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About Me

I could tell you all about me, but would you then truly know me? Would you know all there is to know about me just by reading what I type here? Maybe. In short, I believe life is too short not to have a smile on your face most of the time. I accomplish this by surrounding myself with family and friends, people I can count on when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring. Personally I like to think I am fun to be around and have a good sense of humor, but I will leave that up to individual judgement. Also, I try to better myself each day, whether it is reading a new book, learning a new fact, or coming to a new realization about life, the world, and my place in it.

My Interests

The study and practice of martial arts, film, writing, reading, hagning out with my friends, traveling, and just living life.

Movies:

There really isn't enough room here to go into all the movies I love. The top of the list includes in no particular order: Casablanca
Star Wars
From Russia with Love
Seven Samuari
Goonies
North by Northwest
Notorious
Shawshank Redemption
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Serenity
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
LA Confidential
Citizen Kane
Godfather Part 2
Empire Strikes Back
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn is Robin Hood)
Army of Darkness
Enter the Dragon
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Airplane
The Exorcist
Blade Runner
Clue
The Great Muppet Caper
and Some Like It Hot.

Television:

My tastes in television tend towards the realm of science fiction and fantasy. These shows, in my opinion, are some of the most interesting since they call upon the people involved to come up with the fantastic to tell morality plays that have been around since the beginning of human history. They include Firefly
Babylon 5
Veronica Mars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Star Trek
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Muppet Show
Star trek: Deep Space Nine
Battlestar Galactica (the new version)
Grey's Anatomy
Millenium

Books:

Ah, the written word. Something you can count on when the power goes out...(In no particular order)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Complete Annotated Sherlock Holmes
The Art of War
The Extrordinary Origins of Everyday Things
1776
The Diamond Age or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Snow Crash
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?
Cryptonomicron
Le Morte de Arthur
The Lord of the Rings
Animal Farm
Lincoln on Leadership
1984
Brave New World

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln - A man of principle who believed in something larger than himself, who risked all he held dear to keep a great experiment from collasping.
Claus von Stauffenberg - Another man who choose to stand up against the odds, for what he believed in. Though he did not succeed, his sacrifice must never be forgotten.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - His dream is still the ideal.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins - They dared the impossible and looked straight into infinity.
My sister - One of the strongest people I know.
Benjamin Franklin - A true renaissance man. Inventor, politican, writer, reporter, statesman and diplomat all describe him.
Smedely Butler - An unsung man of conviction.
Harriet Tubman - A woman who refused to be told she could never be anything else.