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About Me

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Derick
Birthday: 07.13.1982
Birthplace: Hinsdale, IL
Current Location: SF & LA, CA
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6' Flat
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: English, Irish, Scottish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Merrell primo mocs, black leather
Your Weakness: Over ambitious = often spread too thin
Your Fears: Future finance, career, 'making it'
Your Perfect Pizza: Sausage, green peppers, red onions
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Become solidly established on a career path
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: 'Meh' or 'o_0'
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Today I will.....God willing"
Your Best Physical Feature: Ladies like my eyes
Your Bedtime: Never :/
Your Most Missed Memory: Carefree finance and relative lack of responsibility when I was in school
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
McDonalds or Burger King: Neither
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Bigelow Green, Iced
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: More than I should
Do you Sing: Fairly well I've been told, but not often
Do you Shower Daily: At least
Have you Been in Love: Once
Do you want to go to College: Not again
Do you want to get Married: Yep
Do you belive in yourself: Yes indeed
Do you get Motion Sickness: It takes some deadly serious abuse
Do you think you are Attractive: Why, sure.
Are you a Health Freak: Moreso recently.
Do you get along with your Parents: Absolutely love em
Do you like Thunderstorms: Muchos
Do you play an Instrument: Piano & Keys
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yep
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Ya
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yep
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Mmm yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nah
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: No
Ever been called a Tease: Nope
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: Ja :(
How do you want to Die: Faithful, fulfilled & loved
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Motion designer, producer & visual effects guru. Kid-style answer: fireman or railroad engineer.
What country would you most like to Visit: Israel
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Whichever
Favourite Hair Color: Blonde, red, black...depends
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Around 5' to 5' 5" works the best
Weight: Healthy & proportionate
Best Clothing Style: The one she's confident and comfortable in
Number of Drugs I have taken: Zip
Number of CDs I own: Tons
Number of Piercings: Zero
Number of Tattoos: Nada
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Some..but not too many
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My Interests

Design, video, photography & media production. Listening to and playing music. Building & modifying, driving & racing cars. Sports, weight lifting, in-line speed skating. Computers, technology & other such things.

I'd like to meet:

Motivated colleagues, like-minded friends & cute, Christian women. People to skate with in the east SF Bay.

Music:

Classic rock, metal, alternative, country, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, soul....just about anything as long as it's good.

Movies:

Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Whatever's clever....if it's good, it's good. If it's not, it's not.

Television:

House, The Office, Discovery/History Channel, Sports & stuff....but not much else.

Books:

Currently Reading: C.S. Lewis - The Weight of Glory. One of LaHaye & Jenkins' 'Left Behind' series. Seay & Bryan - The Tao of Enron. My NASB.

Heroes:

My parents for taking the time to do it right. My friends who have my back no matter what. Our servicemen and women. The ruthlessly faithful.

My Blog

My first 100-mile day on skates - debriefing

*Taken from my SkateLog forum post, notes added for context*I'd listed multiple 100+ mile days in my goals this year, prior to A2A (Athens to Atlanta, 87 Mile Skate this fall) and all that. Weather wa...
Posted by D.MAN on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:40:00 PST

WTF, Drk's in the Bay?

So as per usual I'm horrible at keeping up with these things, but shouldn't leave it with me still in LA, cause I'm not. Been working the last few months at NIA Creative in Pleasanton as a 'Senior' M...
Posted by D.MAN on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

WTF, Drk's in LA?

Yes people....So it's been almost a year since I last posted anything just got back from seeing 'Crank' and figured I may as well get y'all caught back up. I've been keeping pretty busy and mos...
Posted by D.MAN on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:46:00 PST

Life, the universe and everything

So I havent posted in a while&been busy work work, a move, and all manner of other stuff. So for everyone anxiously awaiting an update (yeah right), here goes. To start, Im doing corp...
Posted by D.MAN on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:29:00 PST

Rant about the local crew and lazy people

So I had a good time chatting it up with some girls after a gig this morning. There may be a serious shortage of design work in the bay, but the ladies sure do love to stand around and talk abou...
Posted by D.MAN on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:36:00 PST

Back home & a freelance work update

So I'm back from SIGGRAPH and settled into my normal routine again. That means I spend lots of time doing freelance stuff, and even more time looking for a real job so I don't have to. But...
Posted by D.MAN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

LA Bound

So this weekend was good times in Chico. Had fun tubing down the river (and 170HP jetskiing back up) and dancing like an idiot to 80's music (as per usual). I managed to get back in one ...
Posted by D.MAN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sunday Ramblings

So I finished up the majority of my work for the weekend, and with a few hours to spare! Among other things, I turned out page layouts for a 80ish page tattoo/design catalog (good times) and did...
Posted by D.MAN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So I'm 23 now....

I feel old :p Mostly because I'm tired from working and have a little bit of a cold or something going on probably. Got an odd present of sorts this morning, namely a recuitment email from ILM ...
Posted by D.MAN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Birthday, SIGGRAPH, Job Search

So it's my birthday tomorrow. Going out to dinner with the parents and probably just relaxing since I have to work all day prior. I'm thinking I need to get out and do something entertaini...
Posted by D.MAN on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST