An Infidel's Introduction

[rlrose328]

Welcome!!!  I can really relate to this:

Worldview: Weak atheistic agnostic at rest, strong atheist when confronted. (I'm sure you understand what I mean.  )

I think that's me, to a T.  And very cool that you are <going to be> a teacher!  Love to hear when people are entering that field.  Me, I can't be in a room with 5 8yo kids, so it's not my profession, but I admire the heck outta teachers.

Have a great day!

[SteveS]

Sweet intro curiosityandthecat, welcome to the forum!  I love this quick facts idea -- this is has been both informative and entertaining, so I'll have to follow suit:

Age: 36
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: European Mutt (I can't count 'em all, a little of everything --- which equates to generically "white")
Education: BS in EE
Occupation: Software Engineer/Salesman/Manager/Business Owner.  Helping run a small company is great because each day you get a new hat to wear.
Worldview: Agnostic Atheist (although, I like Squid's "Dioist" answer ... may be tempted to convert (I usually feel like I'm the "last in line"  ), and I love to homebrew (beer of course, no winemaking for me), and I'm satisfying an early mid-life crisis by pretending I can still play ice hockey in the local adult league.  The 20-somethings kick my ass on a regular basis.

This was too much fun, great idea, and welcome again!
SteveS

[MommaSquid]

Welcome to the forum, curiosityandthecat.  What an awesome way to introduce yourself!

Here's me:

Quick facts:
Age: 40-ish
Gender:  Female
Ethnicity: White  (German and Czech)
Education: some college, never finished (shame on me)

Occupation: at the moment I am a domestic engineer, but I have worked in retail, clerical, and customer service.
Worldview: Rational Atheist
Languages: English.  Sadly the German I learned in high school didn’t get used much and wasted away.

Music:  It’s easier to tell you what I don’t like:  opera, rap, country, and divas.  Rocking my mp3 player today is AC/DC, Stone Temple Pilots, Styx, and Def Leppard.

Movies:  The Princess Bride, Fight Club, Good Fellas, Groundhog Day, and many more.  Last weekend I saw Reservation Road, which was very good.

Television:  A few of my favorites are Two and a Half Men, House, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly and HGTV (which my hubby calls house porn!)

Books: I’m currently reading the Amber Spyglass, the last of the Dark Materials trilogy; I just received Letter to a Christian Nation and The God Delusion from Amazon and can’t wait to dive in.

Miscellany:   I have a concealed carry permit and sleep with a Ruger P89 next to my bed.  I just got a new tattoo and will be getting another one next month.  (I got my first tat 15 years ago, and have always wanted more.)  Gee, if only I would learn how to ride a motorcycle, I could be a total bad ass!

[crocofish]

I was surprised that there are a number of others around my age.  The internet crowd tends to be younger, although more older people are participating in recent years.  I've been on the internet since about 1987 (pre-www), before many of today's internet users were zygotes.

Listing favorite things is pretty hard since my tastes are always shifting, and because there is so much stuff out there.  So what I list below is what I can think of on-the-fly, and it just scratches the surface.

Age: 46
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Eurasian Mutt (mom is Japanese, dad is some blend of UK heritage)
Education: BSEE
Occupation: Electrical Engineer (digital design of chips and boards, plus software)
Worldview: Apathiest/Evolutionist
Languages: English and non-fluent Japanese

Music: (looks on iPod...) Recently listening to Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, David Sylvian, Adrian Belew, Underworld, Moby, lots of other stuff.  Tend to avoid country and rap, but try to keep an open mind.

Movies: Alien, Blade Runner, The Matrix (the original), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (saw it repeatedly before it became a iconic geek movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey.  I saw the mention of Silent Running; haven't seen it in years, but I saw it as a kid and remember being so pissed off at mankind at the end of the movie.

Television: Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Doctor Who, Torchwood (anagram of "Doctor Who"), South Park.  Too much TV in general.

Books: Recent reads... Cyberiad, Ringworld (re-read), Handbook of Batteries (ok, it's just sitting on my desk at work).

Miscellany: A lot of my time revolves around my dogs.