General:
Art, Science, Philosophy, Music, Engineering, Literature, Religion, Mathematics, Economics, Politics, History
I'd like to meet:
People with mirthful enough souls to laugh when they watch this:
Yes, that was Sean Connery.
Enjoy the people that I know below.
Cheers!
Music:
Music:
I'm fairly picky about which individual artists I like or dislike, however, I'm also pretty open toward any kind of genre. Classical music would be my overall favorite.
Movies:
Movies:
Throne of Blood, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Metropolis (1927), Neon Genesis
Television:
Video Games:
I play a lot less than almost every other male that I know, but I do enjoy them from time to time (it's been known be 12 months or more between games that I think are worth my precious time on this earth). I'll play them when they come out and maybe replay them latter if they are really good (half-life). Haven't bought a console in 11 years (though I think the Wii has potential... we'll see.)
Television:
Is boring. Anything worth seeing will be on the Interwebs anyway.
Books:
Books:
Well, personally, I think that YouTube comments are the zenith of human literary achievement but if you were to force me to read the printed page I might make list like this:
Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions, The Stranger, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God, The Essential Tales of Chekhov, Notes from the Underground, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Meridian, Moby Dick, The Pearl, (Thats all I can think of for now)
Heroes:
Heroes:
The notion of having heroes is one that I find completely foreign to my personality.
Well, I mean, except of course for this guy . How could anybody dislike him?
Errata:
"'Cerebro, that's a real subtle name.'
'Yeah, well, he almost called it brains-a-poppin'"
- RiffTrax
"As a sensitive man, it's about time I tell you about the most poetic f@#king thing I've ever heard. It's Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica a moth recently discovered in Madagascar that: 'alights on the neck of a sleeping magpie... and drinks the bird's tears.'"
–Steven Colbert
Brad's Details:
Status: Single
Here For: I don't know... I thought this was compulsory.
Orientation: Straight
Hometown: ATL
Religious Views: Militant Agnostic—I don't know and you don't either.
A Religion is an organization of symbolic narratives and images that are metaphorical of the possibilities of human experience and fulfillment in a given society at a given time.
"Omnipresence doesn't have Spokespeople ."
My Religious belief is this: I encourage you not to believe anything that you can't plainly demonstrate to yourself to be true. I'm not encouraging radical skepticism . For instance, I do believe that the acceleration due to gravity near the surface of the earth is approximately 9.8 m/s 2 despite having never sat down to do the experiment myself. The principle is that I could do it and see for myself... and many have. Also, I do draw a distinction between science and scientism . Bertrand Russell had a good quote on how a layman should approach science: "There are matters about which those who have investigated them are agreed; the dates of eclipses may serve as an illustration. There are other matters about which experts are not agreed. Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. Einstein's view as to the magnitude of the deflection of light by gravitation would have been rejected by all experts not many years ago, yet it proved to be right. Nevertheless the opinion of experts, when it is unanimous, must be accepted by non-experts as more likely to be right than the opposite opinion. The scepticism that I advocate amounts only to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgment. These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life."
Political Views: Socially, I'm pretty liberal—I just don't think that western civilization is going to collapse if gays marry and a few flags get lit on fire. Economically, I'm a moderate. I acknowledge that societies based around markets and free exchange have historically brought more prosperity and liberty (admittedly this is negative liberty ) to a larger percentage of their citizens than societies organized around government wage and price controls; however, I also acknowledge the need for environmental protection , social safety nets and Human Rights. That said, we need to be careful to avoid the all too common intellectual shortfall of "judging government policies and programs by their intentions rather than by their results." as capitalist thinker Milton Friedman complained.
Or, to put all this in plain language: If you you are hip with the "dictatorship of the proletariat" or you think that Ann Coulter is anything other than batshit insane... you and I aren't going to see things eye to eye. There is nothing I abide less than an ideologue.
Children: Maybe someday, if I'm lucky.
Education: I have a PhD in Creation Science from an unaccredited diploma farm.
Links:
Dinosaur Comics
Steve Gibson's Page
Sysinternals
A Virtual Bubble Chamber!
One Billion Bulbs
Brad's Groups
The Bavarian Illuminati:
We're a humble group working on confusing people into neglecting God's Word by propagating myths like evolution and pumping violent materialistic content into the mass-media. Our eventual goal is get you to accept the Mark of the Beast and worship the Antichrist (the Strong AI we are constructing). The biggest difficulty we face is that we are contractually obligated to spend vast amounts of time hiding satanic symbols on coffee cups and in the logos of dot com start-ups.
Or:
Are we actually facilitating the evil machinations of our reptilian overlords ?
It's a choose your own psychosis adventure!!!
