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About Me

My most important characteristic is that I'm Christian. Well, at least it is the most important characteristic to me. That doesn't mean that I hold Christians in some sort of higher regard or anything. It just means that I recognize the significance of what Jesus' sacrifice for us means and I am joyous to be able to experience the consequences.

I'm currently a university student at the Colorado School of Mines. I am majoring in Physics Engineering and Mathematics and minoring in Japanese.

I enjoy cooking and painting quite a bit. I also enjoy programming and looking at the sky. Sometimes flicking balled up rolly-pollies is fun.

My favorite animal is the otter. And I think that trebuchets are pretty awesome.

I'm a quarter German, a quarter Scottish and half Hispanic. (As can be seen by the fact that my family is from Taos, NM)

My stepfamily is Japanese, so I have some Japanese influence, too.

My Interests

PhysicsMathGoChessSifl and OllyTrebuchetsPandasOttersPenguinsScalene trianglesCloudsCookingPaintingArtBakingTeaThrowing StarsOrigamiHorny ToadsHeadbands:

I'd like to meet:

People.

Music:

I like a lot of different junk across a lot of different genres. Unfortunately, I am pretty unknowledgeable about a lot of music, so if you know of something good, please tell me about it and I'll listen to it. I appreciate learning about new music.

As for music that I like now:

Beck Ween Canned Heat Vivaldi Cab Calloway Bill Haley and The Comets Pharcyde . . .

Hmm... Making a list is pretty futile. I like a lot of music. I'd like to get to know more ragtime, more big band/swing music, more hip hop, more bluegrass and more punk for sure.

I'm not really a fan of country or heavy metal, but anything else I'd love to be told about. Heck, you can tell me about heavy metal or country if you want. Maybe you'll know of some that I might like.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Tanpopo, Shall We Dansu, Army of Darkness, Zoolander, a whole lot of other stuff.

Again, making such a list would be crazy.

Television:

The A-Team, The Simpsons, Futurama, Sifl and Olly, Upright Citizens Brigade, House, ER, Scrubs, Other junk.

Books:

I tend to prefer science fact books, but I like some science fiction a little, too.

Honestly, I don't read fiction all that much. Most of the books that I read are to teach myself something new.

If you know of any really kickass books, I'm open to suggestions, why not.

Heroes:

Doctors, My grandpa, anybody who's doing what they can to make this world a better place.

Somebody willing to risk their own life or take a sacrifice for the wellbeing of others. Firefighters would fit this category.

I think that research pharmicists or others that do what they can to help humanity are great.

My Blog

Left-Handed Painting

I see my broken hand as an opportunity. It is an opportunity to become ambi-dexterous, so I've been doodling and writing left-handed. Also, it's inspired me to start painting again. I haven't pai...
Posted by Abel on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:32:00 PST

Cooking For Scum VIII

Cooking with a broken hand is easy. Well, that is so long as you have a bunch of people to help you out. Thank you everybody for helping out. I decided to make potatoes au gratin. I had never made...
Posted by Abel on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:00 PST

My Hand

In my last blog I explained how I broke my hand. I went to the hospital to have it X-Rayed. I could tell that it was two of my medicarpals that had broken just because of where the swelli...
Posted by Abel on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:34:00 PST

Hit by a Bus

I was walking Solomon on the sixteenth street mall last night. I was walking in the cross walk when suddenly, the mall shuttle decided to turn. And I was directly in it's path. My pu...
Posted by Abel on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:14:00 PST

Necessary Conflict

Conflict is difficult. Few people jump at the opportunity to have an argument or fight with somebody because fighting and arguing is unpleasant, so we avoid talking about something that will be...
Posted by Abel on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:09:00 PST

Cooking For Scum VII

My cousin is going to school in Prague. And he works in a restaurant in Prague. When he returned home for Christmas, he decided to make us a Czech soup. It was quite good and not too...
Posted by Abel on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:54:00 PST

Christmas Eve on Colfax

On Christmas Eve, I decided to walk my dog. We went downtown and visited a friend who I shared some empanaritas with. Anyhow, on the walk home, I was on Colfax and Logan. I was abou...
Posted by Abel on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:45:00 PST

Christmas Cooking

My family cooks a lot for Christmas. We start several days prior to Christmas and have a feast every Chistmas. We started on Friday with a cookie making party in which we made biscochitos ...
Posted by Abel on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:59:00 PST

Grandpa wanted by the FBI!!!

When we were young, my grandpa would call us every year pretending to be Santa Claus. At first we were fooled, but soon enough we figured it out and his ploy would fail. "You're not Santa ...
Posted by Abel on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:38:00 PST

Cooking For Scum VI

This week in cooking for Scum, I was donated some food. It was blackbeans with tomatos and cilantro and corn. Another creamy chicken food item was donated. I had to find a way to inc...
Posted by Abel on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:00 PST