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About Me
A native of San Jose, I grew up in the Almaden valley, at the edge of San Jose's urban sprawl. I attended the great Westerner preschool and loved Frontier Village. Then I discovered swimming, the first year of swim lessons I apparently was not a happy child, and learned to sink like a rock. The second year, and a bit of sibling rivalry had me breezing through the classes and by the end of the summer had joined a swim team, which became my second home for the next twelve years. Eventually I went to college, UCR, majoring in political science and minoring in history. I joined a fraternity, the Beta Rho chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma, making some good friendships, downing some cheap bear, and testing some leadership skills. I was also a political junky, active in the Model UN program, which among other things took me to New York three times. I then graduate school, University of Iowa, studying political science. Since then I have become an industry analyst, currently working for IDC covering the Electronics Manufacturing Industry. In my spare time I read, like old movies, look after Sparky, and try to find time to travel, pursue a hobby in photography, and other sundry things. Interests and Hobbies: Photography, old movies, reading (history, crime and espinage fiction, adventure, economics and business, anthropology, and biographies) Movies and Shows: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and too many other classic movies to list here. More recently Blood Diamonds, Sahara, Syriana, Lost, NCIS Music: Ranges from the Wallflowers to the Rolling Stones, the Who to Sheryl Crow, Pink Floyd to Norah Jones, Matchbox Twenty to the Kinks, Pink to Train, Warren Zevon to Springsteen, Counting crows to Van Morrison, and many others. Recently latin is also growing on my list Books: Reading at the moment The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis, a great anthropological look at Haity. Others include: Joseph Ellis, Graham Green, Peter Hopkirk, Mark Bowden, W.E.B. Griffin, Joseph Wambaugh, Nelson DeMille, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Richard Marcinko, Robert Sutton, Stuart Herrington, J. P. Cross, Robert Baer, Samantha Power, John Sandford, James Rowe, and William Langewiesche among others. Also the Atlantic Monthly is usually on my list, along with the New Yorker, National Geographic, and National Geographic Adventure. Thanks for visiting the site 
Fishing off Manzanillo
Somewhere in the state of Colima, Mexico
In Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico |
