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Zac

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About Me

I was born in La Jolla, CA, I moved to Cardiff when I was 2. Grew up surfing in Cardiff, graduated San Dieguito High and became a graphic artist and screen printer. I had my own shop in Sorrento Valley for seven years called Arm and Squeegee Screen Printing. It kept getting bigger, but I never made any more money. I moved to Crested Butte Colorado in 1996 and started working in the kitchen at the Crested Butte Marriott and snowboarding. I found out I was pretty good in the kitchen. I went to the Culinary Institute of America a few years later and graduated in 2001. I worked at a top flight restaurant in Manhattan for two years in a brutal but fun kitchen. While I was there I met my wife Jessica. We returned to California, got married. I have a fresh son named Zavier, born May 19. I am Zac. out

My Interests

My wife Jessica. My son Zavier. I like to surf, skate and snowboard. Ride motorcycle. Swim and mountainbike, hike and climb. I like to cook and eat. Read and listen to good music, loud and/or live. I love to go super fast and general hellraising. I try to go off without bothering or endangering anyone at all times. I practice patience by working in a large corporate scenario with lots of drama and pomp. I love my family, I like my work.

I'd like to meet:

see: Heroes down further on this page.
Words to live by:

I am not afraid.

Waiting and wanting IS NOT resting and planning and vice versa

Discretion is the greater part of valor

Hesitation is disaster...He who hesitates is lost. If you had to think about it, you took too long

Righty tighty Lefty loosey

Big and strong can't go wrong

I reserve the right to ignore you

In case of cops every man for himself, tell the truth, don't do bad things

If you wanna dance you gotta pay the band

You do not have to be able to sing to be a rock star

Don't fight....share.

If it doesn't fit force it, if it breaks buy a better new one

Anybody can be cool and die

An argument is not a dispute, but sometimes evolves (or devolves) into one

Being alone is better than being unhappy in a relationship.

Right is always right or right is right, I can't decide

One person's ripe is another person's rotten

Masturbation is natural, look where god made your hands dangle.

Mean, abusive and disrespectful people get theirs in the end

Think twice…talk once

Be careful who you believe

I hate it when girls play hard to figure out

Cleanliness is, in fact, next to godliness

Learn square, hitch, truckers, and slip and figure eight knot and the sheet bend, know how to slide down a rope

You don't have to lie to make friends

Don't waste time, its priceless

If it matters...you'll take care of it

Sunscreen will stop a lot of problems

If you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose

Nobody likes arguing with a good example

Clowns are spooky and on list of things that suck

Write lists, cross off what you have finished, keep track of what you accomplish

If you don't have anything nice to say, shut the hell up

No matter where you go, there you are

Wet is fine, cold is okay...Wet and cold is really bad

I reserve the right to ignore you

Point downhill, bend your knees, spread you wings, haul ass...now you can surf, skate and snowboard

Things always get harder near the end of the task. If your task is becoming difficult you may be nearing the end, take heart.

Ready....and forward

Semper Paratus

There are no problems, just solutions in the wrong order

You can choose who is in your movie, and whose movies you are in. Never forget that

If it's yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down

Its not a burn on me if I don't get it.

The greater part of ingenuity is simplicity

Always take the money, if you decide to give it back later that's fine. No one wants to pay more later and you will have better luck in the beginning. If someone says,"Should I give you money now?" Always answer yes. If they say, "I will give you the cash right now." Take it. You can always give it back, but with the money you have that possession. Which is reputed to be nine tenths of the law.

Stay limber. Always stretch and do isometric excercises and something aerobic at least every other day.

Mr. Niceguy never wins in the short run, never loses in the long run

Drink lots of water. A lot. Often.

Sound waves move faster in steel than in air

Be nice. Be happy. Beware.

Function so ------- far over fashion, the air is thin

Know how to get out if you have to leave in a hurry

Deserve. Desire. Expect

If you are planning for one year plant rice. If you are planning for ten years plant trees. If you are planning for 100 years, educate children

Know how to work a gps

Avoid self-destructive behavior patterns

Genius has its bounds, stupidity is limitless

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees

Trust your instincts, but check their accuracy regularly

A swindler is worse than a thief

Never trust a cat, or live without one.

We'll see who's over packed later.

I release any need for punishment, I let go and let life flow through me, I am one with all of life, I welcome my experiences with joy

Be careful when the fuse is lit

God is perfect, man is not, man made whiskey, God made pot

I am not anti....I dig the other things

Accept mediocrity for what it is

Avoid drug induced character eclipses

Learn how to swim really well, most of the world is water

Tell it like it is.

