, etc.) over some problem or matter.
4. Archaic.to make intricate or complicated.
v.i.
1. to be perplexed or confused.
2. to ponder or study over some perplexing problem or matter.
3. puzzle out, to solve by careful study or effort: I was unable to puzzle out the message.
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My Interests

Fortune cookies, music, hiking, philosophical rants and rambles, Indian food, wine, travel, yoga, lucid dreaming, painting, photography, entomology, running, the beach, drum circles, learning new languages, my cello, dancing, museums, people watching, garden parties in the summer
Dehalococcoides... the coolest little guys you'll never really see.

I'd like to meet:

Warren Buffet

Yer momma

Smarty pants, hot rockstars, child prodigies all grown up, artists with clean clothes, someone who flies planes so that I don't have to spend half my life in the airport security line, crazy people, levitators... okay, normal human beans are fine too.

People who believe in investing their time into something positive, time-worthy, and potentially life-changing...

Happy little lard eaters.

A wooden man with a felt goldfish...

Music:

Iron & Wine, The Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Chris' attempts at playing guitar

Movies:

Borat, The Squid and the Whale, Buddy, Garden State, the original Wicker Man, V for Vendetta, Amelie, Friday, Click, Revenge of the Nerds, Clash of the Titans, Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

South Park, 24, Project Runway... Yeah, I'm a dork.

Books:

The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock
The Choice by Og Mandino
Fly Me to the Moon by Alyson Noel

Heroes:

Sierra and Elijah

My Blog

Narcolepsy, the farmers market, and lunch with a deaf-mute

The Sacto adventure continues... Today was another interesting day, especially considering that I woke up at 5:05 a.m. before the alarm went off from a really crazy dream, after le...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Thu, 15 May 2008 02:03:00 PST

Just another new adventure

Well, this week has proven eventful and it's only Tuesday. Is that good or bad? I don't know. Depends on the hand that feeds you, I guess. And I love food, so I seem to be some...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:53:00 PST

Kudos to Dieter Kondek!

These are just too cool... (FORTUNE Small Business) -- A dinner party changed Dieter Kondek’s life. The German-born entrepreneur was talking with friends, expressing his distaste for th...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:08:00 PST

HHO Hybrid Conversion

I am curious about the effectiveness of the HHO hybrid modification process (Brown’s Gas). Advocates claim that the conversion can be accomplished pretty $$$ cheap and that conversion will yiel...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:55:00 PST

Bungeeeeeeeeeee!

Okay, so this past Sunday was simply amazing. I went bungee jumping in the Angeles forest with a bunch of friends... We jumped from the Bridge to Nowhere, a 120-foot tall bridge built in t...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:56:00 PST

Bamboozled

On another note... However childish, immature, or just plain wrong it is, this still has me laughing out loud! ...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

Of course you can call me...

Since I keep getting so many emails from people who really want to reach me, I thought I'd just post my number here. I love random messages from strange people. Call me! But only if ...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:46:00 PST

The Dream

This is a recurring dream that I had for years, from childhood through college. It was cast in black and white and slightly grainy at its inception. I guess that the easiest way to de...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:03:00 PST

Today I was told...

That I have glass-bottom eyes. Interesting. I'm not sure what it means, but it sounds intriguing. ...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST

My dirty little French book

I love this book. Life is great when you can dish out dirty French slang to unsuspecting bystanders. It's so well worth the stares of perplexion and internal chuckles. I rea...
Posted by Jeu d'esprit on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:29:00 PST