A million monkeys at a million keyboards... We call it MySpace.
C Code; C Code run; Run, damn it, RUN!
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Some people are like Slinky’s; basically useless, but they do bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
If you break your hallux, should you call a toe truck?
Music
Hard Part (David Wilcox and John Whalen):
I see the look that’s in your eyes That says, “I must keep most of me inside ’Cause you’d never love me if I didn’t hide the secrets of my heart.”
Well, I’m not here for the surface stuff; I just get bored with all that fluff, So show me the edges even if it’s rough And let the real love start.
You think your shame and deep disgrace Are more than I can bear, But you can go to your darkest place; I will meet you there.
And I’m strong enough to take it And I know what you’ve been through. You’ve got a whole heart; Give me the hard part. I can love that, too.
You look at me with some surprise And I see the doubt that’s in your eyes Like something deep inside you cries With a hunger to be known.
Like a tiger born in a city zoo, There’s been no place for what’s inside of you. You try to live like the others do And it leaves you so alone.
I know you think that the heat of your pain Is more than I can stand. Burn it all in one big flame And I will hold it in my hand.
I’m strong enough to take it And I know what you’ve been through. You’ve got a whole heart; Give me the hard part. I can love that, too.
Now, your eyes well up with tears As desire mixes with your fears After so many wounded years Can you long for what you’ve missed?
You want a cool breeze to dance with your flame; A long-lost lover who knows your true name; A secret garden beyond this shame And it all comes down to this:
You think your drowning hope will die In a sea without a shore, But I can drink that ocean dry And still come back for more.
I’m strong enough to take it And I know what you’ve been through. You’ve got a whole heart; Give me the hard part. I can love that, too.
I’m strong enough to take it And I know what you’ve been through. You’ve got a whole heart; Give me the hard part. I can love that, too.
You’ve got a whole heart; Give me the hard part. I can love that, too.
Television
Discovery Channel, History Channel, Learning Channel, C.S.I., ER, My Name is Earl, Numb3rs, Stargate SG-1, Burn Notice, Life, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Firefly, Farscape, Gilmore Girls (I’ll deny that!), Shark, Smallville
Fullerton College
Fullerton,California
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Liberal Arts
2004 to 2005
California State University-Long Beach
Long Beach,California
Graduated: N/A
Major: Speech Communication - Forensics & Debate
Clubs: Editor of CSULB student newspaper The Union back when it was a rabble-rouser.
1985 to 1988
Lakewood High
Lakewood,California
Graduated: 1985
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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Thanks for visiting my page! I’ve tried to keep it simple, without any of the fripperies so common to so many others. No music, no videos, none of that stuff. A simple read, without gilding the lily, as it were. With little ado, this is me!
“...shaped not by preaching, but by example.”
- Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
I have begun writing articles on Helium.com, simply for the exposure. To see samples of my writing not available here, go to my Helium Articles List, or my Helium About Me page.
Live and let live, Fairly take and fairly give... Soft of eye and light of touch, Speak little, listen much... Merry meet and merry part, Bright the cheeks and warm the heart. Mind the Threefold Law you should, Three times bad and three times good... True in Love ever be, Lest thy lover’s false to thee.
Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of blog subscription invites... which seems to me to be a bit discourteous... if you haven’t at least commented on mine. I will never invite someone to subscribe to my blog without commenting on theirs (and usually subscribing), first. It’s simple courtesy: Respect begets respect... show me yours, you get mine. I’m not asking for a novel, either. A simple “I like the way you think/write” or “Right there with ya!” will do. It is not my desire to be unreasonable.
Also: No, I will not “check out your webcam.” All friend requests that are nothing more than lures to amateur porn will be reported as spam and deleted. I don’t mind you wasting your time but don’t be wasting mine.
Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover
You seduce people by tapping into their dreams and desires.
Because of this sensitivity, you can be the ideal lover for anyone you seek.
You are a shapeshifter - bringing romance, adventure, and spirituality to relationships.
It all depends on who your with, and what their vision of a perfect relationship is.
You’re a kissing pro, but it’s all about quality and not quantity.
You’ve perfected your kissing technique and can knock anyone’s socks off.
And you’re adaptable, giving each partner what they crave.
When it comes down to it, your kisses are truly unforgettable.
“Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
- Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
And now, because I delight in the irony of the bear being so diametrically opposed to myself...
The Truce Of The Bear
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go
By the pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below.
Yearly by Muttianee he follows our white men in --
Matun, the old blind beggar, bandaged from brow to chin.
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless -- toothless, broken of speech,
Seeking a dole in the doorway he mumbles his tale to each;
Over and over the story, ending as he began:
“Make ye no truce with Adam-zad -- the Bear that walks like a Man!
“There was a flint in my musket -- pricked and primed was the pan
When I went hunting Adam-zad -- the Bear that walks like a Man.
I looked my last on the timber, I looked my last on the snow,
When I went hunting Adam-zad fifty summers ago!
“I knew his times and his seasons, as he knew mine, that fed
By night in the ripened maizefield and robbed my house of bread.
Knew his strength and cunning, as he knew mine, that crept
At dawn to the crowded goat-pens and plundered while I slept.
“Up from his stony playground -- down from his well-digged lair --
Out on the naked ridges ran Adam-zad the Bear;
Groaning, grunting, and roaring, heavy with stolen meals,
Two long marches to northland, and I was at his heels!
“Two long marches northward, at the fall of the second night,
I came on mine enemy Adam-zad all panting from his flight.
There was a charge in the musket -- pricked and primed was the pan --
My finger crooked on the trigger -- when he reared up like a man.
“Horrible, hairy, human, with paws, like hands in prayer,
Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear!
I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch’s swag and swing,
And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
“Touched with pity and wonder, I did not fire then...
I have looked no more on women -- I have walked no more with men --
Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray --
From brow to jaw with steel-shod paw, it ripped my face away!
“Sudden, silent, and savage, searing as flame the blow --
Faceless I fell before his feet, fifty summers ago.
I heard him grunt and chuckle -- I heard him pass to his den.
He left me blind to the darkened years and the little mercy of men.
“Now ye go down in the morning with guns of newer style,
That load (I have felt) in the middle and range (I have heard) a mile?
Luck to the white man’s rifle, that shoots so fast and true,
But -- pay, and I lift my bandage and show what the bear can do!”
(Flesh like slag in the furnace, knobbed and withered and grey --
Matun, the old blind beggar, he gives good worth for his pay.)
“Rouse him at noon in the bushes, follow and press him hard --
Not for his raging and roaring flinch ye from Adam-zad.
“But (pay, and I put back the bandage) this is the time to fear,
When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near;
When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise,
When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes;
When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer,
That is the time of peril -- the time of the Truce of the Bear.
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless, asking a dole at the door,
Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o’er and o’er;
Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame,
Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow’s game;
Over and over the story, ending as he began: --
“There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like a man!”
by Rudyard Kipling
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“The resolve being taken, he went actively to work. Ogeron, most accommodating of governors, advanced him the money for the proper equipment of his ship the Cinco Llagas, which he renamed the Arabella. This after some little hesitation, fearful of thus setting his heart upon his sleeve. But his Barbados friends accounted it merely an expression of the ever-ready irony in which their leader dealt.”
Who I'd like to meet:
Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State to The Worst President Since Nixon. During that time, he spent a week in Israel. That’s like walking around a combat zone with a bright red bull’s eye painted on your back. The guy’s got some serious stones. Also, when he found out he’d been duped into lying to Congress, he resigned, saying (in effect) that his own honor had been impugned. I want to meet him so I can convince him to run for President. I think he’d make a good one and I’d cross party lines and vote for him.
Hayley Westenra
She sang Scarborough Fair on Celtic Woman: A New Journey on PBS. I lay there in my papasan chair, agape... thinking: Oooooh, honey, if that’s all it takes to be your true love, I’ll make you an entire cambric wardrobe! Quick, quick, somebody hand me a needle!!
Stacey Dash
She made a living in her thirties playing a teenager on T.V. (Dionne in Clueless). She’s got a voice that could melt the coldest of hearts, soothe the most savage of beasts, and lure any sailor to his destruction. And just look at that smile in the picture on the right. How could any man resist that?
Maria Sharapova
This six-foot-tall Russian tennis goddess (I wouldn’t have to bend over to kiss her!) took Wimbledon from my other favorite tennis player, Serena Williams, a few years ago. I remember watching and being in great trouble of mind over who to root for... the staggeringly beautiful veteran or the devastatingly beautiful rookie.
Lucy Liu
She was playing Princess Pei Pei in Shanghai Noon when I first started following her career. I then discovered she was in Payback, ER, Jerry Maguire, and Gridlock’d. Since then she’s been in Charlie’s Angels, Kill Bill, and Lucky Number Slevin. Something about those almond-shaped eyes just turns my knees into Jell-O.
