My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Occupation	Freelancer
Location	United States
Introduction	I am what you discern through the text of this website; a traveler, writer and budding dialectician. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -–Robert Heinlein
Interests	Travel, writing, SCUBA diving, trains, pulp fiction, academic research, mountaineering, extraordinary things.
Favorite movies	Yojimbo, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, 2046, Star Wars IV-VI, Blues Brothers, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Big Trouble in Little China, The Seventh Seal.
Favorite music	Tchaikovsky, Dick Dale, O-Zone, The Pillows, The Shins, Leningrad Cowboys, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus.
Favorite books	Zhuangzi, Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Ursula Le Guin, Neruomancer, Jules Verne.

Oscillate my metallic sonatas with your plan for the Panama canal:

Iron melodies/Of ship's propellers churning/Waves across green lands. --Haiku