Why MJR-SNAFU?
Generally speaking, a SNAFU is a military acronym (five-letter abbreviation) for "Situation Normal, All Fucked Up".
Early in 2001 in my online gaming activities in Tom Clancys Ghost Recon, I noticed most playing had pretentious names for their VR warriors like "Nut Crusher", "King of GR", "Punisher", "Can of Whoop Ass"...all giving the impression these were the best players in the game and there was little point in plying them as you were about to relive Ned Beattys worst nightmare from the movie Deliverance. Choosing a different path, I selected "Sgt SNAFU" as the game was a military VR shooter; I assumed most would recognize the rank and the acronym with a laugh.
I wanted to have a gamer tag that accurately reflected my gameplay style of reasoned adaptability and tactical ambush. This would be a validating prophesy for those who chose to play VR first shooter games with reckless abandon running amok in open areas with a pistol in their hands against opponents armed with assault weapons, claymors and grenade launchers. Those sugar addicted attention deficit cockroaches would eventually hear the click of my claymors telling them "smile and wait for the flash" or end up taking a M203 grenade in the face like a porn star on her knees getting the money shot.
After learning that almost any 10-year-old kid could aim a VR gun as there was almost no shooting physics involved, I focused on the much harder and more challenging use of the grenade launchers. While many butt sore cry babies shed many a tear over their explosive demise, the level of thought for those weapons far exceeds any other in the games and I find the complex math involved much more challenging and the subsequent enemy kills that much more satisfying. Whether in their thoughtless haste when they hear the click of my claymore or they find themselves taking a launched grenade it in the face either way they have met with a SNAFU.
After the first 4 years of GR, I promoted my VR warrior from "Sgt SNAFU” to "MJR SNAFU" as I now find the world and most in it a total disaster of emotion based dysfunction, so I have been MJR SNAFU since.
About Me:
Happily married, father of 3, President of ABV, Primary business interest is school bus safety, new products, new technologies that can be adapted to enhance the safety of children on school buses. Secondary interest in destructive devices detection and safeguards with regard to pupil and transit transportation. Inventor of several propriety items primarily directed toward digital products I was trained in that were offered to the public and private sector, gratis, although I have several undisclosed inventions dealing with pet products, advertising and airline tires pending release that may be patented at a later date.
Who I'd Like to Meet:
Of the living, I'd most like to meet an honest, trustworthy, hard working politician. Of course I'd settle for the Easter bunny, as both are only to be found in your imagination. Of those who have passed on, now that is a much more interesting choice. There are so many who I should know more about, but to name a few; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Samuel Adams, Abraham Lincoln, men of integrity, men of vision, men of honor all things terribly missing from the void of depravity and filth that is our thug culture currently. OK, OK..........I'll toss the little people a bone: Bon Scott-my favorite dead singer Sam Kinison- my favorite dead comic......YOU RULE SAM!!!!!
Interests
General Interests of mine include combat shooting & tactical drills with my LEO buddies, SCUBA, cave/cavern/wreck diving, invention, Xbox Online gaming, problem solving, integration of existing technologies into innovative solutions.
Lifestyle View
As a Libertarian, I respect the rights of others to their "pursuit of happiness"; to revel in their self created worlds of darkness, to swim in their self created twisted realities, to view, enjoy or participate in pornography, to enjoy, adult language, context, behavior, fantasy or erotica, to enjoy any form of natural activities, hobby, fetish, pastime or personal interest. I respect their right to do any of the above with 1 caveat, that it does not affect others in a negative way, particularly underage children who may come in contact with their comments/pictures posted in a public forum like this.
Music View
I believe music is the best way to change your emotional state. If your down it can pick you up, if your "up" it can provide a good beat to keep rhythm to, nod nod, wink wink. I enjoy music from the 80s- some current.
The main problem with music is so little of it is worth listening to. I truly believe if Madonna were to make a CD of non-stop farts, there would be idiots lined up the night before to make sure they got one. The market is so starved for any form of entertainment, and the music industry is so starved for any form of talent we get some bands that cannot write their own music, some the cannot play their instruments, some cannot sing the words they write, and almost all need help dressing themselves, doing their hair & makeup, not to mention they need staff to show them how to dance, how to move & what to do.
Thus it is no surprise that my iPhone is filled with hundreds of hours of comedy, and several audio books. Thank God now you can buy the only good song on a cd, and not have to buy 16 tracks of lame ass, no talent, not worth clicking the skip buttons to pass the rest of the crap to get to the 1 song worth listening to. Thank you Apple iPOD & iTunes.
Talk radio is where the real action is now, the animating battle of ideas, now that is food for your brain. Before you say...."Ugh talk radio how boring", I won a New Nissan Xterra on talk radio in 2000, what has your radio done for you lately?
Movies Views
Movies are flushing themselves down the toilet faster and faster each year. Each $200,000,000.00 turkey sets a new standard of mediocrity; boring plots, lame acting and political statements poorly woven into the fabric of the movie plots. The new symbol for the movie rating system should replace the thumbs up or down with a plunger and a flush lever, so you know if this movie will simply be flushed from your mind as soon as you see it, or if this colon stoppage will require a plunger to force this much crap down the toilet at one time.
Television
TV sucks, it sucks hard! Last thing I really enjoyed on TV was Michael Mann's "Miami Vice". It was raw, it had a hard edge razor sharp, with a contrast of the most beautiful places and the most evil people, the contrast camera angles, music, reality that the good guys do not always win, heck in that show they often got creamed, but it was the freshest thing on TV in my lifetime. I have seen nothing that fully compares to Miami Vice with the closest thing to it being "CSI" and "Burn Notice”. Let me just repeat this as it is so damn true now;.......... TV sucks, it sucks hard!
Books
In the immortal words of “Egon” in Ghostbusters...."Print is
dead".
My life is hyperactive, my entertainment is interactive, I do not have the luxury of time to sit around in a physically inactive state no matter how intellectually stimulating the content unless it directly affects my freedoms, liberty of pursuit of happiness. With dozens of e-mail, quotes official bid forms to wade through on a daily basis, the regular staple of tax forms, government compliance forms, any new way the government can think of to burden and complicate not to mention the energy expended on pithy comments and interactive written banter with some of you. However, I will download them on MP3 audio files onto my iPhone and listen to them while I'm working as in this way I am not wasting my time on a non-interactive way to entertain myself.
Heros
Everyone needs a hero to look up to, to idolize, to aspire to become as large in life, everyone needs a hero.......I am my own. No seriously hero worship is for the weak minded, those who simply cannot imagine themselves doing such "heroic" tasks, those who need to be led like sheep, told what to do by their boss, told how to act and live their lives by their political or religious leaders. I believe America's greatest gift is freedom, the freedom to bask in individualism, to exceed any expectations, to break any standard of prosperity and success in any field, and that freedom permits ordinary people to do extraordinary things on a daily basis.
Under the right circumstances, all of us can do "heroic" things, can make self sacrificing decisions for others, can risk it all for a loved one or a stranger. Those viewed as hero’s by others are in fact individuals who understand the concept of free will and who choose to exercise their free will, to personally take it upon themselves and choose to act in the way they believe they should act. Never sell yourselves short; you all have it within you to do what is needed when the time comes. Some of us choose to do what is necessary to make a difference; some of us choose not to act out of fear.