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born Madison, Wisconsin-- back in the days of tail fins and Elvis
raised Poynette, Wisconsin
siblings one younger brother
educated long string of alphabet soup after my name
ordained yes-- member, John Knox Presbytery, Presbyterian Church (USA)
pastor (1999-2023) Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church and St. John's United Church of Christ, rural New Albin, Iowa
marital status single-- dammit!
height 5'7½"
weight next question, please
hair brown, with some grey in my beard
eyes smokey blue, with a sunburst of brown around the pupil-- runs on my Dad's side of the family
voice bass, and very loud
likes
favorite color red
music rock, mid 60's through early 80's
favorite album either "Fragile" by Yes, or else the Beatles' White Album, or maybe the self-titled first album by The Damnation of Adam Blessing
vehicle 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4x4, 4.0 liter inline-6 engine, colored steel blue
movies science fiction, comedy, Jackie Chan
wool blanket Hudson Bay Company point blanket
sounds the noise of an old vacuum cleaner
pizza with sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, and green olives
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dislikes
bananas I will not eat bananas-- pineapple & coconut are close behind
bullies especially if they are into enforcing conformity, acting respectable, or picking on people for being different
armor anger argue people for whom "veni vidi vinci" and "venom vendettam vindictum" are a way of life
& its equal and opposite reaction relativism is the intellectual equivalent of disarming you through gun control-- when absolutes are outlawed, only relativists will have absolutes
states West Virginia; Idaho
presidents Bill Clinton
vice-presidents Aaron Burr
frosting on the cake
science fiction mostly stuff written from 1945 to 1975-- and/or Robert Heinlein, James Blish, Clifford Simak, "Doc" Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Phil Dick, whatever
stuffed animals from my childhood Mr. Dummy (sock monkey), Mr. Frappo (blue rabbit), Pink Frappo (multicolor rabbit), Sinister Frappo (off-white satin bear who thinks he's a rabbit), Funniment (red terrycloth horse), among others
synaesthesia I have always "known" the colors of the days of the week: Monday, light brown; Tuesday, violet; Wednesday, red; Thursday, moss green; Friday, yellow; Saturday, luminous red; Sunday, white
theologians Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr, T.F. Torrance, John Calvin, Richard of St Victor, Augustine, Athanasius
philosophers oh, besides Charley Peirce? Josiah Royce, Ernst Cassirer, Charles W. Morris, Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Camus, Søren Kierkegaard, George Santayana
poets Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Philip Larkin
semiotically oriented novelists Walker Percy
curmudgeons H.L. Mencken
neoplatonists Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Richard of St Victor, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola
beer Leinenkugel's, Point Special, Miller Genuine Draft
pop RC Cola, Spring Grove black cherry, 7-Up
still use on my old computer the DOS command line; MS-Word 5.0 for DOS; Turbo Pascal 3.0; the Q-Edit text editor, with WordStar ctrl-key commands; Keith Ledbetter's WHEREIS utility; Vern Buerg's LIST utility
use on my new computer Mageia Linux; the BASH command line; the Fluxbox window manager; Opera 11.52 for Linux; Thunderbird; Pan; the JOE text editor, with WordStar ctrl-key commands; gkrellm; gFTP; Pidgin; XMMS Beep Media Player Audacious; mplayer; gnuplot; The GIMP; urpmi; and Frozen Bubble
books to expand your mind Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect; Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America; Eric Hoffer, The True Believer; John Carroll, Humanism: The Wreck of Western Culture
books to expand your consciousness Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind; Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours
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