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About Me

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Suburbs suck, stifling. The city or the wilderness. Like to ride my Bike, turn wrenches, turn pedals, make stuff outta metal. I can't leave well enough alone. Subculture and counter culture; convention is boring. Creativity and independant thought. Thought, while we're at it. Paying attention to the world we live in & what's happening & why. abstract & industrial design, aesthetics. Smooth lines, smooth welds. Absurdity and complexity next to simplicity and pragmatism. Projects.
Oh, & I like aviation (falls under absurdity...strap youself into half a million pounds of aluminium, steel, titanium, plastic? with another quarter million pounds of kerosene? and then rocket from NY to londen in 6 hours (5 if the jet stream's go your back?) fucking rediculous.)As such, I want to be involved with this. Now, I make airplane parts. soon, I hope to be an air traffic controller. then, eventually, I want to investigate air crashes for he NTSB.

My Interests

cycling. urban cycling. welding and machining. aviation. NTSB accident reports. good movies, good beer. backwards ampersands. wrenching (autos, motorcycles, bicycles, and pretty much anything that can be wrenched.) the Washington Post. discussing philosophies of the government (federal, state, local.) the Funnies, crossword and SuDoKu puzzles

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

*recent: The Clash, Blondie.* *Nina: Eastern Blok Angst from the 80's?* Lists. All over the place, not gonna try to enumerate it here, but Sublime, the Dead, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson are at the top.

Television:

Current: Simpsons, Lost, Law and Order (original, SVU, but,umm, no, no, not criminal intent) 24. Family Guy, Jeopardy, Deadliest Catch. Guilty pleasures: Parental Control, Survivor, Saved by the Bell Past: CHIPs, M*A*S*H, MacGyver, Married with Children,

Books:

Stienbeck (esp Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row;) Upton Sinclair; Tolkien; William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, Virtual Light, Neuromancer; Fast Food Nation; Calvin and hobbes and Get Fuzzy; and then the "Into Thin Air," "The Perfect Storm" types. Oh, and Haynes Shop manual for me '84 Benz 300SD TurboDiesel New: Jane Eyre. Yup.. I'm as surprised as you.

Heroes:

Dan Gordon

My Blog

Gonna Mill all day, till the Milling's done!

"That's where I mainly spend my time." ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Machining. When folks ask what I do, and I tell them I'm a machinist, the...
Posted by Yankee Alpha Romeo Romeo Golf Hotel on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:42:00 PST

On weasels

In memory of Eddie and The General So i don't know exactly WHY i decided to get a ferret, but it was a summer day, I had enough cash, and decided to get one. I was visiting the folks in NY, and ...
Posted by Yankee Alpha Romeo Romeo Golf Hotel on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:02:00 PST

A brief history of, well, me.

Back on Long island, after 7 year stint in DC. Basically i moved down there for school, and got hooked up with the bike messenger scene after my first year. So for the next three years, it...
Posted by Yankee Alpha Romeo Romeo Golf Hotel on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:07:00 PST