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Brandon

Do you know who I am?

About Me

I'm THE MOST exciting engineer you'll ever meet!! ....on this page. :)

My Interests

Come out and play! Here's the summer schedule:

Tuesday:
Ultimate frisbee - PGA National Park, PB Gardens

Wednesday: Volleyball - Marcinski Park, Juno Beach

Thursday: Kickball - PGA National, followed by 88 Keys, PBG

Friday: Volleyball - Jupiter Community Park

Sunday afternoon: Beach ultimate and/or volleyball - Ocean Mall, Singer Island

AIM = SRDBrandon

I'd like to meet:

I've always admired tart honesty and the ability to be personally offended by broad social trends.

Music:


Rock/alt:
Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Live, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Muse, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Cake, R.E.M., The Postal Service, Sixteen Horsepower, Ben Folds Five, Beck, Beastie Boys, U2, Midnight Oil, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer

Hippie/folkie/"jam band"/"wuss rock"/"STFU, I like these guys":
Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Blues Traveler, Tom Petty, Wilco, Ben Harper, Widespread Panic, Rusted Root, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Indigo Girls, Fiona Apple, Coldplay, Morphine, Jeff Buckley, Poe, Big Head Todd

Techno-ish/industrial-ish:
Nine Inch Nails, Gravity Kills, Stabbing Westward, Crystal Method, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dandy Warhols, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Filter, Garbage, Kidney Thieves, She Wants Revenge

Other:
Bob Marley, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Levellers, any Irish or bluegrass I stumble upon.

Movies:

ANY Coen Bros movie: The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn't There, Ladykillers... they rock...

Drama: Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, Road to Perdition, The Usual Suspects

Comedy: Tommy Boy, Old School, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python, The Jerk, The Princess Bride, A Mighty Wind...

Television:

Current: The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Lost, The Office, and My Name is Earl

Dearly departed: Arrested Development, Northern Exposure.

Heroes:

Yes, please.

My Blog

Its about damn time!

It's good to know that all my years of hardwork as a healthcare executive haven't gone unnoticed.  This really makes me proud to be a....  wait.  Huh?? (Yes, this is from November.&nbs...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:23:00 PST

The Year in Review

No, not actually reviewing the whole year.  Just some reviews of random CDs, movies, etc., that will probably feel like it takes a year to read.  Enjoy! Leave some comments and let me k...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST

The Economist??

Does anyone else find it odd that The Economist is advertising on Myspace?  Is this really their demographic?? I don't mean to stereotype people, but I'm not sure that teenagers taking camera pho...
Posted by Brandon on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:29:00 PST

Tagged and released.

The rules are: once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts or habits about yourself. At the end, you choose 7 - 10 people to be tagged, list their names, an...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:18:00 PST

Ignorance and stupidity (not mine)

I'm often asked the difference between ignorance and outright stupidity.  Apparently people think I'm an expert on these subjects.  Not sure why that is.  But today I have prime ex...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:22:00 PST

If it keeps on rainin', levee's gonna break.

Happy Hurricane Season everybody!!In case you've forgotten, this is what we can look forward to for the next 6 months (filmed from my own front porch, but only during the second half of the storm as t...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:26:00 PST

I miss football.

This one's for anyone who ever wondered, "Why do they ask the coaches those stupid questions at halftime?" Create yours at BlingyBlob.com!...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:38:00 PST

Hey Boogerbrain

I'm often asked, "Why do you keep blogging even though no one ever comments?""No one even reads those things, why keep writing?""People don't want to read your pointless ramblings." When I've heard ju...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

Time is a piece of wax, falling on a termite...

Well the Nintendo Wii thinks that I'm 46, but at least someone recognizes that I have a youthful exuberance and lust for life.  Some people call it immaturity; I call it a youthful exuberance.&nb...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:48:00 PST

The bar-emy, it was not me!

This is a sample of the emails that I would've wasted most of the day writing if I'd been at work today instead of sitting in the Charlotte airport: You know what's fun at 3 AM?  Having a bl...
Posted by Brandon on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:07:00 PST