Alyson Hannigan
Indulging my weakness for redheads just a little bit, here. Hannigan just has this playful air about her. I first saw her in Buffy (the T.V. series), playing Willow Rosenberg. She was also in the American Pie series of movies, and is now in How I Met Your Mother on T.V. The pretty eyes and enchanting smile don't hurt, either.
Tracy Griffith
Melanie’s half-sister. Though she doesn’t act anymore, she is still one of the most magnificently beautiful women I have ever seen. Her IMDb entry doesn’t list any really big movies. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland was her first major role. Following that were The First Power with Lou Diamond Phillips and Jeff Kober, and The Finest Hour. She also had some TV guest appearances, but has not been on the big screen since Crazy in Alabama in 1999. She has written a book and became a partner & sushi chef at Rika’s on Sunset in Hollywood, California. In August 2006, she finished recording a country CD, Red.
Linda Cardellini
Samantha Taggart on ER. Also in Dead Man on Campus, Strangeland, Legally Blonde, and the Scooby Doo movies. She has this wholesome beauty with a mischiveous twinkle dancing around in the background... and That smile (“That” with a capital “T”).
Lauren Graham
Perhaps best known for her role as Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, she was also in Bad Santa, The Pacifier, and Evan Almighty. She is one of the very few actresses who I'd actually like to date. She seems like she's got her head bolted on straight (unlike so many others)... and I am so much like Luke Danes. She has those magnificent eyes...
(March 2006) Given my recent loss, as detailed in my blog entry entitled “Longshot,” I am not actively seeking anyone. My logical side, I’m sure, would not permit me to let a good opportunity slip by, should one fall into my lap, as it were. Everything happens for a reason, so all possibilities must be explored. My heart is wise enough to agree with my head’s rationale and is open to the possibility of being pleasantly surprised.
(December 2006) Lately, I’ve been feeling Carla spiritually kicking me because I haven’t gotten back out there and started dating again. I know she would have wanted me to find another love and give my heart to someone else; that’s just the kind of person she was. I have also found myself interesed in getting to know a number of women better. So, I know it’s time for me to start dating again and give my love to someone. In the words of David Wilcox:
And my heart says, “C’mon let’s go.” And my mind’s saying, “I don’t know.” And the train is at the station, But I’m lost in contemplation And this ticket’s only good for just so long. I can think about it ’til that train is gone, Or just get on...
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Your car burned up? OMG! That must have been horrific! I don't know if there's a need for a lawyer as the people who stopped to help me were unable to get the license plate number of the vehicle that tried to cut me off. :/
Hi Chris. Yeah, I'm ok. Just achy and sore still. I'm sorry to hear about your accident in March. I'm lucky that I didn't get lacerations... To be honest, I don't remember my driver's side glass window being broken. All I remember was when the car stopped rolling, I was just trying to get out of there as soon as possible. I fumbled to open the door, released my seatbelt, fell to the ground, then crawled out on my hands and knees.
It's so traumatizing... I never thought I would be in an accident like that-- When I crawled out and stepped back from the car and looked at it, I was horrified. It was so surreal.
haha! thanks. i watch throwdown with bobby sometimes myself. he's entertaining and so talented! any tips or recipes you have, send them my way! i am open to experimenting and learning!
Happy Holidays? You still learning Sign? Come to CSDR on the 13 this Thursday for "Silent Sleigh" parade and performances by "Majestik Element" and other performances. Take care and hope to see you there.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
Oooh good choice.....
Show them this meek apparelled thing, That could not stop to be a king, Doubtful if it be crowned!
My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together. Now Major Powers has put me in charge of this reconisence platoon.
That, I must say, was an interesting choice…..
We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign - and no memories.
I told them all the great things I know about you and there were a lot. I was up there for a while. I didn't tell them everything, though. I left out the complicated stuff, like how it took losing you forever for me to truly find you. And how finding you turned me into someone else entirely. That's not what they came for. People want to hear you were great. Not that were great, but also, sometimes, not so great. They want to know I miss you. Not that while I've been missing you, I've fallen for someone else. It's weird, though. I feel like the only one who would understand this is you. In a way, that makes sense. He was the one person you were yourself around. Of course he'd be that same person for me. Anyway, I left all that out and I kept it simple. I told them I loved you and that's the truth.
Ahhhhhhh Chris thank you! Ha ha what a birthday surprise!, But I think you got a bit of the song wrong........besides dont you know, I turned 27 yesterday...tee hee Hugs, Jen
:) So, you HAVE seen the movie, right? It's such a GREAT movie!! I'm in love with it! :) Christian was so cute. Ewan McGregor played the role so well!!
