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About Me

Not much to see here, just your basic ex-technical-writer professional-poker-player college-radio-dj broadcasting-student.Oh yes, I am the Greatest Karaoke Singer Who Has Ever Lived.

My Interests

Link of The Inderterminate Time Period: SomethingAwful.com

I'd like to meet:

Tom Jones, A Real Live King, anyone who has ever been credited as a "Best Boy"

Music:

I'm a college radio DJ at KFJC (www.kfjc.org, see bulletins for when I am on). Commercial radio bites my ass. As far as I am concerned there is no reason for a radio dial to go above 92.3.
Favorite groups these days, by genre:
Hip-hop/Trip-hop
Lyrics Born
Lateef the Truth Speaker
DJ Crush
DJ Shadow
Cut Chemist
Mad Lib (especially Yesterday's New Quintet)
Jean Grae
MC Paul Barman
Busdriver
Rock/Pop
The Delgados
Stars
Beck
Soul Coughing
The Faint
The Fondas
Jason Webley
I also listen to musical soundtracks because I'm a big musical theatre dork. Current favorites include Ragtime, The Fantasticks, and Little Shop of Horrors.

Movies:

Serenity - ****
No review. Just see it. Well, when it comes out I mean. And if you really want to appreciate it, rent/buy the 13 episode run of Firefly first and prepare to be sad when it ends just as it is *really* getting good.

Television:

Don't have cable, but I watch TV shows on Netflix. Just finished watching the last season of Angel, which completed all of the Buffy/Angel saga. Kind of a disapointing last season all told. Some good ideas, some bad ideas, but nothing was ever followed for more than two episodes.Saw the first season of Deadwood, which I cannot recommend strongly enough. It was some of the most amazing dialog writing I have ever heard.

Books:

Currently reading Diamond Age by Niel Stephenson.Before that read Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Despite what the cover blurb says, everything does not wrap up nicely at the end. I recommend it anyway.Other recently read books include Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything, which is good, but not nearly as comprehensive as the title suggests, and Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel, which actually makes a nice companion piece to the Bryson book as it picks up roughly where Bryson leaves off.

Heroes:

My heroes have always been cowboys.

My Blog

Strange things about Paris (1)

For anyone who may have missed it, I'm in Paris for New Year's eve. It's curalrently About 7 AM and jet lag has reared its ugly head, being as I only went to sleep about 4 hours ago and I'm wide awake...
Posted by Stingray on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:57:00 PST

A blog about a blog...

This is probably some kind of MySpace rules violation, but this blog entry is just to tell you to check out my blog at Type Pad. I'm going to be playing a lot of poker over the summer, and I thou...
Posted by Stingray on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:10:00 PST

A day in the life

Well, really it's an evening in the life. I played an online poker tournament last night. The buy-in was $162. There were over 1000 players and first prize was over $33,000. I put together a post...
Posted by Stingray on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:12:00 PST

Viva Las Vegas, Part I

Just got back from pretty much the coolest trip to Las Vegas ever. Oddly enough, I did not play a single hand of poker. So my friend Yuval goes out to Vegas pretty regularly. He plays blackjack for hi...
Posted by Stingray on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:36:00 PST

Training for my dream job...

This semester I am taking Sports Broadcasting. Over the course of the semester we will produce 9 1/2-hour SportsCenter style sports shows. We'll go out and get footage from local college events; ...
Posted by Stingray on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:23:00 PST

Why I am falling out of love with baseball

For a while there, I was really liking baseball. It was not a sport I was really into when I was growing up. In fact, I wasn't really into sports in general when I was growing up, but then I joined th...
Posted by Stingray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The secret life of a karaoke gunslinger

I am the greatest karaoke singer who has ever lived. I will walk in to a karaoke bar, alone, order a beer, and sit down with the karaoke book. By the end of the night, women want me, and men want to ...
Posted by Stingray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

On Playing Poker Professionally

"How often do you go to work and come home with less money than you started with? Happens to me. Happens to me all the time." &nb...
Posted by Stingray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Philosophy and religion

I was raised without any religion. My mom likes to tell a story about she, my sister, and I visiting a California mission when I was about 5 or 6. Evidently I walked up to the alter, saw Jesus on the ...
Posted by Stingray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST