About Me
- About Me: I am a happily married Catholic with five children. Nobody has ever accused me of having too much tact.
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Japanese
- Favorite Dishes: Seafood Pasta Primavera
- Favorite Desserts: Tiramisú
- Favorite Drinks: Water and Beer
- Favorite Junk Foods: Junk Food = Poison
- Best meal ever: Tuna casserole with spinach and applesauce
- My Original Recipes: The Ultimate Zone Beef Vegetable Dinner
- Favorite Restaurants: Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
- Foods I hate: Sea Urchin
More About Me
- Nationality: American
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Heroes: St. Francis de Sales, John Henry Cardinal Newman, St. Alphonsus Liguori
- Interests: Traditional Catholic, a student of the Œcumenical Councils, and a lover of the monastics and ascetics. I love number theory, real analysis, church history, music theory, sacred polyphony, pocket billiards, weightlifting and languages. I am happily married with five children. Nobody has ever accused me of having too much tact.
- Expertise: Research scientist/mechanical engineer in the development of structural software, aware of his own disturbingly morbid intoxication with the writing and compiling of code. I am a lazy engineer; instead of doing any actual work, I instead write algorithms for my own use all year round, using cryptic interfaces shrouded in esoteric nomenclature. So not only do I never have to do any given task more than once, I always appear completely indispensable.
- Occupation: Research
- Industry: Aerospace and Structural Engineering
- Website: http://www.xanga.com/MysteriumFidei
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Princess Bride, Holy Grail, Better Off Dead, Fight Club, Passion of the Christ, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Memento
- Favorite Actors: Orson Welles, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson
- Favorite Directors: Tony Scott, Quentin Tarantino, David Mamet
- Favorite Genre: Drama
- Favorite Soundtracks: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Get used to disappointment." - Carey Elwes (Princess Bride) "Let's go over this one more time." - Joan Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blanke) "You won't need much, just a tiny taste." - Benicio del Toro (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) "Left my wallet in El Segundo!" - Irma P. Hall (The Ladykillers)
- Movies I can watch over and over: See favourites above.
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Johnny Depp
Music
- Favorite Artists: Giovanni da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, William Byrd, J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Rachmaninov, John Tavener, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Rush, Phish, Radiohead
- Favorite Albums: Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Mozart's Requiem, 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Junta, A Picture of Nectar
- Favorite Genre: Sacred Polyphony, Gregorian Chant
- Favorite Songs: Gloria In Excelsis Deo (Bach; Mass in F)
- Favorite Lyrics: Salve caput cruentatum
- Songs for Roadtrips: Anything by the Beach Boys, Phish, Rush, or the Beatles
- Songs I hate: Just about anything that is played on pop radio stations.
- Guilty Pleasure: Green Day
- Songs I repeat the most: Ave Maria, Hosanna Filio David
- Band I wish I was in: Chanticleer
College
- School Name: Georgia Institute Of Technology
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1999
- Attended: 1995 - 1999
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): Aerospace Engineering
- Minor(s): Psychology, Spanish
Style
- Where I shop: Good Will
- Brands I love: American Eagle
- I like to wear: I like Thorlo socks.
- Can't live without: My scapular
Books
- Favorite Books: Missale Romanum, Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius), Theory of Harmony (Arnold Shoenberg), Counterpoint (Joseph Fux), The Great Shark Hunt (Hunter Thompson), Summa Theologica (St. Thomas de Aquin), Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton), The Creature from Jekyll Island (G. Edward Griffin)
- Favorite Authors: G. K. Chesterton
- Favorite Genres: History, Theology
- Favorite Characters: Iver Seim from Larry Woiwode's "Beyond the Bedroom Wall."
- Recent Reads: The Apostolic Fathers
Travel
- Places I love: California
- Places I've been: Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England
- Places to see before I die: Rome, Ireland, Jerusalem
- Dream Vacation: Yakustk
Television
- Favorite Shows: Kill your TV
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- Name: Dave
- Birthday: 5/24/1978
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 8/17/2005
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hi..yeah you do not know me and thanks for adding me as a friend despite that.i forgot how did i end up in your blog. =) found your article rather interesting.a lot of views and opinions. -
DAVE- you have TOO MUCH TACT.
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