About Me
- About Me: What do you want to know?
Travel
- Places to see before I die: The world from above the atmosphere
College
- School Name: Pennsylvania State University
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1993
- Attended: 1989 - 1993
- Major(s): Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Organizations: Penn State Science Fiction Society
More About Me
- Nicknames: StarshipTrooper, GunsSaveLives, among others
- Nationality: Polish / German (?)
- Religion: Agnostic, apatheistic
- Heroes: Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei
- Interests: Science Fiction, Shooting, Politics, Science, Computers
- Expertise: Jack of all trades
- Occupation: Security / Customer Service
- Industry: Retail
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Chinese, American, Mexican / New Mexican, Seafood
- Favorite Dishes: Seafood Supreme
- Favorite Desserts: Ice cream -- butterscotch, strawberry, vanilla
- Favorite Drinks: Hard stuff -- Makers Mark Kentucky bourbon, Beer -- Sam Adams, Wine -- I'm game to try it out, iced teas (Arizona or Lipton)
- Favorite Junk Foods: Butterfinger, Twix
- Favorite Restaurants: Subway, Wingbasket, Siam Cafe, Fiesta's, Frontier
- Foods I hate: Broccoli. cauliflower, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, pot roast, anything cooked "well done" to the point of charring
Contact Info
- Yahoo: mikewb1971
Television
- Favorite Shows: Firefly, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Favorite Channels: Skiffy Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, Military Channel
- Favorite Reruns: Babylon 5, Crusade
- Most Addictive Show: Firefly, Babylon 5
- Characters you relate to: Malcom Reynolds
- Favorite Theme Song: Firefly
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Firefly, Threshold
Video Games
- Games I Play: Freecell, Snipes
- Consoles: PC
- Most Addictive: Freecell, Snipes
Books
- Favorite Authors: Steven Baxter, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Dale Brown, Harold Coyle, Michael Flynn, David Gerrold, Peter F. Hamilton, Frank Herbert, James P. Hogan, Victor Milan, L. Neil Smith, Vin Suprynowicz, Vernor Vinge, F. Paul Wilson
- Favorite Genres: Science fiction, technothrillers
- Favorite Characters: Repairman Jack, Henry Bowman
Style
- I like to wear: Black
- Can't live without: Gerber pocket folding knife, SureFire Z2 flashlight
Movies
- Favorite Movies: 84 Charlie MoPic, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie for Theaters, Ali G Indahouse, Bad Taste, the Matrix trilogy, Serenity
- Favorite Genre: Science fiction, action, technothriller
- Movies I can watch over and over: The Matrix, Serenity
Music
- Favorite Artists: Avenged Sevenfold, Ronnie James Dio, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Overkill, Van Halen, W.A.S.P., Y&T
- Songs I hate: Anything by Stone Temple Pilots, La Bamba
mikewb1971
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- Name: Mike
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 8/23/2007
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Hello Mr. Blessing, You made your site fancy and elegant. I see that you are a student. I’m glad that’s all over with for me! I like to write articles about Jehovah God on my site to help people to really get to know Him and His plans for us, especially in these troubled times. 44 "And in the days -
A few notes from this week --1. Got a B+ (89.9) in my Linux course this semester. I'm MUCH more comfortable with it as an operating system than I was before starting the course. I'm not dropping Windows, but I'm not locked into Windows any more. And that is a good thing.2. Now I've just got three la -
"A regulation can be for a fool to obey and a wise man to break." -- Sir Hugh Trenchard, founder of the [British] Royal Air Force
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Every so often, I get an unsolicitied "spam" message from the "Defenders of Wildlife." The only way that I can see is back in July of this year, I posted a message to Martin Heinrich's campaign site, telling him that his "universal health care" plan was garbage. The site required me to enter an emai
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Yesterday I found out that the CNM Photonics program is in danger of being killed off for at least a year, due to problems with the administrative people who are supposed to support the program. This is really frustrating -- I had planned on taking enough courses to complete the degree program. Luck
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Reposted my links pages and such after the versions I had posted to Google and linked to from here were disabled by the Google admin people -- see the sidebar on the main page. Also posted a couple more Twitter updates.
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Just updated my Zorpia page a bit. Haven't had much action there (mostly on myyearbook.com these days), but what the hell, why not?
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I just figured out how to customize the link to my MyYearbook profile from the default gibberish.
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My laptop is down again -- won't even boot up this time. Really pisses me off, as I basically live from it -- all of my files, notes, etc., are on its hard drive. ARGH. Really MUST put more of my stuff online so I can get to it without being dependent on one machine.
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Another blog entry -- Trying Linux (Again!)
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