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Don

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About Me





Happily married man with two (at times) wonderful kids. Currently deep into remodeling my house, helping my wife with her online business (Hecates Unique Jewelry and Gifts Link http://www.hecates.ecrater.com ) and the Star and Spiral Coven, digitizing all my music collection, continuing my studies in CUEW and Buddhism,....I dislike radicals, fundamentalists, anti-intellectuals, and anarchists.

My Interests

Fixing anything mechanical, electrical, electronic. Reading about nature and the cosmos, small and large, science fiction and fantasy. Hiking and riding my bike.

I'd like to meet:

The Dali Lama, Robert Anton Wilson, Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Clemens, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Eliezer Yudkowsky

Music:

Collecting music of the odd, avante garde, the ambient, classical. Major faves are psychedelic, progressive rock, industrial, metal,the baroque.....If it shows thought, sweat, emotion, and craft in it's creation, I'll listen. My musical heroes, J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Bauhaus, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Yes (especially with Patrick Moraz) , Genesis(the original line up mostly), Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash

Movies:

Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, Matrix (first one only), Children of Men, Pitch Black, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Harry Potter

Television:

Farscape, Lexx, SouthPark, Futurama, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers, Samurai Jack, The Latest Dr. Who, Hitchhiker's Guide, Any Star Trek, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, The Daily Show, Moral Orel, Crackle TV on the web

Books:

Books I have read lately: Buddhist Book of the Dead. Christopher Hitchens "God Is Not Great" Paul Graham "Hackers and Painters" Victor J Stenger "God: The Failed Hypothesis"Authors I have read multiple books: Asimov, Herbert, Phillip K. Dick, Clarke, Christopher Hitchens.

Heroes:

Our free press. Freedom From Religion Foundation. Rick Allen.

My Blog

Another addition to my hero list.....

A Donor Match Over Small Talk and Coffee>See the original article here By WILLIAM YARDLEY Published: March 4, 2008 The New York Times TACOMA, Wash.  Annamarie Ausnes is known for holding up the li...
Posted by Don on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:16:00 PST

Todays thought that wont go away...

I know others have said this before in many ways, most likely in more elegant prose. I believe that we, as our planets current evolutionary effort towards what we can never know, will lock in our perm...
Posted by Don on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:39:00 PST

My personal list of people who piss me off&.

Because I am stuck at home sick&& This list has been lurking in some form in the back of my mind over the years and today for no better reason than I am feeling crappy I now present it here&. My...
Posted by Don on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:31:00 PST

Back in the swing o things

Back in the swing o' things&& Everyone has their horror stories with their PC's and laptops to share and my recent hard drive death is one for a chapter in my life. But with three days of work ...
Posted by Don on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:59:00 PST

Isnt life funny? Or...I know, I know....buy an Apple

Yesterday I awoke to the possibility of having an afternoon free of work or children to occupy me. I had finally wrapped up a week long session on my wife's car catching up on several maintainance iss...
Posted by Don on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

Listen to my wife!

On Halloween last year my wife had the opportunity and pleasure to be interviewed on a local Catholic college's radio show "Off the Top with Winter Phoenix". I may be biased but all who heard this sho...
Posted by Don on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:05:00 PST

For the first time in my life

2008 is going to be an exciting year for me politically for the first time in my life. At this time as I write this, I am looking at three possible candidates who not only interest me, but have me loo...
Posted by Don on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:55:00 PST

Despair - a short essay

Throughout my life I've gone through periods of energy sapping lethargic despair. These episodes came and went and during the depths of my latest episode I sat down and wrote this stream of thought sh...
Posted by Don on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:46:00 PST

Nicholas Plascak RIP.

  Over the holiday we lost my Grandfather-in-law as he passed on in his 88th year here. Nicholas Plascak was someone who I will look forward to meeting in the thereafter for in this life distanc...
Posted by Don on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PST

The Questions I ask

An evening sit down with a coffee and my mega long play list of alt-folk-blues-garage rock playing. Kids are beating each other senseless in the living room (they are laughing mind you). It is time f...
Posted by Don on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:06:00 PST