Biography

"Squint your eyes and look a little bit closer..I am a poster girl with no poster...what I am is 32 flavors and then some...and I'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head......I am 32 flavors and then some...I'm nobody but I am someone"
32 flavors by Alana Davis, lyrics written by Ani DiFranco

I was born in the Washington D.C. metro area. I lived in Austin, Texas from ages 4 to 8 while my Dad attended UT.
Then after my parents divorced, I moved with my Mom to Hawaii until I was 12 years old. My Mom remarried and we moved to California where I lived until I was 16. Then I moved to Virginia to live with my Dad (who also remarried that year) but one year later ended up moving in with my grandmother until I graduated high school.

After graduating high school I signed up for 3 years in the army. After I finished my serving out my military contract I attended George Mason University for a year before transferring to San Jose State University in California, which I attended (to my lasting regret) for the next 4 years.

In the 1980s I got caught up in the yuppie's (BMWs & MBAs) popularity of corporate business  like in the movie "Wallstreet" with Charlie Sheen & Michael Douglas. So I decided I would get a degree in international business.

During the recession in the early 1990s I discontinued attending SJSU as a full time student and began working full time for various temporary agencies at a variety of jobs and companies thoughout silicon valley (such as Netscape, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett Packard) After 21/2 years of this I decided 'hi tech' wasn't for me. But since I had always wanted to be involved in international business, I took an entry level position at George S. May consulting. But became disullsioned by my experience there and decided to go to work for myself. Alot of friends and acquaintences over the years had made comments and remarks  to the effect that I was too intelligent and competent to be working in all of these low level jobs. So I started working on my own business - a consulting company which advises US and foreign businesses on a Pacific Rim trade. My work involves alot of travel and contracts are sporadic. So I might have nothing going on one month and too much to do the next two. Taking this past year for example I was in Japan during January and then in Hawaii during February but March and April were dead then off again in June, August & September with not much going on during October and November.

I'm planning on starting a master's degree and probably moving out of the San Francisco bay area in about 4 years or so.

I'm 1 and 1/4" short of 6 foot, weigh 176lbs and for anyone who might send me shoes for christmas or my birthday, I have a size 10-11 foot depending on the brand. My Levis are 32-30s, and I wear a size 7 hat. In 1993 I had a bodybuilders build (431/2" chest, 15 and 3/4" arms, 12 and 5/8ths" forearms, 231/2" thighs, 16" right calf, 15" on the left calf - I'll be working on evening them,  with 63/4" wrists) but since I didn't use any drugs or chemicals, and being an ectomorph, it wasn't noticeable with long sleeves or non-tight fitting clothes on (except for my shoulder width). Technically,  I haven't 'hit' it at all since 1994, but I'll be starting again this fall, so I should be back at these measurements in a year or so and hope to surpass them within four years.

Ethnically: On my father's side it seems I'm Scots, Welsh, Cornish, either Irish or Scots-Irish, possibly english (haven't pinned it down completely just yet - just estimated from the first and last names in the immigration records, which go back to 1821) and Swedish (his mother) On my mother's side I don't really know yet. Except my Mother's maternal grandmother who was either Irish or Scots (McDaniel).

My Personality: I'm usually described as intelligent, witty, thoughtful, confident, articulate and well travelled-cosmopolitan.
I'm keenly aware of my surroudings and others; especially their behaviors and motivations. 
"The Busters are the first of the "latch key" kids. They've been jostled, jolted and pushed back and forth by everyone and everything around them. With a very low trust level, they fear that you too, aren't sincere. And they desperately want something real in their lives, something lasting. They seek truth in life and in others around them."
I view myself as empathetic, independent, outgoing and introspective.
My charisma and sincerity are usually what attracts others to me.
Those who don't like me usually percieve me as arrogant, that I talk too much (or they don't like what I have to say) and that I 'steal the show'. Others are intimidated because of the way I carry myself. I've been misunderstood throughout most of my life, starting around the age of 8 until today. I'm not pretentious nor egotistical but I am judgemental and rarely optimistic -"Where the Boomers are idealists, this generation is pessimistic and blame Boomers for today's problems. Busters are reactive, yet introverted."
Selling to the Generations Part 1 - Age Groups & Attitudes by ©1998 Robert C. Brenner

I completely embody what it is to be a gen Xer both in personality and life experiences. Somehow I've ended up the posterboy for my generation.

