Wooh!!! - What a hectic year!

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

Reply when asked what jazz is.

Louis Armstrong (Satchmo)

1900-1971

Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Well I promised to put more here last October, so maybe it's now time to start to do that:
(old message from October -> I promise to put more here soon. -b)

I was originally born in Birmingham, Alabama around 5:00p.m. on 9/11/75 to Ovid and Carolyn Ricketson. Since then life has been one hectic ride, but has had a number of nice breaks along the way.

(Man this is tough, let me think a while longer, what would you like to see here?)

This was on a bumper sticker down South and I think it says it all:

American by birth;
Southern by the Grace of God!

Some of my favorite things to wear is flannel, and of course flannel comes in two types:

1. Summer Flannel
2. Winter Flannel

I mentioned to not try to figure out everything, but to do the best with what you have now...

To this they said something that made me smile... here is what they said:

So, in a sense, don't try to be as goal-oriented. Rather, be more like here is my state Q at time t. How do I make Q(t+1) > Q instead of thinking how to make Q(t=infinity) > q. Sorry to get MITish on you. :)

Or as I would paraphrase it:
take it one day at the time...

Not so Personal/Personal resources

My most recent fortune cookie!!!

My freshman year there were a couple of things that I noticied were occuring around me and because of this I created a series of sayings known as only in...

My Senior year of High School/Freshman Year at MIT, I came up with a little theory about Love. See Love is like vectors...

My address this year is...

Finger brick@monk.mit.edu to see if I'm currently logged on.

Finger brick@mit.edu or brick@athena.mit.edu to see more information about me.

I'm testing out an experimental finger page, that dynamically changes if I'm logged on or not. To access it click here: Experimental Finger Page

Here is a link to music that I own.
Here is a link to the movies that I own.

This is what I call my straight face picture ;-) In this picture I'm hard at work at OLC

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