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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Occupation	Librarian
Location	Mechanicsville, Virginia, United States
Introduction	Carbon based biped with a high tolerance for exercise. A very lucky trooper.An old-school library book and teen connector dog learning new tricks. I am an airplane geek, particularly old ones; I get very excited about plastic ones. I reallyreally like to cook; my wife tells me I am an exuberant cook. I like to be outside as much as possible. Light is good; The Night is long. I enjoy every sandwich, every breeze, and every laugh.
Interests	Smooching Linda The Missus, seeing kin and kith, working, reading, booktalking, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, cooking, aircraft real and plastic, MacIntosh apples, Troop D 5th Armored Cavalry, pyrotechnics, hoplites, secret ingredients, chess, Art, tinkering in the garage, recycling, slowfood, 100 mile diet, bicycling with the Missus, watching dragonflies, maps, Richmond VA IPMS, movies, film, vernacular architecture, Fort Ticonderoga, remembering Those Who Came Before, discovering a new to me author, looking at pictures, The Red Sox, WWI aviation, looking up at an airplane, ants, ant-like robots, bumblebees, figuring out fiberoptic lighting on scale models, M1911A1, M60A3, finding a good bucket on the beach after a storm, army buddies, cat herding, Roger's Rangers, scrounging, airshows, absinthe, proving myself handy at home and work, finding a bargain on a piece of machinery, finding a treasure on the give-away pile at the recycling center, picturesque ruins, cool old cars, US Lifesaving Service boathouses, pissing off anti-French "patriots".
Favorite Movies	La Vie en Rose, Ernest Scared Stupid, The Wild Bunch, Seven Samurai, Amarcord, Hope and Glory, Empire of the Sun, Time Bandits, Triplets of Belleville, Cinema Paradiso, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sword of Doom, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Thirteenth Warrior, Man on Fire, Last of the Mohicans, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Lawrence of Arabia, We Were Soldiers, Zulu, The Searchers, The Last Run, The Flim Flam Man, Quiet Man, Bringing up Baby, Sons of the Desert, Greystoke:The Legend of Tarzan, Burmese Harp, Flying Deuces, Das Boot, Bataan, Go Tell the Spartans, 300, Heavy Metal, Jason and the Argonauts, Father Goose, Jeremiah Johnson, The Beast, Z, Dante's Inferno, The Devils, Powwow Highway, Road Warrior, Barry Lyndon, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Transporter, Crank, The Blue Max, Year of Living Dangerously, Blade Runner, Major Dundee, Ride the High Country, Will Penny, The Duellists, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Culpepper Cattle Company, Tom Horn, Quigley Down Under, Cat People, Gods and Monsters, The Thing, John Carpenter's The Thing, Sergio Leone, Ken Russell, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway, Luc Besson, Todd Browning, Michael Mann, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ridley Scott, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff
Favorite Music	Ragas, sitar, Aeolian Harp, "Royal Fireworks Musick", Massed bands and pipes, wooden music, Howard Hanson, Charles Ives, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anonymous Four, Medieval Babes, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Gregorian Chant
Favorite Books	Walden, Gravity's Rainbow, The Joy of Cooking, Lost Country Life, Honey from a Weed, Thomas Tusser, Works of the English Romantic Poets, An Exaltation of Larks, LaRousse Gastronomique, The Physiology of Taste, The Apprentice, French Provincial Cooking, The Elements of Style, The Ginger Man, Silver Spoon cookbook, A Cowboy in the Kitchen, Siege of Krishnapur, Singapore Grip, Three Wogs, Mosquito Coast, Trustee From the Tool Room, On Love and Barley, Jacques Pepin, Thinking with a Pencil, Stone Work, Curse of Lono, Robert Louis Stevenson, PG Wodehouse, Margaret Drabble, Frank Norris, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Lawrence Clark Powell, Aldous Huxley, On Seeing, Grey Eminence, Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Andrea Camilleri, Vanity Fair, Ha Jin, Hunter S Thompson, Machinery's Handbook, Jamie Oliver, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot, Enchiridion, Witold Rybczynski, Mari Sandoz, Herodotus, Thucydides, Josephus, Samuel Eliot Morison, John Keegan, Paul Fussell, Kenneth Roberts, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Paul Theroux, Alan Furst, Samuel Johnson, Code of the Samurai, Book of Five Rings, Alexandre Dumas, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Thomas Mann, Gunter Grass, John Gardner, Bernard DeVoto, Walker Percy, Tom Wolfe, Mark Twain, Jean Shepherd, Karen Traviss, Elizabeth David, Dorothy Hartley