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Grundle

About Me

I love literature music and people. Please enjoy this poem I wrote.

The Plains

I can't explain in words per se
the splendor of these plains
the winds blow gently from the west
announcing future rains.

In these tranquil fields,
once said to be a desert,
my mind shows me with clarity
its beauties still unmeasured

Many say it's merely flat
too bad they'll never know,
hills of flint and grasses bent
that touched me long ago

Its ancient shoots and gnarly roots
were gathered by the Indians
who proudly lived, loved, and shared
a memory that dims

Boiling storms breathe angrily
launching lightning from above
when I go they'll rest me here
beneath the plains I love

Here I am practicing Chen Tai Chi Chuan.

My Interests

Chen Tai Chi, books, exercising, technology in general, languages, Capoeira (Grupo Forca Rara), writing poetry and short stories, music, gandu's, Latin dancing, computers, playing jokes, learning, travelling, meeting people, trying something new, *nix and BSD's, Ska music

PROPS GO TO
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FOR THE WICKED LAYOUT, YOUR KUNG FU IS SUPREME!!

Music:

Mr. Review, Dr. Ring Ding & the Senior Allstars, The Dancehall Crashers, Los Pericos, La Mosca Tse Tse, RelientK, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Andres Segovia, John Williams, Hector Villalobos, Antonio Vivaldi

Movies:

Gross Pointe Blanke, Iron Monkey, Tommy Boy, Shawshank Redemption, Volcano High, Bichunmoo, Better off Dead, Replacement Killers, Good Will Hunting, The Bride with White Hair, Adventures of Lu Xiao Feng,

Television:

Zatoichi, Return of the Condor Heroes 2006, M*A*S*H, Dr. G Medical Examiner, Dirty Jobs

Books:

I'll write authors instead of books since I read so much (I highly recommend all of these authors)-- Alexander Dumas, J.K. Rowling, Robert Jordan, Sylvia Plath, Gu Long, Tolkien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain, Raymond E. Feist, Eric Van Lustbader, Jin YongI love to read the Christian classics as well - Bible, Watchman Nee, C.S. Lewis, Moody, Joshua Macdowell

Heroes:

My brother who sacrifices everything every day in the service of our country. Go 82nd Airborne

My Blog

All Things Idiotic

Apparently those from Hollywood have an umanageable pigeon problem on their hands, and they have decided to introduce birth control into birdseed so that the populations will decline.  For such ...
Posted by Grundle on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:23:00 PST

A World of Lies

The last six months of my life has been a journey towards enlightenment. As I have walked this path I have seen beautiful things, I have seen terrible things, I have seen atrocity and pain, I have se...
Posted by Grundle on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:29:00 PST

Free Energy?

Last night I began thinking about energy, its uses, where it came from,and how it is created. I began thinking along these lines due to therecent uncontrolled increase of the price of petroleum. The c...
Posted by Grundle on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:49:00 PST

Mathematics

Ever since I could remember I have always hated mathematics. I hated trying to figure out what the hell was going on, and even worse I hated the terrible explanations that my teachers and the books o...
Posted by Grundle on Tue, 09 May 2006 02:16:00 PST

Group of the last 5 Years

I am very picky about music so when a musical group can impress me it is amazing.  Some of the things that it takes to impress me are the following. *Musically -- Are they technically sound ...
Posted by Grundle on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:53:00 PST

Shocking Confessions

Everyone is scared to reveal their true face because they fear that their peers will mock and reject them.  Today I expose myself to the world.  I am philosophically "coming out of the ...
Posted by Grundle on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:42:00 PST

Progress

After three long years of training, corrections, and progress my Tai Chi teacher decided to start teaching me the second series of Chen Style.  This is one of the most amazing moments, so far, in...
Posted by Grundle on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:29:00 PST

Users

I work on a ticketing system, and "users" send me requests on what they would like.  First and foremost I am a DBA so I am not necessarily developing anything, but rather ensuring data continuity...
Posted by Grundle on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:15:00 PST

People Are Good

When you ask somebody, "Are you good?"  Almost without fail they will usually answer, "I'm not perfect, but I'm mostly good."  I have been thinking about this and I have to take issue with t...
Posted by Grundle on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:47:00 PST

Java GUI

I stumbled on two interesting pieces of software today for developing applications.  They are both Java editors that help developers like me shorten the coding process.  I am going to be tes...
Posted by Grundle on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:38:00 PST