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Will

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About Me

I actually am a real rocket scientist . I disregard the ides of March. A few clones of me exist in this world. I escaped from Pandora's Box. I try to watch my cholesterol, but I do like to eat sausages . My friends think I'm a jerk because I always manage to get my wily hands on the check and treat them. One of my favorite places in the world is Anna Maria Island . I put the crack in the Liberty Bell (sorry!). I believe that after things like deaths and breakups, life does not just "go on". I choose to get my news from sources other than the Daily Show and Colbert Report, but I still watch them. I used to play for a famous basketball team . I have a wicked pair of eyebrows. I am generally quite clueless around women. When I'm not prancing around naked, my favorite clothing item to wear is a long-sleeved t-shirt. I love playing pranks on people. I am a social caterpillar. I don't usually get along very well with people who wear striped shirts , and I do knightly battle with douchebags , collar-poppers and gel-heads . My car may be a piece of junk, but I will still mock you if you drive a ricer . I shot the sheriff (but I did not shoot the deputy).When I am not at work, I do other things around these parts. I am an adult member of a Boy Scout troop , serving as Assistant Scoutmaster. I also participate in the Canaveral Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and am active in the Georgia Tech Space Coast Club (alumni). I used to live in a condo right on the beach in Cocoa Beach, but I decided to stop throwing my money away on rent and actually invest in a place, so I bought a house a few more minutes inland. I love the beach and am going to move back there in a few years. When I'm not surfing or swimming or otherwise enjoying myself out there, I might be playing basketball, SCUBA diving, visiting my first cousin (once removed), goofing off on the internet, taking a road trip to visit my friends, listening to music, going to local pubs and hanging out with friends or watching movies. :-)
Also check out music here: http://www.imeem.com/flyingjackal

My Interests

Beach
Surfing
Swimming
SCUBA Diving
Basketball
Soccer
Backpacking
Hiking
Camping
Whitewater Canoeing
Music
Movies
Restaurants
Laughter
Computers
Florida Theme Parks
Catamarans
Space Exploration
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Pirates
'Cue
Trivia
Road Trips
Francais
Krispy Kreme
History
Narcolepsy
Wine Tastings
Monkeys
Milkshakes
Crossword Puzzles
Mountains
Fingernail Clippers
Eating
Improvisation
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Beer Steins
Lemurs
Home Remodeling

I'd like to meet:

Dead: Grace Kelly - the scene in Rear Window where she is introduced to Jimmy Stewart and the rest of us is definitely a fantasy of mine. Sigh.Alive: --Travelers/Adventurers. I try to see new places constantly in the USA and the world (I have been on a 3-week trip to Australia (See photos and stories in Blog , which occurred in 2005 but MySpace won't let me adjust the date!) so far). If you like to travel, let me know some places you might be interested in going to see, and if I haven't been there yet, I might join you; if I have been there, I'll be happy to give you some tips. I could possibly host travelers interested in central Florida/Space Coast. I'm looking to go to Germany as a priority. Other international travel targets: Caribbean, Iceland, Isles of Scilly, Australia/New Zealand, South Africa, Galapagos, Europe, Belize, Canada, Egypt, Turkey, Russia.
--People in central Florida who would like to join with me to play team trivia nights at bars/restaurants.
--Also looking for people interested in dive trips and/or taking advanced PADI SCUBA courses.
--Anyone! Specifically, let's see, I think someone like Robin Williams or Steve Martin or Jonathan Winters, off the top of my head, would be an absolute blast to meet or hang out with. Also, Sasquatch and Conrad Poohs. To keep any misunderstanding friends from getting into petty fits of jealous rage, I've relegated you all below the band profiles. I do not support Top 8.

Music:

