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Tobias

It was only four tracks on the machine, but I was picking up twenty from the extra terrestrial squad

About Me

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson

My Interests

coffee, magazine collage, scooters, childhood education, fast food toys, technology history, sleep paralysis

I'd like to meet:

Creative, intelligent, witty people. artists, musicians, and poets. funny and sarcastic people. drunks. those who take their work seriously but don't take themselves too seriously. passionate and driven people.

Music:

Ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, hip hop, dancehall, black metal, rockabilly, gamelan, and jazz.

Movies:

Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Brazil

Books:

David Katz, Douglas Adams, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Kobo Abe, Michael Talbot, Robert Pirsig, Bill Bryson

Heroes:

Bill Waterson, Winston Smith, Lloyd Brevett, Bill Hicks, Harry Shearer

My Blog

Check out this event: This Is Ska! at Folklife

Hosted By: The Georgetown Orbits When: Friday May 23, 2008 at 7:30 PMWhere: Northwest Court StageSeattle CenterSeattle, Washington|48 98109United StatesDescription:The Georgetown Orbits Click Here To...
Posted by Tobias on Sun, 18 May 2008 10:57:00 PST

Farmer Mitchell

This man, a genius. ...
Posted by Tobias on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:42:00 PST

Range, reach, realm

Hooray for good weekends. I feel like a weight has been lifted recently. New work is fast and not too brain-intensive, which is just what I need right now. My year in daycare and teaching felt like th...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:40:00 PST

Motorcycle Maintenance

"But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effec...
Posted by Tobias on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:08:00 PST

Time Planning and Reverie

It came and went. Faster than I had expected it to (gust of wind). More planning seems to do that to an event. The more I've set myself up for it, the quicker it's over with once it starts. Perhaps th...
Posted by Tobias on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:42:00 PST

Myths to live by

"Those who think, as do many, 'let me first correct society, then get around to myself,' are barred from even the outer gate of the mansion of god's peace. All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitab...
Posted by Tobias on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:03:00 PST

The National Dish

In the early years of the twentieth century, hamburgers had a bad reputation. According to the historian David Gerard Hogan, the hamburger was considered "a food for the poor," tainted and unsafe to e...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Conversation

If you want to become aware of your own frozen vortices of thought, Shainberg recommends you pay close attention to the way you behave in conversation. When people with set beliefs converse with other...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Whoah is me- Shame and Scandal (a story)

In Trinidad there was a family with much confusion as you will see. There was a mama and a papa and a boy who was grown who want to be married with a wife of his own. He found the young girl who s...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Leftover thoughts from last quarter's physics class.

So why is the Universe as big as it is? Because we're here. So the ridiculous disproportion is on of size, but when we talk about time scale, then it's not at all disproportionate. -John Wheeler ...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST