itinerant escotraicist
If Richard Feynman and Terry Pratchett had a love child that was raised in an unorthodox Taoist temple, well if you are still following that thought to its inevitable car wreck of a conclusion please read on.....
Fun Facts:
* I study [[martial arts]] (the real thing not that other stuff).
* I can leap tall ant hills in a single bound.
* I love PBJ sandwiches, and can make some mean stir fry.
* Babies trust me.
* I can cook a 2-minute egg in 1 minute and 55 seconds.
* I have achieved dad body, without having kids.
* I can make two atoms occupy the same space. (Just not at the same time)
* I enjoy [[scuba]], [[hiking]], [[reading]] and beating my head against the wall.
* I am wabi, sabi, and sardonic
I don't have many casual friends. But I am blessed to have a small but strong group of special friends. The kind that when you first meet, it feels like you've come home. The kind that when you haven't spoken in months and pick up the phone, you pick up the conversation where it left off (and the good energy right with it). The 'brother from another mother' kind.
I'm an entrepreneur and recovering workaholic in-between business at the moment.
My drill sergeant used to say (or rather shout/growl at us) that “you can’t polish a turd”. A few years ago Mythbusters did a segment proving that in fact you can! Since then I have drawn the conclusion (as a most valuable life lesson): Why would you want to?
Studying martial arts for fun and read voraciously. Looking for a partner to try and learn tango with.
I’m really good at Random and unintentional Sheldon Cooper impressions.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
I realize I have too many to list, so I'm grouping them to give a sense of flavor.
books (I read 200+ last year):
Everything by Terry Pratchett
Surely you must be joking Mr. Feynman, A candle in the darkness
The Secret of the golden flower.
Ishmael and Lamb
Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Illusions
The Man Who Never Missed , Shibumi and Tactics of Mistake
The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts
Most of the stuff by: Lois McMaster Bujold, Steven Brust, Jim Butcher and Christopher Moore.
Enough business/marketing books to keep Amazon in business.
movies well I have different favorites for different genera.
Obviously Star Wars Ep 4,5, and 6
Star Trek Ep 2 and the rest of the even numbered ones
All of Monty Python
Most everything with Toshiro Mifune and Clint Eastwood.
Paul (if it didn't make you laugh, you are dead inside)
TV shows would include:
The Daily Show, Sports Night and West Wing
The Black List (pretty much everything with James Spader)
BBC's Sherlock, Elementary and The Mentalist
BSG (both new and classic), Babylon 5, and select episodes of the Star Trek hegemony
Music is so eclectic that you'd have to see it to believe it. Jazz for general soundtrack of life. Pop/rock and roll is all good to fuel whatever mood I'm driving for. Hard rock/Heavy metal for working out. It's really all good, hell even country. (Except for rap music, which is misspelled, they forgot the C in front of it....)
As for food. I eat to live, I don't live to eat. But Pizza (cheese only) and Sushi are top of the short list.
The six things I could never do without
1) Chi Gong training, every day no exceptions.
2) Mediation, even if it's just 5 minutes, but usually more throughout the day.
3) Those rare, all too brief moments of incomparable beauty that life bestows upon me, when I pay attention.......
(They might be rare because I'm not always paying attention.)
4) Moments that nourish the soul, like when you help a stranger, who didn't expect it, whether they appreciated it or not.
And finally remember those friends I mentioned above? Well #’s 5 and 6 are:
- when you connect with them and share a moment when something quite ordinary happens, but their uniqueness turns it into something that only the two of you get at a much deeper level, that gives you that sense that it's not just you laughing (or scratching your head) at the absurdity of the world. That in fact there is at least one other.
Most of my Army stories are only funny after the second (or third) beer.......
I spend a lot of time thinking about why I can't seem to use Avogadro's number more often in a conversation.
