Ward - dr_XeNo - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a card-carrying member of the geek it up club. My flora stretches across many geographical boundaries. Wine touches my soul....and my belly and my head. Talk Talk. ----- My other sites: *Flickr* *WineLog* *Covester* *dr_XeNo* *MapMyRun* *Friendster* *LinkedIn* *Goodreads* MySpace Profile Help!-----

My Interests

*WineLog*Wine(-o), DJing/club life; geeking out on any kind of science, particularly molecular biology; tek gadgets and all their glory, hell, technology in general, poetry, golf, Oakland A's!!!

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can geek out more than I can. Someone who is real without trying to seem as such. Someone who can talk the whole night away about the deepest parts of life and then leave on a handshake or a hug. Oh, and someone with whom I can share a nice bottle of wine.

Music:

Depeche Mode; Dead Can Dance; Sisters of Mercy; MoMu; JondiandSpesh; Adam Freeland; Fugees; FPU; This Picture; Coldplay; The Cure; Whipping Boy; David Bowie, The Legendary Pink Dots, Supreme Love Gods, NIN, Suede, The Streets, The Stone Roses, Thee More Shallows

Movies:

Princess Bride; LOTR; Whalerider; Rushmore, Hackers; Wonder Boys; Rebel Without a Cause; An American in Paris; New Rose Hotel, Anchorman, Children of Men

Television:

Six Feet Under; Lost; Deadwood; Sex in the City; Queer Eye; The Fire Within; Monarch of the Glen; TLC; The Daily Show, Firefly

Books:

*Goodreads*Zin; Cat's Cradle; Cryptonomicon; Neuromancer; Siddhartha; LOTR; Dune; The Great Gatsby; Girl With the Pearl Earring, A Year in Provence, The Baroque Cycle

Heroes:

My uncle, Richard Kadel, Glenn T. Seaborg; James Watson; Allen Ginsberg

My Blog

I am the newest WineLog.net official blogger!

I have some fun news! Being the geek that I am, I think you all know how obsessed I am with wine&well, I just became the newest resident blogger for a really great wine community site called WineLog....
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:58:00 PST

Back!

We made it back safely from Maui last night. We actually got in a bit early, though I don't think that I'd ever fly ATA ever again. They don't give you ANYTHING, man! If you're cold....
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:12:00 PST

Talk done, now off to Maui!

Woo-hoo, my promotional talk is done! I'm so excited to have all of these big talks finished at work. I've been working on getting a chance to do a talk like this for the past few months, ...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:34:00 PST

Big talk!

Well, I'm finally giving the big talk that I've been (somewhat) preparing for work over the last few months. It's basically turning into a promotional talk, even though that isn't really neccesa...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:59:00 PST

Wow, what a dinner!

Steenie dropped a fantastic dinner on all of us tonight! The loin was fantastic and difficult to top with the great sauce, but I think my favorite part of the meal was the potatoes. Well, ...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST

Disappointing cellared wine

I had to go through the cellared portion of my wine "cellar" (Danby 75-100 bottle wine cooler) the other night. I've gotten wayyy too much wine lately, with virtually all of my wine club shipmen...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:11:00 PST

Our Franciscan Desert Rose China

We just unpacked the china we got from my second cousins, Bill and Bev, that I wrote about here. It turned out to be 8 full settings! Here's the pix, below: ...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

WineLog Cellar done!

I've finally finished inputting my cellar into my WineLog profile! It took a rather long time, however, thinking about it...maybe it didn't. I only discovered the site on Monday. I g...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:56:00 PST

Friday at Spoon with Zin!

I'm just happy it's Friday! Beth is feeling much better (finally) and we're gonna crusie down to see Heff at Spoon's happy hour here, soon. Hope that you all have a great weekend and I jus...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:41:00 PST

Whoa, WineLog!

While looking for a wine to post a link on this blog earlier this week, I ran across this website that (astoundingly) I'd never heard of...WineLog.net. It's basically a social networking site fo...
Posted by Ward - dr_XeNo on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:59:00 PST