Kyle G. Crider
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Environment |
| Occupation | Environmental Engineering/GIS Ph.D. Student |
| Location | Helena, Alabama, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a lover of art and science, a student of nature and technology, an aficionado of fact, fiction, and folklore. "Eclectic" (and probably "strange") generally describes my tastes... I have a B.S. degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Alabama and a Master of Public Administration degree in Urban Planning & Policy Analysis from UAB, where I am currently in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Ph.D. program. I am married to Beverly Cox of Hoover. We live in Helena, AL (near Birmingham) with our "fuzzy children" Henry (the Cocker Spaniel) and cats Nutmeg, Josie, and Mollie. |
| Interests | Animals, art, blogs, books, castles, catastrophe theory, caves, caving, chaos theory, complexity theory, computers, conservation, DBMS, desktop publishing, dragons, ecology, economics, education, emergence, environmental science, fantasy, folklore, fractals, game theory, games, gardening, gargoyles, GIS, ghosts, graphics, green investing, hauntings, hiking, history, horror, horseback riding, information theory, IT, leadership, micro loans, mind maps, monsters, movies, music, mythology, philosophy, plants, policy analysis, project management, public administration, racquetball, religion, remote sensing, saving the planet, sci-fi, science, statistics, urban planning, writing |
| Favorite movies | House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, Phantasm, The Others, Brazil, Gormenghast, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, The Haunting (original), Alien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Dark Star, Silent Running, Solaris, Lord of the Rings, The Shining, Quatermass and the Pit, Harry Potter, A Christmas Story, Zardoz, Haunted, The Hunger, Forbidden Planet, The Dark Crystal, Napoleon Dynamite, Dark City, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles |
| Favorite music | ABBA, Al Stewart, Asia, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Eagles, Evanescence, Jethro Tull, Loreena McKennitt, Midnight Syndicate, Pink Floyd, Queen, Stabbing Westward, Styx, Uriah Heep |
| Favorite books | The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone, Heart of Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood |
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
I would convert the plant to use less toxic materials! Or at least make sure the plant produces only durable goods.