About Me
- About Me: I am not literally a dog; on good days, I get to eat and sleep like one. Current status: married to brainy redhead, children mostly grown, trying to learn new tricks. Former career: programmer and systems analyst. Exciting new life mission: full-time college instructor teaching freshmen about business software.
Travel
- Places I love: Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Smithsonian, Arizona desert at night, Indiana dunes.
- Places I've been: U.S, Canada, Mexico
- Places to see before I die: Alaska, Antactica, Israel, Yellowstone, Black Hills
- Dream Vacation: I'm driving through the neighborhood where I lived as a child, except now it has morphed into a jungle. Somehow, I'm suddenly outside the car and flying, but I can't flap my arms hard enough and begin falling. Then I wake up.
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Freegan (but not that organic crap) home-grown vegetables, home-cooked meals (hurry home, dear and cook me some free home-grown veggies)
- Favorite Dishes: Corelle (ahaha), Pad Thai, almost any curry, Chinese food NOT from the buffet
- Favorite Desserts: Flan, Cheescake (real, plain)
- Favorite Drinks: Coffee, Mountain Dew
- Favorite Junk Foods: Cracker Nuts aka Japanese peanuts, Doritos
- Best meal ever: When the family eats together
- My Original Recipes: Award-winning Chili, basgetti
- Favorite Restaurants: Famous Dave's, Panera
- Foods I hate: Sucralose, olestra, all artificial sweeteners, all pre-fabricated frozen diet dinners, cheese-food and all other faux-dairy products, all fake and/or over-processed food (you know who you are)
More About Me
- Nicknames: Mark, Marky, Mark-o, O Mighty Mark
- Nationality: American (Mixed-Race, Hoosier-American, German-American, Irish-American, Polish-American, White-European-Male, Non-Hispanic-White)
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Heroes: J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln,
- Interests: Computers, Geography, computer games, eating, dogfighting (me fighting with my dog)
- Expertise: Programming, Microsoft Office, Classroom Mismanagement
- Occupation: College Instructor / Systems Analyst / Programmer
- Industry: Education / Financial Services software
- Website: xanga
Television
- Favorite Shows: The Office, Scrubs, Heroes, Simpson's
- Favorite Channels: NBC??
- Favorite Reruns: why watch reruns?
- Most Addictive Show: I am not addicted, this is a painful subject and I do not wish to discuss it any more.
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: my dreams
- Favorite Episode: Scrubs the musical
- Characters you relate to: Everyone in the Office
- Favorite Theme Song: Hawaii five-O
- Show I Secretly Watch: Victoria's Secret commercials. Hey, if its a secret why would I post it here?
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: All shows must be cancelled after they become old and stale.
Video Games
- Games I Play: Civilization, Age of Empires
- Consoles: none
- Favorite Characters: pac-man
- Gaming Alias: DOC
- Servers I Play On: none
- Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Ms. Pac-man
- Most Addictive: I am not addicted and this is a painful subject which I do not want to discuss.
- Proudest Achievements: achievement? A video game acheivement? Get serious!
- Favorite Soundtrack: Ciilization II
- Clans: none
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Singing in the Rain, Hero, Lord of the Rings, Taxi Driver
- Favorite Actors: Winona Ryder, Adam Sandler
- Favorite Directors: Scorsese
- Favorite Genre: Science Fiction
- Favorite Soundtracks: Amadeus
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: Hi, how are ya
- Movies I can watch over and over: Disney Animation
- Actor that would play me in a movie: John-boy Walton
Music
- Favorite Artists: REM, Elvis Costello, Radiohead
- Favorite Albums: Life's Rich Pageant, King of America, OK Computer
- Favorite Genre: Classic Alternative
- Favorite Songs: too many
- Favorite Lyrics: My story is really quite shocking, It might even scare you a bit, Last night while I was out walking, I stepped in a big pile of SHaving Cream
- Songs I hate: All those barfing screamers
- Guilty Pleasure: ABBA, Jackson 5
- Songs I repeat the most: 100 bottles of beer
- Band I wish I was in: St. Monica's Folk group
Style
- Where I shop: Grocery Store
- Brands I love: Frito-Lay, Nabisco, Dole
- I like to wear: T-shirts and shorts
- Can't live without: air that I breathe
- Prized Possessions: wedding ring, old dog Ranger
- Guilty Pleasure: TV channel surfing
Books
- Favorite Books: Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22,
- Favorite Authors: Andrew Tanenbaum, God
- Favorite Genres: Computer manuals, Historical fiction, hysterical fiction
- Favorite Characters: Cisco router
- Favorite Quotes: "Wherever you go - There you are"
- Recent Reads: Cisco Certification Manual
High School
- School Name: Mishawaka High School
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1976
College
- School Name: Purdue University
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1980
- Attended: 1976 - 1980
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): Computer Science
OldDogSparky
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- Name: Mark
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 3/21/2007
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Lol. i saw your suggested question about thetruth.comi thought the same thing. Lol.
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