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Keith

Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures...

About Me

Who am I.
I am simply described as eclectic. With no small amount of modesty I will take the title of Jack of all trades, Master of some. Ive always made it a point to know something about everything that interests me, and partially due to an unaddressed and self diagnosed case of A.D.D. Im sure you can imagine that a lot of things at one time or another have interested me.
Currently I reside in the great state of Wisconsin, In the great city of Milwaukee. I have a group of friends that live in and around the St Louis area, I try to stay in touch as much as possible with them but without much success Im ashamed to admit.
I recently accepted a promotion where I work, bringing my professional title up to Business Analyst, Im proud of this, because it means Im moving away from the support aspect of IT and in to more of a developmental role. I also have a long time passion with construction, and woodworking Ive even held a job building very expensive furniture at one point.
I am very happily married to a wonderful person who is the most honest and genuine soul Ive ever had the pleasure of encountering, I consider everyday with her a blessing. We own our own home, and are about to embark upon a summer of home improvements, which is really a clever ruse for me to justify more power tools.
I am also a proudly registered member of the GOP. And take no small amount of pride in saying that Ive been taking a more active role in politics as of late. I have started writing much correspondence to my local and idiotic senator, Russ Feingold. Im tempted to get behind him in a push for the 2008 presidential campaign as it would be a sure win for the GOP, even his own party finds him too left.
Well, now you have some idea of who I am.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Hemingway.

Music:

Johnny
Frank
Bob
Buddy
Dean

All others are Inconsequential.

Television:

Being a tremendous Hockey fan I spend much of my television time parked in front of my T.V. watching Center Ice and attempting (usually an exercise in futility) to monitor and watch 3-4 games at once.
Assuming that I can’t find a game, I will endlessly stare at the glowing box watching the History channel, feeding my unyielding thirst for pointless knowledge (I once watched an hour long show, in it’s entirety, about the worlds largest dump truck).

Books:

Dan Brown and Stephen King (Richard Bachman too, for that matter). Also a light dusting of Dan Patterson from time to time.

Heroes:

In no particular order...
My Dad, I've never met someone who can teach so many things, to such a degree of mastery. His ability to engineer, construct and repair anything is unbelievable. He is considered by many to be one of the top 3 carpenters in the country, he also spends his nights and weekends building his racecar that he intends to drive this season, along side of that he is the crew chief for not one, but 2 professional race teams.
Bobby Hull,“The Golden Jet”. I consider him to be the greatest hockey player of all time, he was unarguably the most influential to the change of the game. He and his teammate, Stan Makita, were known for curving the blades of the hockey sticks to allow for greater control of the puck, in both accuracy and power. Standing at a mere 5 foot 10 inches (microscopic by today’s standards) he was able to fire the puck at a blistering 120 MPH, with unmatched accuracy – A feat that no player in recent memory has come close to.
Dale Earnhardt, Number 3 - “The Intimidator”. I can remember watching him drive since long before the days of “The Black Number 3”, (I was 7 years old when Goodwrench picked up the sponsorship). The isn’t too much I can say about this person that hasn’t already been said by countless others, except thank you, for all the great memories growing up and spending time with my Dad every Sunday afternoon. You will always be the greatest who ever lived and breathed this sport. We miss you.

My Blog

Amazing

I can't think of any other way to describe this video, and this person, other than "Amazing"....
Posted by Keith on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:42:00 PST

New York Times

In 2001 the NY Times recommended financial tracking of terrorist funding ... "If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one. ...
Posted by Keith on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:13:00 PST

A reason for concern

I know that many people have differences when it comes down to our politics.  Some of you are liberals, and some of us are conservatives.  We forget sometimes that we are all Americans, no m...
Posted by Keith on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST

Read between her lines...

--  2008 Election, eh?  --Sen. Clinton's Plan For The U.S. Economy: Higher Taxes, Increased Spending And A Large Dose Of PessimismIn Run Up To Chicago Speech, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Has...
Posted by Keith on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:48:00 PST

Immigration reform, DOA

-Quoted from a San Diego Newspaper-Who killed immigration reform? The autopsy shows it was Senate Democrats. It's tempting to put a pox on both parties. But it wouldn't be fair. Republicans were tire...
Posted by Keith on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:45:00 PST