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Byronator

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About Me

Find more pics on Flickr Who am I... There has been quite a bit of talk about personalities on several blogs lateley. So I figured that I would share my type here I am an I N F J (56 38 12 22) personality type.Want to know your type? Take this quick "test" . You can also check out the personality page to find out more about personality types.With that said...I enjoy music immensely. I love finding or being introduced to new unique sounds. That being said, I try to get out to support the local music talent around town when possible.I love roller coasters. I think that my wiring allows me to really enjoy the rapid changes in G's. My favorite part of flying is the take off and landing. The rest is just boring filler. I considered taking classes to learn to fly planes but it just seemed too expensive.I do want to learn to sail and scuba dive. I took some sailing classes, but due to circumstances beyond my control, I have been unable to pursue it further.Movies, I love movies however, much like my music tastes, I like movies that arent just a rehash of some tired old plot.I finally landed my dream job a while back. I am one of the fortunate people that actually do something they enjoy for a living. There were quite a few days when I had those "I can't believe they pay me to do this" moments. However life is about adapting to change. I struggled a bit with what to do when the love of my life had to move to Tampa. Long distance relationships as you know seldom work out. For a year I was making 500 mile trips from Atlanta to Tampa and back almost monthly. Finally, I decided it was time to move or call it quits while part of me agonized over leaving my dream job, family, and friends in Atlanta, that paled in comparison to being without Barbara. So after finding a job (which was much easier than I expected). I packed a few things in my car moved the rest into storage and took off to Tampa. Within three months I asked Barbara to marry me and we were married. We currently are in the process of buying a house and it looks like Tampa will be our official new home. I do love Tampa but miss family and friends back in Atlanta. I hope once we get settled into the house we will have more time to visit back home. I look forward to making new friends here in Tampa as well as having friends From Atlanta visit here.As far as programming. I actually ended up programming am in a weird quest to do some kind of work in animation. I was always amazed with animation whether it be flip books or stop motion with puppets. I wanted to go to school to be a cartoonist my artistic abilities were not, as it turns out, in the area of drawing. Then computer animation caught my eye. I figured it'll be like a collaboration with the computer, the Computer will do the drawing and I just have to come up with the stories, right? right... I didn't have the funds to go to an art school. At the time the classes seemed to be really expensive and there weren't many schools offering classes in computer animation, it was still in its infancy. I figured that I would take some classes to learn about computers and how they worked as a starting point. The benefits were two fold. I could learn about the partner that was going to allow me to create these great cartoons. In the interim this would help me to get a job making the money I needed for those expensive classes in Computer animation (I was so naive). At some point during my education in the realm of computers I secured an "evaluation copy" of some graphics software. I was so excited after about five to ten hours of creating light sources and numerous geometric figures, adjusting splines, mapping textures and probably a bout eight hours of rendering... I realized that "this is a bit more difficult than I was expecting". As it turned out I had been enjoying the C++ classes that I was taking more than creating those initial animations... My means to an end had suddenly become my new end. The next few years I spent doing tech support, quality assurance, and data modeling desperately wanting to be an application programmer. Finally, I landed a full time position that not only allowed me to develop systems but work with various networking technologies and do server administration. I look back at where I started and where I wanted to go and definitely feel I made the right choice.I firmly believe that you are better off allowing yourself to drift a bit, the currents of life will take you where you need to go What animal soul do you posses?(with pics)
An aquatic animal soul is the one that has control over you. You could be a dolphin or a shark, Im not too sure. You seem to be quite and very calm. Although you may do some stupid things at times youre a great friend. The average life span of a fish would be for a few years. Yet you dont care. Anyway, you will be the one who is trustworthy and always there. Good for you.
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"She touched my peppy, Steve." -Multiplicity
"I do mind, the Dude minds. This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man. " -The Big Lebowski
"Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program." - Apocalypse Now
"I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board - and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like. " -Apocalypse Now
"There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, servo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers..." - Tewlve Monkeys
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. - Monty Python's The Holy Grail
I lost you 2 months ago. We broke up. Are you mental? - Wayne's World
I've been ionized, but I'm okay now. - Buckaroo Banzai
What's your name, he'll write it on the wall...mind your business! - Big Daddy
Hey psycho! Please get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up. - Wedding Singer
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. - Caddy Shack
I've never seen so many men wasted so bad. - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

My Interests


My interests include programming, spending time with my wife and step son. Events of the past 2 years have limited my activities. Also want to get back into sailing in the near future. Also have an interest in Scuba diving. Want to get back to the Caribean real soon. I enjoy new and original, movies and music. And of course spending time with my friends Iggy, Freak n' Harley.

