Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets. This warning is necessary because once, a hundred years ago, a little old lady in Kentucky put a hundred dollars into a dry goods company that went belly-up and returned her only ninety-nine dollars. Ever since, the government has been on our asses. If you ignore this warning, read on at your peril -- you are dead certain to lose everything you've got and live out your final decades beating back waves of termites in a Mississippi Delta leper colony. Test edit.
-- The preceding is blatantly plagarized from Neal Stephenson's brilliant Cryptonomicon and proffered in lieu of lorem ipsum. --

By far one of the best things about living in California, the Sierra Nevadas are a constant balm for any degree of wanderlust
<-- Bullfrog Lake, just the other side of Kearsarge Pass
Travel in this hemishpere, or any other
<-- Venice, Istanbul, Stonehenge, Ephesus
Simply the greatest toy in the world
<-- The better to see you with, Johnson Valley, Jawbone Canyon Road, Grass Valley mudding, Coyote Flats
Good times with friends and family
<-- Alaskan adventures, Nikki, Karto, The Giant Burger, Caleb, Chris, Cory, Mike
Some favorite photos and miscellaneous interests
<-- Good wine, classic movies, nature for viewing and sleeping in, beer, astronomy, and Italian food
Some small examples and descriptions of my tour(s) of duty at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
<-- Some proposal work, some R&TD, some flight hardware, but mostly a lot of playing in the dirt


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