maddog

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Erstwhile architect & realtor
Location Southern California, United States
Interests Trains (as transportation not as fetish), bicycling (as for trains), photography, environment, history, manufacturing technologies (you know, making stuff), human rights, animal rights, ethics & morality (intrinsic to any consideration of rights, not religion), infrastructure (I want to know where we're getting our electricity from, what we're doing with our sewerage and how we can stitch 20th century suburbs into a closely knit community that can replace the ills of car-dependent economic orthodoxy with a sustainable, just and joyful way of living.

Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?

What will our cities be like when we move beyond petroleum?