About
Page Last updated: 9 July 2008
That’s me to the left.
My personal rules: play to your strengths; practice, practice, practice; learn from your mistakes.
Projects, past and present
- Loving being a late in life Software Engineer (started in summer of 2008) and learning to be a good one
- Continuing (for the 4th time) to write my novel The Long Way Home in my spare time
- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training at Ralph Gracie Academy in Mountain View
- Developing mymoms JavaScript library
- Treasurer for the California Writers Club, Southbay branch from 2007 to 2008
- Climbing (Bouldering): 3+ difficulty completed before my climbing gym closed down
- Running: 1124.75 = Miles run from October, 2005 to early 2007
- Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf Races: 2006, 2007
- San Jose Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon: 2006
- AIDS/LifeCycle 2005 (Rider #6016)
- Wildflower 2005 Olympic Distance Triathlon
Favorite Quote
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
– Gandalf the Grey (aka. J.R.R. Tolkien)“The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for their time when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi“Freedom must be seized from the grass roots level, not granted from the top.”
– Zimbabwe’s Thomas Mapfumo“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
– A. Lincoln“The grass is never really greener, the poop is just in different spots.”
“Everything is really simple, I just make it difficult to get attention.”
“Nothing is more binding than doing something illegal together.”
“I’m not good, I’m just stubborn.”
“Nothing requires more work than doing something I don’t love.”
“I’m not a saint.”
– The above are my own, for what they are worth
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