Guns, Germs, and Steel; Surely You\'re Joking, Mr. Feynman!; A Song of Ice and Fire; Player Piano
the Grand Canyon was carved in a few days
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Name: | Matt Gluesenkamp |
| Online Handle: | DeepGlue | |
| Date of Birth: | 24 March 1982 | |
| Location: | West Lafayette, IN | |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/mglue82 | |
| Occupation: | Mechanical Engineer | |
| Favourite SGU Panelist: | Rebecca/Jay | |
| Favorite Interviewee: | Neal Adams - man, that was mindboggling | |
| Most disliked Pseudoscience: | young Earth BS | |
| Most disliked true-believer: | W | |
| Likes: | rock climbing, learning and thinking, energy science, backpacking, camping, music, movies, hippie girls that wear little makeup and dress colorfully, eating, occasionally running, not spraining my ankle after falling two feet, singing, people who put their friends and family first | |
| Dislikes: | superficial people, humidity, dirty crusty plowed snow in the street, work I don't enjoy, the endless soybean and corn fields of the midwest, dogmatic people | |
| Favourite Food(s): | anything spicy, PB&J, pizza, anything with hummus | |
| Favourite Book(s): | Guns, Germs, and Steel; Surely You\'re Joking, Mr. Feynman!; A Song of Ice and Fire; Player Piano |
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| Favourite Movie(s): | Saving Private Ryan, I Heart Huckabees, High Fidelity, Dances With Wolves, Lost In Translation, The Shawshank Redemption | |
| Favourite TV Show(s): | Six Feet Under, South Park, The Office | |
| Favourite Music: | Jeff Buckley, Air, Coheed and Cambria, Black Star, Jack Johnson, Manu Chao, Explosions in the Sky, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack | |
| Drink/Smoke: | happily/never | |
| Other Podcasts you Listen to: | Savage Love | |
| Dumbest Thing you've ever heard: | the Grand Canyon was carved in a few days |
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| What would you like to accomplish before you die: | poop while running | |
| About me: | I guess you could say I've been a skeptic since I was 8 or so when I gave up Santa Claus on my own (religion followed a few years later). And I've always craved information and wanted to know how or why everything around me functions. Even so, I'd never really realized skepticism was a movement of any kind until coming across the SGU around episode 80 or so. This is arguably one of the best things I've gotten into in my life, along with rock climbing: extremely entertaining, and good for you! I have some regret now that I got my degree(s) in engineering and not geology or a social science, but I still enjoy working in energy science and exploring issues pertaining to climate change and fossil fuels, which certainly require a skeptical mindset. | |
| Anything Else: | My cat's breath smells like cat food | |