Main Man

Gender: Male
Industry: Education
Occupation: High School English Teacher
Location: Saint Paul : MN : United States

About Me

I am a 41 year old high school English teacher. I love to laugh, read, play ultimate Frisbee, and spend time with my beautiful wife and incredible daughter. I also have narcolepsy. While the disease is rather new (official diagnosis was delivered on August 20, 2007), I have been coping with it on a large scale since the fall of 2001. Of course, I can now recognize signs of it as early as college (1986) and my paper carrying days (1982). It has been a long road, and I feel like the journey is just beginning. I am passionate about nearly everything I encounter, but never miss a chance to talk about Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Star Wars, Star Trek, Shakespeare, poetry, films, Harry Potter, Orson Scott Card's Ender and Bean books, and King Arthur (hence the knights=nights pun). Basically, I am a terribly tired dork. Thanks for reading my blog.

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

Forks actually evolved from broken spoons. The jagged remnants of mutilated spoons provided the first glimspe of the "tine." Wise metalworkers devised methods for uniformly breaking sets of spoons which were then honed with small files, creating the first forks. On a related note, this historic achievement led plasticworkers to re-meld the two into the spork.