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In my high school days many of my teachers called me Renaissance Man. In many ways I am "a modern day Renaissance Man." I was into history and I loved learning, I was making my own clothes by then and I was making stringed musical instrument. So I became known as "The Renaissance Man." It's still a big part of my life and practically defines my career, It is my occupation, it's printed on my Calling Cards.
It wasn't till the last year in High School that I acctually started making and wearing clothing in a Renaissance style. Before that my love of historic clothing was for the cloths of the Eighteenth Century.
I love ideas, and storytelling and wouldn't you know it if 
books aren't a great place to find such things. Moveies are good for that too.
The First 
Movie I ever saw was 2001: A Space Odyssey, I was days old, and so I don't remember seeing it then. However everyone in my family tells me that I made no noise till the end when the baby apears on the screen. Maybe that's why I like space exploration. Any way, the moveis I like most are the ones with great stories and I love to see how the story is told. It anoys me when all people can say about a movie is how "it had great special effects," that can ussually mean it had no story. Though sometimes they can have both.
The Society for Creative Anachronism a long lasting hobby for over 17 years now, the SCA is a very big part of my life. SCA related stuff is more than half of all the stuff in the whole Weeb Site and so
One hobby in which I'm very active is The Society for Creative Anachronism.
My love of engineering and architecture combined whith my interest in space exploration are
Here are a few things you may not know about me
- I have a broken back
- The base of my spine was beaten up in a car accident in my last year of high school and though it all seemed alright at the time it prooved to be far worse I still have a lot of pain, but not the debilitating pain I had thanks mostly to acupuncture The big thing about this is that it affects almost every aspect of my life So my life was on hold for a decade, and now I'm getting back to living. more about My Back here.
- I sew almost all my clothing
- For a variety of reasons I started sewing my own clothing when I was around 13 years old. Peartly because I didn't like the current styles and I wanted somthing compleatly different. Also when I was in High School I was getting to be a
- I'm very shy
- Few people believe me when I say this but I am very shy, I have to work very hard to deal with it and at least what I have you don't get over it.
- I love to teach, perhaps more than anything else
- I know a lot, and it shows. I can and do teach on a great number of subjects The best high I've ever known is from teaching, when someone "gets it."
- I'm pretty pasionate about space exploration and travel
- There is a pretty big universe out there, I can't or won't beileive that it's just there to look at, we have to get out there and touch it
- I've recently begun "Clubbing" and going to "raves"
- I like the music and the croud it's just fun, and now that I can get out to these things I'm loving it.
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