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About Me

I started life as a baby and, over the course of several years, grew into a teenager, then a young adult, then an older adult, and now I am approaching middle age. My earliest memory is from the age of three. I started reading books when I was five or so.I attended Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, Oregon and graduated in 1986. Not the greatest scholar in the world but I was an A/B student. I joined the U.S. Navy right after graduation, in July of 1986. I attended the Defense Information School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, from October 1986-April 1987 and trained as a military journalist. I served in the Navy from 1986-1992 and am a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Post Navy I shifted to the computer industry and eventually became a software/hardware QA test engineer.I am a classic introvert. My mouth doesn't move much at times, although I'm getting better at talking to people. I'm in my head a lot. I'm a loyal friend. I'm hard to get to know, but once you do get to know me you'll probably have a friend for life. I'm very shy. More outgoing via writing, so in person I tend to simply write notes to people or communicate via signal flags. I like cats AND dogs but prefer cats. I love books. I have hundreds of them. I love pop culture. I'm a sucker for reality TV. I have guilty pleasures that I may admit to here one day (okay, one is that I'm a fan of ABBA). I'm a computer nerd, in a good way. I used to be able to type 100 words per minute. I read 2-3 books at a time, slowly, savoring every word. I love music, although I'm a bit of a music snob and tend to stick with the same genre of music. It's served me well for over two decades!I love all kinds of movies, art flicks, dramas, comedies, documentaries, Japanese horror, gore, splatter, Italian zombie movies. The gorier the better. Mainly I like the art of special effects -- I'll watch DVD documentaries that deal with how special effects are done for the movie. CGI is okay, but take a look at something like "Superman, The Movie" and see all that was accomplished via good old fashioned optical effects. I am also gearing up to resume writing for Blogcritics ! Check out their site when you can. You can also find my archive here .

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...someday? Somebody special. Someone who can deal with my quirks. A nice Jewish girl. Well, at this point in my life a nice woman, period. Doesn't have to be Jewish. Jewish is a plus, but someone near to my age is ideal, someone who enjoys the same music I do and can sit down and laugh at a silly, stupid movie.Or is it along the lines of, "I'd like to meet David Letterman?" I dunno. Actually, I almost got to meet George Carlin once. Back in 2001 or so I sent George an e-mail asking about putting some audio clips of his up on my web page. Imagine my surprise that he answered! We exchanged a few e-mails and I mentioned that I was taking a mini-vacation to Las Vegas and he invited me to be a guest at his stand-up show which was then at the MGM Grand Hotel, and to meet him after the show. Well, unfortunately, for various reasons the meeting never occurred, mainly due to the fact that I couldn't figure out where the guy was I was supposed to talk to that would let me backstage, and when I did find him George had left the building. Oh well. Also, one drunk night in Tokyo (ah, Tokyo, how I miss you...) at a club in the Roppongi district called the Lexington Queen (how I got in that night I'll never know) I met some of the band members of the group Faith No More (more like drunkenly said "hey you're that guy in that band!") So much for my brushes with fame. Oh, I said hi to Penn and Teller after attending one of their shows in Vegas. Teller spoke! Yes, he did. I had him and Penn autograph a ten spot which I sent back into the universe by putting it into a slot machine. Someone, somewhere, out in the world has that autographed Penn and Teller slice o' cash. You'll know it's them if you have it because Penn took some liberties with what was printed on said bill by crossing out some parts he didn't agree with...Anyway, I'm hoping to be virtual pals with all the folks I've mentioned in my profile, should they happen to have a MySpace page.

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My Blog

Wolfsheim - Once in a Lifetime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGGi_uUaPc Another classic from Wolfsheim. Admittedly dark in tone but I'm in one of those moods...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:13:00 GMT

Wolfsheim - Blind (Herbig Mix) Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUq4Um5vOzM This is one of my favorite Wolfsheim songs, a song that I listen to often as I think of love lost but hopefully to be found again someday.
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Human -- The Killers

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.... Cool song from a band called "The Killers." First saw them on Saturday Night Live a few weeks back. Great pop music with some synth-p...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:43:00 GMT

Erasure - Breathe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJjPdiw3ne8 A great song from synth-pop duo Erasure. From their album "Nightbird."
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:52:00 GMT

Heaven 17 "Let Me Go"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uj98Tgm8Y Today's synth-pop classic comes from the British band Heaven 17. "Let Me Go" was one of their biggest U.S. hits in the early 1980s.
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:05:00 GMT

Wolfsheim - Find You're Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sx_iD2wzX0 A new Wolfsheim song! Well, new to me. I didn't even know this was a single until I discovered it on YouTube a couple of days ago.
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Im a Blogcritic once more!

I re-joined Blogcritics, an online magazine (and described as a "cabal of sinister writers.") I wrote for them in 2005 and 2006, something over 110 articles, mainly reviews of movies, television...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:13:00 GMT

Some stuff to read

For a couple of years I pursued freelance writing, and while I never landed a paying gig, I did get my work published in a lot of places. I did a lot of political writing, and I also did a lot o...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:09:00 GMT

Folding @ Home

Folding @ Home is a project of Stanford University. It's goal is to use the distributed computing concept to "fold" proteins in order to discover cures for diseases like Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkin...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:25:00 GMT

Airline Announcements-George Carlin 2/2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKciefHo38 Part 2 of George Carlin's bit on airline announcements. George uses many colorful four-letter words, so if you're easily offended by profanity, do...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:16:00 GMT