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Dern

Hermit in the City.

About Me

NOTICE

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to fing a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR

Per G.G., Chief of Ordinance

(witticism courtesy of Mark Twain)

End of the Last Read Book:

It would be hard to build a banana that resisted everything. But even coming close could change the world. The lab-made banana could be clean. It could be grown without pesticides. It could be grown organically. It could be grown -- because it is stronger, and because stronger means cheaper -- according to fair-trade principles. It could be the banana that finally reverses history, that finally make each bunch a guilt-free choise, even a redeeming one, as we load them into our shopping carts, as we argue over who first sliced them into ice cream, as we sign ridiculous songs about them.

That banana -- and only that banana -- could, quite possibly, be the world's most perfect fruit.

"I have all wheel drive, therefore I can drive DOWN the icy hill". Jack*sses (wondering what the heck the first person was thinking....who taught them how to drive in snow?): .. ..

My Interests

Movies. Film. Music. Books. Travel. Photography. Internet. Home Repair. Good Microbrews. Friends and Family. Electronics. Hot Rods. Volvos. Fishing. Camping. Hiking. History.

I'd like to meet:

Real People. Fun People. Outdoorsy People. Group People. Alone People. Artsy People. Movie People. Bookworm People. Photography People. Coffee People (sadly now Starbucks). Computer People. Typewriter People. Collector People. Travel People. Fishing People. Island People. Mainland People. Living Ironies.

Music:

Bit of Everything. British Invasion. Beatles. Rolling Stones. Alternative which may or may not really be Alternative. Weezer. Nirvana. Pixies. Elvis. U2. Soundtracks. Classical. Mozart. Beastie Boys.

Movies:

James Bond. Star Wars. Blues Brothers. Rushmore. Great Escape. AFI 100. Spaghetti Westerns. Fight Club. The Jerk. Das Boot. Amadeus. The Searchers. Peter Sellers.

Television:

Nothing Recent (when I do get time to flick it on, its all cr*p). M*A*S*H. Simpsons. WB Cartoons.

Books:

"100 Greatest Books Ever Written", History, Random Books picked up in the bookstore for reason X.

Heroes:

Spiderman....and some other blokes.

My Blog

Trial and Error

Last month the neighbour I'd been borrowing internet service from moved. I figured I try a thiry month period of rememberance....what was life like before the internet? I found myself looking things u...
Posted by Dern on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:21:00 PST

For and Against

For Blogger; Against Google; Undecided about this Myspace thing.Is Web 2.0 worth it? What does it add? Is it more worthwhile than pen/paper writing, and face/face communication? Never Forget: S...
Posted by Dern on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:58:00 PST