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David

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About Me


There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman. - Victor Hugo
Who knew Karl Rove could rap?
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"If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire." - George Carlin
I won the spelling bee in 3rd grade. My prize was a plastic mustache and matching fake glasses. I still haven't recovered.
I'll probably like you until you give me a reason not to. The jury is still out as to whether this is a good idea.
I want to travel. The most exotic place I've been is Canada. eh...
The day I was born I was able to stand on my own.
I could kick your ass at Warcraft II in every direction including ones that barely even exist.
"Now now, my good man: this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan
I'm a movie buff, a dancing fool, a gamer, a bookworm, a political junkie, an occasional workaholic, a self-handicapper, a little bit crazy, a nerd, a geek, a dork, a wisecracker, an observer, and a romantic.
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson.
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My Interests

snowboarding
dancing
cinema
current events
composing music
computer science
hiking
camping
rollercoasters
card games
magic
bowling
Final Fantasy
Super Smash Brothers
World of Warcraft
chocolate milk
eating out
water parks
baseball
body-surfing
mac n' cheese
pondering my navel
philosophy
reading
making faces when nobody is looking
red bull
staying up late
sleeping in

I'd like to meet:

Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Garry Kasparov
Gandhi
Noam Chompsky
Alexander the Great
Charles Darwin
Tom Hanks
Douglas Adams
Herman Li [Met him 9/16/2006]
Andre the Giant
Einstein
Goliath
Robin Williams
Ichiro Suzuki
Bill Clinton
David Eddings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Stephen Fry
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Orson Scott Card
Stephen Hawking
Marylin vos Savant
George Will

But not Bono. He's a rat douche.

Music:

Dragonforce
U2
Coldplay
Gorillaz
Beach Boys
Vigilante
Nine Inch Nails
Tears For Fears
Barry White
The Wallflowers
Rush
Willie Nelson
Barenaked Ladies
Faith No More
Tal Bachman
They Might Be Giants
REM
Daft Punk
System of a Down
Linkin Park
Kylie Minogue
Daler Mehndi
Matchbox 20
Cake
Interpol
Dido
Depeche Mode
Sting
Right Said Fred
Billy Joel
Phil Collins
Franz Ferdinand
Tangerine Dream
Green Day
Cake
N-Trance
Tonic
Wham!
Eminem
Necros
David Bowie
Foo Fighters
Fatboy Slim
Filter
Barenaked Ladies
WAVE
Prince
Bon Jovi
Scene
Mozart
Death Cab For Cutie
Coldplay
Deftones
Madonna
Queen
Enya
Rob Thomas
Counting Crows
No Doubt/Gwen Stefani
Smashing Pumpkins
Third Eye Blind
The Pet Shop Boys
Goo Goo Dolls
John Williams
Train
The Crystal Method
Chemical Brothers
Eurythmics
Phil Collins
Billy Joel
James Horner
Sting
Rockapella
Metallica
Guns N' Roses
Aerosmith
Shania Twain
The Cure
Beethoven
Franz Liszt
Wagner
DJ Lux
Faith No More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Beatles
Eric Clapton
Will Smith
John Lennon
Elton John
Simon and Garfunkel
Weird Al Yankovic
Wesley Willis
Nirvana
Kraftwerk
Outkast
Elton John
Michael Jackson (before he was super-freaky)
Santana
Supertramp
Robert Miles
Darude
Toby Keith
Joy Electric
Dead or Alive
Blues Traveler
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
Trey Parker
Lenny Kravitz
Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
Moby
All That Remains
Mystical

Movies:

Willow
Dead Poets Society
Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
The 5th Element
Metropolis
Ladyhawk
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Braveheart
The Aviator
Gangs of New York
Capote
Good Night and Good Luck
Crash
The Notebook
Titanic
Excalibur
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Hobbit
Team America: World Police
Orgasmo
The Land Before Time
The Lion King
Aladdin
Lawrence of Arabia
Patton
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Silence of the Lambs
Memento
Psycho
American Beauty
Million Dollar Baby
The Matrix
American History X
The Pianist
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Bridge on the River Kwai
L.A. Confidential
Alien
Aliens
Rashomon
Amadeus
2001: A Space Odyssey
Batman
Batman Forever
Batman Begins
Jaws
Forrest Gump
The Incredibles
The Wizard of Oz
Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2
Fargo
Finding Nemo
The Sixth Sense
Ben-Hur
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
V for Vendetta
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Platoon
Gladiator
Toy Story 1 and 2
Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Groundhog Day
Mystic River
Shrek 1 and 2
Big Fish
The Big Lebowski
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Twelve Monkeys
Heat
The Straight Story
Monsters, Inc.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (both of them)
Brokeback Mountain
Mulholland Dr.
Almost Famous
The Seven Samurai
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Usual Suspects
Blade Runner
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Donnie Darko
The Princess Bride
Castle in the Sky
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
House of Flying Daggers
Pulp Fiction
Crank
Clerks
Hero
The Sting
Back to the Future
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
The Great Escape
Sin City
Iron Monkey
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
Run Lola Run
Yojimbo
Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
Fantasia
The Iron Giant
Pinocchio
Kenny Loggins
Schindler's List
The Elephant Man
Finding Neverland
Walk the Line
A Beautiful Mind
Catch Me If You Can
Leon
Se7en
March of the Penguins
Vertigo
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
E.T.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Sound of Music
The Court Jester
Marry Poppins
The Green Mile
Being John Malkovich
Beauty and the Beast
Holes
Glory
United 93
The Phantom TollBooth
World Trade Center
Snakes on a Plane
The Descent
Natural Born Killers
Munich
Black Hawk Down
Seabiscuit
Apollo 13
The Ladykillers
Shine
Fiddler on the Roof
Moulin Rouge
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Oliver!
Muppet Treasure Island
The King and I
Dumbo
The Truman Show
Minority Report
X-men and X2
Rocky
Miracle
Cars
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Death to Smoochy
One Hour Photo
Insomnia
Dumb and Dumber
Liar Liar
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Spy Who Shagged Me
Goldmember
Jackass 1 and 2
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Television:

Daily Show
Colbert Report
South Park
House M.D.
24
Drawn Together
Monk
The Office (both the UK and American versions)
The History Channel
Lost
Grey's Anatomy
CSI (any of them)
Mythbusters
The Iron Chef
The Discovery Channel
CNN
Fox News (though it's laughable sometimes)
Seinfeld
Friends
Everyone loves Raymond
3rd Rock from the Sun
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Arrested Development Family Guy

When I was a kid I used to like: Blue's Clues
Gummy Bears
Carebears
Winnie the Pooh
Tiny Toon Adventures
Darkwing Duck (when there's trouble you call D.W.)
Ducktales

Books:

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Ender's Shadow
Green Eggs and Ham
The Belgardiad

    Pawn of Prophecy Queen of Sorcery Magician's gambit Castle of Wizardry Enchanters' End Game

The Malloreon
    Guardians of the West King of the Murgos Demon Lord of Karanda Sorceress of Darshiva The Seeress of Kell

Related to the Belgardiad and the Malloreon
    Belgarath the Sorcerer Polgara the Sorceress The Rivan Codex

The Elenium
    The Diamond Throne The Ruby Knight The Sapphire Rose

The Tamuli
    Domes of Fire The Shining Ones The Hidden City

Where the Wild Things Are
The Cat in the Hat
The Redemption of Althalus
The Silmarillion
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Our Elegant Universe
A Brief History of Time
The Runaway Jury
Consciousness: The Hard Problem
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish
Mostly Harmless
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Firm
A Time to Kill
The Pelican Brief
The Client
The Rainmaker
The Phantom TollBooth
Anything by Dave Barry
Fine And Pleasant Misery
Kid Camping From Aaaaii! To Zip
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
Never Sniff A Gift Fish
The Grasshopper Trap
Rubber Legs And White Tail-Hairs
The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again
How I Got This Way
The Deer On A Bicycle
The Dilbert Principle
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
The Dilbert Future
The Joy of Work
God's Debris
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
How the Republicans Stole Christmas
The Call of the Wild

Heroes:



My Blog

The Virginia Tech Shootings

1) It's extremely sad.2) While I don't want to minimize what happened, we shouldn't forget the larger tragedies that happen daily across the world, either. Especially the ones the US is largely to bla...
Posted by David on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:50:00 PST

Memo to strippers

You suck. I do not want to be friends with your gross, skanky azz. Stop sending me friend requests. If you need more money, here's a tip, start putting in more hours on your local street corner. Bette...
Posted by David on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:39:00 PST

Broke a rib

To make a long story short, I went over a jump at PCMR and came down a little wrong. And by a little wrong, I mean bad. And by bad, I mean I broke a rib. I didn't know it was broken at first. I kept b...
Posted by David on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:29:00 PST

I rock!!!

I took a few hours off work today to hit the slopez. And dip diggity, what do you know, on my last run, I take a huge fall down a steep face. I slid and tumbled about 20 yards, and, fancy the gods, I ...
Posted by David on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:50:00 PST

The good stuff

Life is sweet. Bittersweet sometimes, but there is always something to enjoy. I'm having a BLAST snowboarding and last week I had not one, not two, but FOUR extremely awesome days snowboarding. And I'...
Posted by David on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:03:00 PST

Crazy old women at the club

At the endorsement of a co-worker, I went to the local club on Thursday to watch them play. I don't remember the name of the band, but apparently they play every week. They were excellent. And I don't...
Posted by David on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:30:00 PST

Always too much to say . . . of snowboarding, of nakedness, and of love

Everytime I want to post a blog here, I have about 5 pages of thoughts to lay down. The thought of doing seems so intimidating that I flee in terror and either don't post anything, or limit my post to...
Posted by David on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:57:00 PST

Snowboarding: Chapter II

After falling on my ass for what seemed like the 363rd time, I'm finally linking my turns. Yes, no more "falling leaf" style for me. WoOoOoOo! Yeah it was on the bunny slopes but still... mad crazy se...
Posted by David on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:05:00 PST

First time snowboarding (short entry)

I went for an hour yesterday and six hours today. Most people were telling me that I'd hate it my first time, but no way, it was great. I took a few tumbles that knocked the wind out of me, but I blam...
Posted by David on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:45:00 PST

To my friend Tal Bachman

Thank you for helping me through such a difficult time last year. Of all people, you understood most what was happening in my life as it crumbled around me. Your words stuck with me and though I was l...
Posted by David on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:25:00 PST