About Me
- About Me: I believe that children are our future. Teach them well, and let them lead the way.
College
- School Name: Dartmouth College
- Status: Undergrad
- Class of: 1996
- Attended: 1992 - 1996
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): Economics, Japanese
- Minor(s): Engineering
High School
- School Name: South Lakes High School
- Class of: 1992
- Attended: 1988 - 1992
More About Me
- Nicknames: My nickname growing up was "Xanga". It was an acronym for Xceptionally Awesome Ninja GangstA.
- Religion: Xanga
- Website: http://www.xanga.com
Video Games
- Games I Play: Burnout 3, Burnout Revenge, Tribes 2, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft Broodwar
- Consoles: Xbox
- Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Digdug, Elevator Action, Gauntlet, Street Fighter 2 (where I would get schooled by 6 year olds mashing the buttons).
- Most Addictive: Probably Diablo 2
- Proudest Achievements: Finishing all five single player missions in Tribes 2 on the hardest level, without dying once.
Music
- Favorite Artists: Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Keane, Maroon 5, Lauren Hill
- Favorite Albums: Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson, ok basically when anyone meets Oscar Peterson
- Favorite Genre: Jazz standards, Funk, R&B, and whatever Keane/Maroon 5 are
- Favorite Songs: The Touch of Your Lips, with Ben Webster on Sax
- Guilty Pleasure: Pink
- Songs I repeat the most: My headphones broke so I am music-less.
Television
- Favorite Shows: 24, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Cheers, Seinfeld, Lois & Clark <-- I guess I haven't watched a lot of TV ever since this thing called the "Internet" came out.
- Favorite Channels: HBO, any channel with Law & Order on it
- Favorite Reruns: Three's Company
- Most Addictive Show: 24
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan. And for the record: everyone says that Dave Letterman is better than Jay, but I totally disagree. Dave is so bitter and angry... I feel sorry for him
- Favorite Episode: Season 5 of 24, when Jack Bauer kills the President of the United States! Just kidding... did I get you?
- Show I Secretly Watch: The Nanny. She was working at a bridal shop in Flushing Queens, when her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes. Awesome.
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: La Femme Nikita
Travel
- Places I love: Xanga. Oh you mean like, real places? Ok here goes: Tuscany, New York City, Tokyo, the Philippines, and anywhere that feels like "family"
- Places I've been: Italy, South of Spain (sounds cooler than just saying "Spain" huh), Japan, the Philippines... that's about it.
- Places to see before I die: I would like to go to North Africa, and visit the ruins of Carthage.
- Dream Vacation: I don't really take vacations, except to visit my family.
Movies
- Favorite Movies: The Paper Chase
- Favorite Actors: Harrison Ford (pre Hollywood Homicide), Kiefer Sutherland (post Jack Bauer)
- Favorite Directors: David Lean
- Favorite Genre: documentaries, action movies (with big explosions), foreign flicks with subtitles (because I am going deaf... why don't all movies have subtitles?!)
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: I've got a bad feeling about this
- Movies I can watch over and over: The Paper Chase
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Jack Bauer
Style
- Where I shop: Amazon.com
- Brands I love: Xanga
- I like to wear: the same thing, everyday
- Can't live without: Xanga
- Prized Possessions: skinny jeans that I hope to once again fit into
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: French Bistro, Steakhouse, Korean, Thai. Also, greasy spoon diners.
- Favorite Dishes: Anything with carbs in it. Also: steaks, eggs, and broccoli.
- Favorite Desserts: Cheesecake
- Favorite Drinks: Diet Peach Snapple
- Favorite Junk Foods: Cool Ranch Doritos
- Favorite Restaurants: 'ino, Danal
Books
- Favorite Books: Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age... The Goal, Toyota Production System... A Wild Sheep's Chase
- Favorite Authors: Neal Stephenson, Malcolm Gladwell, Haruki Murakami, Shigeo Shingo
- Favorite Genres: Biographies, Memoirs, Business History, Scifi, Fantasy, History of Science, Journalism, Military History, Political Science... basically, I'm a nerd.
- Recent Reads: The Case for Goliath, The Elements of Journalism, Beyond Band of Brothers, Scalia Dissents, Raising the Bar
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Chatboard (211)
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Hey John, How you been? How is your wife doing? How is the baby doing? i know all cant wait until the baby born well i hope everything is well. -
hey john. hope everything's okay. it's been a long while since your last post. hope you and your mrs are well, and that your little one is growing well and strong. -
Hi John can I ask u something am if your neighbor is right next to u and a child has been abuse by the father and mother what will u do and they brought her to the room and you saw them right in front of you and they saw you looking at them and they say it's none of your concern what I do to our chi -
i have abused http://catadellet.xanga.com several of times but has not get an answer frpm xanga. Its a hate blog and a bad one in swedish language. Please delete the blog -
John, it has been almost two months now since my Xanga really worked for me. Now when I try and comment it goes to a page that says this page does not exist. Something different is wrong new everyday. I think it must be related to the move of servers. Anyway I keep hanging in here as I have many fri -
comments/rec's not working on regular posts -
I tried help first and it said pick a Xanga email so we can send it to the right person. I wonder who that person is. Perhaps John. My blog is super sized and you can't scroll as the it is so big the scroll button disappears. A lot of my photos disappear. Sometimes I can put up manual photos and som
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Now a new issue with Xanga. You can see the sites that have been down in Firefox or Safari but not in IE. So you have the site scripted for only certain browsers. But now even when you can see the sites one goes to comment and it says can't find that page. Again may I respectfully suggest that you f
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John about a month or so ago, my background mist and pics disappeared. How can I fix it back? -
xanga, why aren't my pics in photo manager loading on my other site when they always have before?
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