Hello, My name is The KOE, but my friends call me Automatic.

There is not too much I can say about myself except that I hate people using the word "LOVE" when they have no idea what it really means. You cannot be in love with someone and just turn it off at will unless the love wasn't there in the first place. I, for one, have always played for keeps. Seems that true romance and real loving people are of the past and the Hip Hop Videos and the things that go with them are of the Now. Women are now being treated as though they are a dime a dozen and even some of them do not even mind! What has the world come to? Anyway, I love everything electronic - From computers to Air Traffic Control Radar, Flight Simulators, Remote Microwave Link, Radar Data Transfer Groups, Video Mappers, and so on. I am currently teaching Particle Displacement using K.O.E. fundamentals as well as regular and advanced computer classes in all kinds of software & hardware. I also remotely repair computer terminals all across the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii through Cisco Routers, Servers, etc.

Now-a-days I am exploring Real Estate. I am buying and selling notes and investing in Custom Super Homes...

I have written 21 different songs yet I have not done anything with them until just recently using his Motif 8 and computer software - I am currently working with a music producer here in my home town of Glen Cove... Please stay tuned for the results when my music video debuts below!

Cool Slideshows

Nicks Video - video powered by Metacafe I love traveling, considering I can go anywhere in the world I wants to for free...

I love my puppies - You can see them in the pics - DaVinci & Copper

I love swimming and riding horses here too!

I am also addicted to changing my cellphone ringtone. I am still looking for the ultimate one!

I am guessing the best place to get a good sounding one would be at InterWorldTrade.com/ringtones and the like...

I love Canadian Bacon, Pineapple, and Jalepeno Pizza - Panamanian style Empanadas - Chicken Tamales - & Guanabana Milkshakes

Carimanolas (Yucca con Carne)

3 pounds yucca root, peeled and cubed
3 1/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
5 large eggs
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onions
2 large jalapeno peppers, finely chopped
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
8 ounces ground beef
4 teaspoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Vegetable oil, for deep frying
6 teaspoons Creole Seasoning, plus more for dusting, recipe follows
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs

In a large saucepan combine the yucca and 1 teaspoon of the salt, and enough water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until tender, but not falling apart. Drain and transfer to a large bowl. Using a potato masher, mash with the butter. Add 2 of the eggs one at a time, stirring well with a large wooden spoon after the addition of each until smooth. Add 1/4 cup of the flour and 1 1/2 teaspoons of the salt, and stir well to incorporate into a somewhat stiff dough. (If the dough is too soft, add slightly more flour 1 teaspoon at a time.) Let sit until cool enough to handle.

In a large skillet or saute pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and peppers, and cook, stirring, until soft, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin, thyme, and chili powder, and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Add ground beef and cook, stirring, until no longer pink. Add the tomato paste, vinegar, sugar, remaining 3/4 teaspoon of salt, and the pepper. Simmer, stirring until thick. Remove from the heat and adjust seasoning to taste. Let sit until cool enough to handle.

Roll the yucca mixture into balls, about 1/4 cup each. Using a finger, press a deep hole into the center of each. Spoon about 2 teaspoons of the filling into the center of each ball and gently work the yucca dough around it to completely enclose.

Heat the oil to 330 to 340 degrees F.

In a bowl, make an egg wash by beating the remaining 3 eggs with 3 tablespoons of water. In another bowl, combine the remaining cup of flour with 3 teaspoons of the Creole Seasoning. In a third bowl, place the bread crumbs and remaining 3 teaspoons of Creole Seasoning.

One at a time, dip the "caraminolas" into the flour, then the eggs, then the bread crumbs to completely coat, shaking to remove any excess. Add to the hot oil in batches and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Season lightly with Creole Seasoning.

Serve hot or at room temperature.

Creole Seasoning:

2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dried leaf oregano
1 tablespoon dried thyme

Combine all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight jar or container.

Yield: about 2/3 cup

Earl Krugh, Lionel Richie, and any soft ballads... Favorite Song: Somewhere In Time

Beautiful...

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Written by Geaorge Harrison, Performed by Jake Shimabukuro on Ukelele

Casino Royale, The Return of Superman, anything to make my mouth gape open...

Smallville, Heroes, Dexter, & 24

The Fox and the Hound - By Daniel P Mannix:

Reader's Digest Condensed Books. (Volume 4 1967)(Hardcover)- The (cartoon) movie, of the same name, cannot compare to this book!!!

Replay - By Ken Grimwood:

In this intriguing fantasy adventure, Jeff Winston, a failing 43-year-old radio journalist, dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. He views the future from the perspective of naive 1963: ``null-eyed punks in leather and chains . . . death-beams in orbit around the polluted, choking earth . . . his world sounded like the most nightmarish of science fiction.'' But Grimwood has transcended genre with this carefully observed, literate and original story. Jeff's knowledge soon becomes as much a curse as a blessing. After recovering from the shock (is the future a dream, or is it real life?), he plays out missed choices. In one life, for example, he falls in love with Pamela, a housewife who died nine minutes after Jeff; they try to warn the world of the disasters it faces, coming in conflict with the government and history. A third replayer turns out to be a serial killer, murdering the same people over and over. Jeff and Pamela are still searching for some missing part of their lives when they notice they are returning closer and closer to the time of their deaths, and realize that the replays and their times together may be coming to an end.

Fade - By Robert Cormier:

Much of Cormier's fiction poses a paradox: you are most alive just as outside forces obliterate your identity. Cormier's protagonists want to be anonymous, and their wishes are fulfilled in nightmarish ways. In Fade , which encompasses three stories in three decades, 13-year-old Paul discovers an incredible secret gift: he can become invisible. His long-lost uncle appears, to tell Paul that each generation of the family has one fader, and to warn him of the fade's dangers. Paul, however, abuses his power and quickly learns its terrible price. Twenty-five years later, Paul, a successful writer, confronts the next fader, his abused nephew Ozzie, whose power is pure vengeance. And 25 years after that, in 1988, Paul's distant cousin Susan, also a writer, reads his amazing story, and must decide if Paul's memoir is fact or fiction. Fade is an allegory of the writer's life. Paul's actions stem from his compulsion to understand the behavior of the people around him; Susan's questions and her awful dilemma, which concludes the book, result from her near-pathological writer's focus on other persons, a purpose her unreachable late cousin serves well. Omniscient powerPaul's invisibility and Susan's access to his unpublished workleads to identity-consuming responsibility. At its best, Fade is an examination of the writer's urge to lose identity and become purely an observer. As in all Cormier's novels, the protagonists are ciphers whose only affirming action seems to be to assert, however briefly, that they exist. The story is gripping, even when it approaches melodrama, and Cormier concentrates on each action's inner meaning. Fade works better as allegory than as fantasy; this is Cormier's most complex, artful work. He seems to challenge himself as a writer, and in doing so, offers a respectful challenge to his readers. Through him, they will discover the extremes of behavior in the quietest human soul. Ages 13-up.

the Happy Hollisters - By Jerry West:

I read the entire series as a child many times over. Good luck finding them. They are probably worth a pretty penny now...

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Robert Frost (1874 to 1963)