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Gavin

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About Me

Test Officer. Former Archaeologist/Curator. Father and Husband. Rabidly proud Comic book Geek! Willing-to-Bare-My-Teeth-and-fight Liberal! Tree-Huggin' Hippie (well, not a hippie but a tree-hugger). Love to cook, read, camp, hike, play with the bones of dead things.
Apparently,
You Are 70% Evil
You are very evil. And you're too evil to care.
Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot. How Evil Are You?
Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence
You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.
An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.
You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view.
A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.
You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Your Inner European is Spanish!
Energetic and lively.
You bring the party with you! Who's Your Inner European?

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My Interests

Comic Books, Role Playing Games, Science and Tech, Archaeology/Museums/History, A little bit of everything.

I'd like to meet:

I would have liked to meet Warren Zevon, I list him as one of my personal prophets and I DID meet Douglas Adams before he passed away...so I guess I need to try to meet Carl Hiaasen next.Others include Emperor Norton, Elmer McCurdy, Lao Tsu, Doc Holliday, Quanah Parker, Ghandi, Pericles, Calico Jack Rackham, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo DaVinci, Ben Franklin, I would have liked to meet Hernan Cortes, just to kick him in the balls. Most of the people I would like to meet have been dead for at least a century or much longer...

Music:

They Might Be Giants (forever and for always my top favorite), Warren Zevon, Reverend Horton Heat, Cake, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, John Prine, Ray Benson, Monty Montgomery, Lyle Lovett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fountains of Wayne, Cowboy Mouth, Tenatious D, Red Elvises, Iris Dement, the Police, Liz Phair, Sublime, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, the Refreshments, Bush, the Dixie Chicks (yeah, I like 'em, piss off), Busta Rhymes, the Gourds, really, I like a little bit of everything

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange, Casablanca, Bubba Ho-Tep, In the Mouth of Madness, Shawn of the Dead, Brazil, Raising Arizona, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Blade Runner, Wicker Man (the 1973 version, thank you very much), History of the World (Part I), Blazing Saddles

Television:

I actually don't have TV... Well, I do, but I don't get any stations. Been that way for over 6 years now, and I don't really miss it that much. Most of the shows I've loved the most get axed a season or two into them anyway. Mystery Science Theater 3000, Futurama, Firefly, Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Reno 911, Strange Luck, Brimstone, the Tick (animated), the Tick (Live Action)

Books:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Canticle for Liebowitz, Any Terry Pratchett, Niel Gaiman, Sherman Alexie, Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Moore ("Lamb" and "A Dirty Job" should be required reading for life), and Bill Bryson, most Harlan Ellison (even if he is a dick). Like music, a little bit of everything, but I love sci/fi and fantasy most of all.

Heroes:

My Trinity of Personal Prophets: Douglas Adams, Warren Zevon, and Carl Hiaasen. Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, Emperor Joshua Norton the 1st

My Blog

Wow, Tempus frickin fugit..

Okay, so it's been a couple of months since I last posted any kind of blog... sorry about being remiss in my duties of entertaining people, but I've kinda not known what to say or how to say it for qu...
Posted by Gavin on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:32:00 PST

I think my tongue just had an orgasm

So, a couple'a nights ago... nothing was particularly wrong, I was just having a "Man PMS" kind of day.  Things weren't going crappy, just not particularly right and I was feeling bleh.  I w...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:36:00 PST

Stupid frickin cars!

Well, actually a lot more like stupid frickin' drivers!  I'm really starting to feel like an old fart, but I really don't care.  Killeen is a hotbed of car-tards.  Dumbass kids tricking...
Posted by Gavin on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:47:00 PST

Just something that annoys me.

Whay the holy hell do car dealerships still use the frickin' Ghostbusters theme song in their advertising??  Who ya gonna call?  Not you, you unoriginal annoying fucktard!  I've heard d...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:43:00 PST

Of cockroaches and fireflys

So I'm beginning to think my daughter is frickin' River Tam.  Because of the relatively wet weather we've had this year, we have had a nasty influx of cockroaches recently and a couple of morning...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:58:00 PST

The State of Mankind

It is a sad day when one dips into the Barry Sonnefeld bucket to look for philosophical consolation ("The Tick" and "Big Trouble" notwithstanding), but there I am.  I continue to think of Agent K...
Posted by Gavin on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:44:00 PST

12 years of connubial bliss

Rachel and I just celebrated our 12 year wedding anniversary yesterday.  Nothing exciting or monumental, but we had a nice time.  We got the presents out of the way well before yesterday (mi...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

Slothophilia

This is for my friend Cosmo, the feral sloth, but I hope that others enjoy my brush with their prehistoric cousins.   Between college and grad school, I worked as an intern for the Student C...
Posted by Gavin on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:16:00 PST

Duuuuude! I look totally f-ing baked!

Let me start off by saying "Wheee!" It's four days later and my eyes are still blood red...we are talking no whites showing at all.  I look like the Sticky-Bud King of Killeen.  I went to th...
Posted by Gavin on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:55:00 PST

GRAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!!

All I can say is "Argh!"  Some sweet little moppet in Corbin's daycare class gave him pink-eye and, like a good little man, he passed it along to me.  It feels like dry Q-Tips are being rubb...
Posted by Gavin on Fri, 25 May 2007 01:51:00 PST