User:Ppe42

I'm Ppe42, and this is my user page. I live in Wellington, New Zealand near the Wellington Botanic Gardens - the picture on the article is the view from my bedroom. I am a psychology Masters student and libertarian (spot me on the list).

Beliefs/Attitudes:
 * Atheist (no evidence for God(ess)(s/es), therefore its foolish to postulate one)
 * Skeptic (anti-pseudoscience)
 * Extropian (pro-technology)
 * Transhumanist
 * Scientific (pro-science)
 * Inclusionist (Wikipedia should include all human knowledge)
 * Libertarian (pro-freedom, anti-coercion)
 * Monogamist ("if you try to play it fast and loose, you just get confused")
 * Speciesist (intelligence is special, so humans are more important than animals)
 * Cultural Universalist (some cultures have certain values and beliefs which are superior to others)
 * High SDO, average RWA.

Hobbies:
 * Woodworking
 * Cooking
 * Fixing Things
 * Spending time with my SO
 * Overanalysing almost everything (a common malady of psychologists, I believe).

You can leave a message on my Talk Page, or visit my (shared) blog Pacific Empire.

Some pages I've made major changes to (or started):

Psychology
 * Social dominance orientation
 * Right Wing Authoritarianism

Science
 * Holocene Impact Working Group

New Zealand
 * Wellington, New Zealand
 * Homer Tunnel
 * Stratford, New Zealand
 * Wellington Botanic Garden

Biology
 * Finless Porpoise
 * Allopatric speciation
 * Favolaschia calocera

Science Fiction
 * Neighbourhood Watch (short story)
 * The Reality Dysfunction
 * Misspent Youth

Politics
 * Libertarianz
 * Peter Cresswell
 * Bernard Darnton
 * Lindsay Perigo

Philosophy
 * Qualia

Misc
 * Hummus
 * Bagger 288

Images Uploaded
Mount Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand.

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington.

Wellington Botanic Garden

Libertarianz members protesting at the New Zealand Parliament, Wellington, on Budget Day, May 19, 2005. (That's me on the right.)

Libertarianz members putting up billboards for Bernard Darnton in Wellington Central during the 2005 general election. (Again, me on the right.)

View of the Wellington Cable Car from the Wellington Botanic Garden terminal.

View of the MetService building in the Wellington Botanic Garden, from Tinakori Hill.

Lovely Leanne let me place this picture on the Wellington Botanic Garden article, improving it immensely.

This is another of Leanne's pictures of the Wellington Botanic Garden.

A neat fungus that I photographed, then realised there was no Wikipedia article on it, so I then wrote the article myself.