About Me
- About Me: I love history, drama, philosophy, literature, stories, and yapping. I love fresh coffee, good food (esp Indian and Thai), pale ale and wine. I was a university history and English TA/student/instructor and am currently a database administrator. Technology fascinates me, which is lucky as I work with it (databases--Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server); but stories fascinate me more. I love all my nieces and nephews immensely :) I'm nuts about dogs. I am a new-ish Anglican, a recovering Fundamentalist. Currenlty am learning how to x country ski, ice skate and rollerblade.
Contact Info
- AIM: troy20002000
- Yahoo: as my Yahoo user name has my full name, I can't post it here. ask me for it though, no biggee
- Jabber: I use Google Talk! add me with togenberg@gmail.com
Music
- Favorite Artists: Peter Gabriel, REM, Beethoven, Moby, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, U2, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Chopin, Ani Difranco, Brahms, Feist, Bach, Ingrid Michaelson, Chemical Brothers, alt country, old country music, folk music, a good bit of bluegrass (the sad stuff)
- Songs I hate: a lot of pop, some rap, a lot of country
Books
- Favorite Books: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Godric, Night, the Psalms, The Poisonwood Bible
- Favorite Authors: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce), Life of Pi, the Psalms, The Poisonwood Bible, Eichman in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt), The Weimar Republic (Detlev Peukert); anything by George Orwell, Richard Scarry, Shusaku Endo, Gary Wills, Steinbeck, Kathleen Norris, Voltaire, Mary Karr, Thomas Mann, Christopher Browning, Elie Wiesel, Ian Kershaw, Karl Schleunes, Martin Broszat, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, Alan Furst, E. J. Hobsbawm, Frederick Buechner, Friedrich Meinecke, Ibn Battuta
- Favorite Genres: literature (fiction, novels), history, some poetry
Television
- Favorite Shows: Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, BBC World, Nova, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, 24, Deadwood, Frontline, Rescue Me, The Sopranos, The Actor's Studio, Heroes, Freeks & Geeks, Veronica Mars
- Favorite Channels: Comedy Central, BBC, Deutsche Welle, FX, PBS
- Most Addictive Show: Freaks and Geeks
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Arrested Development
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Thai, Indian, Middle Eastern, sushi, pasta
- Favorite Restaurants: Chiang Mai Thai, Chino Latino, Stella's
- Foods I hate: liver, brussel sprouts
Travel
- Places I've been: All over North America, Hawaii, and western and central Europe
- Places to see before I die: Angor Wat, Jerusalem, Great Wall, southern India
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Best in Show, Run Lola Run, Being John Malkovich, Dr. Strangelove, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Brasil, Aguirre: Zorn des Gottes, The Godfather trilogy, L.o.T.R. trilogy, Strictly Ballroom, Blade Runner, Sleeper; most anything by Werner Herzog, the Cohen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Faßbinder
More About Me
- Nationality: USA
- Religion: Christianity
- Interests: arguing with friends. being silly. history, German, French, and literature. philosophy. joking around, playing with my nieces, nephews and godchildren.
- Expertise: History: European, German, 20th, Middle Eastern, US. Sybase, Oracle, SQL, ERStudio
- Occupation: database administrator/analyst/designer
- Industry: Computers (Software)
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- Name: Troy
- Country: United States
- State: Minnesota
- Metro: Minneapolis
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 6/13/2005
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