About

Used to speak a little German; happily married for 40+ yrs. Phil Collen of Def Leppard is one of my great heros. How does a guy who's 59 and a member of one of the greatest Rock N' Roll bands of all time have his physique and look like The Rock at age 40 ?? Life ain't fair, but more power to him.

Education

• Virginia Tech
• Concord University
• Woodrow Wilson High School

Favorite saying

• ""Life is what happens while you're making other plans..." [Allen Saunders; John Lennon] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic....." [Arthur C. Clarke] "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..." [Thoreau] “It’s a mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it.” [Aristotle] "...Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work." [Marx] “If you look like food, you will be eaten.” [Clint Smith, Thunder Ranch] "Freedom's just another word for Nothin' left to Lose...." [Janis Joplin] "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it." [Clarence Darrow] "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..." [William Butler Yeats; "The Second Coming"] Chicxulub....another meteor is coming...... The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism is "All existence is suffering"... Do you ever look at your friends and think "We're going to be some weird freaking old people one day"? "Culture is different from civilization. What a robot does is not culture, it's civilization. Culture is what we create with our hands." [Kazumi Murose; greatest living practitioner of Urushi] “...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.” [Herman Melville; "Moby Dick"] "I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark." [Stephen Hawking] There are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics" "The things that make me different are the things that make me...me." [A.A. Milne] 'The sufferings of millions of the lower animals throughout almost endless time are apparently irreconcilable with the existence of a creator of 'unbounded' goodness." [Charles Darwin] "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur" ("What is freely asserted is freely dismissed") - What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence ......Hitchen's Razor.... "Some men can't be bought, bullied, or reasoned with....some men just want to watch the world burn..." "Never give up." [Stephen Hawking] "In matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable." [Thomas Huxley] What doesn't kill you simply makes you....stranger."