"All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies." -- "Grand Canyon"

 

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I live in Lake County, in North California, with my wife Bonnie. I live here for the tranquility and for the climate. As an added benefit, pagers don't work here!

Sometimes, I have trouble getting out to my clients' sites. You can check here for the latest flood information to check up on my excuses.

And please do acknowledge my home away from home.

Next are 9 pictures going from north to northwest showing the view from my house. Click on any of these to enlarge.

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Personal Interests

    • One of my interests is backgammon. I play online at fibs. And as local as I can get to a club is Backgammon by the Bay, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Good resources for backgammon on the Net include The Chicago Point, Flint Area Backgammon, and GammonVillage. I also recommend an online backgammon magazine at GammonOnLine.

    • My home electronics are getting a bit long in the tooth, but they still serve their function. The centerpiece is a Sony KP-53HS10 HDTV RPTV. With clean optics and professional calibration, it still holds its own with a 48” wide screen 1080i display.  For the Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II and DTS EX surround sound, I'm running a set of Paradigm speakers driven by a Denon receiver. And for that serious home theater sound, an SVS 16-46PCi subwoofer. As of result of the research, I've gotten used to visiting a couple of very useful sites for discussions of HDTV, Satellite Broadcasting, and Home Theatre peripherals: The Home Theater Forum, and The AV Science Forum.
    • It is my opinion that the Space Station is going to be the most important advance for the human race of the next decade. Do we expect it to get cheaper if we wait to build it?
    • For on-line news, check out The Chronicle and The Economist.
    • And to get away, may I suggest Holland America? Funny… cell phones don't work here! J  

I do follow sports (baseball is my favorite). Born in L.A.; live in Upstate California:

I've been lucky enough to have time to travel over the past few years. Egypt was by far the best. Here's some of my favorite spots.

 Other links of interest:

 Favorite Movie List

Absence of Malice

Accidental Tourist

Addams Family Values

Adventures of Robin Hood

Akira

Aliens

Almost Famous

Amelie

America's Sweethearts

Animatrix

Apocalypse Now

Armageddon

Atlantic City

Atlantis: TLE

Bambi

Basic Instinct

Barefoot in the Park

Batman

Batman Begins

A Beautiful Mind

Being There

Beyond Rangoon

Big

The Big Chill

Bodies, Rest and Motion

Body Heat

The Bourne Identity (1988)

The Bourne … (all)

Brazil

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Bull Durham

Brick

Bringing Up Baby

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Caddyshack

Casablanca

Casino

Children of Dune

Christmas Vacation

Chronicles of Narnia: Lion,Witch,Wardrobe

Chinatown

Colossus -- The Forbin Project

Cookie's Fortune

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Crow

Dante's Peak

Dark City

The Dark Knight

Die Hard

Donnie Darko

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Dune (1984, 2000)

Edward Scissorhands

Fargo

Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Fifth Element

Fight Club

Field of Dreams

Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within

Finding Nemo

Finding Neverland

A Fish Called Wanda

Frantic

Galaxy Quest

Garden State

Get Shorty

Ghost in the Shell (all)

Ghost World

Gilda

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Godfather (all)

Goodfellas

Grand Canyon

Grave of the Fireflies

Grindhouse

Grosse Pointe Blank

Ground Hog Day

Hard Eight

Harry Potter (all)

Harvey

The Haunting (both)

Havana

Heavy Metal

Hero (Ying Xiong)

Home for the Holidays

House of the Flying Daggers

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Howl’s Moving Castle

The Hustler

I, Robot

Ice Age (both)

The Incredibles

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Interview with the Vampire

Into the Night

The Iron Giant

Jumanji

Jurassic Park (all)

Kill Bill

King Kong (2005)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (both)

L.A. Confidential

L.A. Story

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

The Last Seduction

The Last Starfighter

Lawrence of Arabia

Leon -- The Professional

Let It Ride

Live From Bagdad

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Lost in Translation

The Lord of the Rings (2001/2/3)

The Maltese Falcon

Manhattan

Masquerade

Matrix (all)

Metropolis (silent)

Metropolis (anime)

Midsummer Night’s Rave, A

Monster House

Monsters, Inc.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Mummy/Mummy Returns (new)

Mulan

My Neighbor Totoro

The Natural

Neighbors

The Net

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Ninth Gate

Nobody's Fool (1995)

North by Northwest

Notting Hill

The Owl and the Pussycat

Panic

Smiley's People (TV)

Pan's Labyrinth

Peggy Sue Got Married

The Pelican Brief

The Philadelphia Story

Pirates of the Caribbean (all)

The Player

Pleasantville

The Prime Gig

Princess Mononoke

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Red Rock West

The Ref

The Road Home

The Road to El Dorado

Roger and Me

Romancing the Stone

Ronin

Run Lola Run

The Russia House

Sabrina (1994)

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Serenity

Shakespeare In Love

The Shining

Shogun (TV)

Shark Tale

Shrek (all)

The Sixth Sense

Sideways

Signs

Sin City

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Smiley's People (TV)

Something Wild

Spirted Away

Spooks/MI-5 (TV)

Spy Game

Stardust

Stardust Memories

Starman

Stargate

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: The Voyage Home

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Star Wars (all)

State and Main

Steppenwolf

Syriana

The Tamarind Seed

Tequila Sunrise

The Thin Man (most)

Three Days of the Condor

Terminator (all)

Thief

Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy (TV)

Titan A.E.

Titanic

To Catch a Thief

To Have and Have Not

To Kill a Mockingbird

Toy Story 2

Treasure Planet

True Romance

2 Days in the Valley

2001 - A Space Odyssey

V for Vendetta

Vanilla Sky

Unbreakable

Underworld

The Usual Suspects

The War Room

What Dreams May Come

While You Were Sleeping

The Whole Nine Yards

Wild Things

X-Men (all)

The Year of Living Dangerously

 

 

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Jeff Widener (The Associated Press)

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