Get layered or die like other non-intelligent life forms

Self control often resembles weakness, and often overcomes strength

The best things in life aren't things

Read. Read. Read. Keep a journal. Read

It is rare to find love at a bar, look elsewhere

Stay calm, take deep breaths, focus....its okay, the sun will still come up tomorrow

Where do you come from? What do you do? What do you eat? What do you want?

Grin if you sin, I just like the words, I don't sin anymore

You can choose who you work for, but not who you work with

It's all in your mind...and you might be right

Rules will never, and can never replace ethics

Eat right and always be looking to try new food. Go to someone's mom's house for dinner and see what they eat for a favorite meal at home and you will know more about somebody. When you are traveling always try what the locals eat and see what food the area is known for.

Lightning quick...Leather tough...be a daredevil

Would you rather burn out in style or fade away at peace. Think twice.

Always invite travelers to eat with you when you cross paths with them. Use your best judgment when choosing who to invite, but most people are just trying to see the most of your area.

When it gets to be too much, turn it up to 10 and dance till your hair is sweaty and your legs ache

Think before you do what they say

Flashbacks are free...bought and paid for...enjoy them

Just sound it out

Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212. The difference between the two is 180 degrees. It happens to be a number that is divisible by many other numbers. Its easier to make fractions. Anyway. Take the F number and subtract 32. Then multiply by five ninths. That is your C number. If you have a celsius number you multiply by nine fifths and add 32.

Be aware of your surroundings. Things change quickly. Always know where you are and what time it is. Anticipate downturns in the safety coefficient.

Acknowledge your ignorance

You can console and assist without advising

Opportunity is when chance meets a decision

Tact is the art of letting someone have your way

Everyone wants to be excited for free.

Defy authority

Style...Power...Grace

Don't tell someone how to do something, tell them what you want and let them amaze you with their ingenuity

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want

Comfort the lame

Women go out the way they come in (because I am a man. The first word can be any word describing a member of a relationship).

The circus still plays with one less monkey.

Never early always late, no matter what you gotta wait

Big brother is so watching

The price of freedom is constant vigilance

Hork No Poo

The triangle is the strongest geometric shape.

Chicks are bitches, guys are assholes

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge

You can go 3 weeks no food, 3 days no water, 3 minutes no air

SOS is dash dash dash dot dot dot dash dash dash or ---...---

Three equally spaced, equally loud, distinctive noises means you need help

Always carry a pocket knife. Sharp steel has many uses.

Our world is angry

Girls use sex to get love, guys use love to get sex

You can deny people access to your audience

Its good business sense to always round up

Hold a knife at twenty degrees to sharpen it

A good defense is very often a good offense

No hurries, no worries

If you want to know where a man is going, watch his hips

Do not mourn the dead, thank god they ever lived.

Try to get what you want, but ALWAYS want what you get

A sword rattling in its scabbard makes more noise than one that is drawn and swinging. Do not always fear the noisy one. Watch the quiet one in the back.

Its not a skirt, its a kilt

If I am bothering you, you can leave

You must destroy to create

I am Zac

Music:

I have 800 CD's. I think the musician should get paid and I bought them all. So I put my money where my mouth is and bought these CD's if they had more than two songs I liked. I like everything from original punk to metal to jazz to classical to oldies to some lame pop to o.g. rap to techno to emo shit, surf music, rockabilly, ska, raggae. Want to talk music? I have many opinions and have been around and involved in music for a long time. Let's talk about music, seriously, I always want to learn more.

Movies:

