Today's Tour de SixLinks task is to learn something about your fellow group members that you do not know. As such, I thought I'd make the process easier by making a topic where we could all post an interesting fact about themselves. This is actually pretty tough because I feel like the other two members of my group already know a lot about me. Here's mine:
I am currently in the process of starting a web comic with Bryan with me being the comic's "artist" and Bryan being the comic's "wordsmith". The first strips should be out by the end of the week so look out for that.
My parents think the environmental movement is ridiculous. Although my dad was once the president of a group called The Conservation Foundation, it seems that he was motivated more by claustraphobia than by any true concern for the environment. While he does believe in climate change, he says that we do not know what causes it. My mother, on the other hand, is a true neo-con who believes that some studies do not support the theory that the ice caps are thinning, and that the liberal media (including my favorite mag, The Economist) simply "choose what to believe." And that most scientists have become puppets of the liberal agenda.
One of my uncles (who is a local politician) loves to refer to media reports about global cooling from the 1970s, and conclude that "environmental predictions are just that -- predictions."
My father does own a hybrid car, but he also heavily, vocally supported ethanol -- he's just preparing for petroleum to run out. He is 100% serious when he introduces the prospect of colonizing Mars into every single conversation about the environment and/or the future.
Last night, my 15 year old sister told my mom that she needed more water bottles. I told her that she only needs one water bottle that she can refill. She told me I was stupid. And that our uncle "says that water bottles aren't bad, he looked it up and he's a chemist so I think he knows more than you."
Meanwhile, a Christmas card from The Conservation Foundation sat on our kitchen counter, encouraging us to give recycled rain barrels as gifts.
Actually, I volunteered a lot with The Conservation Foundation during college breaks and know a lot of awesome people there, I should hit them up for site advice, or at least get them to join once it's public...
My parents' generation and much of my own generation do not believe that there are any environmental problems, aside, perhaps, from urban sprawl, which they dislike on an aesthetic level as they adore a grassy and isolated suburbia. Interestingly, though, my grandparents' generation believes in climate change and is very concerned about it. Reply to comment
From age 3 to 7 (ish) I took gymnastics classes at a local gym. I don't really remember anything about it, save for one class in particular. We were stretching and sitting in a circle, doing our "butterflies", and my teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said I wanted to be a dog. Reply to comment
I am testing wheel-chair cushions this very second. They may one day provide a cheap alternative to other "pressure ulcer" preventing designs... but probably not... Reply to comment
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I am currently in the process of starting a web comic with Bryan with me being the comic's "artist" and Bryan being the comic's "wordsmith". The first strips should be out by the end of the week so look out for that.
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One of my uncles (who is a local politician) loves to refer to media reports about global cooling from the 1970s, and conclude that "environmental predictions are just that -- predictions."
My father does own a hybrid car, but he also heavily, vocally supported ethanol -- he's just preparing for petroleum to run out. He is 100% serious when he introduces the prospect of colonizing Mars into every single conversation about the environment and/or the future.
Last night, my 15 year old sister told my mom that she needed more water bottles. I told her that she only needs one water bottle that she can refill. She told me I was stupid. And that our uncle "says that water bottles aren't bad, he looked it up and he's a chemist so I think he knows more than you."
Meanwhile, a Christmas card from The Conservation Foundation sat on our kitchen counter, encouraging us to give recycled rain barrels as gifts.
Actually, I volunteered a lot with The Conservation Foundation during college breaks and know a lot of awesome people there, I should hit them up for site advice, or at least get them to join once it's public...
My parents' generation and much of my own generation do not believe that there are any environmental problems, aside, perhaps, from urban sprawl, which they dislike on an aesthetic level as they adore a grassy and isolated suburbia. Interestingly, though, my grandparents' generation believes in climate change and is very concerned about it. Reply to comment
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