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Name: |
Mike Lacelle |
| Online Handle: |
Mike |
| Date of Birth: |
November 26th, 1978 |
| Location: |
Ottawa, Canada |
| Website: |
SGUFans.net |
| Occupation: |
Medical Claims Examiner / Computer Systems Technician |
| Favourite SGU Panelist: |
Jay (aka. Dj Jazzy Jay, J-Dog and future Grand Master J) |
| Favorite Interviewee: |
Phil Plait, Tara Smith (hottie with a voice to match!) |
| Favourite Scientific Topic: |
I like it all, but to pick one I'd pick biology, specifically cardiology |
| Most disliked Pseudoscience: |
Alternative Medicine ("they're just soooo stupid" - Dr Mark Crislip) |
| Most disliked true-believer: |
Sylvia Browne (where did her neck go?) |
| Best SGU quote: |
There's a LOT, but my original fave has always been:
"We're just so damn exciting" - Dr. Steven Novella |
| Best Skeptical/Science Website: |
Quackwatch.org |
| Best Science News Website: |
EurekAlert! |
| Favourite Blog: |
NeuroLogica Blog, Memoirs of a Skepchick, Bad Astronomy |
| Likes: |
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, anything that makes me laugh while making me think, getting email (just not spam), Guitar Hero, being with friends/family, hockey, computers, comic books, travelling, constructive criticism, science, my doctor. |
| Dislikes: |
Alt. Med., Creationism, ID, psychics, that guy on the bus that keeps looking at me like that. <shudder>, know-nothing know-it-alls, people who treat me like I'm stupid just because I don't use a Mac or Firefox. I LIKE Windows and I LIKE IE, ok?! When people who are experts at something that you're new at treat you like you're a dumbass instead of helping you. Intolerance, ignorance, fear, anger, hate, suffering (the path to the dark-side that is). |
| Favourite Food(s): |
Pizza, Poutine, Warheads, ANYTHING sour (the more sour the better - I once ate powdered citric acid. THAT was sour.), buffalo wings. |
| Favourite Book(s): |
Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, Shermer's Why Darwin Matters, HHGTTG, LOTR, Da Vinci Code (I know, but it was a good story) |
| Favourite Movie(s): |
Matrix, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Shawshank Redemption, LOTR, Hackers, Casablanca, Godfather, Scarface, Spider-Man, The Stand, Dawn of the Dead, Ghostbusters. |
| Favourite TV Show(s): |
House MD, Bullshit, CSI, Lost, Prisonbreak, National Geographic in HD, Mythbusters, Sens games! |
| Favourite Music: |
Anything really, a lot of metal, Metallica, Bullet for my Valentine, Eminem, Led Zep, Megadeth, Sean Paul, Rat-pack style music, Elvis, The Beatles, lots of 50s and 60s music. |
| Drink/Smoke: |
Sometimes/The occasional Cuban (Montecristo No. 5) |
| Other Podcasts you Listen to: |
Skeptoid, Logically Critical, Evolution 101, Brain Food, QuackCast, Infidel Guy, Penn Radio (RIP), SETI: Science and Skepticism. |
| Dumbest Thing you've ever heard: |
Kent Hovind bitching about his tax-dollars being used to teach evolution. What a freaking dumbass. Oh, also, Sylvia Browne: "He's not with us anymore". Bitch. |
| What would you like to accomplish before you die: |
Have children to pass on my knowledge and critical thinking skills to. |
| About me: |
I love travelling. I'd like to visit this entire planet. So far I've only made it in my own continent and the caribbean. I LOVE big cities, NYC and Vegas were my two favourite trips.
I've got a wicked congenital heart condition. But I take it one day at a time. Dealing with it made me come to science and skepticism, and it made me deny religion. I realize now that by living a life based on critical thinking I can actually appreciate the time I have here more and not worry what will happen to me in the "after-life".
I'm married to the perfect woman and I definitely want children in the very near future. My greatest fear is to not live to raise my children and pass on my knowledge to them.
I work as a medical claims examiner for a big insurance company (it's not as boring as it sounds). I also do some contract work as a computer systems tech. |
| Anything Else: |
I'm a HUGE fan of the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. But I'm sure that was obvious since I'm the one who created and maintains this site (with the help and input of friends). |
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