Dave C.

Strumming my guitar. I love the blues and it is what I do best, my style of playing seems to be partly Delta, partly Piedmont, and partly a cry for help. I've written a few ditties. Some novelty songs to make people giggle at the coffee house, which they did. I'm working on some more serious writing. My trouble is I don't write well when I'm awake. If I can write whatever I hear in my dreams upon waking, it's pretty good. When I'm in the woods, I'd rather make my own music, so I save the the CDs for the car or work.

Since coming to the woods, I've read these authors: H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, H.P. Lovecraft, H.D. Thoreau., Books I've read since coming to the woods include: Mark Twain's Roughing It, Herman Hesse's Sidhartha, Lord of the Flies, Ernest Gann's Fate is the Hunter, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Various Foxfire books, The Tipping Point, Complexification, See AI guy for a sample of things I read before coming to the woods.

Don't see too many. I know I'm in a cultural (for some definitions of culture) backwater when I don't recognize the new Pez characters.

I overheard a TV show recently. It was yet another "who's the real daddy" talk show. I had to laugh out loud. Remember, we're supposed to be the crazy ones!

Fayetteville, West Virginia, where we are currently camping.

Living outdoors. My wife and I sold our possessions and have been doing it for a year now. I enjoy writing about our experiences.

* Computers, o AI, o Graphics, o Information Theory , * Writing, * Photography, * Aviation (love the Cub!). Wife and I plan on building light sport plane or ultralight and hang-glider, * Canoing, * Caving, * Rock Climbing (reserve the right to chicken out), * Outdoors, * Music, o Music Theory, o Guitar , * Cycling, * Alternative housing: We are looking into various modes of building: yurts, log homes, geodesic, or possibly some hybrid., * Reading, * Mathematics, * History, * Dogs, the quirkier the better. I love teaching them weird tricks: rock climbing (perfectly safe indoor setup), playing piano, guitar, shoulder perching. I think dogs are the finest creatures there are. Don't get me wrong, though; some of my best friends are human, * Puns, the badder the gooder. In college, I did an AI project to make a computer generate puns. My "punishment": I have been dreaming in puns for over 20 years., * Teaching people who are willing to learn., * Learning from people who are willing to teach., * Teaching myself., * Being a good husband, friend, stepfather, grandfather, human.

West Virginia Institute of Technology