Joshua

Hmm.. Bout me? Here's some tidbits in no particular order.1) I'm a total closet geek. Sorry, but I've hidden my darkside long enough. D&D, Munchkin, Video games, RPG's, Magic, Settlers, Cheapass games. If it's nerdy, I've probably done it. Except for LARP. No larping. On the bright side, I haven't played D&D or Magic since high school, so maybe I'm reforming. Oh yeah. I used to visit the SCA occasionally. I'm a normal person. I swear to god.2) I play guitar, acoustic and electric. I picked it up because my mother used to play to me when I was little. I still have a soft spot for folk music and women singers. I played in a blues band for a little while when I lived in Michigan, but I mostly sang as my guitar skills could use a little work. I also write songs.3) I love being outdoors. Backpacking, hiking, walking, going for a bike ride. I like fishing with my uncles and eating the catch when we're done. I like to play in the snow and sit on a rock listening to the waves come in. Some call me Hippy... I've killed men for less.4) I love horses. I used to ride competively, but it gets lame quick. Dressage if you're wondering. See also: man wearing tight pants. (See also: stolen from the book Choke, which I highly recommend). I spent quite a bit of time rehabing abused horses (mine included, though I wasn't the one who abused him). I still have my horse, who is turning 11 soon. He's currently living on my parents farm and teaching them quite a bit.5) I hate smokers. Yes, that means I hate some of my closest friends, but only when they are smoking and it is somehow getting in my lungs, otherwise, I don't care. Cigarette smoke makes me feel shitty everytime I'm near it. I'm not big on the bar scene either. I'll go out, but I'd rather be someplace else.6) Did I mention that I like video games?6) I like to dance. Swing and lindy mostly, but if it's got a good beat I'll give it a shot. This does not include clubbing.7) Football, basketball and baseball can bite me. Except Cubs games. I'll see a game at Wrigley any day of the week.8) I'm a doctoral student in clinical psychogy. No, not the Freudian kind. No, I don't want to analyze you or read your mind. For those of you that care, I'm a behaviorist. For those of you that don't, it means see line 1: I'm a total geek. I'm considering pursuing a career in academia. That way I can teach, see clients, and do research. Current research project? Problem video gamers. Wonder from where my inspiration came.9) For those of you that noticed that there were two of #6, you win a prize. It's not a really good prize, because this only came about as a direct result of my laziness in editing. Actually, there's no prize. Sorry again. I'll stop now."The task of a scientific analysis is to explain how the behavior of a person as a physical system is related to the conditions under which the human species evolved and the conditions under which the individual lives.... We can follow the path taken by physics and biology by turning directly to the relation between behavior and the environment and neglecting supposed mediating states of mind. Physics did not advance by looking more closely at the jubilance of a falling body, or biology by looking at the nature of vital spirits, and we do not need to try to discover what personalities, states of mind, feelings, traits of character, plans, purposes, intentions or other perquisites of autonomous man really are in order to get on with a scientific analysis of behavior." - Skinner