Princess Bride, Usual Suspects, Seven, Memento, Fight Club, Jacob’s Ladder, Buckaroo Banzai, Repo Man, Serpent and the Rainbow, Crouching Tiger, Eat Drink Man Woman, Gods Must Be Crazy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Snatch, Dark Crystal, Time Bandits, Star Wars, Raiders, Silence of the Lambs, Cool Hand Luke, Mad Max/ Road Warrior, Best in Show, Bladerunner, Shawshank Redemption, Papillion, Wind and the Lion, One Flew Over, Good Will Hunting, Highlander, Wizard of Oz, Lawrence of Arabia, Natural Born Killers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pulp, Kill Bills, Dogs, Close Encounters, The Mechanic, Three Days of the Condor, Magnificent Seven /Samurai, Fugitive, Joe Dirt, Airplane, Shot in the Dark, Early Dirty Harry, Spaghetti Westerns, Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland, Strange Brew, Dr. Strangelove, Young Frankenstein, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Clockwork Orange, Get Shorty, The Thin Man, Gladiator, The Raven, Endless Summer, The Jerk, Maltese Falcon, The Party, Citizen Kane, Bullit, Soylent Green, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fantasia, Tron, Casablanca, North by North West, Rear Window, Terminator, Rocky Horror Show, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Matrix, Lord of the Rings (all), Good, Bad, Ugly, Unforgiven/ Pale Rider, The Third Man, Roshomon, Sean as Bond, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Braveheart, Duck Soup, African Queen, My Man Godfrey, Zorro (D.Fairbanks), Zorro, the Gay Blade, Die Hard, Harvey, It’s a Wonderful Life, Sling Blade, Rio Bravo, Big Lebowski, Ronin, E.T., Hitchcock, Easy Rider?, Mars Attacks, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Taxi Driver, FMJ / Platoon, Monty Python Grail, Brian, Jabber, True Romance, Beverly Hills Cop, The Longest Day, Yellow Submarine, It Happened One Night , Ace Ventura, Okay, take that, now try to imagine what I am like. That's messed up. Say something, you read all that, how many do you know? I stand behind every one of these classics, if you don't agree tell me why, I will explain why every one of these movies kicks ass individually and in context amongst its peers.

Television:

csi, house, aqua teen hunger force, beavis and butthead, samurai jack, new detectives, Kung Fu, The Fall Guy, O.G. Batman, B&W Perry Mason, Black Sheep Squadron, A-Team, new Kojak, O.G. Bugs and Roadrunner, Shazam and Isis, Emergency, the O.G. Dukes of Hazzard, MASH, Hell's Kitchen. Do you know your tv? a lot of these are no longer televised.

Books:

Yeah, I read. I'll get to it later

Heroes:

Shirley Muldowney, Nicola Tesla, Hannibal, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ghandhi, Mark Richards, Bob Zimmerman, Chuck Yeager, Winston Churchill, Evil Kneivel, Eugene Stoner, Bill Donovan, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Sean Connery, My Dad Nicolai, My Father Anchovie, Ferdnand Point, JFK, John Browning, Kenny Roberts Sr., Nelson Mandela, Jimi, Martin Luther King, George S. Patton, Christian Rassineaux, the Flash, Chesty Puller, Tom Curran, Johnny Cash,

My Blog

Box Canyon

Box Canyon Story Box Canyon Quarry was a water filled square forty feet deep. If you imagine one wall on the North side it is the waterfall in, twenty feet tall with a couple cascading ledges and alm...
Posted by Zac on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:10:00 PST

bye buddy story

I thought I would just be honest about what happened today. So I'll tell you a story about our dog Caesar. My lovely wife, Jessica, worked at the San Diego Humane Society, she has a natural affinity...
Posted by Zac on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:08:00 PST

Dude, Where's My Road 1

So we were leaving Vegas and it was dawn. It was all hot and we were in a Cougar. It was going to be a long day. We weren't even hung over yet. We were going to do four hour shifts between the four o...
Posted by Zac on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:01:00 PST

Warm seat story

It was early. Crisp and no wind, but was really, really cold. There was about 150 people huddling together waiting for the ticket windows to open for the day. It was a killer bluebird day, some f...
Posted by Zac on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:44:00 PST

Dude, where's my road 2

We were driving through Kansas in deep dark January and it had been snowing hard for three or four hours. It was midnight and we were trying to make it to St. Louis by the following day. I had sugges...
Posted by Zac on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:06:00 PST

Superdave 2

My friend Super is pretty interesting. He is 6'2" and has blondish red hair and a super square jaw. He is a classic Viking. He is one of those natural strong guys. Broad shoulders, narrow at the hip ...
Posted by Zac on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:13:00 PST

superdave

  I have to make this a quick one. I have a friend named Dave. We call him Superdave or just Super. Anyway, when I grew up there was nothing really between Encinitas/Carlsbad and Vista/San Marcos...
Posted by Zac on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:35:00 PST

Dog Story .2

When I lived in Crested Butte, CO in the mid nineties I was there to snowboard. I had to work in order to snowboard. My friend Lenny said he would get me a job in the kitchen, I told him I had no exp...
Posted by Zac on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:14:00 PST

smokey the bear on your back door story

Hellpig, Timmy and I were going to San Francisco. We got sort of a late start, we left around one in the afternoon. We had a couple cases of beer in a cooler and some sandwiches, we were in Timmy's br...
Posted by Zac on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:40:00 PST

Riding the Roof

I wanted to write down some of the things that just can't happen around here any more and I remembered some of the best parties when I was a kid involved old abandoned houses and a pack of retards. We...
Posted by Zac on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:00 PST