I'd like to meet:

Unfortunately,many of the people that I would have liked to meet are no longer with us. I am always worried that people will end up being arrogant and ruin my view of them (it has happened before). With that said, of those still living who i have yet to meet, I'd like to meet: Dave Grohl, Steve Martin, Steve Stevens, Terry Gilliam...

Music:


Favorites: Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Talking Heads, The Ramones, Michael Hedges, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Prodigy, Zebrahead, Frank Black, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coleman Hawkins, John Lee Hooker, AC/DC, Stanley Clarke, The Art Of Noise, Rob Zombie, Stevie Wonder, Crystal Method, Scumfrog, Kaki King, William Orbit, Michael Franks ...
A couple of new bands that I have discovered that I am enjoying right now are Orson and Fingathing

Movies:


Sampling Of My Favorites: Fight Club, Ghostbusters, The Fisher King, Nightmare Before Christmas, Catch 22, 12 Monkeys, Captian Ron, Neighbors, Ususal Suspects, Akira, Pirates Of The Caribean, Brazil, Silent Witness, The Man Who Would Be King... Oh and The Big Lebowski of course

Television:


Favorites: Lost, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Carnivale, CSI(Vegas), Late Night With David Letterman, Firefly, Red Dwarf, Tru Calling, Stargate SG-1That's right, if it's one of my favorites it has a good chance of being cancelled...

Books:


Most books I read any more are technical in nature. However there are a few that I have read that don't fall into that category that are worth mentioning. Tracks in the Sea : Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans by Chester G. Hearn, Chester Hearn Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso The Bad Place by Dean Koontz The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story by Douglas Adams

Heroes:


Ferris Bueller? Hero is a strong title right off hand I cant think of any "Heroes". &nbsp However, tere are people I admire... My sister and her husband fall into that category I have found few others who persue their dreams as vehemently as they do...

My Blog

Tagged...

As it was written... "So, the rules are, once you've been tagged you have to write 6 weird things/habits about yourself. In the end you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. ...
Posted by Byronator on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:30:00 PST

Got nothing to say...

I got nuthin to say... Just thought you'd like to know. Stopped by to peruse myspace to see what is going and realized that it has been a while since I have dropped by.  It has been a crazy winte...
Posted by Byronator on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:36:00 PST

Photo People

I know some folks that have more talent in their little finger than I have in my entire body when it comes to photography. So rather than sitting around being jealous. I figured I would give them a sh...
Posted by Byronator on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:54:00 PST

Kaki King at the Red Light Cafe

Kaki King, Wow! I had tried several weeks ago to buy tickets to her show last night at Red Light Cafe here in Atlanta and the show was sold out. Unbeknownst to me there was a second show added earlier...
Posted by Byronator on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:38:00 PST

Clueless and The Art Of The New Years Resolution

Open A Myspace Account And Receive A Year Of Your Life BackI have to thank myspace for setting me straight and giving me a year of my life back. For some reason, I thought that I had turned thirty-ei...
Posted by Byronator on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:01:00 PST

One big Mutha...

Ok, I don't know if you guys have seen GOLIATH yet, but I had to share. I rode its sibling out in California and if this thing is half as cool it is going to make the rest of the park look like k...
Posted by Byronator on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:45:00 PST

Nuthin to say ...

Well one of the reasons I have prolonged getting a myspace account is that I didn't think I had anything to say. I hope that I don't end up ranting, I just wanted to throw something out here. I was pr...
Posted by Byronator on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:44:00 PST