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About Me

"I believe in science. Everything else is just PR."
I have videos on youtube.com .
And I have pictures on Flickr .
And a fake band: Pantomime Horse .
AIM = igrokd4th

My Interests

Skepticism, evolutionary biology, the Age of Discovery, explorers, first contact, graphic design, writing stupid songs, naps, being unemployed, houseplants, my cat, buying books and sometimes reading them.

I'd like to meet:

img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Tigh_Seas on_3.jpg"

Music:

British lads, Russian romantics, and dusty ol' cowboys

Movies:

Ones where soccer teams learn to lose and as such become winners.

Television:

Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Countdown, Real Time, Daily Show, Monty Python, MST3K, Seinfeld, Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Nathan Barley, The Office (UK), Extras

Books:

Currently: A Farewell to Arms, A Man Without a Country, Welcome to the Monkey House, A World Lit Only By Fire, and Carl Sagan's The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Pale Blue Dot, The Art of War

Heroes:

Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Albert Einstein, R. Buckminster Fuller, Ira Glass, Jim Henson, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut

My Blog

Time for bed

Sadko (extrait)by jolberThe preceeding clip is from the Russian fantasy film Sadko directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It's one of my favorite stupid, beautiful adventure films. Ptushko was like ...
Posted by Danforth on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:54:00 PST

Flyers for $50!

It's true! For $50 I'll make you a flyer! Just look at the four I made last week:$50 gets you the design, not the printing. You can use your own printer, or if you just need a thing for MySpace, Faceb...
Posted by Danforth on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:12:00 PST

Finding my religion

Being an outspoken (and some might say argumenative) atheist, I hear the same criticisms and comebacks from believers and New Agers all the time. One of my least favorite is the one that goes like thi...
Posted by Danforth on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:24:00 PST

Do you hear what I hear?

Right now: birds chirping like fucking crazy, the vibrating license plate frame of a car with the bass turned up, bass, thumping sounds from upstairs, the wail of sirens and the throaty cronk of a fir...
Posted by Danforth on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:45:00 PST

San Marcos, CA - Visiting Grandma - 6:30 AM

Up very early. Maybe cause I fell asleep early watching The Princess Bride with Grandma. Before the movie, we had gone to The Elephant Bar, which I had some confusion about. I thought it was a nicer p...
Posted by Danforth on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:24:00 PST

Alexander Courage dead

The guy who wrote "Bum bu-bummmm...." -- that three note fanfare that tells you Star Trek is happening -- is dead, at 88. Aw. ...
Posted by Danforth on Thu, 29 May 2008 02:52:00 PST

From the checkstand

This is what I do at night with Photoshop and bourbon in my brain, when going to bed would just attract the harpies of anxiety and the demons with faces of those I've wronged to my bed chamber to howl...
Posted by Danforth on Thu, 29 May 2008 02:52:00 PST

Indiana Jones: a review (some spoilers)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.1. You're sentimental, retreading, self-congratulatory trash.2. You're inept, confusing, muddled, lacking....
Posted by Danforth on Fri, 23 May 2008 04:03:00 PST

Stasis

I've seen too many sunrises this week. In terms of sleep I'm probably 6 hours out of 48. It has the effect of feeling like time passes twice as slowly for me. I live almost two days in the span of a n...
Posted by Danforth on Sun, 18 May 2008 03:26:00 PST

Oh, I have SO JUST made it so

Dual monitors means dual Star Trek screensavers. This is the most kickass my computer has ever been....
Posted by Danforth on Thu, 15 May 2008 01:23:00 PST