I try to be as comfortable in jeans as in a tuxedo. I never conformed to any particular group; whether jocks, nerds etc. I move in circles and have attempted to be comfortable whether checking out a gothic rave or while wearing a tux and discussing chardonnays'. My circle of friends are ethnically diverse and I chose them based on our common interests and the character traits they posses.

I have no artistic or musical talent, I'm terrible at math and would never make a great mechanic.
I wish I was more mathematically inclined. As socially inept as many engineers are, I've always liked how they can create something and see the outcome of their work directly.

My approach to life, would be represented very well, by the scene in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun in which OO7 (Roger Moore), is abducted to a martial arts school where he is to be beaten to death, kicks an opponent when he bends down to bow.
"They are pragmatic. They are interested in what works. They are not as absolutists as Boomers.
David DiSalvo reported in Campus, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 3, the results of an interview with Bill Strauss, author of 13th Gen and Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069.

Many of the things Kay listed in her bio I also enjoy but here in my bio I'm mainly listing the ones I like that she didn't put on hers. I'm also only illustrating recent and commonly known examples of what I like.

My Favorite t.v. shows:
During the week if I'm home I'll watch Family Man & the Simpsons on Sundays, Dilbert on Mondays (having worked in the silicon valley for a few years find it very humorous - I love Dogbert), Futurama, King of the Hill (if it's good) & Just Shoot Me on Tuesdays, Frasier on Thursdays and zilch on Friday and Saturday. If I'm up late I check out Late Night with Conan.

Whenver these shows are on - Dr. who with Tom Baker, Red Drawf, Black Adder, I grab some popcorn and watch. (though I've already taped most of them.)

I wish NBC didn't discontinue Working, Babylon 5 and Drew Carey's Whose Line Is It on ABC all formerly on Wednesday nights.

I discontinued continued cable and rarely go to the movie theatre these days.

Favorite Movies:

As a kid: James Bond

Comedy: Caddyshack, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Pest, 1941, Bebe's Kids and Everywhich way but loose, Blazing Saddles, Fletch, National Lampoon's Animal House and Christmas Vacation are some of my favorites.

Action: Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones, Conan the barbarian,
and Terminator

Science Fiction: Blade Runner, Star Wars, Heavy Metal,
a movie called Logun's Run affected me alot when I was very young.

Drama: Pink floyd's The Wall, Trainspotting, Rob Roy, Braveheart, Devils Advocate, Gardens of stone

Favorite Comedians: Sinbad, John Lagonzomo, Dennis Miller, David Spade, Bill Murray,and Steven Wright

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, James Earl Jones, Tom Hanks and Walter Matheau

Favorite Music:

Rock- Van Halen - from 1984 finish what you started, teacher, AC/DC, Yes - Shoot hi aim low, changes, Love will find a way, long in Heart, Bad Company - Bad company, Smoke to your flame, Sammy Hagar I can't drive 55, You Could Be Mine - Guns & Roses also Jungle, Scorpions - Sharri, Aerosmith - Elevator, Eat the Rich, Rag Doll, Rush - power windows,  The Who- Blue Eyes, Eminence Front, Pink Floyd

Soul- Sweet Sensations - hooked on you, Jenesais, Pajama Party, Tracy Spencer - A sentence of Love, Rebbie jackson - Centipede, Buffalo Dance - Nena Cherry, Summertime - Lasara, Rocking In the rain, Rozalla Everybody's Free, Pump Up the Volume, Party Train, Sheila E, Chill Rob G - The Power, Facinated by your love toy, Only In My Dreams Tiffany, Robin S Show Me Love, Adventures of Stevie V, Make me over - cybil, Rockin in the rain,
Rick James - superfreak, Haddaway,

