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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Location | Milwaukee/Dayton/Chicago, Wisconsin/Ohio/Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | Just your typical twenty something kid. I'm an archaeologist-in-training (wondering at what point I'm allowed to call myself an archaeologist proper)... I spend a good amount of time wandering the Midwest meandering from project to project and projects to school. I live in hotels, apartments, and even a veterans hospital once. There isn't much to say really, I'm a pretty normal nerdy kid not quite ready to grow up and sit behind a desk. If I have my say, I'll never have to. Currently the wandering is being kept more or less in check (for at least 2/3 of the year) by that whole "pursuing a graduate degree" thing. Apparently they want a series of letters after your name before they'll let you run around digging wherever you want. So I'm in Milwaukee doing that (getting letters... not running around digging wily nily). |
| Interests | archaeology, museums, reading, fantasy, sci-fi, video games, arguments, internet, baseball, cubs, football, bears, buckeyes, chemical analysis, dirt, mud, clay, poison ivy avoidance. |
| Favorite movies | Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Amelie, The Incredibles, Kung-Fu Hustle, Ringu, Band of Brothers, Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Arc, The Last Crusade |
| Favorite music | Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Juno Reactor, The Kaiser Chiefs, Queen, The Who. |
| Favorite books | Lord of the Rings, The Zombie Survival Handguide, World War Z, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
Of course not, forks evolving from spoons...ridiculous. The first "flatware" would have been the skewer (a simple fork) designed to pull hot food from the fire to avoid burned hands (the previous eating utensil). All else, including spoons, evolved from there.