Saving lives, cheating death, keeping the world safe for democracy, living the dream
Интересы
My daughter, Coffee, Hops, Honeycrisp apples, Books (too many books), Comfortable chairs and warm fires, Deep soil, orchards and vines, horses, children
Любимые фильмы
Michael Mann (in general), Tony Scott, Ridley Scott
Любимая музыка
Нет данных или скрыто
Любимые телешоу
Top Gear (BBC America) and No Reservation (Food Network). Jeremy Clarkson should be Prime Minister, and Anthony Bourdain is just simply the shit
Любимые книги
Simon Schama, Gene Logsdon, Christopher Hitchens, Roger Welsch, Victor Davis Hanson
Любимые цитаты
Another question that got really old, really fast is: “So you’re a male nurse, huh?” to which I’d reply, “Yeah, I flunked the physical for female nurse.” – George O’Neil, RN, BSN, CEN
"It is the duty of a gentleman to know how to ride, to shoot, to fence, to box, to swim, to row and to dance. He should be graceful. If attacked by ruffians, a man should be able to defend himself, and also to defend women from their insults."
-Rules of Etiquette and Home Culture, 1886
Ubique calorem portandum: in ferro veritas.
In fifty years, we’ve gone from teaching Greek and Latin in high school, to teaching remedial English in college. Did we honestly think that this would have no effect on academic standards at universities?
–Kim du Toit
Always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.
Never disgrace the generation of your fathers.
-Hippolochus, to Glaucus, in Homer, Iliad VI, (Fagles translation p.202)
Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus,
hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons
et paulum silvae super his foret.
-Horace, Satires 2.6, "On the Sabine Farm"
"You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you'll find me in a pile of brass."
-Trooper M. Padgett
Любимые игры
Нет данных или скрыто
О себе
Basically, I'd love to be a country gentleman: living in some little village somewhere, forgotten by the world, content to live with my family, my books, my experiments and my coffee, and eating brioches in the mornings while I go about my daily routine.