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| User: | unseeliecraig (10206998) me... i think...
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| Name: | Craig | |||||
| Website: | me... i think... | |||||
| Location: | Denver, Colorado, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1972 | |||||
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| Bio: | About me- * originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. moved to Colorado in 2000. live in the northwest Denver metro area since 2005. * geography and history major in school * I love Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Autumn, Halloween, coffee shops and tea houses, the mountains, dark forests, fog, waterfalls, the ocean, rain, cooler weather, rock covered beaches, islands, hidden coves, old coastal towns with lots of history, old sailing ships, and the wanderlust of the pirate life! ;) * For the most part, I really dont care for little kids, and I like being child-free. * My career is in mapping and drafting and have been working in that field since 1997. I have a great new job (since June 2007) working for a utility company, in their Engineering department, creating and updating maps and engineering drawings. * I support political activism for protecting animal rights, the environment, internet freedom, civil rights & liberties, and keeping religious fundamentalist wacko's out of the government. * I am vegetarian **************************** me! Sept. 2006  ********************************************** *******************************  ~ watch The Meatrix (and its sequels) to learn about animal factory farms: http://www.themeatrix.com  ******************************* My views on Politics and Religion: * I dont like ORGANIZED RELIGION. I think it has been the cause of way too many problems and conflicts in the last couple thousand years. I also think if religious organizations want to be involved in government, they should be taxed. I think individual spirtuality is much better. * I am a left leaning civil and social Libertarian. The government and religion has no business dictating what individuals can do, as long as it does not harm anyone. There should be absolute freedom of speech and expression. The "War on Drugs" is useless and just promotes more gang violence and more money for the drug dealers and gangs. Natural drugs such as marijauna (I dont smoke it) should be legalized and taxed just like alcohol and tobacco. I think income tax should be abolished, and sales tax should be increased to make up some of the difference. If we are going to heavily tax the citizens, it should at least be the consumers, not the hard-working people that choose not to spend, consume, and waste as much as other people. All people of different races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientation should be treated with absolute equality as everyone else. I almost always vote independent candidates and parties (Libertarian, Green Party, etc). It is not a wasted vote... one day we will hopefully have a few more successful options than just Democrats and Republicans. Although I do occasionally vote Democrat (So far, Al Gore is the only potential presidential candidate I like for 2008). I have never voted Republican. When Republicans start acting like they used to a few decades ago (i.e fiscal conservatives and proponents of smaller Federal Government), then I would consider voting for them. But Bush style Neo-Cons that are social conservatives and promote more Federal control over our lives and civil liberties I will never vote for. ~ definition of Civil and Left Libertarian. http://www.answers.com/topic/civil-libertarian http://www.answers.com/topic/left-libertarianism-1 ~ check out this good site that helps protect your cyberspace liberties: Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/ check out this group that advocates for more government transparency: http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ ~ Dont like "big business" or "big box" stores? check out this link if you want to know more about culturejamming: http://www.adbusters.org/home/ ************************************************************** Me - hiking near Pikes Peak 2002  ************************************************************** My Favorites, likes, and dislikes- favorite quote: May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous - leading to the most amazing view... where something strange, more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams awaits. -Edward Abbey Favorite places in the US and Canada (I have been or I would love to visit): Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, San Francisco, Northern California, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Quebec City, Montreal, Newfoundland. some foreign places I would really like to travel: Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Bavaria, Austria (and the whole Alps region), Scandanavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark), Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, Egypt, the Amazon Rainforest, various Caribbean islands, Galapagos Islands. some favorite websites: http://www.northernsun.com, http://www.redjellyfish.com, http://www.themeatrix.com, http://www.wildhunt.org/pagan, http://www.adbusters.org, http://www.grist.org, http://www.greenconsumerguide.com, http://www.organicconsumers.org, http://www.peacefulprairie.org, http://www.veganstore.com, http://www.wikipedia, http://www.eff.org, http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/, http://www.stopthesealhunt.com some of my favorite music groups & artists: (mostly goth, electronic, ambient, alternative, and Celtic). Loreena McKennitt, Qntal, Enya, Moya Brennan, Abney Park, Butterfly Messiah, Covenant, Cruxshadows, Collide, Seabound, BlutEngel, Tristess de la Lune, L'Ame Immortelle, Type-O-Negative, Evanescence, Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (who has composed most of my favorite movie scores). some favorite movies: (mostly sci-fi, fantasy, mystery/horror thrillers, drama, and historical fiction). Braveheart, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Bounty, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Contact, The Game, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, The Matrix (only the 1st one!), Requiem For a Dream, Cast Away, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien, Elizabeth, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ginger Snaps, Excalibur, From Hell, Shakespeare in Love, The Pledge, V for Vendetta, The Prestige, Children of Men. see my Flixster movie profile :) http://www.flixster.com/friends.do?displayUserDetail=&friendsUserId=304475242 favorite TV shows, past and present: X-Files, Farscape, the new Battlestar Galactica, Blade: The Series, Forever Knight, Meerkat Manor, Amazing Race, Survivor, Heroes, Lost, Real Time with Bill Maher, Rome, L-Word, Dexter, The Tudors. I also like watching the Sci-Fi, History, and Travel channels. some favorite games: RPG's like White Wolf's: World of Darkness (Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling), D&D, Ars Magica, Call of Cthulhu, and Computer strategy games like Medieval Total War, Civilization, etc. favorite book: The Tree People (by Naomi Stokes) some other favorites: Hunter's of the Red Moon (Marion Zimmer Bradley - 1973), Janissaries (Jerry Pournelle - 1979), Fatherland (Robert Harris - 1992), The Wood Wife (Terri Windling - 1996). One of my favorite recent writers is Kage Baker. check out her sci-fi "Company" series! Harry Turtledove is another favorite author. My favorite novels to read are usually sci-fi, fantasy, mystery/horror thrillers, dark fantasy, and alternate history. I have a love/hate feeling about big cities. I like the culture, the historical districts, the night time urban skylines with the city lights, and the access to all sorts of urban activities. But I really hate the crowds, noise, and traffic. *** Dislikes *** shop-aholics; clutter; people who smoke INSIDE; large crowds of people; organized religion; social conservatives; hypocrites; liars; the smell of most perfumes and colognes; people who whine or constantly complain about something, and yet do nothing about it; and people who are unneccesarily defensive. ********************************** beautiful Hannah! begging for holiday tofurkey roast  and in the old backyard  and us on a camping vacation near Rocky Mountain National Park  *******************************  *********************** ******** | |||||
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| Interests: | 123: adventure, agnosticism, alternate history, anarchism, ancient history, animal rights, anti-authoritarian, anti-censorship, anti-diamonds, anti-globalization, anti-gold, anti-imperialism, atheism, autumn, boats, books, british columbia, buried treasure, camping, canada, cartography, cats, celtic, childfree, civil liberties, colorado, conservation, cooking, culture jamming, d&d, dark ages, dark fantasy, denver, dogs, ecotourism, elves, environmental sustainability, experiencing new things, exploration, fae, fantasy, farmers markets, fog, forests, geography, geology, global warming, gothic, gothic horror, halloween, hiking, historical fiction, history, horror, independent media, indigenous rights, living off the grid, lord of the rings, maps, medieval and renaissance history, military history, movies, mystery, mythical creatures and places, mythology and folklore, natural foods, nature, net neutrality, ocean, october, old cemeteries, old sailing ships, organic food, overpopulation, pacific northwest, paganism, pantheism, paranormal, pirates, politics, pro-choice, pumpkins, rain, rainforests, rainstorms, reading, renewable energy, renewable resources, roleplaying games, rpgs, sci-fi, science fiction, science fiction and fantasy, shipwrecks, simple living, soy, speculative fiction, storms, strange history, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development, tattered cover, tea, temperate rainforests, the unexplained, thunderstorms, travel, treehuggers, trees, truth, vampires, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism, voluntary simplicity, wanderlust, water, white wolf, wildlife, wine, wolves, world of darkness, writing | |||||
| Schools: | Northland College - Ashland, WI (1990 - 1991) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI (1991 - 1994) University of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Whitewater, WI (1993) | |||||
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