Barbara profile picture

Barbara

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

AF brat, rural Wisconsin high school survivor, Madison student but not graduate, temporary resident of Milwaukee, Chicago and Sacramento, and now one of many San Francisco transplants. I love the physical beauty of the world and the universe, and the intangible beauty of thoughts and ideas. I love to be right, but am grateful for all the times people have proven me wrong. After six years of spiritual exploration (taking my own sweet time as usual, it's best not to rush these things) I was able to recognize the reasons I was clinging to the concept of faith, and accept my complete lack of it. I identify strongly as a feminist, am a political junkie for no good reason and to no identifiable end, like playing video games, admiring my pets, chatting and drinking with friends, writing when I get around to it, and dipping my toe in various waters. I'm very good at analysis and problem solving and am a good employee, but on a personal level setting and pursuing goals is not one of my strong suits, I'm here for the ride.Currently playing: Eye of Judgment, Tiger Woods on the WiiI edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests


Get your own flickr badge
follow Barbara_K at http://twitter.com

I'd like to meet:

Skeptics, scholars, feminists, animal lovers, Siouxsie lovers, Eye of Judgment players

Television:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report (big fangirl smooches to Monsieur Colbert and his balls of steel), Robot Chicken, HD travel and nature shows, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Venture Bros., yada yada...

Books:

The Diamond Age. Snowcrash. How to Attract the Wombat. The Eyes of the Dragon. Harry Potter en espanol. I'm currently reading some Joseph Campbell essays, listening to the audiobooks The God Delusion and A Woman in Charge.

Heroes:

I can't come up with anyone specific, so I turned to Nick:
Me: profiles, bah. I don't have heroes. Do you have heroes?
Nick: Me? Yeah!
Me (surprised): Really? Who are your heroes?
Nick: OH, I thought you meant the David Bowie album.

My Blog

about the McCain campaign worker who claimed she was attacked by an Obama supporter

Mark Twain said "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."I'm not interested in ranting about this worker, just helping the truth get its shoes on.About the M...
Posted by Barbara on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:49:00 PST

John McCain Totally Looks Like Freaky Cat

http://totallylookslike.com/2008/10/21/john-mccain...more famous look-a-likes It's a LOLcat kind of day....
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:28:00 PST

Dis nice hooman &

more lol celebs!http://roflrazzi.com/2008/10/20/gordon-ramsay-dis-... more fun with celeb pictures...
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:41:00 PST

Pregnancy brain - an example of confirmation bias?

I like looking at optical illusions, and just marvel at how the human brain compensates to provide us with its best guess of an accurate visual representation of external objects encountered by our se...
Posted by Barbara on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:06:00 PST

SNL VP Debate

...
Posted by Barbara on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:37:00 PST

Holy freaking noise, My Bloody Valentine

Even though I saw it in SF and not Chicago, this article provides a good description of what the show was like last night."By the end of this show, I had melted into a blissed-out puddle, sucking my t...
Posted by Barbara on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:51:00 PST

Just an exotic feral pig and some elephants with paint

Feral pig draws lots of gawkers" Staring down at the hairy behemoth, Andy Sherry of Viroqua could scarcely believe his eyes.A feral pig weighing between 300 and 500 pounds had been hit by a semi tract...
Posted by Barbara on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:33:00 PST

The best possible solution to Brett Favre’s ... dis ... retirement - trade him to the Bears!

I can't imagine any more entertaining outcome.That is all.
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:52:00 PST

Christopher Hitchens submits to waterboarding

Per this Guardian article, last year Christopher Hitchens tried to argue that waterboarding was not "pure torture", but rather "extreme interrogation".  Knowing a little about his political opini...
Posted by Barbara on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:33:00 PST

The Brute Squad

more graph humor and song chart memes...
Posted by Barbara on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:37:00 PST