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Padraig

Only Death is Real

About Me

Oh, what's to tell? I was at the orphanage till I was 18, then I got my job at the souvenir stand. Oh, and once I sawr a blimp.

In the end we will all be proven false in the idea that we are anything more than nothing.

Those who do not possess humbleness, fail to understand the higher concept of humilty, and deride deference. - Thomas Gabriel Fischer

My Interests

GOOGLE EARTH!, hockey, rock music, motorcycles, vikings, travelling (exploring, to be more precise), particle beams, Ice Cream, Insular art, the Colossus of Rhodes, a good recliner, history, big clunky boots, big clunky belts, ancient technology, secret societies, computer games, Egyptian mythology and art, geography, really... ancient cultures of any kind, juices of many varieties, The Dropa Stones, celtic mythology and art, the Antikythera Mechanism, outer space and astronomy, cryptozoology, testing the physical limits of strangeness....

Current Course of Classes:

Physics 2187 4 Experimental Physics for Non-Ethical Applications..

Culinary Arts 8798 2 Juice to Your Health..

Accounting 5499 2 Money Siphoning 101..

Geography 2358 3 Who Hates Who This Week..

Physical Ed 5878 4 Synchronized Swimming and it's everyday Applications..

Engineering 985 2 Building a Better Treehouse..

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I'd like to meet:

Pat LaFontaine: Favorite Hockey Player of all time....as much for what he's done off the ice as he's done on it......and he did a helluva lot on it.

..I'm also always on the lookout for a partner in crime.

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My World Visitor Map!

Be sure and check out Black Oak Presents. Black Oak Presents comes in quarterly issues and was founded by Michael Kleen.

Music:

I love old rock & roll stuff. Beauty in simplicity. I also like complex European Black and Folk Metal. The kind of stuff that really paints a story, not just a picture.

Movies:

Mostly just Star Wars really......but also gruesome bloody horror. Also Lord of the Rings which i only recently really got in to. I got teary-eyed and stuffy after seeing Return of the King for the first time. That's the first time i can say that a movie has done that to me. Does that make me a nerd? a wuss? both? i agree.
Some of my favorite actors are Gary Oldman, DeNiro, Willem Dafoe, Jean Reno, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Harrison Ford, Viggo Mortenson, Peter O'Toole etc...I really don't care for artsy type films, because once you've seen it, you've seen it. There isn't much replay value in them. I also don't want to have to dig too deep to find the point of a movie. That's not to say I don't want movies that have a message or get you thinking, I just don't want to be forced to. The good movies are the ones that on the surface are entertaining and captivating but also ones you can watch over and over again and also can find new things and meanings every time just watching it. Really, though, I think it just boils down to me disliking movie snobs, which has soured certain movies for me.
Do you wanna hear my cheesy Lord of the Rings joke? No? Well, I'm gonna tell ya anyways.
What do you call Edoras' trendiest clothing store?
Give up?
The Gap of Rohan! hahahahaha.......I'll shut up now.
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Television:

It's mostly FOX, Adult Swin on CN, Discovery, The Weather Channel, OLN and CSN Chicago fer ma hockey fixes, The History Channel, The Military Channel, TNT fer ma X-Files fix (even though i have a large quantity of DVD's), ESPN News (because I don't get TSN), CBS and NBC fer ma late-night talk fixes (Letterman and Conan), any of those wife swap shows........those are just mean...

Books:

Anything about travel or history, don't read much fiction. I also enjoy technical manuals and atlases (not sure if that's the correct plural of atlas, if you know, let me know). Mostly though it's the books that school has forced upon me (damned hippies!). I read magazines/newspapers more than anything. I do also like graphic novels. My favorite book of all time is Second Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure by Raul Bloodworth

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Heroes:

Luke Skywalker, Nikola Tesla, Oliver Reed, Syd Barrett, Pat LaFontaine, Assisted-Living Dracula, Moth-Monster Man...........so essentially only mythical archetypes. Also, all the men and women at NASA, especially those astronauts involved in the Apollo space program, who have braved the cold, harsh, vastness of space to take mankind to new places and in some cases have given their lives for it. That is true bravery and they are truly people to be looked up to. ..

My Blog

I Can’t Sleep

I am always astounded at how different a person can become over a relatively short amount of time. How one's past, when looked upon, can seem foreign, exotic, almost like a story that you were told ab...
Posted by Padraig on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:29:00 PST

birthday after-party on Sunday

so for anybody who is gonna come bowling on sunday as the birthday after-party thingy, lemme know asap so I can make sure what needs to reserved or anything. This shit apparently can get kinda expensi...
Posted by Padraig on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:36:00 PST

No questions asked, buy this product!

Edy's special edition Apple Pie Ice Cream just hit the shelves and is worth every penny. The pumpkin ice cream is nearly gone, so I will have this to keep me happy until another wonderful new special ...
Posted by Padraig on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:35:00 PST

Corey + Corey + A&E = TV

So the first two episodes of The two Coreys just aired. The premise of the show is that Corey Haim moves in with Corey Feldman and his wife. Yeah, it's a reality show. So when I saw them both on Larr...
Posted by Padraig on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:29:00 PST

The Flickr Craze

So, at the recommendation of my friend greg, I've decided to create a Flickr account to put photos on. Nothing fancy, just want to have a place to put some and maybe get some feedback to see what is g...
Posted by Padraig on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

Another Giant has Fallen

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/03/schirra.obit/index. html?section=cnn_latest A truly great man. The same cannot be said for what we nowadays label as great. These men quietly went about their b...
Posted by Padraig on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

Downfall

So here's my bitch of the night why do these assholes next door feel it's okay for them to blast their music and yell profanities through a common hallway late at night, but it's not okay for me to ma...
Posted by Padraig on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

It was a verrrry bad night........x2 no less.

So, I'm busy sleeping last night, whatever. However, I had a dream. This dream began with me discovering some very scary facts about my childhood that I had erased from my memory. The facts centered a...
Posted by Padraig on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:35:00 PST

My Problem With Addiction Has Become More Severe

The container of ice cream that says contains 14 servings, the same one that usually takes me 3 servings to finish, now only takes 2.5 servings to finish. The worst part is that I can easily foresee a...
Posted by Padraig on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:54:00 PST

A couple of personality test

Test #1: ..> Personality Type Report for Patrick Your Personality Preferences INTROVERTWhile you may not be anti-social, you do need (and deserve) your private time and space to retreat from the ...
Posted by Padraig on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST