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Phiiiilllll!!!

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I FINALLY finished school last year spent my first year in the real world training for my new job in Madison, Wisconsin. Now I'm done with most of my training and am settling into my field office of choice - Cincinnati! I've moved around a lot these past few years and I only knew ONE PERSON in the entire city before I moved here, but I have a good feeling that will be changing soon!
Hobbies include drinking beer, lifting weights, running, some ballroom dancing, riflery, theatre, rollerblading, foreign language and culture, and pretty much just about anything else. Oh yeah, and drinking beer. Or Jager. Or moonshine.
PS I judge you when you use bad grammar.Things to always do, no matter what:
+Buy something from kids' lemonade stands
+Smile
+Stop and smell the flowers
+Buy Girl Scout cookies
+Stop to help senior citizens
+Take walks in the rain
+Hold the door for anyone within twenty feet of it.
+Breathe
(more to come later)

The Universal Golden Rule

Brahmanism

This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
<[i>Mahabharata 5,1517]

Buddhism

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
<[i>Udana-Varga 5,18]

Christianity

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them: for this is the law of the prophets.
<[i>Matthew 7:12]

Confucianism

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness:
Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
<[i>Analects 15,23]

Islam

No one of you is a believer until he desires
for his brother that which he desires for himself.
<[i>Sunnah]

Judaism

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen.
That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
<[i>Talmud Shabbat 31a]

Taoism

Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain
and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
<[i>T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien]

Wicca

An' it harm none, do as ye will.
<[i>Rede]
Any energy you send out will come back threefold.
<[i>The Law of Three]

Zoroastrianism

That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another
whatsoever is not good for itself.
<[i>Dadistan-i-dinik 94-5]

My Interests

"It is not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold, and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no future, there is no past.
Thank God this moment's not the last.
There's only us, there's only this.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other road, no other way;
no day but today."

-RENT

I'd like to meet:

Everybody! I live in Oakley, so I guess meeting new friends there, Mariemont, Hyde Park, etc., would be most convenient, but awesome people are hard to find so I'll definitely drive to hang out... I'd really like to meet some fun friendly young professionals to go exploring the area with - casual dates, theater-going, puttputting, drunken bowling, dancing, whatever floats your boat!PS Specifically I'd like to find a ballroom dancing partner, lifting partner, and drinking buddies! (Not necessarily at the exact same time, that would probably end up gracefully dangerous)

Music:

Geez, anything will do. Don't really listen to country all that much, but Toby Keith's alright. As long as it's not to twangy and whiny. First bands that pop off the top of my head: Sublime, Dispatch, the Clarks, Ben Harper, Rammstein, RHCP, Undying, BTBAM, Jack Johnson, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, CCR, Skynard, Aerosmith, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Los Amigos Invisibles, Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects, Scorpions, Metallica, Draken, pretty much anything.

Movies:

Braveheart, Gladiator, Last Samurai, the Patriot, FMJ, Team America, Band of Brothers, Hamburger Hill, Bridge on the River Kwai, Matrix movies, Equilibrium (HIGHLY suggested - great movie, but came out the same time as the Matrix so it ended up flopping in the box office), office space, RENT, newsies, moulin rouge, chicago, anchor man, dodgeball, fear of a black hat, anything funny or entertaining, as long as it's not TOO much of a chick flick

Television:

,
, Chappele's show, ATHF, TUF,
, Scrubs, Conen, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friday Night Lights, Gray's, Heroes, Ugly Betty, What About Brian, DayBreak, Lost, whatever else I can find!

Books:

Anything by Daniel Quinn. Guy's a genius - I think everyone should be required to read Ishmael before graduating high school. It would change the world. Other books I've read recently cover America's vulnerability to terrorism, and Arab culture - Inside the Wire, Traitors Among Us, When the Eagle Screams, various books on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the Qu'ran...

Heroes:

Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
Know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell…

Rest in Peace, buddy. I'll see you again, but not yet. Not yet...

Also public servants - teachers, social workers, cops, firemen, etc

My Blog

Tri Update 2

Hey friends, today marks the halfway point for the bet with my brother and I’m happy to say I’ve lost exactly half of the weight I need to win (or at least not lose) the bet!I think the mo...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:56:00 PST

West Siiiiide! (Day 1)

The other engineer and I were supposed to be on-site ready for work at 9AM Wednesday, so I would have preferred to have left Cincinnati sometime the afternoon before. Unfortunately, we had meetings al...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

West Siiiiide! (Intro)

It all started a couple weeks ago, when I caught wind of a customer engagement at work gone wrong. The telephone company cut off the client's phone service three days early, the users were uncooperati...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:17:00 PST

Tri update

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update. I've started working out a lot more and it's really starting to show. I still try to lift 3(ish) times a week, but if I don't have time to do both cardio a...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:00:00 PST

The bet (aka "Tri, tri, again!")

BackgroundI'll give you the short version: working at a computer 8-12 hours a day does not burn calories as quickly as I consume them. My brother seemed to be falling victim to the same fate so he pro...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:09:00 PST

Loveland Bike Trail

Well, last night I googled "best places to rollerblade in Cincinnati" and after following a couple links found the Loveland Bike Trail. Today I headed out about 1130, got there at 12 and started off o...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:54:00 PST

Taft with a Twist

So I joined a program here in Cincinnati that encourages patronage of the arts. For $40 I got a book full of ticket vouchers and a little membership card that gives me half off two tickets to most art...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:22:00 PST

Never Forget

It's been exactly one year today since my friend, Bernard Corpuz, died serving in the War on Terror. Whether you support the war or not, please please please support the troops and their families. Eve...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:13:00 PST

Wisconsin can bite my ass

Seriously, Wisconsin - FUCK YOU. You suck ass. Why would people ever choose to live here of their own free will? I mean sure, I'm here now but I'm getting the fuck out as soon as I can.In case noone&n...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:07:00 PST

GUESS WHAT?!??!

Not one, but TWO of my ex-girlfriends are getting married on 4/14/07. I'm not one to believe in astrology/astronomy/whateveryoucallit, but SURELY this has to be some kinda strange coincidence. And the...
Posted by Phiiiilllll!!! on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:34:00 PST