Alt.country, 80's, Vinyl, New Wave, Cajun, Dixieland Jazz, Chicago Blues, Opera, Classical, Acoustic Guitar, Polka, Bagpipes, Jew Harp, Bluegrass, College Indie, Big Band, Punk, Gaelic Traditional, BritPop, Garage, Schlager10,000 Maniacs
Afghan Whigs
Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
Arcade Fire
Arrogant Worms
Asylum Street Spankers
Avett Brothers
Bach
Ray Baretto
The Beatles
Beausoleil
Beck
Beethoven
Ben Folds Five
Big Fish Ensemble
Black 47
Brak
Buckshot Lefonque
Buckwheat Zydeco
Jeff Buckley
Richard Buckner
Solomon Burke
Butterfield Blues Band
Cake
Calexico
Camper Van Beethoven
Johnny Cash
Chicago
Chromeo
The Church
Eric Clapton
Julien Clerc
Leonard Cohen
Coldplay
Lloyd Cole
John Coltrane
Jonathan Coulton
Elvis Costello
Creedence Clearwater Revival
J.D. Crowe
The Cure
Olu Dara
Dick Dale
Dave Matthews Band
Miles Davis
De La Soul
Decemberists
Def Leppard
Dire Straits
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The D.O.C.
Johnny Dodds
Fats Domino
The Doors
Doves
Nick Drake
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
Elbow
Alejandro Escovedo
The Everly Brothers
John Fahey
Jay Farrar
Fela Kuti
Fine Young Cannibals
Fishbone
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Bela Fleck
Flogging Molly
Michael Flynn
The Four Tops
G. Love & Special Sauce
Peter Gabriel
Jeffrey Gaines
Genesis
Patty Griffin
David Grisman
Guster
Buddy Guy
Ben Harper
Emmylou Harris
Colin Hay
John Hiatt
John Lee Hooker
Jeff Howington
Danielle Howle
Mississippi John Hurt
Indochine
INXS
Iron & Wine
Jackopierce
Java Men
Jayhawks
Mason Jennings
Jethro Tull
Robert Johnson
Freedy Johnston
Louis Jordan
Seu Jorge
Josh Joplin Band
Joy Division
Jump, Little Children
Jupiter Coyote
King Kong
The Kinks
Chris Knight
Leo Kottke
Peter Lang
LCD Soundsystem
Leadbelly
Ben Lee
Jean Leloup
Gordon Lightfoot
Lucero
The Lyres
Madness
Man... Or Astro-man
Aimee Mann
Marillion
Branford Marsalis
Curtis Mayfield
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Daler Mehndi
Memory Dean
Tift Merritt
Midnight Oil
Glenn Miller
Milli Vanilli
Charles Mingus
Mr. T Experience
Bill Monroe
Morrissey
Van Morrison
Jelly Roll Morton
Pete Murray
My Morning Jacket
Nico
Nirvana
Harry O'Donoghue
The Old 97's
Roy Orbison
Christopher Parkening
Charlie Parker
Pavement
Michael Penn
Tom Petty
Pixies
Pizzicato Five
The Police
Jean-Luc Ponty
Porcupine Tree
Puccini
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Django Reinhardt
Return To Forever
RJD2
Bruce Robison
Rodeohead
Rosemary Caine
Roxy Music
The Samples
Schubert
The Sex Pistols
Shostakovich
Simon & Garfunkel
Ricky Skaggs
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Son Volt
The Sonics
Soup
South
Chris Squire
Cat Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
Matthew Sweet
Talk Talk
The Talking Heads
Ten Foot Pole
Them
They Might Be Giants
Tilden's Faith
Toto
Travis
Trio Los Panchos
Two Dollar Pistols
U2
Uncle Tupelo
The Varsity Orange
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Velvet Underground
Verdi
Vigilantes of Love
Vinx
The Violent Femmes
The Vogues
Richard Wagner
Tom Waits
T-Bone Walker
Muddy Waters
Doc Watson
Weezer
Gillian Welch
The Whigs
Logan Whitehurst
The Whitlams
Mason Williams
Kelly Willis
Wesley Willis
Wilco
Hop Wilson
World Party
XTC
Weird Al Yankovic
The Who
Wire
Link Wray
Yes
Yo La Tengo
Neil Young
Warren Zevon
and so on...

Movies:

Alfred Hitchcock
Coen brothers
Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Don Hertzfeldt
Quentin TarantinoBob DeNiro
Chris Walken
Clint Eastwood vs. John Wayne
Grace Kelly
Paul Newman
Dustin Hoffman
Jack Nicholson
Jimmy Stewart
Al Pacino
John Cusack
Elisabeth Shue
Marx Brothers
Audrey Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Richard Kiel
Jennifer Jason LeighWWII movies
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Godfather
Bubba Ho-Tep
Office Space
Cinema Paradiso
The Day of the Jackal
Metropolis
Lawrence of Arabia
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Swingers
Blues Brothers
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Touch Of Evil
Princess Bride
The English Patient
Batman
Joe Vs. The Volcano
Dune
The Spanish Prisoner
The Lighthorsemen
Suicide Kings
L.A. Story
Casablanca
Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton
Dr. Zhivago
Super Troopers
Spaceballs
James Bond (Connery & Moore)
Backdraft
Henry V
Das Boot
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Brazil
Groundhog Day
Blazing Saddles
Top Secret
The Great Escape
A Christmas Story
The Green Berets
Big Fish
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Soylent Green
Dead Poets Society
Pump Up The Volume
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Last of the Mohicans
Quiz Show
Where Eagles Dare
Super Fly
Strange Brew

Television:

Hawaii 5-0
Dr. Who
The Garry Shandling Show
Mr. Bean
Scooby Doo
The Wonder Years
Fawlty Towers
King of the Hill
Jeopardy
The Muppet Show
Get A Life
Cartoon Planet
MST3k
Ed
The Office
The X-Files
Coupling
Deep Sea Detectives
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Double Dare
Iron Chef
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Crocodile Hunter
Everybody Loves Raymond
Bananaman
Nova
Cosby Show
Amazing Stories
Hogan's Heroes
You Can't Do That On Television
SCTV
SNL
KitH
ALF
Seinfeld
Mork & Mindy
All Creatures Great And Small
Whose Line Is It Anyway
Conan O'Brien
History channel
ESPN
How I Met Your Mother
My Name Is Earl
Big Bang Theory

Books:

Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine
Ray Bradbury
Ayn Rand
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jesse Stuart
Shel Silverstein
Jean-Paul Sartre
Soren Kierkegaard
Eric Bogosian
Jack Kerouac
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
H.L. Mencken
Robert Frost
Albert Camus
Dylan Thomas
John Keats
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
William Butler Yeats
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Burns
Mason Williams
Bill Bryson
Sylvia Plath
Nick Hornby
Garrison Keillor
Jack Higgins
Robert LudlumFahrenheit 451
On The Road
Catch-22
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Catcher In The Rye
All The King's Men
The Great Gatsby
Nausea
1984
Les Fleurs du Mal
A Light In The Attic
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer
Cruel Shoes
Book of Concord
NASA Technical Memorandum TM-103575 - Space Transportation System and Associated Payloads: Glossary Acronyms and Abbreviations
Bored of the Rings
Walden
The Far Side

Heroes:

My grandfather, my dad, Steve McGarrett, Gene Kranz, Juergen Klinsmann, Dale Murphy, Dan Marino, Mark Price, Jacques Cousteau, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emily O'Brien, Challenger & Columbia astronauts

My Blog

Everyone Was Hungry

In honor of the Czechs (and the Poles, to an extent) being trounced out of Euro 2008, here is a lovely little video by the Ivan Mladek Banjo Band called "Jozin Z Bazin". I have a feeling you will enj...
Posted by Will on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:51:00 PST

STS-124 and Heringsalat

We've been getting Discovery ready for her launch on May 31st. Here are a couple pictures from Saturday night. Discovery's belly, and a couple shots of technicians measuring the hang angle. ...
Posted by Will on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:21:00 PST

What Propels Me

This blog is mainly just to post something, since I haven’t posted anything in such a long time. No video to lead off with - I’m not in the mood. I have some great stuff to write about, ...
Posted by Will on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:22:00 PST

Tennis, son?

Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred."Forward the Light Brigade!Charge for the guns!" he said.Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.F...
Posted by Will on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:32:00 PST

STS-123 Goes 3, 2, 1...

Endeavour took off a little over an hour ago from Kennedy Space Center. Unfortunately, a lot of late-arriving cloud cover didn't afford the best view for people around here. Here are some exclusive ...
Posted by Will on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:00 PST

A 14th for the 14th

(If I may brag, this is the 14th!!! year in a row that I have sent out today's e-mail to everyone in my address book! Despite valiant efforts to keep from doing so, here it is yet again.)Hear ye, hea...
Posted by Will on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:40:00 PST

Yay, Atlantis!

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Posted by Will on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:11:00 PST

I Was Trying To Brush My Teeth With An Apple

From a ways back, it's David Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes". The weekend before last, I went to Cleveland for my Uncle Nick's funeral. He isn't really my uncle; he's my godfather. But it alway...
Posted by Will on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:43:00 PST

Vices Of Society

I'll get back to the 1980's theme of the opening videos now with Big Country's "One More Dreamer". The song is actually from the mid 90's, but the band is almost exclusively known for their eponymous...
Posted by Will on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:21:00 PST

Thanksgiving With The Kranzes

This is a day late, but still very much worth your time. Hopefully you've seen the movie Apollo 13. If you haven't, then go do that immediately. Then, watch the following hilarious movie, a parody ...
Posted by Will on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:34:00 PST