[GTB]

So, about me. This used to be a place holder page that I had a couple lines of text in, but after reading Shamus Young’s about page (see?) I got about page envy and decided to re-write it. So here we go.

I’m 31, currently on-and-off again employed by the federal government, and I live in a tiny apartment in Cincinnati with my two cats.

I’m an anti-social, introverted hermit. I can go days without seeing another person, and I do. And I like it that way. It’s not that I have some kind of social anxiety disorder, it’s just that I really, really hate people. A lot.

I spent most of my larval stages growing up in a small town of 800 people in Montana, so maybe that explains my unibomber life style. I had an aborted attempt at higher education in Michigan, where I mostly played diablo and doom 2 and built web pages. I am a master of qbasic, and a fair hand at VB6, though everything after that passed me by in a kind of technological blur.

I started out wanting to be a programmer (games, of course) and then shifting to graphic design when I found out how much math was required for a programming degree. I shifted to English literature when I found out how much I liked to write. I love writing. Now I do occasional graphics work for friends while trying to finish my epic failure of a novel.

I am a socialist, I distrust capitalism, and I think that big corporations are the wost threat to human kind since the atom bomb, and even more destructive in a slower fashion. I think that humans are inherently too stupid to govern themselves, so I am a proponent of a big, powerful, centralized, world government.

I’m also a staunch Atheist. I used to believe in the live-and-let-live point of view, where as long as your religious ignorance doesn’t effect me, I don’t care, but now i’m pretty militant about it because I realized that religion is really at the base of everything wrong that has ever happened in the world since the first zealot clocked another zealot on the head for believing in a different magic man who granted wishes. Religion ultimately exists to give people the false sense of justification to ignore “right” and “wrong” when it suits them.

I wish Sarah Palin would die. But not just in a quick way where you’re like “Oh, did you hear Sarah Palin died?” but rather in a way that you don’t bring up in casual conversation because of how horrific it was. Sarah Palin is the epitome of everything I hate about people. She’s dumber than people who are legitimately retarded, but somehow she managed to gain a foothold into political power, probably supported by people who see her lack of intelligence as a positive rather than a negative.

Blogs I follow:
Shamus Young
Scott Jennings
Lissa’s thing where she talks about hair and hulahoops
Turk
Shinga