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About Me

Its been suggested that I march to the beat of a different drummer, but I like to think that I hear the same drummer and feel the same beat as everyone else, I just choose to dance!
I have no regrets, only learning experiences.
I do not believe in a personal God. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. ~Einstein
"... express a revulsion against the power that modern society holds over the natural world... for all we have done to destroy parts of nature and undertake the 'management' of what is left, we are after all a part of nature... when, as a culture, we lost our kinship with the animals, we lost something profound that has not been replaced." ~UMass Boston professor Jim O'Brien
"This moment is all that is, all that ever will be. Memories can never equal the experience, and at best we can only attempt to visualize the future. The best we can do is absorb the most possible from Great Moments Like These." ~Sequoia-King's Canyon backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson
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My Interests

Traveling the World; Learning about Life; Thinking Outside the Box; Conservation thru Ecotourism; Endangered Species Preservation; Radical Environmentalism; Organic Fair-Trade Farming; Animal Welfare; Biogenesis; Darwinian Evolution, Punctuated Gradualism and Modern Synthesis; Deep Ecology; Dynamic Equilibrium; Gaia theory; Non-human Animal Cognition & Communication; Thermodynamics; Entropy; The Big Bang; Wave-Particle Duality; Dark Matter

Reading, Doodling, Photography, Nature walks, Kayaking, Mtn. Biking, Running, Swimming, Camping, Hiking, Backpacking, Snowboarding, Disc Golf, Fly Fishing, Hand Drumming

Concerts and Festivals.

Zen Buddhism & Pantheism

Brew Pubs, Ale Houses, Blues Bars and Jazz Clubs... sorry, no hot & stuffy night-clubs with bangin' house or top-40 hiphop for this cat.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with like-minded ideas and a passion for life...

Music:

Something with a funky groovin' bass line... driving rock beat... singing guitar licks... improv jazz piano... the twang-twang of a banjo or mandolin... a splash of Caribbean or African percussion... bluesy harmonica... a rippin' horn section... a devilish fiddle... a scratchin' needle on a record... folkish lyrics... a soulful voice... and more cowbell!

drum circles!

Movies:

Mostly documentaries, biographies, and based-on-true-stories. Forest Gump.

Television:

I no longer own a television... Who has time not to think for themselves!?

But Flight of the Conchords is pretty rad. Scrubs is funny. And Planet Earth is f*ing awesome!

Books:

The list is endless... mostly Natural History and Evolutionary Biology (authors like EO Wilson, S. Jay Gould, Jane Goodall, Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Darwin). Wilderness, Wildlife and Survival. Biographies. Zen Buddhism.

"The Lorax" ~Dr. Seuss
"Ishmael" ~Daniel Quinn
"Into the Wild ~Jon Krakauer
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test" ~Tom Wolfe

And don't forget mags like Nat'l Geo, Discover, Smithsonian, Mother Earth News

Heroes:

**Anyone who has sacrificed their time, money, freedom or life helping those that could not help themselves**

Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jane Goodall, Marc Johnson, John Muir, the Dalai Lama, Einstein, Darwin, Copernicus, Galileo, Randy Morgenson, Alexander Supertramp

My Blog

Big Bang Big Sham

So Science is always going on about the infinite universe, yet the current accepted theory atteempts to put a limit on it with the Big Bang. How can all of the matter of the universe be quanitfied int...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:13:00 PST

6 wierd things about me...

6 weird things about meThe 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things/about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog about their 6 weird habits/things as we...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:56:00 PST

NZ Chronicles, Vol. V: Wanaka...

Shoveling some eggs with tomato down my throat, followed by a mug of warm green tea, I hurried my cohorts along so to arrive at the mountain early. Treble Cone opens at 9 am, here it was already 8:30 ...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:21:00 PST

NZ Chronicles, Vol. IV: Drive, Drive, Drive

We rose not long after the sun to the chorus of braying sheep. After a breakfast fit for royalty of fried eggs, bread with jam and tea, we washed our utensils in the cold waters of the lake, cleaned u...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:20:00 PST

NZ Chronicles, Vol. III: The Roadtrip 2

As we drove back south along the winding road that hugs the western shores of Pukaki and descended into the valley carved by millions of years of glacial melt, the clouds began to part and rays of su...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:11:00 PST

NZ Chronicles, Vol. II: The Road-trip begins...

So, after months of being confined to the city life of Christchurch, it was time to escape from reality for a while and explore the beautiful landscapes New Zealand is so famous for. Taking advantage ...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:26:00 PST

Project Guyana: Conservation thru Ecotourism

It is just before dawn in the Kanuku Mountains of Guyana, and the sun has not yet burned away the mist that is caught with the night beneath the rainforest canopy. As several of the Macushi villagers...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:01:00 PST

The NZ Chronicles, Volume I: Christchurch & Uni

It took months of preparation-- constant emails and applications to study abroad advisors, scholarship committees, enrolment officers and embassy officials. After 27 hours on an American Airlines flig...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:17:00 PST

Something phishy

I'll never forget the first time I heard Phish cover Led Zeppelin's classic Good Times, Bad Times... I was in the middle of the Everglades at the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation for Phish's gigantic ...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 12 May 2006 07:59:00 PST

Degree of Separation...

Degree of Separationa biological kinship.. Western religion has helped to cement the notion that humans are granted dominion over the earth and all living things, and that only humans have souls. ..Th...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:12:00 PST