About me This user's homeworld is mostly harmless. This user is proud to be a United States citizen. This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California. This user lives in, or hails from, Los Angeles. This user is currently on a seefood diet. † This user is an omnivore. This user is a chocoholic. HFCS This user prefers foods and beverages that do not contain high-fructose corn syrup. This user prefers Chicago-style pizza. This user would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. This user knows that Chicago-style hot dogs are the only true 'Dawg. This user prefers cheesesteaks with provolone. This user enjoys original Hanoi style pho- phở from Vietnam. This user enjoys tofu. This user believes that a tomato is a vegetable. This user eats bananas. This user eats bagels. This user eats grits. This user believes that the world needs more pancakes. They make everything better. This user loves bacon! This user loves Korean BBQ more than anything else. This user likes Starbucks Coffee. This user likes to eat Filipino food. H2O This user drinks water regularly. This user drinks coffee. This user drinks beer. ASP This user supports the American Solidarity Party. This user advocates cooperative universal health care. This user is a left-wing capitalist & doesn't see any contradiction in it. This user supports public transit. ORG This user would rather eat organic food than tampered-with food. This user opposes the Genetic Modification of plants and animals. This user feels that letting oneself be struck with terror by terrorists means actually doing most of their job for them. User:Toa Nidhiki05/Userboxes/Torture0 PRO This user is personally pro-life but supports a woman's right to choose. This user believes that the death penalty is vengeance, not justice. This user does not use drugs, but figures people should be able to use recreational drugs in their own home if they're responsible about it. This user does not trust politicians who praise public schools while sending their own children to private schools. This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education. This user supports homeschooling and is against any bans on it. This user supports gun regulation, but not an outright ban on the civilian ownership of guns. This male user supports feminism. This user supports action to stop violence against women, particularly on December 6. This user is sick and tired of Religion's attempts to hijack government and wants stronger separation of church and state. This user finds censorship offensive. This user is an internationalist who opposes war.

User since 2004. [1]

Favorite Quotations

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - C. S. Lewis

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." - Mark Twain

"I could never belong to any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." - Charles Dickens

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai

"Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things." - Douglas Adams

My name in other languages:

• Russian: Рик Вон
• Chinese: 里克佛恩
• Korean: 릭 본
• Japanese: リックフォン
• Arabic: ريك فون
• Hebrew: ריק פון
• Hindi: रिक वॉन
• Greek: Ρίτσαρντ Βον

Traveler and itinerant expat. Have visited the following places: Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, England, Holland, Germany, France, Belgium, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Canada, most parts of the USA including Alaska, Hawaii, Saipan, and Guam. Eventually made it back to exile in the USA. In the words of MacArthur's press guy, "I Shall Return."