A PAIR OF FOOLS WILL
ALWAYS BEAT ONE!
DRILLBOY KIKO of BRASIL
MOSTLY ON THE MOVE
SO NO Snail-MAIL!!!
ALWAYS BEAT ONE!
DRILLBOY KIKO of BRASIL
MOSTLY ON THE MOVE
SO NO Snail-MAIL!!!
part time, contract, none!
WORK TYPE;
general knowledge technologist, MSc
HIGHEST DEGREE;
any town with a railroad yard. well, almost any town...
RELOCATION;
to keep riding them two wheelers; to learn how to weld; to fix my damn house; to hop more trains; to read more books; to build a library; to smile every morning before getting up; to help make things like "nelson mandela president" happen; to drink less beer - well, not really; to convince goran-b and emir-k to make a movie in brasil; to go back to school [heheheh...i just finished grad-school right now!]; to get picked up by a '59 pontiac on a two-laner somewheres; to coach emmylou harris and dwight yoakam to have kids; to travel all over the world; to become a farmer; to meet woody guthrie and marisa monte<; to live in africa; to become a professional story-teller; to think positive, to think sunshine; to eat better; to kiss more people - i ain't gonna lie to you...to kiss lots more girls than guys; to live in butte; to visit AL, RI, NC, & HI; to make da UP da 51st state; to work in a mine; to make music; to wear more green; to play the accordion like slavko avsenik; to become as my father, a technician in general knowledge, PhD; to build a time machine & travel back to 1889 copper country; to travel the pan-american highway from bow to stern; to convince my mother she should run for president of the world; to be a truck driver; to teach, to become a teacher; to drive an ambulance from the tip of the keweenaw to the tip of the tierra del fuego; to never hold any job longer than 2 seasons; to 'marry' all the accordion-playing girls the road ahead may sprout; to fix my teeth; to enter a dance contest; to tango; to tangle; to be sponsored by old mil, old crow, & old age!
FUTURE PLANS;
lived with 5 families; lived in 18 houses, 12 cities & 2 countries [i lost track really...]; went to 13 schools; came to america as an exchange student at age 15; dangled 4 times over 3,944 feet, almost died; lived at big red house & 505; know that being naked can be expensive; rode a gm-emd sd-9 on the now gone dss&a mackinac division main; while in college, lived with 4 dogs, 1-to-many cats, & abouts 45 people; lived with a guy from black south africa a guy from south korea and a guy, a princess really, from german-switzerland; been caught stealing; got Fs, got As; drank with the miners at the old helsinki bar; my mom, her sister, and my g-parents were teachers; owned a green '74 cadillac; have not been caught stealing; got a degree in mechanical engineering and was such a good student that michigan tech-no-logical university sent me 3 diplomas; got a master's degree in structural (well, ok, it's really just a civil degree) engineering - i don't have a diploma yet 'tho; lived on a farm; lived in the biggest megacity in the world; i'm the oldest out of 6 while my father is the youngest out of 5; traveled in europe & the americas; been to like 30 countries; coasted on my pedal-bike for 1,300 miles across many a-states...rode a detroit & mackinac boxcar with the bike too; rode on the up, sp, sf, csx, cr, wc, bn, & bnsf; rode the varnish on the amtrak, renfe, feve, cp, sncf, bc, db, fs, sz, hz, vr, mps, chepe, fcab, efosa, pr, enfe, fca, pkp, & fepasa.
EDUCATION;
know how to hop trains and speak 2 languages (can read ads in spanish too); know that clean socks are kiko's best friend; know how to make boxes - the kind that doubles-up as an accordion-case and/or coffin; was a product & design engineer for ghsp in grand haven, michigan - i must have done something right - worked for them 3 different times; know how to milk cows & ride horses; hurt myself, got confused, sick, and blind for a north-country-girl by the name sarah of calumet - this one i marry; played with yankovic, yes, the polka king - god bless his soul; did community service; know for sure you can never stop trying; know how to drive tractors & make kites; was an assistant engineer for metal leve in são paulo; know that you don't need a watch to say "it's polka time!"; rode over 2,750 freight miles on the same train [richmond-to-toledo]; seen the tigers beat the damn yankees; have a crash-test-dummy at johnson controls named after me; been cutting my own hair for over 12 years; know for a fact that my butt-hairs have super-fresh aero-dynamic qualities to out-bike any cop-car; seen johnny cash 3 times; know that you need no fire to burn a barn down; rode the dog more times than i care to recall - let me tell you about the boise-to-chicago one; learned that computers do have personalities; was a free-lance writer & a disc-jockey; do you know what eds/sdrc i-deas is? well, i have about 5+ years of experience on it; know that washers, bellows, & bare-skin do have a whole lot in common at 3am; drank too much 'chora rita'; have 3 brothers and 2 sisters; the half-sister is not related to the 2 half-brothers which are only half-related to each other - you go ahead and figure that out!
EXPERIENCE;
bikes; travelling; photography; button-boxes; trains; mining; story-telling; junk, lots of junk; soccer; grease & dirt; people; staying up all nite; procrastination, a virtue by the way; the sun, the moon; falling in love; rivers; rain; saunas; hiking & camping; my brasil, not yours; boots; history of the copper country; antiques - just any old shit really; trains; day dreaming; showing off; speleology; the second tray of air plane food!
HOBBIES;
rice, the food of the rest of the world!
FAVORITE FOOD;
the brasilian flag & fall in the keweenaw!
FAVORITE COLORS;
ruby records; kev's page; spinout records; designwrench; jen's page; superior music cafe; joe's page; grimm's page; rob's page; corina's page; wysocki's page; forty acre donut; emily-c's page; charlotte's page; sara's page; ron's page; erin's page; quilted fish records; copper country music; justin's page; davina's page; the jeyds; alia's page; andy's page; wood's page; pego's page; kiko's unfun CV; please note that if you need a motorized shopping cart, a drunk scooter pilot, a monster truck, home made beer & wine, a movie critic, a tandem bike, spicy ass chili, a couch on skiis, or just about any thing you can't get legally or in a store or via mail order, including a naked man wearing a leather vest, contact mark 'the helmet' helmut dorner [yeah, wolfgang's brother's son] @ 505 engineering - if he can't build it, nobody can! this month spark plugs are gap-ed free!
KINEMATICS;
visualize accordions & bikes because life is good and everything is for the better, for real! ...hey, yous guys are pretty cool!
LAST COMMENT;
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-while copper,
pasties,
& beer still rock-'n'-rule
my
world, references, and just about any other info, available
upon
request!
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"The best thing that could happen
to the U.P. would be for someone to bomb the
[Big Mac] bridge." -John Voelker, former Michigan Supreme Court Justice
and the author of Anatomy
of a Murder and Yooper resident
sign the book
view the damn thing
kiko is all-ways between research & practice so suggestions are welcome!
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