Dave Garber - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born and raised in Virginia's Washington, DC, suburbs, where I graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 1993. Except for spending two years (1994-1996) serving as a full-time missionary here and there around Michigan, I then lived for quite a few years in Provo, Utah, where I attended Brigham Young University (BYU) off and on. I have been majoring in physics there and I hope to become a university professor of physics when I grow up. Although science interests me, my real passions are both religion and politics; I might be best described as a Christian (LDS) libertarian Republican , in essentially that order. I established an LDS Freemen group here on MySpace to address both of these passions; so, if you happen to be a liberty-loving Latter-day Saint like me, then please feel free to join us!
Fellow Avatar MUD players may know me better as one of my dozen friendly neighborhood characters, namely Stealthhoofs, Thunderhoofs, Arrowflinger, Skyrider, Gesundheit, Dragonzerker, Dracopaladin, Dracowarlock, Dragonshaman, Yaxche, or Woodsy. If you're a fellow MUDder, then you may also want to visit my AvatarWiki user page .
I've been with Yahoo! for some time now, also as DaveGarber1975 , so feel free to come look me up there, as well! And, while you're there, feel free to check out my other blog .
I have a home page , as well, but there's nothing interesting to see on it at present. Hopefully, though, I'll remedy that someday...
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My Interests

conversing, learning, reading, listening to music, playing computer games, watching movies, acting, singing, playing my piano, social dancing, traveling, taking photographs, giving service, et cetera

I'd like to meet:

Nice friendly folks with similar values and interests.

Music:

that old-time rock-'n'-roll, rockabilly, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, early Motown, surf rock, The Beach Boys, doo-wop, soft hits, Celine Dion, The Carpenters, 1980s hits, Huey Lewis and the News, Lionel Richie, Gloria Estefan, Phil Collins, various movie soundtracks, swing, Glenn Miller, classical, et cetera

Movies:

comedies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane, The Princess Bride, Arsenic and Old Lace, Spaceballs, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Three Amigos, Shrek, Groundhog Day, The Man Who Knew Too Little, dramas, On the Waterfront, Spartacus, The Maltese Falcon, Dead Poets Society, action-adventure films, Indiana Jones trilogy, Back to the Future trilogy, The Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, romances, Casablanca, musicals, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Singin' in the Rain, fantasy films, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, science-fiction films, Star Wars series, Star Trek series, suspense films, Poltergeist, North by Northwest, Arachnophobia, seasonal films, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, older classics, newer blockbusters, kids' films, "chick flicks," et cetera, et cetera, et cetera

Television:

movies (see above), crime dramas, CSI, Law & Order, Cold Case, comedies, The Simpsons, science fiction, Star Trek, GlobeTrekker, news shows, documentaries, classic TV series, et cetera

Books:

The Holy Scriptures, LDS religious books, biographies of great people, books about history, books about current events, books about political philosophy, books about economics, books about leadership, self-help books, classic works of literature, fantasy books, et cetera

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith Jr., Captain Moroni, Moses, Joseph, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Barry Morris Goldwater, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Ronald Ernest Paul, Milton Friedman, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Alva Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, et cetera

My Blog

Movie Review: "Spider-Man 3" (2007)

Spider-Man 3 (2007) is, of course, the third film in the ongoing Spider-Man film series. I hate it when Hollywood makes one good film and then recycles its plot through an endless series of infe...
Posted by Dave Garber on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:19:00 PST

Movie Review: "Shrek the Third" (2007)

Shrek the Third (2007) is, as its title suggests, the third Shrek film to be produced. In it, Shrek struggles both to find a royal successor and to deal with impending fatherhood. I absolu...
Posted by Dave Garber on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:09:00 PST

Movie Review: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) is the third and (presumably) final film in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed its two predecessors and hoped that this on...
Posted by Dave Garber on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Movie Review: "Next" (2007)

Next (2007) is an interesting yarn about a guy who can constantly see a couple of minutes into his own future and, thereby, anticipate various possible outcomes and then choose between them accordingl...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

Movie Review: "The Invisible" (2007)

The Invisible (2007) is an interesting yarn about two high-school students, namely a promising young man from a wealthy family who aspires to become a writer and a troubled young woman from a poor fam...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

Movie Review: "Meet the Robinsons" (2007)

Meet the Robinsons (2007) is, I thought, a delightful children's flick with fun and memorable characters, an engaging and enjoyable plot, great animation, and various positive messages. It's abo...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:20:00 PST

Movie Review: "In the Land of Women" (2007)

In the Land of Women (2007) is a rather odd story about a guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend and then responds by going to live with his slightly-deranged grandmother, who claims that she is dying,...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:07:00 PST

Movie Review: "Firehouse Dog" (2007)

Firehouse Dog (2007) is a rather cute children's flick about a boy and a dog. This dog is a pampered film star who meets with trouble, is thought dead, and gets adopted by a struggling firehouse...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:40:00 PST

Movie Review: "Disturbia" (2007)

Disturbia (2007) is (as I thought that it would be based upon its previews) a rather loose retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window (1954) adapted to a modern setting. Bored whil...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:40:00 PST

American University Seminar on Improving North American Cooperation

American University in Washington, DC, has been aspiring in recent years to become America's "premiere global university." Its Center for North American Studies, established in 2002, is intended...
Posted by Dave Garber on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:26:00 PST