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Karsten

I'd be nice to know stuff.

About Me

norcal local through n' through. I feel uninspired to write the all-common autobiographical myspace essay.

My Interests

family, my wife, my children, my God, computers, motion graphics, most forms of gaming console and PC, snowboarding, nutrition, exercise, martial art, Japanese & Chinese culture, cooking, rock climbing, well written ansi C/c++ code on bsd 4.4 derivitaves, web scripting, home data networking, enterprise and service provider data networking, voip, mountaineering, nissan motorsports, turbocharging theory, hakua-kai, karate, coffee.

I'd like to meet:

well if there were people I wanted to meet then I wouldn't be talking about them now would i!

Music:

mainstream trance, some techno, DJs like Tiesto, Markus, AvB, classicial, rock (mostly thanks to guitar hero), non-mainstream Christian music, jazz, blues, anything skillful, anything not terribly booring, mainstream, or unpassionate.

Movies:

matrix triology, braveheart, lord of the rings, moulin rouge, fools rush in, Rowan Atkinson's western releases, Jim Carey fan, The Mission, Crouching Tiger, Hero, The last samurai, Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, Anime in general.

Television:

whatever my wife watches, ufc, k1, pride fighting, whatever my tivo keyword 'karate' finds.

Books:

Lord of the Rings takes them all.

Heroes:

my Dad. Soldiers and familys that have given their blood for my freedom. Authors of the Declaration, anyone in Delta Force, SEALs. The Bakers. Yun.

My Blog

I Remember Every Drop

Hello. Let me start by saying:I believe that every unborn child matters to God before it is even conceived. My proof is not a saying, quote, verse or a scientific fact. I can feel it in my bones and i...
Posted by Karsten on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:44:00 PST

Im out of Egg Nog.

So tonight I killed the last drop of egg nog. As I slurped down my glass of gooey tasty milk stuff I was happy. I was thankful. Yup, I was grateful for every last drop of that tasty thick yellow necta...
Posted by Karsten on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:58:00 PST

Sigh, Facebook.

Well today I'd like to share my experience with a new fad called Facebook. Current mood is slightly agitated. I'm on the internet alot. I work the internet, stink, I've built corners of the internet. ...
Posted by Karsten on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:09:00 PST

Vegas and Phoenix

Hi,October 20th through the 25th I was in Vegas for The Call, but mostly for work. I had a near 4 hour layover in Phoenix which I took to my advantage and took a bus into downtown and enjoyed some Ari...
Posted by Karsten on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:14:00 PST

Why do you choppa you toes?

This blog is a long time coming and hopefully worth the wait.I am a student of martial arts. More simply a student of combat. More simply, how to effectively defend and to kill. I've been training for...
Posted by Karsten on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:33:00 PST

About pills and paths

So I pose a question: what is the red pill?I anguish over that silly question alot. And I do mean alot. The most scary thing still that every path I take in life I intrinsically believe that its the r...
Posted by Karsten on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:11:00 PST

Why my Friends are on MySpace

So I consider myself somewhat of a internet patron. Yea, I was there in the 90s twiddling with an internet connection roughly 300 times slower than your average dsl connection. They consider those day...
Posted by Karsten on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:43:00 PST

myspace ugh

myspace, myspace..... yet another place to friviously widdle away oodles of free time in the name of internet culture. Its nuts to see all my friends are already full time myspace users. I've been avo...
Posted by Karsten on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:30:00 PST