Interests and hobbies are dang dilettantish, web design, cycling, psychologizing
Passions/Interests: Argument re; human nature; good government; comprehension; current events/history; urban transport and urban design; emotion; pseudoscience, pseudophilosoply
Favorite Movies: none but the worst, Evil Dead, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, crappy Mexican horror/wrestling movies, early Spanish gore movies, etc
Favorite Books: Science within Reason [Susan Haack]
Favorite Music: demented pop, Dusty Springfield, Cure, Anne Murray, Dead Kennedys, Los Popularos, classic Cuban
Favorite Food: Cantonese
Favorite Works of art: Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X [Francis Bacon]
Other Favorites: My geekish side loves learning XML/PHP/MySQL and AJAX. My geekier side like Google Earth. My ultra geekish side thinks databases are neat. My normal side is fascinated by the obverse to norms.
Pet Peeves: Forced-choice questions, pseudoscience, crap psychology, heartless cruelty.
Body Type: Average
Height: 6'2" (187 cm)
Eye Color: blue
Hair Color: brown with distinguished grey
Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Gender
Male
Previous Fields
Sexual orientation
Gay / Lesbian
Relationship status
Single
Interested in meeting
Intelligence ...
Chat Nick
wsscherk
State (US/Canadian)
BritishColumbia
Country
Canada
Biography/Intro
WSS has been:
Poet/HR manager of a year-round silviculture company in the great white north,
- webmaster, data base admin
- singer. songwriter, frontman
- painter
- sculptor
- reporter
- cook
- janitor
- editor
- filmmaker
- actor
- amateur psychologist
- web maven
May he be all these things
Experience with Objectivism
Six years of grinding up against the parts of Objectivism that I object to. This has sharpened my mind and arguments, and allowed me friendships with people I disagree with.