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charlesboyer
name: charles
born: 1961
gender: male
city: raleigh, nc
golo member since: August 16, 2007
about charlesboyer
NC State Sports Website I Write For
My Personal Motto: "Life's short. Work hard. Play harder."
First things first: I hate writing online profiles -- they remind me far too much of those silly high school assignments where you had to write a two-page autobiography. How can you encapsulate an ongoing life in just a few words?
Where I Am From: Originally, Cocoa Beach in Florida. Yes, I have heard the "I Dream of Jeannie" jokes. No, the town is not like that. It is a mixed town of folks who work at Kennedy Space Center and is also a beach resort. Cocoa Beach has some of the best surf on the Atlantic Coast of the US. Good enough for a regular stop on the pro surfing tour. Maybe you've seen the RonJon's stickers on people's cars? That's my home town.
Anyway, I am from there because most of my family worked in the space industry at one time or another. When you watch documentaries about Apollo, Gemini or Mercury, more than likely you will see one or more of my relatives. I've seen my Mom, my Dad, my Grandfather and one of my Uncles. Me, I saw every single Saturn V ever launched...in person.
Why I Am In NC:
When the Apollo program came to an end, my parents found better jobs and that brought us here to Raleigh. We've been here since the mid-1970s. I can almost call myself a native. Almost.
What I Like:
* Travel - been to all fifty states. Been to dozens of countries. Some I would go back to in a second (California) and others I would skip.
* People - Everyone is interesting somehow. Just keep in mind that interesting can have more than one meaning, like the old Chinese curse.
* Art - There is a lot to see and experience in this life. Creating art is the best way to remember it. If you have a camera, you are an artist. Me personally, I write, photograph, design and once in a while play music. I made my living briefly as a professional musician, but it wasn't the life for me. Besides, you play music, you don't work music.
* The Sea and The Mountains: there are no finer places on this Earth than the Andes or Sierra Mountains and the Caribbrean Sea, and I have been to lots of places. The Caribbean and the tall mountains all have bright colors and clean air.
Much as I love NC, sorry, our mountains are hills compared to the Andes and most of our coastline has been ruined by too many baby boomer shacks. Same goes for my hometown's beaches too. The beach shouldn't have high rises in the dunes. That's what I think, anyway.
* Sports: I love golf, even if I am not that good. Think golf isn't hard? Then why does Tiger Woods still take lessons?
I also love to watch ACC sports and pro hockey. I used to like racing before racing decided to sell its soul for the money. I mountain bike, hike, water-ski and other sorts of stuff. I used to be a skydiver (116 jumps) and a ski racer, but the bones are getting brittle and the price of an accident is too high nowadays.
And so forth and so on. Read this far? Wow! Goodness gracious, sakes alive, you really do need to get a life...(I'm kidding, simmer down)
I am not that interesting. Move along, nothing more to see here!!!
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favorite music: everything but new country and gangsta rap
favorite movies: until the end of the world
favorite hobbies: being outside.
favorite tv shows: battlestar galactica (the new one) are you a cylon? how do you know?
favorite restaurants: le select, gustavia, st. bartholemy, french west indies
favorite web sites: Fark.com, metafilter.com
favorite vacation spots: the caribbean and the sierra nevada
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- Amen! I've never shopped there before, but heard about how insecure their network for transactions really is (from an insider!) -- I've told everybody to never shop there, unless they plan to pay with cold hard cash.
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“Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to ‘help others’.” – Philip Freneau
A little bio on the "poet of the revolution"...
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/philipfreneau/
March 12, 2009 7:24 a.m.
Never met her, but I like her already ;-)
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March 13, 2009 1:00 p.m.
THANK YOU! It's not right to do that to someone you supposedly love and honor. DO you know who has affairs? Weak minded people with no self control.
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March 19, 2009 12:17 a.m.
I was really upset that BSG has officially ended. I kept hoping against hope that they'd do another season. Did you watch the finale yet?
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March 24, 2009 1:33 p.m.
Last summer after one of those tropical storm systems crossed Florida from east to west, my sister (who lives on the panhandle near Pensacola) took a stroll on the beach. Lo-and-behold, there was a pink flamingo out there on the beach! She took a picture of it, too, and as best I can remember, it looked like a flamingo. Wonder where he came from? I think there's a zoo nearby, so maybe he was an escapee, or just got lost somewhere during the tropical storm.