Instrumental- rivers gonna rise - Patrick O'Hearn, Yello, Martin Bennet, Latour, Art of Noise, Enigma - Mega Culupa & Vangelis - L'enfant

Folk Music- Bag Pipes, Chanting (monks), Indian (such as Ali Akbar Kahn), Chinese (e.g. Chinese Silk), Australian Aborigine,

Classical-Wagner, Stravinsky, Adagio for strings, Sonate in F minor for harpsicord Domin Scarratti #87, Ed Varg Krieg #46

New Wave: B-52s (summer of love, whammy kiss, wild planet, mesopotamia), Annie Lennox DIVA, U2 - Pride, the unforgettable Fire, Indian Summer Sky, Running to Stand still, Red Hill mining town, In God's Country, Achtung Baby, Big Audio Dynamite E=MC2, Medicine Show, UB40- Please don't make me cry, Kingston Town, All Iwant to Do, Rat in the kitchen, don't break my heart, Clash - I fought the law, Talk Talk - It's my life, Heaven 17- this is mine, ABC, Billy Idol, Culture Club - I'll tumble for ya, do you really want to hurt me, time, Icehouse, hey little girl,  Franke Goes to hollywood, Men at work, Soft Cell's sex drawf, Thomas Dolby, Flock of Seagulls Dreams Come True, Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours, Another Nail in my heart, Pulling Muscles from a shell, Alarm - shout at the devil, Eurethmics - new emotion, INXS - Listen Like Thieves, Falco - emotional, Talking Heads - stop making sense, Let's Ride, Burning Down the House

Reggae- Black Uhuru, Bob & Ziggy Marley of course,

Soundtracks- The Bounty, Rainman, Predator, Miami Vice (Jan Hammer), Platoon, Legend, Trainspotting, Fletch, Last of the Mohicans, Excalibur, Risky Business sountrack side 1 (the train scene) Trust Me - from the Terminator soundtrack, Suave on the Cobra soundtrack (terrible movie)

50s- Spanish Harlem - Benny King, just my imagination, chances are, what's going on, tossin and turnin - Sam cook, Chuck Berry Mabaline,
Tutti Fruit, Long Tall Sally, Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless, Great Balls of Fire

60s -When I was young by the animals, Rolling Stones - Playing with fire, Satisfaction, On my cloud, Painted black, Butterfly by Jimi Hendrix
Taxman by the Beatles,

70s - Van Morrison, Steely Dan

Some of books, newspapers, magazines that I read: The Economist, Asia report, Far Eastern Review, Asian wall street journal, P.O.V., George,  Maxim - mostly non-fiction since I don't have time for fiction. I don't bother with  most newspapers or magazines other than to find out what topics are being covered.

Some favorite artists: Photographers Ruth Benard, Ansel Adams, and some of Man Ray's and Helmut Kohl's work. My favorite art medium is sculpture, I love Antonio Canova's 3 Graces. I also love architecture: buildings and bridges and consider vintage airplanes and motorcycles art.

Favorite Food: I love trying different types of food. I've tried Norwegian open faced sandwhiches at a consulate party, Conk fritters in the Bahamas, Armenian, Cambodian, Hungarian, Indian, and Brazilian too name a few more most people haven't tried and Vietnamese, Japanese, Mexican (I love horchata), Thai, and Greek that most people have tried. But too be honest alot of it I end up not liking because I'm so picky. Ever since I was a kid I've loved sweets; rock candy(not anymore), mini-cinnammon powdered donuts, gummy bears (German), Goldfish crackers, and chinese or japanese treats ( minus seaweed, squid etc.) , Combos, Kings Hawaiian Honey & Wheat Rolls, Butter Leaves and  Vlasic pickles

Some Favorite Restaurants:

What's my favorite thing to receive as a gift? Any gift displaying love and appreciation.

My idea of a perfect vacation - sex with a busty athenian girl in the amphetheatre in Greece or with a couple indian girls under the "kama sutra" statues, or with a mayan girl on an pyramid in Guatamala.