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Bill

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About Me

Computer geek and gamer.

I once loved my TV. Its warm glow lit my room and filled they world with gray. I loved TV even more when it was color. Cable...I wept...sniff. To be sure TV still must be used, but I have cast it aside for my new love.


I remember the day it walked into my life. Vic-20! Oh how I loved you. How could I not...you need the TV to work. Ah, the hours. So many hours....sigh. Of course Vic-20 was forgotten when PS/1 came to town. Its pure allure with 10 Mhz of speed. Alas, PS/1 soon found itself kicked to the curb when 486DX slinked its way into the room. Oh I could go on, but I think you get the idea./p?

My Interests

EVE Online - an MMORPG - which I spend way too much time playing. Old movies. Old music. Old books.

I'd like to meet:


Geeks to meet just to greet
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Linus Torvalds
Just for fun
Reese Witherspoon
John McCain
Richard Petty
For a wack to the nut sack
Osama Bin Ladin
Saddam Hussien
Slobodan Miloševic

Music:

Top 100 from my LaunchCast rating over at yahoo.

Woody Guthrie. Jimi Hendrix. Johnny Horton. Grandpa Jones. The Ink Spots. Harry James. Led Zeppelin. Loretta Lynn. The Mills Brothers. Black Sabbath. Fats Waller. Weird Al Yankovic. The Righteous Brothers. Buddy Holly. Ray Charles. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. James Brown. Cab Calloway. The Carter Family. Johnny Cash. Patsy Cline. The Dorsey Brothers. Jim Croce. Creedence Clearwater Revival. The Doobie Brothers. The Doors. Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Andrews Sisters. Basil Poledouris. Jethro Tull. Journey. Charlie Parker. Peter, Paul & Mary. Ozzy Osbourne. Tom Petty. Pink Floyd. The Police. Elvis Presley. The Beatles. REO Speedwagon. Frank Sinatra. The Sons Of The Pioneers. The Stanley Brothers. Styx. George Thorogood. The Temptations. Joe Walsh. Yes. Chuck Berry. ZZ Top. Blue Oyster Cult. Tommy Dorsey. AC/DC. Chicago. Nat King Cole. Cream. Billy Crystal. Bing Crosby. Eagles. Electric Light Orchestra. Julie Andrews. Green Day. Grand Funk Railroad. The Grateful Dead. Heart. Billie Holiday. John Lee Hooker. Billy Idol. David Houston. Kay Kyser. Gene Autry. Cyndi Lauper. Peggy Lee. Gordon Lightfoot.Lynyrd Skynyrd. Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bad Company. Madonna. Marcy Playground. Dean Martin. Don McLean. John Mellencamp. Glenn Miller. John Cougar Mellencamp. Steve Miller Band. Van Morrison. Willie Nelson. The Moody Blues. Mountain. Pearl Jam. Buck Owens. Nirvana. The Offspring.

Movies:

Godfather. Star Wars. Star Trek. Taming of the Shrew. Ran. Yojimbo. The Throne of Blood. Dersu Uzala. Godzilla (the BW classic). Tombstone. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It's a Wonderful Life. Ben Hur. The Ten Commandments. Dune. Lord of the Rings. South Park the Movie. Many many more.

Television:

I hardly watch this device. IFC is OK sometime. CNN and FOX for teh funny morons. Basically I see this as sooooo 20th century.

Books:

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Stephen King's Gunslinger series. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. L.E. Modesitt's Recluce series. Issac Asimov's Robot novels. Issac Asimov's Foundation novels. Soooo many more.

Heroes:

Jesus (sorry for not being good). George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Johnny Cash. Abe Lincoln. Teddy Roosevelt. Alvin York. Oscar Schindler. Stephen King. Bill Gates. Linus Torvalds. Steve Jobs. John McCain. Bugs Bunny.

My Blog

No day like a snow day.

We had a bunch of snow arrive this weekend. It looks like we had about 8 to 10 inches of snow fall from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. The wind was blowing from 10 to 20 miles per hour the whole ...
Posted by Bill on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:40:00 PST

Aquarium Consolidation

Last night I broke down my 20 gallon aquarium. I had Tom and Conner help catch the fish: 2 Yoyo Loaches, 4 Black Neon Tertras, and 4 Serpae Tertras. We bagged them and put the bags into the existing 5...
Posted by Bill on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:34:00 PST

Turtle/Fish update

Wow. Long time no blog.The turtle is working out really well. Conner and I have settled in to a pretty regular schedual of water changes. With the increased temp of summer the tank does start to turn ...
Posted by Bill on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:15:00 PST

Turtle Tank all setup and habitated

Conners new turtle tank is all setup finally. We bought the turtle on Sunday and he is still kicking. I'll try to see if I can post a video or a pic of him soon. On an unrelated note....daylight savin...
Posted by Bill on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST

One Snail dead, but a bunch of Snail Eggs?

The apple snail finally died. He sat at the bottom of the tank for about 2 weeks just occasoinally opening and closing his shell's trap door. I knew he was still alive because he hadn't disolved. Well...
Posted by Bill on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:47:00 PST

Mr. Wuggles is Alive!!!!!!

I got a call from the wife a couple days ago. She told me that the youngest's Dwarf Hamster escaped from his cage. Furthermore, our Black Lab, Maximus had found him first and had taken one of the hams...
Posted by Bill on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:29:00 PST

Fish Tank Update

It has been a long time since I posted to my blog. I just looked and saw that the last thing I posted was about the dead goldfish.Since then the fish tank has been treated for Ich and had new fish put...
Posted by Bill on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

Fisk Tank Update

All the goldfish died. They all came down with a disease called Ich. This looks like salt on the fish. The tank sat empty, except for the snail, for about a month. I treated the tank with some anti-Ic...
Posted by Bill on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST

Fish Tank

We now have two fish tanks. A friend needed to get rid of a 40 gallon tank and all of its equipment. Now it is sitting in our living room. This new tank is twice the size of our first a...
Posted by Bill on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:57:00 PST

Bike Riding

I recently rediscovered the joy of bike riding. The boys both received new bikes for their birthdays last August. They had smaller bikes previously and I almost always walked while they had biked. Wit...
Posted by Bill on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:33:00 PST