Bret Gathercoal:  

Bret is from Woodland, California. Bret's schools include Westwood High School. Bret later attended CSU Sacramento (Government & International Relations) , Humboldt State University (Music - Instrumental Conducting) . Bret works(ed) at Colorado State University–pueblo, Pikes Peak Community College, United States Air Force. Music Bret likes includes "No Surrender" (Arizona), The Alan Parsons Project, John Williams. Books Bret likes include Maxim, Tv Y Novelas, Harry Potter. Movies Bret likes include Saving Private Ryan, Resident Evil Movie. TV shows Bret likes include Strike Back, msnbc, Hell's Kitchen. One of Bret's favorite quotes is:"Depends on my mood...Hmmm... How about "Mit (der) Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." (Even the gods themselves combat stupidity in vain) -Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III,6 / Talbot (Paraphrased for me by my 8th Grade Social Studies teacher at Chandler Jr High) Oh, and... I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely w...Expand for more