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Now I cannot wait!
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April 5, 2009 12:14 p.m.
I just downloaded the pilot of Caprica. I cannot wait until this evening to watch it!! I had planned on watching the finale of Rock of Love, but the skanks on the bus can wait! :D
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April 13, 2009 3:51 p.m.
The sad thing is that I have not watched Caprica yet. I need to set aside some time to really enjoy it and recently I've been running around in the evenings.
The Plan is what I'm really waiting for though. I would have liked to have seen more of the whole Cylon split and their civil war in the last season. I kind of felt like they dropped the ball a little in the finale with that, but a lot of fans didn't really care for it.
At some point in time, I need to sit down and finish up The Wire. I still have S3-5 to watch but it is a show that I need to focus on and recently I've been doing some crochet projects while I watch. Crochet and the Wire do not work out so well.
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April 17, 2009 3:12 p.m.
The point was democrats look the other way when "their man" does something wrong. At least when republicans do it, they pay for it by losing their seat in the next election.
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April 28, 2009 2:46 p.m.
Absolutely - It has been a valuable epxerience in some ways - yeah it's teh intarwebs, but there is another human at the other end - yeah we all say stuff on here that hopefully we are raised well enough not to say in polite company - but I am truly astounded at 'adults' running to tell on the 'bully' that hurt their feelings.
And people think I'm too serious....
You should see FARK.com sometime - if one is easily offended by 'personal' comments, the expert 'personal flamers' on that site will burn your eyes out with their "text attacks"...
I don't know - maybe I am too serious - I just don't get people sometimes.
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May 27, 2009 11:29 p.m.
Sounds like we were runnign around there at the sameish time. Did you happen to know Jay Stokes? He's one of my dad's best friends and I've known jay and vivian since I was 10-11.
Anyway, thanks for the friend request. Always nice to meet another skydiver (ex or otherwise) ...
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June 17, 2009 3:10 p.m.
-lol... Small World. I know Dr. Stafford. When I was a student (almost 20 years ago) I was in govt and the student union and he was VC of Student Affairs back then too.
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June 23, 2009 6:15 p.m.
You were correct sir, my truck was in Garner at the home of a dear friend. And also the fellow who did my grading and concrete work here in Haw River.
I was aiding him with some things and my truck was parked at his house.
If you live in Eagle Ridge, what a wonderful community.
Nice plane too by the way....I retired with my flying career with around 6000 hours.
I hope to add a helicopter rating if I ever chose to fly again....
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June 25, 2009 1:02 p.m.
I thought it was from being so near-sighted when I was a kid. Details were hard to see (although I didn't know it wasn't normal) and I had to rely on the 'suggestion' of something as a survival tool.
So, thank you! It has a name, so I'm not terribly abbie-normal. Well, I am, but you know what I mean... *smile*
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June 26, 2009 12:15 p.m.
No, really. I can sit on the john and have about 6 recgnizable figures. Sounds strange, but I love how the shading can be so suggestive. I have a bent little old lady walking away, a smiling pig-face, a Lana Turner-ish women in semi-profile.. I could go on. And these are 6' tiles.. I really have too much time on my hands..
Thanks for the info, and the smiles.
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June 26, 2009 2:59 p.m.
It seems cruel to tell infertile couples that the man does not find his mate attractive, and thus his "boys" are not swimming.
I adore science and found the articles interesting. I just did not see the a real connection between excited chickens and human infertility. I did not mean to criticize your blog. Sometimes I just think out loud (post) and it comes out wrong
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I can't remember - was it Code Pink, A.N.S.W.E.R., or Cindy Shehan?
All those "patriots" get me confused....
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September 8, 2009 10:53 p.m.
Ummm- if it wasn't you that I had discussed web analytics with before, sorry and never mind.
Sorry to hear about your childhood home, that is very sad.
Take care, Dawn
September 15, 2009 8:48 p.m.
It most certainly was not.
(actually I think all the bootlickers are on my ignore list LOL)
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September 27, 2009 2:29 p.m.
That was Ty and his comment:
"Hahahahahaha.
/schuedenfreud off"
I am ashamed to admit I'm friends with a Mac man....
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/* bump stumble bump */
/* giggle */
/* knock, knock, knock */
Trick or treat!
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