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Dex

The Crotchety Geek

About Me

Baby Boomer, CIA brat growing up, lived in 6 countries and been to several more, all before age 16. Army Vet, 1976-80. IT geek by profession. Born-again NeoPagan. Returning (again) college student. Libertarian activist.


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My Interests

In no particular order:Gun Nut. Sci-Fi fan. Ethnic-food lover. Reenactor. History Buff. Libertarian. CERT volunteer. Hot-Pepper grower. Rennie. Returning College student. Survivalist.

Music:

Steppenwolf; Led Zeppelin; Tchaikovsky; Black Sabbath; Rolling Stones; Wagner; Metallica; Wollgemut; Warren Zevon; Irish Pub Tunes.The "C" in rap is silent.

Movies:

"Serenity"; "Red Sun"; "Master and Commander"; "Wrath of Khan"; "Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe"; The "Harry Potter" flicks; "Lord of the Rings"; "Patton"; "Erik the Viking"; "Outland"; The Connery "James Bond" series; "Spiderman" I and II. You get the drift.

Television:

None. Bleh.

Books:

Robert A Heinlein, "Red Planet"; "Stranger in a Strange Land"; "Moon is a Harsh Mistress"; all his other stuff.
Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn". Patrick O'Brien, the Aubrey-Maturin series.
Roger Zelazny, the "Amber" series, Zelazny's other stuff, and the Betancourt post-Zelazny sequels.
David Drake, the "Hammer's Slammers" stories. Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary".
Steven Brust, primarily the "Vlad Taltos" series.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island"; Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan" and "John Carter of Mars" series. "Swiss Family Robinson". The Compleat Edgar Allan Poe. Kipling, "Complete Verse"; "Jungle Book"; "Just So Stories". Currently, anything by David Weber, John Ringo, Michael Z Williamson.
At the moment, reading Kaplan's "Imperial Grunts".

Heroes:

Thomas Becket; Martin Luther; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Lewis and Clark; Robert E. Lee; Mahatma Gandhi; Pappy Boyington; Wilbur and Orville Wright; Chuck Yeager; Albert Shanker; More when I remember 'em.

My Blog

Back from War, and back to work tomorrow

Long couple of posts over on my main blog:  At the War, and Back from War.  Now, laundry is running and I'm about to crash. ...
Posted by Dex on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:55:00 PST

Today...


Posted by Dex on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:10:00 PST

GeoGeekage

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Posted by Dex on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:56:00 PST

Ave Atque Vale, John

This afternoon, was poking around my F-list, and found something out.  This definitely comes under the heading of OMGWTF???!!!.  There's a guy whom I met a bit over 19 years ago, in those ro...
Posted by Dex on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:31:00 PST

So long, and thanks for all the rodents.

Click the pic, for Jake's farewell....
Posted by Dex on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:38:00 PST

Name That Disease

NameThatDisease.com - Test your disease knowledge...
Posted by Dex on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

From my main blog: Ammo Day Jr.

[Post-dated to stick @ top]David Codrea, of War On Guns Blog, is pushing for an ammo buy that day. Head out to the gun store, WalMart, or sporting-goods store, and snag a box of ammo. One of his comme...
Posted by Dex on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:31:00 PST

Pennsic 36 Questionnaire

 1. Did you meet anyone new?Quite a few2. Did you ever wake up in some else's camp?Does Chi Point count?3. Did you stay dry?not by any sense of the word4. Did you do something you regret?Overslep...
Posted by Dex on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:18:00 PST

SCA Questionnaire, grabbed from Red

1. Mundane Name:Dexter Guptill 2. Mundane Job:IT Geek3. Persona name:Erich von Kleinfeld4. How did you come up with your name?Erich's a fairly common German name, von Kleinfeld is a German translation...
Posted by Dex on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:04:00 PST

Back from Pennsic, and back at work

Detailed post on my LJ. Had to stop in Martinsburg, WV to (a) swap gear into the repaired Kia; (b) drop off rental; (c) get ride back from Enterprise to transmission place. Got home late, unloaded, ma...
Posted by Dex on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:04:00 PST