You are about to gleen far more information about Ray Ebert then you ever thought possible, or cared about...
| First Name: | Ramon |
| Middle Name: | Sterling |
| Last Name: | Ebert |
| Birth Moment: | October 28, 1966 8PM |
| Name still used by Mother: | Baby (MOM I'M *see ages below*!!!) |
| Age in years: | 44 |
| Age in months: (reference still used my mother) | 527 |
| Age in weeks: | 2288 |
| Age in days: | 16017 |
| Age in hours: | 384388 |
| Age in minutes: | 23063290 |
| Age in seconds: | 1383797440 |
| Parents: | 4 |
| Siblings: | One male sibling, one female sibling. Sister Tara is 442,958,400 seconds (14 years) my junior and Brother Ben is 402,796,800 seconds (12 years) my junior. |
| Step Siblings: | Two female step siblings, one male step sibling. Sister Evonne is MANY seconds my senior. Sister Leslie is several seconds my junior but far more mature than me, hehe yeah right... Brother John, several thousand seconds my junior. |
| Location of birth: | Garden Grove, California |
| Parental status: | Father of one male, Samuel Martin, for 440768440 seconds (14 years) |
| Dexterity preferences: | Right handed, right footed, left eyed, right eared, left brained, right nostriled, right winged. |
| Number of digits per appendage: | 5 |
| Height: | 5.8333 feet, 1.9444 yards, 1.778 meters, 177.8 centemeters, .001104797 miles, .001778 kilometers, 1.393853e-7 Earth Diameters, 1.18851959e-11 Astronimical Units, 1.8793536e-16 Light Years, 17780000000 hydrogen atom diameters, 315497716279185.3 electron diameters. |
| Weight: | 3280 ounces, 92986.43585 grams, 92.9864 kilograms, .01025000000000001 tons, .092986435 metric tons, 1.555217191e-23 Earth masses, 4.67268521859e-29 Solar masses, 5.599770244092e+28 Atomic Mass Units, 1.020775894832e+32 Electron Massas |
| Volume: | Varies drastically based on Beer intake. |
| Color: | Dark Sand |
| Eyes: | Green (2) |
| Hair: | Brown, though occasionally I grow a single blond eye brow hair. Weird huh? |
| Eye sight: | 20/15 both eyes, but lately I'm having to hold things farther away to focus on them... |
| Hearing: | Normal, though my Mandi and Sam certainly disagree. |
| Facial hair: | Usually nothing more than a few day old shadow. |
| Piercings: | 3. All in left ear you dirty minded little monkeys. |
| Skin art: | I have my name in chinese on my right wrist and balance in chinese on my left wrist. The characters on my right wrist are phonetically my name but also mean 'Thunder Dragon' or 'Strong Thunder'. |
| Religion: | Hmmm |
| High School graduated from: | Buena High School, Ventura, CA. Class of 1984. |
| College graduated from: | Chapman University, Orange, CA. Class of 1999 |
| Philosophical tendencies: | Live
and let live. I welcome your opinion, I only ask that you base it on something. I strongly support freedom of speech. I like people with opinions diferent than mine. I like to play devils advocate. I think every American should perform federal service of some sort some time in their lives. I strongly oppose requireing federal service except in times of national emergencies. If that's what the law says then follow the law! You don't like the law? There are methods of changing them, use em! Write your Congressman/Senator, even if just to say hi. You'll feel involved, and it's pretty cool getting a letter on Congressional letterhead. I think I'm smarter and better looking than you, and I'm a better driver. |
| Favorite book: | Thin
Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, by Greg Child. No shortcuts to the top, Ed Viesturs. |
| Most recent book read: | The Dark Tower |
| Favorite Poem: | I
do not count the hours I spend in wandering by the sea;The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.Emerson |
| Bands/Music that I listen to: | Wow, lets see. Mostly indie, classical, rock, and trance/DJ: Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Nada Surf, The Walkman, Chemical Brothers, UNKLE, Spoon, The Feelies, Radio 4, Ambulance LTD, Interpol, Beat Happening, Granddaddy, Pinback, Snow Patrol, Arcade Fire, Rain Parade, Galaxie 500, Go-Betweens, LCD Soundsytem, !!!, The Killers, Luna, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Radiohead, Secret Machines, Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Tegan and Sara, Wilco, Beethoven, Mozart, The Who, The Police, The Jam, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd... Oh the list goes on and on. I currently have over 10,000 MP3's in my collection so you could say music is kind of important to me. |
| Favorite Album all time: | The Who; Who's Next |
| Band I enjoy making fun of the most: | I had N'Sync here for the longest time, and I decided to change that. What makes my opinion any more relavant than yours? I was reading the Coachella forum a lot recently and two things that struck me were that music people are very opinionated and those opinions are all over the place. I guess that's why they call them opinions instead of facts... Okay... So... If you're listening to Fifty Cent, N'Sync, Madona, Brittany, or Modest Mouse then good on you. Music Rocks. If you're at the next Modest Mouse show in San Diego look for me, if you're at the next Ashlee Simpson show in San Diego, don't... ;) |
| Most recent movie viewed at a theatre: | Flag of our fathers |
| Most recent movie rented: | Damn, haven't been renting all that much lately. Been on this buying spree... But I think it was Troy. Which i found to be remarkably similar to my own life... |
| Favorite movie all time: | Star Wars |
| Favorite movie from the 80's: | Return of the Jedi |
| Favorite movie from the 90's: | Saving Private Ryan |
| Favorite movie from the 00's: | The Matrix |
| Favorite movie soundtrack: | Forest Gump |
| Favorite Actor: | Tom Hanks |
| Favorite Actress: | Gweneth Paltrow |
| Favorite Model: | Mandi |
| Favorite shoes: | Doc Martin's, lows |
| Favorite Pants: | Lucky's Dungarees. |
| Favorite Museum: | The J. Paul Getty |
| Favorite wine: | '96 North Coast Pinot Noir |
| Favorite Combat Robot: | Do you guys remember Battlebots??? |
| Favorite method of welding: | TIG |
| Favorite mouse: | Wireless Microsoft scrolling mouse |
| Favorite programming language: | C++ |
| Programming language used most often: | Visual Basic |
| Least favorite programming language: | Assembly |
| Favorite car I've owned: | 1995 Jeep Wrangler |
| Favorite car I've never owned: | Porsche 911 Carrera Turbo |
| Least favorite car I've owned: | '88 Hyundai Excel |
| Type of car I've promised never to buy: | Minivan |
| Car I'd buy if you gave me $60,000: | New Corvette |
| First thing I'd buy if I won the lottery: | Hummer |
| Next thing I'd buy: | A big ol stinkin house |
| Favorite spectator sports, in order: | Football, Baseball, BattleBots, Off Road Racing, Women's Tennis, Women's Beach Volleyball. |
| Favorite Outdoor gear store: | Adventure 16 |
| Favorite Backpack: | Gregory Robson Pro (Current backpack) |
| Favorite tent, 3 season: | Mountain Gear, Room with a view |
| Favorite outerwear manufacturer: | The North Face |
| Favorite Hiking Boots: | Asolo |
| Favorite backpacking stove: | MSR Whisperlite |
| Favorite water filter: | PUR Hiker |
| Favorite headlamp: | Petzl Zoom |
| Favorite Sleeping bag manufacturer: | Mountain Gear/Marmot |
| Favorite method of securing food from bears: | Bear Canister |
| Highest Elevation Achieved by Foot: | 14,494 feet |
| Longest Single Day Hike: | 22 Miles |
| Longest Single Day Run: | 26.2 Miles |
| Shortest time covered 26.2 miles on foot: | 4 hours 40 minutes |
| Favorite moment in the back country: | 2006, Climbing Mount Rainier by head lamp. The only sound was crampons on ice and my own breathing. |
| Funniest moment in the back country: | We are helping a German couple pack up their camp after a couple of bears had come through and went up the tree where their food was hanging. The bear had one bag of a pair that were counter-balanced. It was pitch black, we had packed up their gear and we're ready to leave when New-Guy Kurt decided that we shouldn't leave the extra bag of food for the bears. He jumped up and pulled it down. It was STILL TIED TO THE OTHER BAG! So down came the bag the bear was eating from too. There are two things you aren't supposed to do during a bear encounter. Take a bears food or run. We did both! That's why Kurt is called New-Guy. |
| Favorite National Park: | Yellowstone National Park |
| Favorite place to hike: | Sequoia National Park |
| Favorite back country destination: | Forrester Lake, Mineral King, Sequoia National Park |
| Favorite football team: | San Diego Chargers |
| Favorite baseball team: | San Diego Padres |
| Favorite pasttimes: | Backpacking, Softball, Mountain biking, Building Combat Robots, Programming, Playing with Sam Traveling, Camping with the family, Working in the garage. |
| Least favorite moment all time: | Having to take my cat Bert to the Vet to be put to sleep. It's even hard to type that still. |
| Parental philosophies: |
You can really screw up your kid, even without trying. Everything you do for your child, to your child, with your child, in front of your child, without your child, in spite of your child, or despite your child will make some sort of impression on your child. Don't think it won't. I think back on childhood which isn't too hard since I'm still going through it. I have the most random and screwy memories. It really blows me away the things I remember and the things I don't. I think I'm going to call my counselor now. <sappy
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| Things I deal with well: | Emergencies, pressure, antagonism, dead lines, tests, speaking intelligently on several topics, pulling my weight, driving long distances, walking long distances, different opinions than my own, being stoic , planning events, being wrong, losing. |
| Things I don't deal with well: | Death, bad drivers, my own short comings, loud music in my neighborhood, being interupted when I'm concentrating on something, disappointment, pain to my child/wife/family, revealing emotions, being the big brother, taking a back seat in planning, being a passenger, sore winners, flat out ignorance (I mean just DUH!) Santana winds (If you live in SoCal you know what this means), my ego, your ego, having cold feet. |
You are one of people who now know more then they care to about me...
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