I'd like to be described as a prolific individual. I tend to gravitate to others who are driven and strive for excellence in whatever they do whether it be tuning concert pianos or decorating freight trains.

My background is in mechanical engineering and i'm blessed with phenominal mechanical and analytical abilities. I love the challenge of designing products from scratch. The joke is that I make hard art but I'm actually supprising adept at drawing and painting. Conversely, I'm so untalented with regards to language, spelling, and music that its actually kinda liberating. Like they say its a wise man who knows his limits.

For dumb kicks I'll tear around on my mountain bike in Wiss, ring the neck of one of my motorcycles, or chill out over the odd beer and bar fare. Don't tell Monsanto I have two gardens this year.

And for the little things.... orange juice and seltzer make a kick ass orangina substitute.... i consider corn a vegetable.... I despise chain stores, particularly Applebees type fare.... I remember the oddest things from my childhood but literally have to stand in front of the stove while cooking lest I'll become distracted.... I envy my older cousins who got to spend their adolescent years immersed in the 80s.... I would be nice to take the easy way out for once....

Running ____ Machine LLC, my upstart manufacturing operation which specializes in product design and development. We pride ourselves on our flexibility, knowledge base, and flair for bringing artistic design to often very utilitarian products. A growing line of high end movie camera accessories is our latest work.

Anything involving logic, analogies, or mechanical mechanisms. I have an uncanny ability to get myself into and out of hot water. Never a dull moment around me.

Someone please tell me....

On Any Sunday, Faster, motogp documentary, The Fastest Indian, Allied Aircraft Engines, anything related to finance, the machinery manuals which have bailed me out on numerous occasions. I'll eat basically anything but Thai food. The spicier the better.

A calculator, daydreaming, my brother, my toys, something or someone to stimulate me.

The times.... There are literally two worlds colliding and I swear that I exist in the balance. I'm super upbeat about my future, the businesses my friends and I are building, and hell the fact that for the first time in my lifetime I can actually enjoy current music. That said its hard not be alarmed that my friends 11th graders struggle with fractions and a massive contingent of the city exist as destitute dependents of the state.

Split between beers out and having a couple beers in the shop as we make some futile effort to accomplish something.

My dad's a better athlete than I am. When I visit my parents the 60yr old talks endlessly about playing basketball with guys I graduated high school with.

You're special and you know it. scratch that.... You're perfect....