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Matthew Gregory
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Fake-UKers
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Nerdfighters who like/lo…
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Supernatural Nerdfighters
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Fighters For Philosophy
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Matthew Gregory left a comment for Danno"Thanks for the recommendations. I'm off to troll for interesting groups! "
Danno left a comment for Matthew Gregory"fun stuff.
recommendations really depend on you. there are groups for a huge variety of interests, and the forums aren't exactly slow. particularly if you're into debate/feel really strongly about a certain aspect of…"
Matthew Gregory posted a status"Just got a serious PRP (Puff Reduction Procedure) yesterday. Thinkin' of takin' a new pic since the current one is a little old."
Matthew Gregory left a comment for Danno"Thanks for the welcome! It's good to be here. I've been in Your Pants for a week or so and figured I should embrace the ning as well. Any recommendations for a newcomer?"
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Fake-UKers
For all those who pretend to be British or wish they were. And for British people who like to be appreciated for their Britishness.
Matthew Gregory joined Galya Thorn's group
Nerdfighters who like/love the rain
If your favorite days are the rainy ones, and if you get a sense of peace and serenity when you see all that glorious water pouring down, cleansing everything, then this is the group for you :)See More
Matthew Gregory replied to yoni chanowitz's discussion famous old questions in the group Fighters For Philosophy"I would not. It is up to the living to respect the will of the dead in regards to their body. In my opinion of course."
Matthew Gregory replied to yoni chanowitz's discussion famous old questions in the group Fighters For Philosophy"Based on the facts, I would not turn the wheel. It wasn't stated that the "one man" was a railroad worker but it was implied that the "5 men" were. The railroad workers knew the danger of their job.If this "one…"
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Fighters For Philosophy
A group that is for anyone and everyone. You can talk about anything related to knowledge.NOTE: Topics may be controversial, especially if religion is involved. please respect one another.See More
Profile Information
- What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?
- I'm a nerd of all trades, master of none.
- About Me:
- Hello. My name is Matt and I am a stuff-oholic.
I love stuff. I can't get enough of it. I love making stuff, reading about stuff, cooking and eating stuff, learning stuff about stuff and talking about stuff. This obsession with stuff has been plaguing me since before I can remember. I believe the first stuff I can remember loving was the stuff I heard in stories, saw in cartoons, played in video games or lived in my backyard while saving the world. In fewer words, when I was little I loved pretend stuff.
At the time people would use words that were foreign and confusing to me. Words like "fictional" or "not real". People would ask me why I didn't like "real stuff" and at the time I could only wonder what they meant. I would think; "Isn't Spider Man real? I mean, he's right there on the TV, beating up Venom and hanging out with sick kids in web-swings". To younger me, the word "real" was a bad word. A word that often held prejudice towards the things I loved. If the people I became in the backyard weren't "real" then how could they save the world? Real things were trapped, chained to other real things like gravity or the need to breath. Things I couldn't be bothered with while flying around the world or swimming with whales in my back yard. Real stuff was sort of depressing to the me that existed at that time.
But then I figured something out. I had a secret weapon. An almost magical weapon that could take the things I loved and make them real. Real like Spiderman. Real like the heroes in my backyard. I had the amazing ability to create. This is where my stuff-oholism took a turn for the worst (read: better). This is when I learned that I could make stuff. Real stuff. Stuff that I could share, bridging the gap between what others called "pretend" and their silly little word "real".
That's right. I was only 6 years old and I was already such a stuff-oholic that I was making stuff inside of my own parents' home. Though they were far from innocent. They were perhaps the biggest enablers in my journey as a stuff-oholic. They provided me with all the things I could ever need to make the best stuff the neighborhood had ever seen (from my 6 year old self's point of view anyways). They provided me with chemicals like "playdoh", "gak" and "silly putty". They even gave me hardware like construction paper and crayons. Even going as far as to provide me with simulation modules called Legos and test subjects called action figures. But the most volatile thing they provided me with was knowledge. They introduced me to the idea that all stuff, pretend or real, had almost an infinite number of sub-stuffs that I could learn about! And this stuff called knowledge, this sub-stuff, was all inside my head! There for me to use whenever I choose to. Even more fascinatingly, they taught me that everyone had this sub-stuff in their head and often it was different stuff that I hadn't even thought about. I found out that people were just big walking encyclopedias of stuff. Obviously this blew my mind.
Fast forward about 14 or so years and here I am. Hopelessly enamored with stuff. I love making stuff, learning about stuff and sharing stuff with awesome people with awesome stuff to share.
- Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more
- Books: Stuart Little, My Side of the Mountain, The Great Gatsby, The Art of War, The Apology: Phædo and Crito, Sherlock Holmes (Basically all of them)...
Movies: My Life as a Dog, Star Wars trilogy, Ip Man, Akira...
Music: Anything with Jack White, Dub FX, TMBG, Lemon Demon, Symphony of Science...
- What's your favorite thing to put on your head?
- Shoes
- If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?
- Sherlock Holmes
- When did you start watching the Vlogbrothers?
- May, 2012
- Make up your own DFTBA initialism!
- Doing Feels The Best Afterwards
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Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 9:33pm on July 16, 2012, Danno said…
find anything you like over the weekend?
- At 11:14am on July 4, 2012, Danno said…
fun stuff.
recommendations really depend on you. there are groups for a huge variety of interests, and the forums aren't exactly slow. particularly if you're into debate/feel really strongly about a certain aspect of worldsuck or like to just goof around with word association games. i personally haven't used the chat, and have heard very mixed reviews, but feel free to check it out.
- At 7:45pm on July 1, 2012, Danno said…
hello and welcome to the ning Matthew
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