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Josh Feltman

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It's been a while since we've had one of these threads. Lots of new faces around lately. New folks (and old timers as well) please take a minute to tell us a bit about yourselves. I'll start just to get things rolling. I'm 32, I teach English at a community college, and I'm also a writer/content developer for an educational software company. I've been married to one of the coolest women on the face of the planet for the last ten years. My wife and I own a dome in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Chico, CA. In addition to khukuris, I collect toys and minerals. Right now I'm thinking about how many khukuris I could buy with the money it will take to get my head gasket replaced :rolleyes:

--Josh
 
I am Pete a.k.a. Cyberbeast, I live in central Florida, I am a Autocad Drafter, Right now I just started a new job with a Architectual Firm. Knives and cave diving have been a pasion for most of my life. I got my first knife when I was ten and they keep coming, I just recently turned my attention to Khuks and yes I have the fever, I am saving up for my first two (M43 / Hanshees by Bura). I have dreams of one day making my own, I have done several designs and keep thinking of new ones. I also collect some toys. And do a little underwater photography when the mood hits me. So far I really have enjoyed my short stay here at the forums and look forward to a long freindship with the members of the forum.
 
43 Work for the Gov't. Live in the country in an old decrepit farmhouse , have chickens, milk goats, guineas donkeys. No kids. Married 18 years(to the same person).Like music esp. jambands and old timey. Like the woods own 85 acres of woods mostly. Like knives. Make beer, cheese, bread, etc. Like to hunt, like to backpack. Like khukuris. That's about it.
 
covers a wide range but bands that like to stretch out musically. Allmans and Grateful Dead would kind of be the grandfathers of the jam bands. Some are real funky, almost 70's style funk. Some are more jazzy or rock, but all like to go out there instrumentally.

Some of the ones I'd reccomend are Donna The Buffalo- kind of country-ish, reggae-ish, zydeco band from NY. Leftover Salmon are more bluegrass oriented from CO. The All Mighty Senators are kind of a cross beteween Cream and James Brown from the DC area.
 
Cyberbeast-- just the thought of cave diving scares the crap out of me. I don't like water, and I don't like caves. Terrible combination. I have a morbid fear of sea monsters, and underwater caves seem like the best place to find them:eek:. Glad you enjoy it though. What kind of toys do you collect?

Hollowdweller-- I'm a fan of jam bands also, especially the Allman Brothers. Have you ever heard the String Cheese Incident? Only concert I ever left while the band was still playing. My wife and I were there for three hours, and they just kept going. We finally gave up and called it a night:)
--Josh
 
Josh,

Sure have. Have one of their albums but I've never seen them live. They played at a big farm they have great festivals at near here but I missed that one. I WANT to see them though. Also Widespread Panic.I've never seen the Allmans, but have seen Warren Haynes and the Derek Trucks band a few times, and of course the Grateful Dead more times than I can count.

Last really awesome shows I saw were David Grisman with Doc Watson and a 4 and a half hour show with Leftover Salmon and the Del Mc Coury Band.

Del Mc Coury band is probably one of the greatest bluegrass bands of all time. Every member is at their absolute musical peak. It's what it must have been like to see Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys when Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were in the band. The closest I have ever seen to them were the Seldom Scene when they had their original lineup.
 
Josh
I started with Star Wars, Then Star Trek but for the last few years I have been doing G.I.Joes (newer 12"), Gill Grippers from Rescue Heros and my all time favorite Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. I have every 12in, 10in, 8in, 6in ever produced. :D

My wife says I have to many hobbies:D :D
 
I'm a 32-year old sysadmin in northern NJ. I work for container ship terminal at Port Newark. I like archery, bowling, billiards, muscle cars, hiking, photography, cooking, writing, and I'm an avid reader and movie buff.
-Tom
 
Here goes. I'm a 20 yr. old Specialist in the US Army, been in for 2.5 yrs. now and I'm looking at gettin out in another 17 months. I found HI when I was still in high school, I think I was only 15 at the time. I got my first khuk, a BAS from Ghurka House, four years ago then managed to snag a blem Gelbu Special. I've been here ever since. :) Besides khuks I enjoy distance running, downhill skiing, reading and most recently building computers and playing online games. I think I know most of the old timers here pretty well, and for the new guys, if I haven't said it already, welcome and we're glad to have you!
 
I'm sort of private until I get to know you. :cool:

Then I won't shut up...
 
Hey! Thanks for introducing this thread. I am a 47 yo married father of 2. I work in Monterey, CA, and live 20 miles away in Salinas, CA.

Profession is Software QA for the last 18 years or so. Knife and gun collector from way back, but guns are so damned expensive now that if I pick up more than 1 new one a year its unusual (Although I am the proud new owner of a Springfield Armory M1 Garand; 1 of 10,000 new manufacture right now.) Started knife collecting with 4" folders, then moved to automatics, then large fixed blade fighting knives, and now just in the last month, khuks in a big way. That has been made especially easy by the great welcome I got from all of you and Uncle Bill on this forum; you guys have a great thing going here and I am glad to be a small part of it. (Also glad from checking Yvsa's link to some old postings that I seemed to have missed most of your BF Troll problems!) It's almost as if you folks have a deal going with Uncle Bill to entice newbies to the forum. Hmmm.... Could it be that you are all on the HI payroll!? (-:

I am just a few hours away from getting my private pilots license, with only a 3 hour solo x-country left to go, and then the written knowledge test and checkride. Believe it or not, I have always been a little afraid of heights, so this seemed like the best way to go about curing that problem. Only drawback is the cost which is pretty high.

Of course the bad news is that next month I will no longer have the extra cost for the lessons, so will have that much more to blow on Khukuris!

Best regards,

Norm

("Svashtar")
 
I'm 29, married for almost 2 years now. We finally bought a house so I'm looking forward to having room to swing a khuk and not gouge the wall :D. I'm a traffic engineer for a small consultant group here in Dallas. Besides khuks I enjoy competition shooting and computer games. I hate politics but I try to do as much of it as I can too :(
 
My real name is Richard Butts, I'm 58 and in the process of formally retiring from my job as a senior accountant for the City of Long Beach, CA. I got interested in khukuri's after reading "The Gurkhas" by Byron Farwell. Great book, had me in stitches in some of the parts. I have a small collection of "oldies" music and am looking forward to reorienting myself from a life centered around my job. Hello to all and welcome to those of you who are new to the cantina like myself. Well, relatively new - three months.
 
Svashtar, what is Salinas is known for? I'm trying to remember who is the garlic capital of the World and who's the Artichoke capital. Gilroy is one or the other...

I went to school in Santa Cruz.


With Crooked Knife in Long Beach, you Cal guys could have a Khukuri Konvention.



munk
 
Steinbeck did Salinas, didn't he?


From Guru.net:

Sa·li·nas (sə-lç'nəs)

A city of western California east-northeast of Monterey on the Salinas River, about 241 km (150 mi) long, near its outlet on Monterey Bay. The city is a processing center and the birthplace of John Steinbeck, who based many of his stories on the migratory farm workers of the Salinas Valley. Population: 159,600.



yup. Brain worked...one out of ten! Getting better.
 
zydeco band from NY
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Ah yes...A great thing from NY...Besides ME of course:D

I'm a 32yr old Network Design Engineer. Happily married for
(Oh My God!) 10 years this October...to my high school sweetheart.
We have two daughters, 3yrs & 6yrs, and live in the mountainous country of Upstate NY. I like all kinds of outdoor activities like fishing, hunting, and playing w/ things that go Boom.

Loved cannons since I was a squirt; collected Big Bang cannons and just started w/ the real BP ones this year. A 28" Napoleon w/ 1" bore...man is this thing loud!

I'm an only child so my dad and I are very close. We do and have done a great deal together like compete in bullseye, pin, and IPSC, pistol shoots. I think the lead from casting our own made us look wacky (see my pic at left):D .

I'm actively involved in Paintball (speedball), kiting (yes, custom stuntkites are super fast, pull like hell, & a blast to watch dad get dragged in 15-20mph winds), Archery, ATV'ing, snoe shoeing, and plowing snow... :rolleyes:
 
Hey Munk,

Well, Salinas used to be known as the "Salad Bowl of the World", or something similar. Used to have so much arable farmland that it grew everything from strawberries to lettuce to carrots to artichokes in huge surplus. There are still huge truck loading facilities on the South side, much of it fallen into disuse. Now most of the artichoke growing is in nearby Castroville, and as you hit on, Gilroy is the Garlic capital, of California anyway.

Currently Salinas has devolved into one of the gang capitals of the world, with the Norteno and Sureno Latino gangs killing each other off on a regular basis, as well as a few innocents bystanders because the morons couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

Still, most of that BS is on the East Side of town that I stay away from. I lived in Santa Cruz for 4 years myself while I worked at Borland, and loved the downtown area. Except for the pretty aggressive panhandlers it had some great bookstores and movie theatres, two things almost unknown in Salinas unfortunately.

I live in a new development in North Salinas, with a great view of the Gabilan mountains that Steinbeck wrote about. Of course, my housing development is one of the reasons that Salinas no longer leads the world in crop production, so it's a mixed blessing.

In any case, I love the central CA coast. The weather is great and the scenery is beautiful; now if we could just exterminate all the gang dregs we would have it made!

Regards,

Svashtar
 
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