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I'm a computer geek and science nerd who happens to take mediocre photographs on occasion and has delusions of being a writer.
I like to microblog, on occasion, and sometimes I even get around to writing actual 'blog' type content. Though don't hold your breath.
The first paragraph should help you work out what sort of stuff I'd likely blog about.
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Yes, I know, you can make about me pages, and this post will eventually get stuck in there, but I thought I should write the about here first.
The little blurb of text that should be somewhere on this page (presently fixed to the right, but, naturally, that could change at any time), gives you the general gist.
I’m a photographer, a writer, a geek and a nerd.
Naturally, describing oneself in just four words does, well, paint an incomplete picture, so, think of this as my attempt at the water colour version of the blurb. :B
The basics: my name is Lewis, presently 25 years old, living in the south coast of the UK, in Brighton. I own two cats (or, more accurately, they own me); I live in a flat; I wear glasses; and I’m overweight.
Very not interesting, I know.
As mentioned, I’m a geek and a nerd, I call myself both, because of my general and specific interests. I’m highly technical in nature, and I am greatly interested in anything of a technical nature. Unfortunately, I’m rather shite at maths, so I have to cope with visualising my world (I also think in words, and use that where applicable), which is where most of my understanding of physical systems comes from.
Of the sciences, Physics is my main interest, going into Astrophysics, Astronomy and Quantum Mechanics to be very specific.
While I may not know the equations, I feel I can visualise these things adequately enough to at least have a greater understanding than a layperson.
Commensurate to my status as a geek and a nerd, particularly given my science based focus, I’m interested in most forms of science fiction, and, indeed, science fiction is primarily to blame for my vocabulary and verbosity.
This is also the general genre that I have delusions of being able to write in :B
I have other geek and nerd points. As mentioned, I am generally universally interested in all things of a technical bent, combine that with a good memory for the conventionally uninteresting details, and you have someone who, on the surface, at the least, appears to be a bit of a know-it-all.
My interest in science fiction exposed me to numerous concepts and ideas that I still hold to this day. One of the most important ones is the concept of person-hood/what constitutes a life-form. You could say that, if I weren’t already, science fiction is what made me the bleeding heart liberal I am today.
While, in science fiction the concept of person-hood tends to extend to things like clones or AI, I expand that definition to include anything with sapience.
Things like, technological singularity, trans-humanism and such like that are things I actively support due to my exposure to those person-hood concepts.
Contemporaneously, this means that I also support things like civil rights and liberties for all humans, regardless of the sexual preferences/gender identity/skin colour/geographic location/religion (or lack thereof)/etc of those humans.
Which ought to go some way to explain why a lot of my posts here relate to those issues in spite of the fact that I’m a rather mundane white straight male in his mid twenties.
Given my obvious influences, one would suspect that I’m an Atheist, and they’d be correct, I am an Agnostic Atheist.
However, don’t confuse that with being militant about it.
I hold the view with most things that, as long as it doesn’t affect me, and as long as what you do don’t affect others (negatively, that is) without their permission, you can do whatever you want.
As such, if you want to practice your religion, go on right ahead, I don’t care. Just don’t use your religion to force your values on to others, particularly if those values run counter to a positive outcome for all. Also, don’t use your religion to teach patent falsities, if you do either, I will attempt to do my best to debunk you on those aspects of your arguments/religious beliefs.
You are, of course, free to tell me to STFU, and to not listen to me, in precisely the same way that I’m free to tell you that you’re wrong :B
As mentioned, I am a bleeding heart liberal, I’m economically socialist and socially liberal, but, given my technical nature, I am also a pragmatist. I mean, while I’d love to see university be free for all who want it, short of a radical paradigm shift in thinking, that just can’t be paid for without a substantial increase in taxation, for example.
You could say, I’m an idealist who’s aware of the box he is in. I will always dream of getting out of the box, or making that box irrelevant, but I also understand the difficulty in doing so, and understand that it generally requires more than one grand gesture to achieve.
So, by now, you should know I’m a singularitarian, trans-humanist, socially liberal, economically socialist, idealist, pragmatist, agnostic atheist, secular humanist, science nerd and general geek :B
That’s me in a nutshell.
I know I’ve missed huge swathes of, well, unimportant fluff really, but, among them are probably things of some degree of interest. But, for the sake of this blog, the aforementioned should suffice. Unless you ask me otherwise :B
