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BABYLONROCKER

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

About Me

Married father of two boys. A six year old and a three year old. I am a bow hunter, fly fisherman, occasional pilot, kayaker and avid reader of non-fiction. I like to go cross country skiing with my family when we get the chance. Preferably at the Royal Gorge cross country ski area near Lake Tahoe. I may or may not try to go to law school after I retire (like that's gonna happen). I would like to study Kendo someday and to learn blacksmithing. That's all that I can think of for the moment except: ..
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My Interests

Aircraft/flying, bowhunting, antique farm tractors, law, theoretical physics, Cal Poly sports teams, ancient languages and cultures, mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, stargazing, blacksmithing and reading about all of the above. I'd like to study Kendo someday.

I'd like to meet:

Ash Rai, Sandra Day Oconner, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, Jim Cramer, a yeti.

Music:

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stephen Stills, Billy Gibbons, Gordon Lightfoot, Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Taj Mahal, Paul Butterfield, really, any good guitar music. When I was younger I used to say that I liked any music that made me want to get up and kick the shit out of somebody. Thinking about it now, I guess that's still true.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Kingdom of Heaven, The 13th Warrior, Contact, The Dish, Good Ole Boys, The Abyss, Good Will Hunting, Proof, Brazil, any John Wayne or Clint Eastwood western.

Television:

I don't watch T.V. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that we only get one channel and I've pretty much forgotten about it.

Books:

Neuromancer by William Gibson, Galileo's Revenge by Peter Huber, Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir Aczel, Writing to Win by Steven Stark, Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein, Space-Time and Beyond by Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf.

Heroes:

My Mom.

My Blog

The Old Dad’s Club.

Today, while dropping my youngest son off at preschool, I ran into a man that I often see during this daily chore. A man with gray hair and mustache that I had assumed to be a grandfather.  He lo...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:58:00 PST

Jury Duty part II

Jury duty part II.   The evidence came in three forms:  1. Live testimony. Actual people came up to the stand, were sworn in and answered questions from the Prosecutor or the Defense At...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:54:00 PST

Jury Duty

Jury duty. These words are almost guaranteed to invoke an emotional response from anyone who reads or hears them, especially if they come in the form of an official notice. I recently received one of ...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:22:00 PST

Thoughts are things.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you. As the wheel follows the ox that dra...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST

Our Deepest Fear.

Our Deepest FearOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure....
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:11:00 PST

Ben Stein Commentary

I borrowed this from my friend K*.Ben Stein - Commentary - good read If they know of him at all, many folks think Ben Stein is just a quirky actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very i...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:28:00 PST

Kellan and the emergency room.

  Friday after I picked up the kids from pre-school Kellan announced that he had "an owie". He showed me his right index finger. I could see nothing obvious so I kissed it and he went on his way....
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:37:00 PST

Templeton's Saturday morning Farmers Market.

The Templeton Farmer's Market is the oldest farmer's market in San Luis Obispo county and in my opinion the best farmers market in the county. It has the best venue of any farmer's market in our area,...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:57:00 PST

A visit to the Templeton Fire Station.

Saturday the boys and I went up to Templeton to the Farmers Market there in the City Park. About three weeks ago we went to the San Luis Obispo City Fire Dept. Open House. The boys got to climb up int...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:58:00 PST

The Waterboys.

The boys love to play with water. Kellan likes to create kenetic sculptures with my irrigation equipment like hoses, PVC fittings and hose end sprinklers. Dane just likes to splash in the puddles.Defi...
Posted by BABYLONROCKER on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:50:00 PST