I've driven motorcycles or three-wheeled ATVs off and on for as long as I can remember. I'd always wanted a motorcycle (a street bike) of my own. I fell in love with the Yamaha Vmax the day my dad rode up on one in 1985 or 1986, and the Yamaha FJ1200 has held a strong place as my second favorite bike. Now, I have my Vmax, and I'm trying to convince my wife that I should also have one of the new FJR1300s.
"The unexamined life is not worth living" -- Socrates
The love of wisdom... How could any sentient, intelligent, thinking being
not be
philosophical? Questions debated for over two thousand years that still don't
have answers -- and may never have answers -- have bearing on the modern world.
It's a shame that too many people these days look at philosophical questions as
something with a simplistic yes/no answer, without ever actually
thinking about the question.
Light reading, to give my mind a break from the denser prose of philosophy. I've read very little fiction lately, though, since I've been so bloody busy between work and school (up until May of 1999) and gaming (see below) and domestic life and writing and ... ad infinitum. I've got a queue of books at least a dozen deep that I've yet to start.
Yeah, ya might think I'm geeky or something. I like playing computer games, most notably MicroProse's Civilization series and just about anything Maxis puts together.
I was interested in things Celtic before I saw the big marketing push of Celtic-styled things. From simple yet intricate knotwork to the haunting call of bagpipes in the morning to reels and jigs to the kilt (see the bottom of the main page), it is something I find interesting. Hey, I was one of the four Scots in the color guard of the lead pipe band at the Denver St. Patrick's Day parade in 1999. I never did quite figure that one out...
Yes, I play role-playing games. I've played (in the distant past) AD&D, Twilight: 2000, Chill, Recon, Star Frontiers, and a couple others whose names escape me right now.
Most recently, I have referreed the following campaigns:
I also ran a one-shot Star Frontiers module, 2001: A Space Odyssey (it was an official TSR module: licensed and everything). I may run the players through the 2010 scenario some point in the future. I also had a fairly good start for a Space:1889 campaign (to the point of getting handouts done and getting characters rolled up), but that shuffled to the back-burner (I was working on it during the final months of my final semester for my undergrad degrees).
I've participated in a variety of campaigns with the Northern Colorado Gamers, some of whom reside outside of Greeley.
The most recent mix of full-time players/referees is me, Ryan, Andrew, and Jon. Julia, Jennie, Christine, Josiah, Cindy, Eric, Dan, and Kat are each involved in at least one of the games. There are also the occasional cameos from Joy.
For an idea of the current games we're playing, refer to the Northern Colorado Gamers page.
The campaign naming convention I use I borrowed from the Dreampark series, written by Niven and Pournelle. It's a simple system: "The" + two word semi-descriptive title + "Campaign". "The Grey Skyes Campaign" alluded to both the grey aliens that were central to the story, as well as the technological backwardness of the greys (using an older-looking spelling of "skies"). "The Dark Mysteries Campaign" is much less cryptic -- it involves old, sinister prophecies, after all.
I worked on the Capshare 910 and 920 hand-held digital copiers between May 1998 and September 1999. More recently, I have worked on digital cameras.
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