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dan

About Me

24 mechanical engineer turned patent examiner en route to intellectual property law.

graduated MGL from NCSU with a BS in ME in AUG after a C+ in CTRLs.

education/professional career
USA cartoon express/transformers/knight rider '81-'87
ravenscroft 8/87-6/96
cary academy 8/96-6/00
intern SAS 6/00-8/00
Purdue 8/00 to 5/02
NCSU 5/02 to 8/05
co-op GE lighting 2/04-8/04
USPTO 9/05-present

My Interests

cars, cars, cars, cars, used to write websites, running and lifting and new job...

I'd like to meet:

I'm ok for friends, this is mostly for joining others' myspaces.....

Music:

anything but country. Guilty appreciation for rap, but not rappers... complex issue.

Movies:

the original matrix, but not the sequels, anything that makes me laugh hard. dumb and dumber, dumb and dumberer, bruce almighty, anything with Ben Stiller, etc.

http://www.myheritage.com

Television:

did you know that this doesn't cap your answer, and when you go over, it just deletes all you've just written? you'll just have to guess b/c I'm not writing that novel over again.

Books:

LOTR series.... reading it after the first movie made the 2nd and 3rd movies much more fun to watch. How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain... wonderful tool for showing others how stuff works when my description fails to nail it. A lot of stuff in there I would've never looked up myself. Too bad it looks like a copy of where's waldo when you're holding it. Not much of a reader aside from my 20 lb textbooks. Engineering has a way of killing that instinct to devour info from bulky books. Mostly a car magazine fanatic.

Heroes:

see my answer for television.

My Blog

upheaval in cardom... the Tesla, and cheers!

Think about a car commercial, listing all the features of brand x's new sedan/suv/wagon, etc... they usually have a part where they list some statistics... usually peak horsepower is among them... Do ...
Posted by dan on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:59:00 PST

cusp of law school. go demon deacons

july 26, 2006.. state of things... co-op at ncsu from 2/04 to 8/04 convinced me I didn't need to be an engineer. 12/04-2/05 LSAT class... didn't feel prepared in 2/05 or 6/05 to take LSAT finished mec...
Posted by dan on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:50:00 PST

weeee, journal entries!!!!! happy 2004!

so by now, all the computers that think it is 1904 have fired missles into your hometown and you're scraping for pieces of your family and friends to chew on for survival, but not me, I'm overjoyed be...
Posted by dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST