About

k, so about me:

• I was born in 1971. I am male. I am 5″10.
• I have two children. My son was born in 1989, my daughter in 1990.
• I have been lucky enough to be with a beautiful and talented woman who I love dearly since 1994, a few years after my separation from the mother of my two children.
• I love to read, and play on my computer.
• I am a complete computer Geek.
• I love Linux. Ubuntu and Debian are my current personal favorites.
• I love my pets, both cats and dog.
• I like Sci-Fi and Fantasy books, and have recently discovered I really enjoy Military Fantasy.
• I keep coming up with big plots for books, but sit down and draw a blank for the basic stories.
• I am originally from Frewsburg, NY but I live in Florida and love it.
• I love the Ocean. I like Cruising, sitting at the beach, watching dolphins, bodyboarding, snorkeling and just in general being near the ocean. I am bored to death by fishing.

Reading
I have many favorite authors and books. Here are a few in no real order.

• Anne McCaffrey : has been one of my long standing favorites, Pern was just cool.
• George R. R. Martin : A really interesting writer.  The Political Plot is very interesting.
• Piers Anthony : Xanth got me hooked, have loved lots since.
• Marion Zimmer Bradley : The Darkover books have been a long standing favorite.
• Roger Zelazny : The Amber books were awesome. So awesome I named my son out of them.
• Michael Moorcock : The Eternal Champion books were good fun. An Easy read, but entertaining.
• Chris Bunch : Emmy happened to bring one of his home from the library for me. I loved it.
• John Scalzi : The Old Man’s War is a wonderful Series! I really enjoyed it a lot!
• Dave Duncan : I have really enjoyed the stories of the Kings Blades.
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman : The Dragonlance books were really good. 🙂
• Anne Rice : I enjoyed the Vampire Books, and some of the Witches books.
• Frank Herbert : Dune was and is awesome. His son Brian has picked them up and is doing a decent job also.
• R.A. Salvatore : Drizzt is the coolest Dark Elf out. End of story.
• Melanie Rawn : I loved the Sunrunners! Awesome books.
• Patricia A. McKillip : I loved the Earthmaster Books. Was an interesting set of books.
• Jean Lorrah : I enjoyed the Savage Empire Books. They were a good read.
• JRR Tolkien : The Hobbit and the Return of the King were my first books back in First grade or so.
• C.S. Lewis : Ok, so these days, I do not read them much, but I have revisited the Narnia books once or twice.

If you are looking for hard to find out of date books, I highly recommend Alibris.com.

TV /Movies :
I am a big Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan, so I tend to watch a lot of those types of shows.
Here are the shows I can think of currently.
Shows I like currently on TV:

• Doctor Who – They have really breathed life into this classic!
• The Simpsons – How can you not love the Simpsons? Always funny, always creative.
• Arrow – Super hero shows. They at least last because they have mass appeal. Decent story.
• Flash – Has a bit more humor then the Flash, still decent story lines, and super villans. Cool!
• Humans – Love the Creative way they make these robots creepy!
• Mr Robot – Kind of an interesting look at the corporate world and the hacker world.
• NCIS – I will Gibbs slap you if you do not know this show!
• Most MMA stuff on TV I like as well.

Shows I have liked that died:

• Stargate Atlantis – I skipped watching Stargate and Atlantis for a long time, but my whole family kept asking me if I had watched the latest episode.. Finally I watched them and now I am hooked, so of course it died.
• Almost Human – This was my favorite show! I really enjoyed it. The humor was awesome!
• House – I really enjoy seeing House as the know it all who is totally socially inept.
• Burn Notice – Fiona is the best character ever!
• Torchwood – A spinoff of Dr. Who, we follow Capt. Jack as he is stuck in our time, fighting the Aliens that keep appearing on Earth. Interesting. I am actually liking a lot of these BBC shows.
• Heroes – I loved the first season of this, I only hope it keeps going the way it started. Season 2 has been more of the same. In fact, they managed to bring back the main villain. How annoying! Kinda on the fence currently.
• Sanctuary – A cool monsters are among us film.  Only this time, we are not just out to kill them, we are out to help give them a place to exist.
• Eureka – Funny Sci-Fi. Really enjoy it.
• Demons-Kinda seems like they took the Buffy the Vampire idea and reversed a bunch of things.. The main character is male.. It takes place in England, with an American “Watcher”. It is kinda interesting.
• Forever – I really enjoyed this. Of course it died.
• Stargate Universe
• Dollhouse
• Bully Beatdown
• Chuck – Very funny!  Awesome comedy spy show.
• Pushing Daisies -This was a funny little show.. Very quirky..
• Life – A cop who was setup for the murder of his partner has proved his innocence and is now out to find the real killers. The twist?  He has a large settlement and is back on the force.
• Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles – A TV show spin-off of the Movie version of the Terminator. Really enjoying it!
• Kyle Xy – Has a lot of things that remind me of Dark Angel.
• Primeval – A pretty cool idea.. Windows to different times opening up randomly around England, possibly the world.  Prehistoric creatures keep popping up in modern day life.
• The Sarah Jane Adventures -A spin off of Doctor Who.  One of his companions from long ago and where she is now and how he influenced what she is doing now.  Very Cool.
• Surface – This was a cool and mysterious show. I really liked all the characters. Nim was just the coolest thing! I will miss it.
• The 4400 – This is simply awesome. I love the abilities.
• Battlestar Galactica – Is not bad, but the drama goes overboard sometimes.
• New Amsterdam – Very cool idea.. The Immortal who has lived in NY City for 100’s of years, and watched it grow up.  Now a cop and solving crimes..
• Blood Ties – Has a Anne Rice feel to the whole Vampire thing.
• Dark Angel – I think this is where Jessica Alba got her start. And who doesn’t enjoy watching a hot woman kick butt? The Sci-fi twist was pretty good. She wasn’t just hot, she was genetically engineered, obviously.. Just look at her!? LOL!
• Invisible Man – I thought it was kinda interesting. Same old thing in one respect, but with a twist of humor.
• Stargate SG-1 – I enjoyed these. I avoided them for a really long time because Richard Dean Anderson annoyed me in Mcgyver. After I got over that, and watched the character he played in SG1, I actually got to like him.
• Firefly – Written by Joss Whedon, the writer of Buffy, Firefly is an interesting look at the future of space. Brings a Cowboy view to the future.
• The Bionic Woman – Was a cool remake of the Bionic Woman from the 70’s and 80’s.  I really thought it was pretty good, so of course it was canceled.
• Star trek NG – Having watched Star Trek as a kid, and even then realizing it was a bit hoaxie, I was thrilled to see Star Trek come back as a Teenager. I watched this all the time, whenever I could. In fact, my daughter was delivered in the middle of the Season Premier in 1991 of this episode.
• Star trek Voyager – An interesting version of Star Trek. Not my favorite, but had some interesting characters.
• Star Trek Enterprise – I was very disappointed they killed this. I actually liked it better then anything other then Next Gen.
• Star Trek Deep Space 9 – Soap Opera in space. My least favorite of the Star Trek Universe. Still better then many things on TV. 🙂
• Moonlight – Another Vampire series. More of the same, but has an interesting set of characters. Not my favorite, but better then nothing.
• Journeyman – A cool show with an interesting Quantum Leap idea to it. Very cool.. Will be missed.
• Dresden Files – I really like the whole magic in everyday world premise.
• Babylon 5 – was one of my favorites. One of the best laid out stories in a long time for a TV show. I really miss Babylon 5. I got the full Movie Collection for this for Christmas, and Emmy just bought me the entire series on DVD.  I am thrilled!
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer – I started out not liking Buffy, as the movie from the 80’s was so silly, but it grew on me as I watched it and became attached to the characters. Was a cult classic for Sci/Fi/Fanasty Tv.
• Angel – A spin off from Buffy, Angel was the vampire with a soul looking for redemption for the evil things he had done. He does that by helping people. Many stars from Buffy make guest appearances over here.
• John Doe – I rather liked this one. The whole,”Who am I, what happened to me?” was pretty cool.
• Special Unit 2 – Rather funny.. sorta like Men in black without the dignity.
• Dead Like Me – I love the dark humor of this. I wish they would bring it back on normal TV.
• Highlander – There can be only one! Let it be Duncan Macleod! I really enjoyed these. Why? I dunno. I guess it was just the sword and sorcery of it all.

Movies :

• Avatar (In 3D it is the most visually awesome movie I ever seen)
• The Matrix Trilogy (The First one was the best, but all of them were good.)
• The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (After growing up on these, seeing them brought to life was awesome!)
• The Harry Potter Movies (All of them. They are magical.)
• 300 (Awesome Action!)
• The Patriot (The scene where Mel Gibsons character goes off killing the British soldier in front of his kids was….)
• The Astronaut Farmer (It was a wonderful reminder to always try for your dreams, and to dream big!)
• The Original Highlander and Dune.  Looking back on them, they are kinda hoaxie, but I still enjoy them.