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About Me

I've decided to trade my life for a commute to work. In the Valley, no less!

My Interests

(In no particular order) maps, outdoor stuff, fish, fishing, martial arts, games (all kinds), general hanging out, Texas history, beer, and others. One of these days, I'll give a try at windsurfing.

I'd like to meet:

Talking squirrels, singing turtles, and other oddities. Now accepting auditions for all roles.Any players of the following (or related) games out there? Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Calyus, Civilization, Diplomacy, Cribbage, Gin, Roborally, or anything else?

Music:

Counrty / Western (esp. Western Swing), Celtic, Rock (classic and current), (some) folk, (some) international

Movies:

Life is Beautiful, Mel Brooks films, Pixar animation, Wallace & Grommit, Lord of the Rings series, Princess Bride, Jackie Chan films, Tron, Schindler's List, others

Television:

Tivo suggests all kinds of fun!Firefly, Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, Good Eats, Iron Chef, sumo wrestling, rally & road course racing, Nova, others.

Books:

Currently reading: N/A. I read too much for work.(Relatively) Recently finished: Lone Star Nation, Yankee Invasion of Texas, Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn series, Secret Atlas (Stackpole),Others: Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere & Stardust, esp.), L.E. Modesitt's Recluse series, Harry Potter, North American Natives for the Home Aquarium, Spanish Texas, and a couple of boxes of books currently packed up....Generally, sci-fi / fantasy, history (esp. Texas), and nature.

Heroes:

My Blog

Strange Maps (long; lots of graphics)

Unfortunately, I had a new blog pointed out to me: Strange Maps. In particular, here are a few interesting ones: The world of (in) music: Linguistic map of Europe (can’t recall...
Posted by Jittle on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:43:00 PST

Make Fi$h Fa$t!

I've got some fantastic news! I think you should read if you need to get some serious fish in a hurry. I once had no fish, it was dreadful. the tank just sat there... i didn't know what was ...
Posted by Jittle on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:41:00 PST

Yet another disc golf convert (linked article)

Just saw this article on gmail's random links. It's a bit of a wapred intro to disc golf, in case my explanations never got the idea across. Geek discovers disc golf P.S...
Posted by Jittle on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:00:00 PST

Feeding multiple addictions

This weekend saw the UT Press (I know, I know, it's really the "t.u. press") book sale, and, as usual, went and picked up a small slew of books, mostly the usual Texas history, Latin American history,...
Posted by Jittle on Mon, 15 May 2006 08:09:00 PST

No better source than the Onion

Finally, technology is catching up to reality. Learn about ADHDTV here.
Posted by Jittle on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:01:00 PST

Finally! A St. Arnold's that I'll go out of my way for!

Unfortunately, Wal-Mart's beer selection seems to be getting more and more limited (1st problem: going beer shopping at WM, I know). However, I saw that St. Arnold's has a beer I actually ...
Posted by Jittle on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:19:00 PST