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Captain Storm

joined on 08/02/04
last updated 05/13/08
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Scanning Storm Quotes:

I am a quote Junky, here are some of my favorites. Some are mine and some are famous ones. Enjoy!


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Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life is an exercise in wisely choosing pain in the now. (me)

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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i am not perfect. i will make mistakes. and i realize that a lot of people may not truly "get" me, including my family. and while it's painful, it's also ok, and not to fear as long as *I* get me. i will try as hard as i can to put one foot in front of the other every day, and embrace and nurture the blossoming fledgling child spirit within myself, and love myself, and not judge myself too harshly. i know that i don't have to hate myself anymore. i will endeavor every day to coax myself out of the darkness, embrace myself, court myself, love myself, trust myself. - Muse (friend of mine)


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The only place we can fly is in our minds, but that is ok, its the only place where it matters.

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Sandra's seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins' gold
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.
-Shel Silverstein

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Friendship

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

- unknown


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How can you expect the truth from anyone when you lie to your own damn self! - Me

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter."

-- Mark Twain

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Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field controls my destiny! It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense - Han Solo - Star Wars

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When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Jack Burton - Big Trouble in little China

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A Gentleman is simply a patient wolf - Lana Turner

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Emotions are tools of the mind, the mind should not be a tool of your emotions - me

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Treat your kids like adults and they will be one when they get there - me

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Intelligence is knowing a thousand reasons to quit smoking. Wisdom is quitting - Paraphrase from Gary Gygax - D&D Manual

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon

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Rationalizations are better than sex, after all you can go a whole day without sex. - Possibly a paraphrase from the big chill


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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Author C Clark RIP 2008

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Back in Black

Escondido Renn Faire 2008
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Scanning Artistic Impulses

Latest Completed Body Painting/digital artwork
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Hanging out at the great Pyramids

Egypt 08
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Preliminary Scan of Storm Unit:

Location
about me
I am a warrior poet. Which is one of those useless self-proclaimed titles that says a lot to some people and to others means I am geek and to others that I am a true renaissance man. To that I say don’t waste your time trying to pigeonhole me. Nothing your going to figure out in a short time frame will make any sense in the context of who I am or will be to you and yours. I might teach you some wonderful lesson or maybe I will be your student. No guarantees. If we meet tomorrow then A, but on Sunday B. Life is like that. Sometimes my words are poetic. Sometimes I don't talk to people because I am shy. Sometimes I carry a sword, so tread lightly as I don't like to cast my pearls before swine. I project a "Bullshit free" zone in a 30 foot radius around me. I say what I mean and mean what I say and I expect others to do the same in return. I have tremendous love, loyalty and affection for my friends and am cold as ice to my enemy's.

I like to do things, be creative, build, adventure. Sometimes I am lazy and restful and content and don’t like change. I am a practicing skeptic. This means I don’t believe things without proof. The bigger the thing, the more proof I want. It is a real pain in some people’s ass that I just don’t take their word for things, and that I don't believe that feeling something is true is good enough, but don’t take it personally. I am not a strident atheist or a logically valid agnostic. I am an Apathiest which means – Those questions – is there a god, is there an afterlife, did the tree make a sound, what is the answer to life the universe and everything – those questions I find them to be profoundly unimportant. The questions themselves are historical curiosities from minds of people who didn’t know the sun was made of hydrogen. Why should we waste our time caring how many angels fit in the head of a needle? Why should we kill each over such questions? This is where belief without proof leads. The destruction of faith without proof is the beginning of evolution. I focus on the here, the now, the provable and the magic that we people can make with each other and the space we inhabit. This keeps me quite busy enough!
Check out my art website at www.eyeonstorm.com

Check out my business website at www.webtempest.biz

Check out the medieval/sub culture group I am Captain of called the Black Company:
www.blackco.org and see what we are up to.

We also have a tribe here. blackcompany.tribe.net << look there for our upcoming events!
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Scanning Storm unit; Query: Interests

<<< < Creating: > >>>
Painting, drawing, writing, multimedia, photography, building stuff, sculpture, web design, wood & leatherwork

<<< < Performance arts: > >>> Fire Swords, Fire Whips, Fire Poi, Black Light Flagging, Medieval Live steel demonstrations and general Renn Faire shinanigans.

<<< < Martial arts: > >>>
Western Style Sword fighting, Axe fighting and any other medieval weapon. Some Eastern Style Karate.

<<< < Sub Culture: > >>>
Rennaissance Faire, Goth, Burning Man, Moontribe, Geeky conventions and anything else where freaks like me are likely to show up and have a good time.

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Fantasy, some classics, classic sci-fi, science, and other random stuff as it catches my fancy.

