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SmugWimp

Boku Wa Geek Desu!

About Me

Originally from Savannah Georgia, the Navy boosted my Electronic knowledge, brought me to Guam, and laid the foundation for a very idyllic lifestyle. I may not be rich, but I'm very satisfied with my life and surroundings. I was on Guam in the Navy from around 1983 to 1986, then to Washington DC until around 1988 for my last command. I took a job in Yokohama Japan to maintain computer controlled lighting for oscar award winning film director Akira Kurosawa for four years and returned to Guam in 1992 and have remained here ever since. On Guam my experience lies mostly in computers and systems networking for medium to large businesses. I also am Chief Engineer (Volunteer) at Guam's Public Radio Station, as well as once in a while show host. On such a small island I've been able to use my electronic and audio knowledge into a nice little part-time concert technician periodically too.
My "Desert Island Discs":
Court & Spark; Joni Mitchell
Chicago II; Chicago
Tubular Bells; Mike Oldfield
Buckingham/Nicks; Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks
Wish you were here; Pink Floyd
Comfort Eagle; Cake
Graceland; Paul Simon
Revolver; The Beatles
2112; Rush
Pet Sounds; The Beach Boys
More silly information like this available at my personal website

My Interests

Golf | Computers | Electronics | Astronomy | Dancing | Hiking | Music

I'd like to meet:

Have tea with Sir Paul McCartney | Listen to stories from Brian Wilson | Play a round of Golf with Retief Goosen | Challenge Paul Newman to a Car Race | Take Bass Guitar Lessons from Billy Sheehan | Go sailing with Ted Turner | Practice steamy love scenes with Catherine Zeta-Jones | Have a pint with Sean Connery | Go bowl riding with Tony Hawk | Listen to Bill Gates bitch about his life | Listen to Scott McNealy bitch about Bill Gates | Go on safari with Ted Nugent | Debate politics with Henry Kissinger | Go a round with Marvin Hagler | Break bread with Lech Walensa | Rap with Ice-T | Interview Larry King | Arm Wrestle Arnold Schwartznegger | Get Nasty with Janet Jackson | Dive Palau with Jaques Cousteau | Go fishing with Jimmy Buffett | Go hunting with Charlton Heston | Sing Harmony with Barbara Streisand | Play Chess with Boris Spasky | A Candle lit dinner with Jane Weidlen | Get design tips from Martha Stewart | Get inside John Malkovich's head | Spank Phobe Cates | Play a set with John McEnroe | Be one with the Dali Llama | Go into Space with Sally Ride | Be an Extra for Spike Lee | Dance the Tango with Christina Aguilera | Guitar Roadie for Neil Young | Perform the tea ceremony for Kazuki Anna | Get business tips from Warren Buffett | and the list keeps on going...

Music:

Everything from AC/DC to Led Zepplin.

Movies:

Scorsese does a good job. | I'm a sucker for any James Bond film. | Robert Redford/Clint Eastwood as either Actors OR Directors

Television:

The Golf Channel | Monk | House | LNO-SVU |

Books:

| James Clavell |
| James Michner |
| John Irving |
| Jeff Edwards |

Heroes:


My Mom. | Me. | Barry Goldwater. | In that order.

Chamorro Standard Time
(Guam)


My Blog

Hello to Mike! Working my Butt off!

Been waaaaay busy lately. doing an installation at 3 main sites, as well as 6 sub-sites, and will encompass a total of around 15 sites when complete. And then I maintain them. As well as help my frien...
Posted by SmugWimp on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

Thought to Text Technology... Or the lack of it.

I haven't really blogged in a while, and I thought I'd blog about why.I've actually "wanted" to blog, but just haven't, because my mind goes considerably faster than my fingers, and I can't keep up. ...
Posted by SmugWimp on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:54:00 PST

My Unitarian Jihad Name

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Claymore of Unassuming Reason. What's yours?I thought that was hilarious. I don't want to offend anyone. But I still thought it was hilarious....
Posted by SmugWimp on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:15:00 PST

If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything... (Clark Angeles)

My wife and I are in Manila so I can have some dental work done. You can probably (even out of the USA) get some serious dental done, and have a great vacation, for less than just the cost of dental ...
Posted by SmugWimp on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:56:00 PST

MacBook Pro Envy (better known as "gee mom, every other kid has one" v4.7)

I have a MacBook. I love it to death. It's a middle of the road model, a 2GHz CPU with a Superdrive and an 80GB Hard disk. I upgraded the Ram to 2GB. I'm running out of Hard Disk Space. I need to ...
Posted by SmugWimp on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:11:00 PST

SmugWimp is a registered trademark of the SmugWimp. Alice, love your book!

A couple of things I need to catch up on.1) I finally successfully trademarked my nickname (SmugWimp) and the little "SmugWimp logo" which is of course, my head poking out of a monitor. I did that ph...
Posted by SmugWimp on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:27:00 PST

Moving to Agat, then to Japan

Sheesh. This visa thing is taking forever.So in the interim, we've decided to move to our house in Agat. We bought it about 6 months ago, and had it renovated to rent out to some military family. H...
Posted by SmugWimp on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:43:00 PST

Diamonds aren't forever; they're only until 2009

I had to attend a training session over at Yokota Air Base, northwest of Tokyo Japan.  As usual, I stayed at a Hyatt; this time the Century Hyatt in Shinjuku for two days.  Those were the tw...
Posted by SmugWimp on Sat, 26 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

I'm a Seoul Man, Not a Nihonjin Yet...

Wow.  I've been to Seoul twice in the last month.  Once to Okinawa. I'm going to Misawa for my second time in 6 weeks.  And of course, Guam needs a little love too.  I've already m...
Posted by SmugWimp on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

Goodbye to Rick

I've been away a bit these days, and I found out today my friend Rick Vargas passed away recently while I was in Japan.  I couldn't be more bummed.  Rick was an excellent person.  The k...
Posted by SmugWimp on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST