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Troy

troyolson

About Me

I'm Troy. Since I'm 29 and married I know that I'm down in "cool points" for the myspace world, but trust me, I rule.I'm married to my wife Tricia. I guess that's kind of redundant... We have been married for 3 years and have been together since high school. Awwww. She rules and I couldn't be happier :)I work at Mentor Graphics as a Corporate Applications Engineer where they give me truckloads of cash to play xbox, softball, and stock the candy room. In my spare time I help confused engineers at other companies by telling them how to fix their problems with our software. It really is the best job you could ever get and I don't intend on ever leaving.I like to do all kinds of stuff as you can see on the sidebar...I need all the friends I can get because I was horribly burned in a warehouse fire and I can only use my synthetic face for 99 minutes before it melts off. Oh wait, that was Darkman...

My Interests

Board games, comics, tv, infomercials, arcade games, emulation, sports (watching and playing), music, bad movies, DDR, xbox

I'd like to meet:

Art Bell, Don West, Phil Hendrie, and Tom O'Dell

Music:

Air, Big Star, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Cursive, Death Cab For Cutie, Dismemberment Plan, Elvis Costello, Godspeed You Black Emporer!, Jets To Brazil, Mates of State, Matt Pond PA, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, Mojave 3, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Pavement, Quasi, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Say Anything, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, Supertramp, The Advantage, The Arcade Fire, The Band, The Beatles, The Decemberists, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, The Good Life, The Jayhawks, The Kinks, The Postal Service, The Shins, The Wrens, Wilco, XTC

Movies:

Glengarry Glen Ross, Casino, Good Fellas, Godfather 1 and 2, Aliens, Robocop, Full Metal Jacket, Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind, Charade, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Halloween, Tenebrae, All Hitchcock Movies – Notorious, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho especially, Italian Giallo/Horror movies from the 70’s, 70’s/80’s horror movies, Unforgiven, Indiana Jones trilogy, UHF, Rad, Commando

Television:

I watch waaaay too much tv...Current shows:
Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, The Sopranos, Entourage, Lost, The Shield, Simpsons, The Office (NBC), My Name is Earl, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Alias, Monk, Cheap Seats, House, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Knife ShowOld Shows:
MST3K (my all time favorite), Arrested Development, Columbo, Rockford Files, Dynasty, Newsradio, Sports Night, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Law and Order (w/ Orbach), Seinfeld, Cheers, The Office (BBC)

Books:

I don’t retain stuff well enough to have all time favorites…I’ve spent the last year reading through the Overlook Film Encyclopedia series (one each on Gangster, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Western films) plus the Slings and Arrows Comic Book Encyclopedia (yeah, I like comics…), so those have been interesting to read for critical commentary. Other encyclopedia like books on music, tv, sports are always must reads for me.As far as fiction goes -- recently I’ve been reading books by Harlen Coben and Greg Rucka. Fun, disposable fiction. I also enjoy historical fiction – The Killer Angels/Gods and Generals civil war stuff is good by Michael/Jeff Shaara. I like sports books too – Moneyball was good, as was The Last Season.Since I like comics I suppose I should throw in Watchmen, Queen and Country, and most anything by Grant Morrison as my personal favorites.

Heroes:

Robert Denby - because he is so illusive!

My Blog

Troys blog is moving to a better place

Go here now instead:http://troyolson.blogspot.com/I've moved from Myspace to Blogger for my blog.  It's much better now and I PROMISE to actually have new content every once in a while.You can si...
Posted by Troy on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:21:00 PST

More pictures!!!

Here are the most recent pictures from our life:Halloween Party:http://picasaweb.google.com/troyolson1/Halloween2007Ka raoke:http://picasaweb.google.com/troyolson1/KaraokeTrip to the Pumpkin Patch:http...
Posted by Troy on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:43:00 PST

Photo update

Finally got around to uploading pictures from the summer, so are links to all of them:State Fair:http://picasaweb.google.com/troyolson1/Fair2007Tricia's 29th B-day:http://picasaweb.google.com/troyolso...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:06:00 PST

Lou Holtz pep talk AKA Your wife runs off with the drummer

Lou Holtz tells us how winning a football game can help you in the future in case your kids tell you your wife has left you. [Upload your own video](Also -- lots has happened since my last bl...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:15:00 PST

Off to Hawaii

We are taking off for Hawaii on Thursday morning :DBe back on the 17th...I'm sure you all can't wait.
Posted by Troy on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:19:00 PST

Batman Fanmade Video Trilogy

(Just to note -- I originally found this via Chris's Invincible Super-Blog, so I'm taking no credit for discovering this great trilogy of films.  He has good commentary on two of the three films,...
Posted by Troy on Mon, 21 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

Roger Clemens returns hysteria (audio clip)

I heard this on the radio this morning and thought you might enjoy it.  It's the reaction of Yankees female broadcaster Susyn Waldman's announcement, during the game, that Roger Clemens will be r...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:06:00 PST

Go play intramurals, brutha

Yeah, this is old...but for some reason I just was thinking of this little soundbite from Dan Hawkins and wanted to post it.Remember -- IT'S DIVISION ONE FOOTBALL!dan_hawkins_crazy.mp3...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

Egypt pictures

Picture time...with limited comments I apologize that many of these pictures are boring...I'm much better at pictures with Tricia around - I guess she's my muse :)(Click on the thumbnails to embiggen)...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:14:00 PST

Egypt (in words)

I'm sitting in my hotel room right now waiting to go to the airport...my plane departs Cairo at 4:30 AM, so I am expecting a really "fun" night :-/ Highlights of the trip: - The 10 hour flight from PD...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:42:00 PST