Well, there is not a whole bunch to tell really, and lets be honest, who really cares to hear all that much about someone you don't know who isn't famous?

Thats what I thought!

Anyway, I am from upstate New York, originally from Massachusetts, and I am married with children...see, pretty boring huh?

But I did serve 10 years in the US military with one year in Iraq. I did some time in a community college in Rochester New York to be a computer nerd, but that didn't last as long as I thought it would as I saw that I was no longer fit for public consumption. I had nothing in common with students twenty years younger than myself.

I love to play Playstation 3 games, especially Oblivion and Resistance Fall Of Man. I am slightly addicted to Oblivion and play most every day.

Okay, well, thats it I guess, no sense in putting any one to sleep.

We all know the story of the Titanic. What most people don't know is that The Titanic never stood a chance against that iceberg. From the time Titanic left port she was doomed! The photo to the left is the last known photo of Titanic as she was anchored off Queenstown ( now Cobh). When the worlds most advanced, the biggest, and most luxurious ship hit the iceberg; everything that went into the design and construction, and even the sailing of Titanic was against it. Indeed, the very decision to sail at all was a mistake. According to Robert H Essenhigh, a possible contributor could have been the coal bunker fire in Bunker #10. Coal Bunker #10, for boiler #6.

And what is more telling is what Geoff Tiballs wrote in his book, Titanic- Extraordinary Story of the Unsinkable Ship. "Fire had been burning since the April 3rd crossing from Belfast." The fire he spoke of was in bunker #10, as stated above, and continued to burn until at least well into the maiden crossing. The bulkhead had been glowing red from the extreme heat caused by the fire. That in turn changed the composition of the steel in the bulkhead, weakening it. Once the icy North Atlantic waters hit the heated and weakened steel, "that was all she wrote."

J.P. Morgan, the real owner of the Titanic, decided not to sail on the Titanic at the last minute due to what he claimed was an illness, but he was feeling well enough to make a call to the American Ambassador to Paris, Robert Bacon, who also backed out. What was Bacon's excuse? He claimed he needed to stay behind in Paris to smooth the way for his successor. Why that necessity would occur to him at the last moment rather than earlier is puzzling but not when one stops to factor in the presence of the fire.

Another thing everyone knows about if you saw the movie Titanic, is that the water tight bulkheads only went as high as e-deck which, obviously made them decidedly non-watertight. Why anyone would think that water could not flood each compartment enough to spill over the bulkheads is beyond comprehension. Of course we all have hindsight and history to aid our judgment of the tragedy.Captain Edward John Smith had only sailed a ship the size and weight of Titanic once before. He had sailed the White Star Line's Olympic prior to this, with two instances of collisions. He was exonerated from responsibility in both cases, however the writing was clearly on the wall. Shipping and the change required in seamanship due to the size of the ships had passed him by, and he had only sailed Titanic during her sea trials.

Leaving England for her maiden voyage, Titanic's passing and huge bulk caused the displacement of tons of water caused the USS New York to snap her mooring lines, and Titanic nearly ran into the smaller American liner. Only quick thinking by the nearby tug and a last minute order by Smith saved a collision. In hindsight, a collision there would have prevented one three days hence. That was an ill omen of things to come which went unheeded.

Another well known blunder was the obvious lack of life boats on Titanic. Thinking the ship was unsinkable anyway, the White Star Line designers and bean-counters decided that lifeboats for 1178 people were enough. That left just under 50% in the water in the event of a disaster. Which did occur on April 14, 1912 at 11:40 p.m. Instead of 1178 getting in the boats, only 750 managed to secure passage on the lifeboats, and due to class distinction, that left many of the third class passengers literally out in the cold.