<<< < General Interests: > >>>
Sciences (big time), psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, web design, computers, medicine, reason & logic, power, Death & Skulls (as it relates to living every moment as if its your last, and as it relates to medieval battle symbols), sex & violence (not together you freak!), Wearing Black (i am having a black decade), Music of almost all kinds, Athiesm, Agnostisism, Skeptisism, Dressing up funny and finally last but not least - goth chicks. (they are so cool looking)

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Neuroscan Results on unit Storm:

So I decided that my diabetic cat needs a new home. It took me a while to decide this, but paying 20 bucks a visit for a pet sitter starts to add up pretty damn fast. See, my cat needs to get an insulin shot 2 times a day, 12 hours apart. For a guy who is an IT consultant and has a social life, and often travels out of town 2 weekends a month, its a real pain in the ass to be at my house at 9am and 9pm every single day. What she needs is someone who is more of a home body than I will can be. ... read more
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 4:57 PM permalink - 3 comments
 
So today I was listening to Dr. Laura on the radio and a Lesbian girl called in and asked a great question. " In a relationship, Whats the difference between a bump in the road and a real problem?" Dr laura said basically that a bump in the road is something a bad day or a random out of character moment, some kind of unique circumstance that is not the general flavor of the relationship - something that isn't a pattern. When you keep having the same kind of problem or facing the same kind of... read more
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 3:33 PM permalink - 8 comments
 
So I got a new computer with windows Vista and upgraded from adobe photoshop CS to CS3 so i decided to stay away from my huge pic I am working on and do something smaller to get up to speed. I am liking windows Vista, surprisingly it works really nicely and it has been really easy to get up to speed on. (at least for me) Photoshop CS3 totally kicks ass!

Anyways here is the result. Click the picture to see it bigger. Then maximize it.

Sword vs Gun
Model: Ash
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 3:04 AM permalink - 5 comments
 
So I was editing my latest in a series of bodypaint/digital artwork (an HR giger inspired peice) and my computer hit it's ceiling. My photoshop layer had somewhere around 450 layers and it was taking 3-5 seconds after clicking things before they would respond. Well believe it or not it had been over 4 years since i got a new computer. Strangely enough I think this is the first new computer I have ever bought after 15 years of doing IT work and being a graphics and web person, that might seem ... read more
Sun, May 11, 2008 - 3:02 PM permalink - 6 comments
 
I signed up for a money market account the other day. In the mail I received a book, outlining the agreement i was making. A fucking book! Now i suspect if I am like most people I am never going to read this waste of paper. It is written in legalese. If i took half a day i could figure out what it all meant, and maybe I in the small percentage of the people that could figure it out being a logic nut, but honestly who has the desire or time to do so? How about getting your finger nails pulled ... read more
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 12:17 AM permalink - 4 comments
 
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Propoganda on Storm Unit:

April 14, 2008
Captain Storm has a gravity field all his own. Just sitting back and watching things and people flying towards him is almost humorous. Be careful crossing his path, or you might just get sucked in as well... but in a good way, of course...
December 25, 2007
On this holiday that we share i wanted to let you know how much i appreciate you and your light and am thankful for all the wonderful moments we have shared. You are definitely one of life's amazing gifts.
June 28, 2007
Ok, what girl can't adore a man who writes on his tribe profile that his occupation is "warrior poet"? And boy, does that statement sum up Storm pretty damn well. He ACTUALLY OWNS a suit of armor. He ACTUALLY OWNS A SUIT OF ARMOR! And FIGHTS IN IT!

And then you talk to him a little and it turns out he is also brilliant. This isn't your typical meathead warrior type. Storm's got a nugget of very useful and usually unknown to me information on pretty much every topic. And then he blows your mind by being humble, endearing, considerate, and overwhelmingly caring. Is there anything this guy can't do?

I mean, WHERE DO YOU COME FROM, MAN???????
May 24, 2007
Even after reading your quotes, I still do not know quite what to say...

your awesome.

huggable.

funny as fuck.

some times a "meany" to me cause you play the voice of reason.

my big brother.

You have been a constant and amazing individual in my life. You and the Black Company have helped me come a long way and still do, and always will.

Thanks Big Brother!
hugs, my love, and all that mushy nonsense
Little Sister.
May 9, 2007
i can't get over the fact that you have a Jack Burton quote on your profile.
that's about as cool, and as bad-ass as it gets.
seriously, Jack Burton makes the Fonz look like Mr. Magoo.

"No horseshit, Wang."
"No horseshit, Jack."

ima hafta go watch that tonight.



oh, Mark Twain is cool, too.
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Performing at Burning Man 07

Fire Whips with the San Diego Fire Conclave
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Alert - Fire Phenomena Detected

From Performance at Xara 06
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The Storm Symbol (also my tattoo)

Logic begets reason, which begets knowledge; knowledge is both power and truth, which together lead to Justice. It represents my quest to leave things better than I found them and to see that those who deserve it find consequences
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Scan of Astrological Anomalies

The Sign of the Wolf Rat - click picture to read description
 
members » Captain Storm link to this profile: http://people.tribe.net/captainstorm