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Dorkindude

animals won't leave me alone

About Me


Looking through the window.
Buddy, the leader of the pack.
At the Mana Kai in Kihei, Maui.
This is me relaxing on the porch of Sierra cabin at the Trinity Alps Resort. Can't be beat.
One of my biggest regrets in life is not really learning how to play the piano. I wish I could do that well.
I'm hooked on Odwalla Superfood.
I was never any good at competitve sports or business because I lack the killer instinct. I'm just too nice.
For some strange reason I love using a brown paper bag as a suitcase. Recently we discovered my daughter does the same thing. My wife was mortified.
We just bought a Chemex coffee maker and it really does make the best tasting coffee imaginable. Almost too good.
When I was five my babysitter made me watch while she cut the head off of a live chicken. I was not horrified, I was fascinated. They really do run around with their heads cut off. For about 30 seconds. We ate it for dinner too. She lived on a farm so it was the most natural thing in the world to her. Why did I put this in the About Me section?

My Interests

my family, hiking, movies, reading, skiing, foot massages, photography, traveling, music, mp3s, guitar, espresso, mochas, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, good wine, good scotch, cashews, pasta, anything with garlic, pizza, artichokes, guacamole, grilled salmon, Myspace

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes to laugh and can make me laugh. Anyone who can hold an intelligent conversation. Philosophers, artists, musicians, and writers. People with passion for life. Oh, and nobody reads this stuff because I had two typos in here for four years which I just now discovered and no on ever told me.

Music:

Elton John, Cranberries, Steely Dan, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Katie Melua, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, Eagles, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Dido, Aimee Mann, Dave Brubeck, Weather Report, Michael Franks, Mary Black, Stevie Wonder, No Doubt, Rolling Stones, Doors, Indigo Girls, Crowded House, Once Blue

Movies:

Eastern Promises, Blame it on Fidel, The Songcatcher, Enchanted, Knocked Up, Almost Famous, Rent, Life is Beautiful, Wag the Dog, Little Miss Sunshine, Adaptation, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Producers, Beautiful Country, Crash, Hustle and Flow, Boondock Saints, Serenity, Fight Club, Butterfly Effect, The Professional, I Am Sam, Last Samuri, Master and Commander, Something About Mary, The Sweetest Thing, Duets, A Boy and His Dog. Matrix, Sound of Music, Harold and Maude, Young Frankenstein, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Fugitive, Moulin Rouge, X-men, Jean de Florette, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Farewell My Concubine, Gattica, Liquid Sky, One Two Three, City of God, 8 Mile

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Dirt, Lost, Rome, Deadwood, Entourage, My Name is Earl, The Office, Law and Order, 24, Scrubs, Alias, Will and Grace

Books:

The Flaming Corsage, The Final Solution, The Lovely Bones, All the Pretty Horses, Da Vinci Code, Fountainhead, Rain of Gold, all Jane Smiley, Amy Tan, Ironweed, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Geek Love, Cruddy, On the Road, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Like Water for Chocolate, River of Red Gold, Memoirs of a Geisha

Heroes:

All of my Myspace friends are my heroes!

My Blog

The Meat Truck - Chapter 18 - 1st draft

I hesitated at the threshold for a second to weigh my alternatives as Harmony peered expectantly from behind the open bedroom door. To my right was a door marked "EXIT" but without looking I knew that...
Posted by Dorkindude on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:49:00 PST

Presidential potty

I was in a wine bar a couple weeks ago and chatting with a very well travelled older guy (gee that would mean older than 51 at least, haha) and I was telling him how Jill teases me about my ...
Posted by Dorkindude on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:48:00 PST

hiking

I'm leaving this morning to go hiking in the wilderness for three days and nights. We're going to Tuolumne Canyon near Yosemite. No contact with the outside world till Sunday when I get home. I have m...
Posted by Dorkindude on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:57:00 PST

Foghorn Leghorn

Jill finally went completely crazy. She came home from the feed store Saturday with three baby chicks. By that I mean chickens. Hens supposedly. Now we don't get any sleep because the foxes and coyote...
Posted by Dorkindude on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:49:00 PST

Into the Wild and No Country for Old Men

And speaking of No Country for Old Men (see previous blog) I'm going on a four day backpacking trip to Tuolumne Canyon next Wednesday. Jill and I were talking this morning about my preparations.  ...
Posted by Dorkindude on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:14:00 PST

Cheap movie plot devices piss me off

I watched No Country for Old Men the other night and I thought it was a decent movie but one thing totally bugged me. The air conditioning ducts.   One of my biggest pet peeves is the overuse an...
Posted by Dorkindude on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:59:00 PST

Joy

I was in Safeway this morning trundling down the magazine isle with an armful of Odwalla drinks and Cliff Bars. I stopped a second to look at the paperbacks. As I reached for the latest James Patterso...
Posted by Dorkindude on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:24:00 PST

A New Beginning

I've been working my same job in this control room now for what seems like an eternity. My job title is Spontaneous Mechanical Failures Initiator. It's a mouthful but no one has come up with a good ac...
Posted by Dorkindude on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:16:00 PST

The Meat Truck - Chapter 17

With me nervously clipping at their heels, Nate and Skip ambled into the Mustang Ranch cantina with the self-important air of a couple of high rollers on the prowl for some vice and recreation. Once i...
Posted by Dorkindude on Mon, 26 May 2008 12:21:00 PST

inventory

Thing are getting a little out of control. It's a storage problem, seriously.
Posted by Dorkindude on Sun, 25 May 2008 08:49:00 PST