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About Me

On to an opening thought:
He who lets the world choose... his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself must...use observation to see, reasoning and judgement to forsee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold his deliberate decision. -John Stuart Mill
Key features and benefits: Bilingual in Swedish (and English - it was recently pointed out to me that the denotation of ..bilingual.. necessitates specification of both languages spoken.) Realistic optimist: likes to reflect extensively on the possibility of how things "could be." Proponent of incremental change -- in many different contexts Fully twixter -compliant, includes HOT freestyle bike! (*Some assembly required) Believer in egalitarianism. The Economist subscriber. Is to dance music what Ken Burns is to Jazz. Purveyor of house music Better than average dancer. Southern born, yet surprisingly worldly. Lover of Sushi.
I had a lot of other things written here, but I became self-conscious thinking about how ego-centric it is (then again, maybe the "about me" section is meant to be self-centric?) I guess that's open for debate. Feel free to contest that point with me or inquire about any of these open-ended statements I've used to describe myself. I'm pretty approachable.
P.S. - a lot of people seem to have no clue what a DBA is, so I have included a link here .
Note: I've started an image gallery on my webserver, it can be found here .
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..People who can challenge me...

....but not so much that they put my relational capacity into double jeopardy (which is, generally speaking, harder to do that it sounds, yet some still manage.)

My Blog

Buy a goddamned brita, please.

As a young kid growing up in the South -- I have a very distinct memory of my childhood. I spent countless afternoons riding bikes, or at the park... perhaps at my neighbor's house... under the ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:36:00 GMT

Cleanup time

Every once in awhile I like to do a clean-sweep of my friends list. A few weeks ago was one such occurence. My myspace friends had grown to 130+ and I was getting a little irritated about ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:02:00 GMT

The Pepsi Challenge: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

So I am on a treadmill tonight at the fitness center at work, eyes perusing the tv monitors suspended on the wall displaying post-election results. I am immediately reminded: today is election d...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:22:00 GMT

Westward ho.

So.... a little update. Today I turned in my resignation letter to NCR, citing my last day of working there to be September 22nd. I also begin employment with eBay as a Senior Performance Engineer a...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:53:00 GMT

Women respond to bass? - part deux.

Mmmmm bass... is there anything like it? I just ordered two of these to expand my PA system. They are 2x15" Yamaha PA speakers. They sound fucking orgasmic (I went and listened to th...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:44:00 GMT

The die is cast, bitchezzzzzzzz....

To: [email protected]: Your candidate reference number - eBay.Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:09:34 -0400Thank you, Peter Bense, for expressing interest in our organization.We have successfully recei...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:51:00 GMT

Fuck an insurance company...

Cigna DentalAppeals CoordinatorVisalia Service CenterRouting 246P.O. Box 188047Chattanooga, TN 37422-8047RE: Incident Number: 1588304Dear Sir or Madam:I am writing in regards to a response I received...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:21:00 GMT

Two weird dreams.

So it is not very often that I find myself remembering dreams. Last night is an exception. A very odd one at that... at two points I found myself awoken (awaken?) by some aspect of dreams which I wa...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:50:00 GMT

FUCK KELLOGGS!

FUCK YOU, KELLOGGS!!!!!Recently as I was grocery shopping I came across what seemed like a totally unbeatable offer! As a bachelor and a purveyor of the bachelor t-bone steak (here known as the ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 May 2006 22:27:00 GMT

Do I want to move to San Jose?

Damn. A lot can happen in a week.Now the option is on the table to move to San Jose. In fact, the hand has been dealt, almost, so-to-speak.Do I want to work for the 9th largest datawarehou...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 19:25:00 GMT