: About Me

I'm a cynic. Not in the modern sense, but more in the original sense, like Diogenes, who lived on the side of the road in a big empty tub and ranted and raved at passersby about how he couldn't find even one honest man in all of Greece. I've had writers' block for like eight years now and I can never finish anything that isn't short. Don't fall in love, it gives you writers' block. I keep telling people I'm not a writer anymore, but they keep insisting that I am and now I need to make some extra money. I guess that technically makes me a writer again. Only technically, though - I'm not a writer anymore.

My passion is ...

Not properly answering questions like this one.

I know too much about ...

I think I just know too much in general.

My parents always told me ...

"Quit screwing around on the Internet and clean your room."

My childhood ambition ...

I think I wanted to be a Marine Biologist

My favorite memory ...

They're all sad memories. I don't like to talk about it.

Why I write ...

Some horrible thing inside of me won't let me stop.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Right now? Listening to No Children by The Mountain Goats.

My first job ...

Dishwasher at an all girl Japanese exchange school. Not too shabby.

My best moment ...

Great moments become sad memories. I don't like to talk about it.

My inspiration ...

I guess I used to be able to answer that.

Sciences > Sciences (Other) Could robots take over the world?

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Well known among conspiracy theorists, a notorious radio program called Coast to Coast AM drifts through the airwaves in the middle of the night. The host, Art Bell, used to discuss topics ranging from aliens to government coverups to bizarre World Weekly News stories that were assumed to be true for some odd reason. I used to listen to the show as a comedy, laughing myself to sleep in the wee hours of the night at the ridiculous questions and claims. One night, as I listened, the guest was a hilariously disgruntled physicist who Art Bell had been hounding for over an hour with ridiculous ...

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