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Captain Storm

Its better to burn out than to fade away.

About Me


I am a warrior poet. Which is one of those useless self-proclaimed titles that says a lot to some people and to others means I am geek and to others that I am a true renaissance man. To that I say don’t waste your time trying to pigeonhole me. Nothing your going to figure out in a short time frame will make any sense in the context of who I am or will be to you and yours. I might teach you some wonderful lesson or maybe I will be your student. No guarantees. If we meet tomorrow then A, but on Sunday B. Life is like that. Sometimes my words are poetic. Sometimes I don't talk to people because I am shy. Sometimes I carry a sword, so tread lightly as I don't like to cast my pearls before swine. I project a "Bullshit free" zone in a 30 foot radius around me. I say what I mean and mean what I say and I expect others to do the same in return. I have tremendous love, loyalty and affection for my friends and am cold as ice to my enemy's.
I like to do things, be creative, build, adventure. Sometimes I am lazy and restful and content and don’t like change. I am a practicing skeptic. This means I don’t believe things without proof. The bigger the thing, the more proof I want. It is a real pain in some people’s ass that I just don’t take their word for things, and that I don't believe that feeling something is true is good enough, but don’t take it personally. I am not a strident atheist or a logically valid agnostic. I am an Apathiest which means – Those questions – is there a god, is there an afterlife, did the tree make a sound, what is the answer to life the universe and everything – those questions I find them to be profoundly unimportant. The questions themselves are historical curiosities from minds of people who didn’t know the sun was made of hydrogen. Why should we waste our time caring how many angels fit in the head of a needle? Why should we kill each over such questions? This is where belief without proof leads. The destruction of faith without proof is the beginning of evolution. I focus on the here, the now, the provable and the magic that we people can make with each other and the space we inhabit. This keeps me quite busy enough!
Like doing some Artwork - Here are some samples of my body painting/photography/digital editing series I am working on:
My personal website that showcases my artwork is located at:
www.eyeonstorm.com
Check out the medieval/sub culture group I am Captain of called the Black Company:
Check us out at: The Black Company and see what we are up to.
We also have event & news list: The Black Company Tribe
I am a freelance IT, Graphics and Web Consultant: Check my professional website
Web Tempest
Flag spinning at Fuente Eterno 08
I love fire! Poi, Whips, Swords, staff etc.
Performance at a Burning Man event called Xara
Egypt Trip 2008
Below is me with the double Fire whips!

My Interests

Basically any thinking, living, changing person should be interested in just about everything except Pokemon.

I'd like to meet:

Myself in 20 Years, ok so i know this sounds vain, but really i just want my future self to tell me all the mistakes I am going to make so I can avoid them. After that I wouldn't mind talking to Alexander the Great, Albert Einstein, Ramses the 2nd, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, DaVinci, and about a thousand other people who are totally rad and interesting.

Music:

FOR MY own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Movies:

Army of Darkness, need I say more? Ok well then how about Big Trouble in little China? Ok but if you want something more serious... Gladiator, The 13th Warrior, DragonSlayer and Lord of the Rings. If you want more mainstream - There will be blood, American Beauty, The first Matrix Movie.

Television:

Watch "Bullshit!" on Showtime, its the most kickin show ever! Heroes, Dead Like Me, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Carnivale, Dexter

Books:

Books have changed my life, changed everything about me from A-Z, refined and reformed and reshaped and resurrected me and those around me. The pen is truly more mighty than the sword and when placed in the hands of masters can change the world.
All time Favorites:
Stranger in a strange land - Heinlen, Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Seventh Sword trilogy - Duncan, The Complete Book of Swords - Saberhagen, The Cross Time Engineer series - Francheski; And the Sea will tell - Vincent Bugliosi, Jaws - Peter Benchly, most of Dave Duncans books, Most of Robert Heinlens Books, Lucifers Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Dream Park by Niven and Barnes, The Chronicals of Amber series - Zelazny, Most of Piers Anthonys older work. DaVinci Code, Neuromancer - Gibson, Snow Crash, Zodiac - Stephensen, Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury, The Stainless Steel Rat - Harrison, The Saga of Pliocene Exile - Julian May, Enders Game - O. S. Card
There are so many more!

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Mel Brooks, George Carlin; Copernicus, Da Vinci and many more who choose to say what needed saying when it wasnt popular to say it and possibly even dangerous because it was logical. We are standing on the backs of these giants and only because of what these kind of people have done can we reach as high as we do. They inspire me to reach higher. To say the unsayable. To ride the edge of societal evolution.

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." A. Einstein

My Blog

Stealing Fruit

Life is an ever changing stream of consciousness washing us with experience. Sometimes we walk forward in it, tromping along, making our progress, sometimes with exuberance and sometimes doggedly dete...
Posted by Captain Storm on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:14:00 PST

Burning Man - P1

Burning man kicks the shit out of vehicles. Everyone knows it. Its some kind of weird curse. In reality I have had several curse free years but still the curse would strike people i was traveling with...
Posted by Captain Storm on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:06:00 PST

Probability Theory

So right now I am stuck at a client waiting for processes to finish while my car is in the shop so I can't do anything  so I figured now was a good time to write a blog.   So check this out. T...
Posted by Captain Storm on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:24:00 PST

Realizing your nature

Realizing your nature. The last few weeks I have been taking stock of all my worldly crap. Of course being someone who is all about logic, I decided that it didn't make sense to move stuff that I don...
Posted by Captain Storm on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:40:00 PST

Storm Drama (not really)

Storm Drama (not really)  friends only Storm update: Black Company 10th Event. Had a really great time  Busy, but really a whole lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who really made it special. Se...
Posted by Captain Storm on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:02:00 PST

Miscellanies Heathens 7 Deadly Sins Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf7GBmq1cgU You have to check this out. This is the party where I wore white. You gotta love civil disobedience!!!...
Posted by Captain Storm on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:28:00 PST

Expelled - Another attempt to attack Science

"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" Is a movie currently out in theaters right now.  I could spend several paragraphs complaining about why this is such a complete peice of trash movie, but my sk...
Posted by Captain Storm on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:26:00 PST

Renn faire was off the hook!

This past weekend was truly phenomenal It reminded me why I have done Renn Faire for so long. It all started on Friday. The Black Company had a superb turn out for setup. We combined camps with our si...
Posted by Captain Storm on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST

EGYPT PICS

Click on a pic to see it bigger then, Click again in the middle of the pic to see the full size pic. click the right side of the pic to go forward. Click the left side of the pic to go back. I took ...
Posted by Captain Storm on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:04:00 PST

Valentine Freefall

I just figured out it was THAT day. Oh boy its THAT day. Well as you might imagine today isn't all that high on my list this year. I don't begrudge anyone their fun though. Some of these couples runni...
Posted by Captain Storm on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:42:00 PST