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About Me

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Can You Hear Me..... NOW?

Hey I'm Scott, I'm originally from Carson City, just graduated with a mechanical engineering degree. I love to ride bikes (mountain or road), hike, camp, jump into random lakes, and oil my chest.

My Interests

I like to do outdoor stuff whenever possible, like skiing, hiking, camping, off-roading, swimming and jumping off rocks. Oh, and I longboard like every day - it brings me vast and reliable joy, despite the high odds I will hurt myself again.

Lately I'm into running/sprinting and playing frisbee a whole lot.
I'm a pretty serious environmentalist... like the dumpster dive for recyclables kind. Well not recently, but I think I'm tainted for good.
I'm all for telling jokes that claim embarassing falsities about my friends.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet people who share my love for scrapbooking.

Music:

Favorite bands/groups/people:The Arcade Fire
Deftones
Del
Hieroglyphics
Living Legends
The Mars Volta
The Flaming Lips
Smashing Pumpkins
Atmosphere
The Shins
Kings of Convenience
Coheed and Cambria!
Soul Position
Wilco
Weak at Best
Oh, wait, Weak at Best sucks. Built to Spill I mean.
Interpol X a million
Bush
Modest Mouse
Blonde Redhead
Eyedea & Abilities
MF DOOM
RJD2

Movies:

(In tentative order of likeability)
1. Gattaca
2. Office Space
3. Super Troopers
4. Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou *NEW*
4.5. Arnold Schwarzeneggar's 1985 'Commando' (worst movie EVER? )
5. Ill add more later

Television:

The Upright Citizens Brigade (how I miss you)
Conan O' Brian!
Seinfeld
The Daily Show

Books:

I love reading, I wish I made more time for it.
These are the faves:
Tolkien
Dune & Sequels
George RR Martin's stuff
Siddartha, Steppenwolf by Hesse aren't fantasy, but they are probably the most literary stuff I have actually enjoyed.
Stephen King sucks

Heroes:

Sister Sarah and Andrei. Pimps who will always walk with limps. By that I mean they are my heroes.

My Blog

Dunes backbone

Just a random article I found interesting about how Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, came up with a few of the concepts in his book: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/04/the-unsurprising-p. ..
Posted by Scott What on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:43:00 PST

Locked up and stress anxiety

I just saw a show on MSNBC (yeah it was an accident) called something like "Locked Up." It's basically just a show on prisoners and their daily lives. I think one short ...
Posted by Scott What on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:20:00 PST

Moving

Moving sucks the big one, just FYI. I accrued so much shit over the past three years! How many small tables can I use? Maybe one? Maybe two, and one will be my designated tooth...
Posted by Scott What on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

Blackrock Camping 2007

Hey buddies - I went last weekend on a spectacular camping trip with my family and Blanca to the boondocks of Nevada. We drove through the Blackrock Desert, famous homeland of Burning Man, and m...
Posted by Scott What on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:45:00 PST

Progress

Mmm...tastes like progress.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6134734.stm
Posted by Scott What on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:21:00 PST

Just random thoughts on sept. 17th

Well first off I've been listening to Justin Timberlake's new CD all day...and I like it too much. Goddamn that's some smooth love coming out my speaker. I went to my first tailgater today...
Posted by Scott What on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:43:00 PST

End of summer update

Update: The video on the end is a mouse moving around a little bit inside the Lego mousetrap. It was more or less just to prove that he was in there =P So look carefully.------------...
Posted by Scott What on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:03:00 PST

Moving vote.

Alright kids, just out of boredom and self-pity, here's a question for you.Would you rather:A. Load a U-Haul to the brim with heavy furnitureB. Drive it 150 miles through heavy traffic and windy roads...
Posted by Scott What on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:58:00 PST

Week Summary

Houseboating was FUN. Yep, fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. I am almost tan right now, if you squint and I'm standing in the shadows a little bit. I successfully learned to wakeboard ...
Posted by Scott What on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:05:00 PST

Life life life (caution huge blog)

Well it's been a while since I did a good blog. A whole lot of stuff has been going on, primarily traveling, working, and going to class. Summer is going by very very quickly. It's o...
Posted by Scott What on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:00 PST