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Shawn

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea...

About Me

I don't quite know what to do with myself. I've been many things in the last few years - Father, Husband, Writer, Photographer, Marine, Student... I'm just biding my time now looking to see where I land.

My Interests

Art, Literature, Video Games, RPG design, Game design, Game Art, Writing, Drawing, Animation, Computers and stuff. (I'm really big on the whole concept of stuff.. it's like big)

I'd like to meet:

New people. People who are new.. you know the drill. Mostly looking to make friends or enemies in these parts, nothing lofty mind you.

Music:

Eclectic: Metal, 80's hair bands rock, Classical, Video Game and movie soundtracks and scores, some J-pop, Alternative - Recently I've favored Rock, hard rock and strangely enough Tori Amos/Sarah Mclaughlan/Michelle Branch - I think I have a tumor, that's the only explanation for the last one.

Movies:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Master and Commander, Kingdom of Heaven, Hellboy, Sunset Boulevard, Carey Grant Films, Kurosawa Films, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Nausica and the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke.

Television:

Lost,Heroes, Jericho, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Drawn Together, South Park, Stargate Atlantis, Farscape, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, Wire in the Blood, XPlay

Books:

Anything.. I can read and enjoy just about anything - well except for math textbooks and VCR instruction manuals.. or legal proceedings. I favor fantasy and sci-fi works because reality is real enough, I like to escape instead when I read.Current book series I'm reading: Nothing really - working my way through some short story work trying to get my own writing back on track.

Heroes:

I find it hard to idolize celebrities or public people... They aren't real people anyway, just merchandising and marketing campaigns.

My Blog

Resurgence and Redemption

A long pause in my blogging it seems. Life is busy as usual. I'm working hard as always and getting ready for the summer vacation season.The job at Filefront is working out very well. I'm still doing ...
Posted by Shawn on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

Resurgence, Risk and Reward

I've returned, not that I've been anywhere but I have not felt much like updating the blogosphere on my life of late. Its another year and things continue to progress. I'm still enjoying my work at OS...
Posted by Shawn on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:35:00 PST

Happy Birthday Marines

SINCE THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION, OUR LIBERTY HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY VALIANT MEN AND WOMEN OF DEEP CONVICTION, GREAT COURAGE, AND BOLD ACTION; THE COST HAS OFTEN BEEN IN BLOOD AND TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE. AS...
Posted by Shawn on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:46:00 PST

Contextualization

Context 20 is in the bag, and I think a good time was had by most. This was my second year being involved with the local writing convention and I have to say I enjoyed it even more this time out. Some...
Posted by Shawn on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:49:00 PST

Umm... Okay...

Well I took a quick quiz to identify my potential career firleds and these were the results...Now I've put an asterix after any of these that I've already held in some capacity.. but what's with the C...
Posted by Shawn on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:24:00 PST

Momentary Lapse of Update

Okay, so later this afternoon I head out to Sunny (actually really sunny lately) California for "Vacation". Notice I had that in quotes because as always I only seem to take a vacation when I'm going ...
Posted by Shawn on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:26:00 PST

He is not dead, he merely sleeps

Okay so things are busy again. I'm back to school, things are going well and picking up at the job and overall we're making ends meet. I lament the quick death of the writers group I attempted to fo...
Posted by Shawn on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

A review - Robotech the Shadow Chronicles

Taking my game hat off for a second here I want to do a quick review of a title that I picked up on the way home from the office last night.Tuesday February 6th, 2007 will go down in history as animat...
Posted by Shawn on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

Redone intro to The Spark

Finally got the time to redo some of the intro for The Spark.. using suggestions from my critique group at Context... here are the results:------------------------ The bridge of the William Argyle ...
Posted by Shawn on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:57:00 PST

Dremora

Odd night for dreams. I'm pretty sure I'm never going on an intergalactic cruise but I had an interesting little thought on that.. that to cut down on the weight unlike a traditional cruise where peop...
Posted by Shawn on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST