I finally gave in to the most recent reindeer game on Facebook. This turned out to be an enjoyable effort.

• 1. Despite countless hours spent gaming up until I was 18 or 19 years old, and the successful completion and mastery of many games, I have never defeated Mike Tyson in the Nintendo classic bearing his name.
• 2. I drive to Dunkin Donuts just about every morning to feed both my own addiction to hazelnut flavored coffee, and my Labrador’s daily scarfing of a single glazed munchkin. The drool is nearly unbearable – his too.
• 3. I’ve read more in the last five years than the preceding 27 combined.
• 4. I’m an avid enthusiast of digital camouflage.
• 5. My proudest moment as a musician was entering the Ryman auditorium from the performer’s side entrance before playing on the Opry. I still have the sticker on my case.
• 6. I once owned over 40 flannel shirts from Abercrombie & Fitch – back when their clothing had its last fading remnant of class – not that flannel imparts classiness.
• 7. I very rarely hear humans expressing rational thoughts on the radio.
• 8. John Mayer’s Continuum would be one of my desert island albums. How extremely rare to find an artist with intellectually rich penmanship, a soulful voice, and instrumental aptitude that’s so highly esteemed.
• 9. I spent nearly ten years of my childhood racing go-karts at the state and national level.
• 10. My wife and I are just about polar opposites. Sam will definitely have an array of ideas and attitudes to emulate.
• 11. I’ve never liked my hair. It’s curly when it’s long, straight when it’s short and I have both a cow-lick and a bald spot from a birthmark. I tried clippers in high school once. Unfortunately the anthropometric summary of my head represents a mathematical anomaly - of which hair is a necessary mitigating agent. Extracting physical appearance as a component of my self-esteem has been a wonderfully rewarding endeavor.
• 12. I think Google Maps, with its current feature set and considering the nature of the web as a software platform, is the single most impressive application I’ve ever used.
• 13. As a 12 year-old I had growing pains so badly on one occasion that I literally could not walk.
• 14. I was oblivious to the potential amount of joy and love that a human can sense until the birth of my son.
• 15. One of my 10-year goals (5 years ago) is to have a fully functional, CNC-enabled machine and woodworking shop at home – It’s currently about 2/3 complete.
• 16. I think America has seen her brightest days.
• 17. Bach’s Prelude No. 1 is my favorite classical piece.
• 18. I’m currently learning to weld and sew.
• 19. Only once in my life did I encounter what athletes refer to as “the zone.” I don’t subscribe to any form of the supernatural, but that one-hour period of time will forever standout an inexplicable breach of my consciousness and actions.
• 20. On a 2006 music trip to Europe, Air France “misplaced” about 20K dollars worth of our irreplaceable guitars and gear for 24 hours.
• 21. I used to make light sabers using flashlights and green poster board. Luke was a pansy when he carried the blue one - I chose to emulate excellence.
• 22. I think I could enjoy being a truck driver because there would be plenty of time for music, audio books and introspection, but I couldn’t handle the time away from home.
• 23. I think humans are fundamentally moral, but after being battered by irrationalism for thousands of years, today one has to really develop and nurture a mindset of independent and critical thinking to hold any aspiration of escape from the clutches of modern philosophy.
• 24. In a streak that ended cold in 2007, I’ve consumed an estimated10,000 pop-tarts.
• 25. I think every individual is capable of more than they realize. With focus and mental discipline the human mind is capable of immense achievement.

Leia’s tactical deceit was perfectly justified given the fact that she was deeply involved in an epic battle to rule the universe, but it also qualified her as wholly unreliable with regards to whether or not Alderaan really was peaceful and defenseless. Boeing enabled other options for the Alderaanians despite their supposed peaceful nature and lack of weapons.

A high-power solid-state laser will damage, disable or destroy targets at the speed of light, with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations.