JonBen
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Grad Student |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Introduction | I am a 20 something astrophysicist currently working towards a Ph.D. at the University of British Colombia. I do a fair amount of cooking these days, and luckily I blog about what I make at HomemadeVegan. |
| Interests | money, sarcasm, scientific programming, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, game cube, books, cats, cartoons, animation, golf, wine, dark beer, board games, eurogames, german games, golf, billiards, veganism, vegan, vegan cooking, animal rights |
| Favorite Movies | Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Boondock Saints, The Usual Suspects, Clue, The Meaning of Life, The Quest for the Holy Grail, Big Fish, Pulp Fiction, 4 rooms, Resevoir Dogs, Love Actually, 50 First Dates, Being John Malcovich, Sword Fish, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Samurai Jack, Ren and Stimpy, invader zim, drawn together |
| Favorite Music | punk rock, indie, ska, folk, AC Newman, Bad Religion, Beastie_Boys, Be Good Tanyas, Beirut, Bella, Belle and Sabastian, Ben Folds, Black Keys, Black Mountain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, Calexico, Clumsy Lovers, Comets On Fire, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Devin Davis, Do Make Say Think, Dropkick Murphys, Elliott Smith, El Pus, Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton, Fiery Furnaces, Flogging Molly, Gary Jules, Immaculate Machine, Iron and Wine, John Hiatt, Kaiser Chiefs, Kottonmouth Kings, Lotus Child, Magic Numbers, Mando Diao, Matthew Friedberger, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Oh No Oh My, OK Go, Okkervil River, Paul Kelly, Peter Bjorn And John, Planet Smashers, Pop Levi, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rich Hope and His Evil Doers, Rick White, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sam Roberts, Sarah Harmer, Save Ferris, Scissor Sisters, Shout Out Out Out Out, Silver Jews, Silversun Pickups, Sleater Kinney, Starlight Mints, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Tapes n Tapes, Ted Leo, Tenacious D, White Stripes, Wolf Parade, Xavier Rudd, Cadeaux, Caesars, Controller Controller, Decemberists, Deerhoof, Destroyer, Feist, Feminists, Hellacopters, Hives, Islands, K'naan, Lemonheads, Malajube, Matisyahu, Menomena, National, NOFX, O.A.R, Rancid, Shins, Southland, Spoon, TalkDemonic, Tangiers, Teddybears, Wolfmother |
| Favorite Books | Dave Duncan, Bernard Cornwell, Dan Brown, douglas adams, bill bryson, brian greene, David Griffiths, chris turner, kip thorne |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
This is known as Olber's paradox and if it were true then the night sky would not be dark! Since the sky is dark I sleep at night :)