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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Educating youth to be skeptical, respectful stewards of nature
Location Denver, CO, United States
Introduction I'm a dad to amazing kids, a husband to an amazing wife, a kid chauffeur, and an educator. Life has taken me to interesting places with no particular destinations. Lately I am a graduate student attempting a degree in Conservation Biology and this blog is my attempt to educate you with my cause: the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret.
Interests music, competitive cycling, skiing, reading, conservation, dark beer, unadulterated coffee, espresso-type drinks, kharma, physiology, pesco-vegetarianism, ethical treatment of animals, automotive history, movies, music, evolution, t-shirts, traveling, eating, family, texas longhorn (my alma mater) football and basketball, ufc, listening to this american life and radiolab, and sleep-not necessarily in that order.
Favorite Movies american history x, a.i., joy luck club, fight club, memento, the first two matrices, o brother where art thou?, hero, gladiator, fandango, sound of music, lost in translation, matador, crouching tiger-hidden dragon, barcelona, blade runner, kalifornia, training day.
Favorite Music tom waits, thom yorke, los lobos, broken social scene, bach, beethoven, mahler, strauss, beatles, john coltrane, miles davis, wagner, herbie hancock, lyle lovett, bjork, wilco, peter gabriel, daniel lanois, u2, broun fellinis, beastie boys, ghostface killah, stevie ray vaughan, metallica, nightmares on wax, sun kil moon, modest mouse, sound directions, michael brecker (r.i.p.), pat metheny, bruce hornsby, ben folds, yo yo ma
Favorite Books 100 years of solitude, the ring trilogy by tolkien, the milagro beanfield war, the fabric of the cosmos, the places in between, the kite runner, survival of the sickest, catch-22, oryx and crake, the man who mistook his wife for a hat, the three investigator series, goodnight moon, the little prince, a brief history of time, night, life, me talk pretty one day, i'm a stranger here myself, the invisible bridge

The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?

sadly enough, i was born with a condition called apodopia (without feet), the officiants should've put me in the proper category before this bloody tennis tournament (backspin or not)!