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Overdesigned
And probably underbuilt
Created on 2002-08-18 13:48:20 (#672808), last updated 2009-07-08
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Basic Info| Name: | The Few, The Proud, The Me. |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1984-09-12 |
| Location: | Champaign, Illinois, United States |
Contact:
usmcnavgeek@gmail.com BioI'm a geek who spent five years in the Marines and finally got around to changing his userID and default icon. Now I'm going to school on the government's dime, so thanks for paying your taxes, I guess. I used to take lots of pictures but these days I don't travel as much so I don't take as many.
I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.
— Horace Lamb
I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known.
— Richard Bach
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
— Stephen Coonts
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
— Edward Gibbon
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.
— Warren Buffett
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
— Ernest K. Gann
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water.
— James Michener
I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.
— Horace Lamb
I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known.
— Richard Bach
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
— Stephen Coonts
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
— Edward Gibbon
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.
— Warren Buffett
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
— Ernest K. Gann
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water.
— James Michener
ConnectInterests (54):
action movies, aerospace, aerospace engineering, airplanes, aviation, badassery, being lazy, books, bsg, cameras, canon cameras, chronic lonliness, computers, cooking, doctor who, drum n bass, engineering, falling, farscape, firearms, flight simulators, flying, food, fort worth, gaming, guns, hopeless romanticism, insomnia, legos, lens envy, military, model building, naps, navigation, necessary violence, networking, photography, porn, port wine, reading, science fiction, shooting, skydiving, sleeping in, star wars legos, swimming, the who, torchwood, traveling, uiuc, united states marine corps, university of illinois urbana-champaign, webcomics, xkcd
External Services:
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 | usmcnavgeek | |
 | usmcnavgeek@hotmail.com | |
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Schools:
Belvidere Senior High School - Belvidere, IL (2000 - 2003)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL (2008 - present)
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