Personal Profile
Description:
Name: Harry L. Meade
D.O.B.: August 1
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: adequate [cuddly, as my wife says]
Hair: Brown, shade varying from near-blond to quite dark, depending on season.
Eyes: Blue

Personal Preferences:
Favorite Color: green
Favorite Place: In Dawn's arms.
Favorite Persons: Lots here: Dawn, Jeff, Vince, Beth, Betsy, Aimee & Jim, JPQ and many others...You know who you are!!
Musical Tastes: A little bit of everything: Metallica rocks, especially S&M. Rush is great and so is Nine Inch Nails. John Williams is a classical god. Celtic music rocks, both bawdy folk songs and traditional pipe stuff. I am also a big fan of Seven Nations (the artists formerly known as Clan Na Gael)...the United States' coolest celtic rock band!! As you can see, my musical tastes are extremely eclectic.
Literary Tastes: SciFi, SciFi and SciFi (Particularly the Pern books and Star Wars novels) - though I'll read anything that doesn't suck. Basically, if it has words, I'll give it a shot.
Cinematic Tastes: The following movies rock (in no particular order):
Rocky Horror, T2, ID4, The Fifth Element (5th elephant?), Armageddon, Dr. Strangelove, Pricilla-Queen of the Desert, American Pie, Patton, South Park-Bigger-Longer-Uncut, everything Python, and my Number One All Time Favorite (for the time being anyway) -- Braveheart!!!!

Interests:
Physical Activities: Tae-Bo!, Bowling (duckpin), Weight Machine lifting in our basement mini-gym.
Mental Activities: Trivia games of all ilks and politics - whee!
Political Inclination: Republican
View on most controversial issues: "I may not believe in what you have to say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." --Voltaire.
Other Interests: I'm a drummer in a pipe band...but if you've been browsing my site, you already know that.

Expertise:
Degrees/Majors: I graduated from the school of life - that is, I didn't actually go to four years of college, but got a great job (and job-specific training courses) despite that fact.
Minor: Didn't you read the last question??
Willing to answer questions about: I do not claim to be an expert on everything, or anything for that matter - however I am a fairly good source of Pernese history, Python hysteria and general A/V info. Ask and I may enlighten.

Goal in Life:
My goal in life is to become a moderate-to-great success in whatever I do, and to have a happy family...and, more immediately, to get my truck back on the road!

A Goal Fulfilled!
The truck lives! Long live the truck! In February, 2000, I finally paid my blood money to the MVA and made the necessary repairs and my long-suffering `95 GMC Sonoma is on the road again!!! Whoo-hoo! (Now I just have to break the news to Dawn that the MVA gets our first-born...)

Quotes:

"Ni"
The knights who say (guess what) in Monty Python's Holy Grail

"Vewwy twicky!"
You know, I don't remember how this one got started.

"Skittles!"
Big Gay Al at the USO Show

"MMMM...Skittle-brau"
Homer Simpson at the Qwik-E Mart and Vince at our house, mixing candy and Bass Ale *shudder*

"I'm gonna bounce!"
My favorite wedding gift, the bouncing Tigger!

"C+"
JPQ's ever-astute performance critique of the drum corps after we finished our set at the 1999 World Championships - we went on to win the Championships and the 1999 Best Drum Corps award.

"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are."
C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

More to come...This is just a start...