WHY 3.0?

Way back in the year 2000, before blogging really took off, I started sending a semi-daily e-mail~newsletter to my friends, filled with nothing but random thoughts.  I called it ‘Doug’s Brain’, but one of those friends had the foresight to transfer us all over to a Yahoo! group and “Boilerplate,” the Victorian Metal Man, was our mascot.  Then, in 2004, Boilerplate 2.0 was born as a LiveJournal account.  It petered on and off for about five years.  Now, welcome to version 3.0

BASICS
Name: Doug
Rank: Doctor of Philosophy
Profession: Post-Doctoral Researcher & Creative Genius
Age: Born in 1979. (Run, Logan, Run! Renewed!)
Zodiacal Info: Capricorn/Aquarius Cusp, Libra Moon, Virgo Rising
Sex: Male
Gender: (scale of -10 to +10, completely masculine to completely feminine): -5

Douglas Stephan Bigham was born in Southern Illinois, on Friday, January 19, 1979 to Judy Kay Bigham (née Dempsay) and Gregory Stephan Bigham. After graduating from high school in 1997, Doug attended Southern Illinois University — Carbondale, where, in May 2002, he was awarded two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Linguistics and one in English. In August 2002, Doug entered the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Master of Arts degree in Linguistics in August 2005 and his Doctorate of Philosophy in August 2008. Getting a Ph.D. before age 30 was Doug’s primary goal in life; he accomplished that goal.

…for more details see my various [Webesences] (that’s a portmanteau of web+presences)

FAVORITES
Color: Red
Month: October
Holiday: Halloween
Superhero: Wonder Woman
Thinker: R. Buckminster Fuller
Movie: Fantastic Planet
Book – Fiction: Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Book – Non-Fiction: Robert Wright’s Non-Zero
Play: Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
Band: Modest Mouse
Composer: J.S. Bach
Mogul: Madonna
TV Show: Star Trek Voyager
Videogame: “SSX Tricky” for PS2
Season: Autumn
Shape: wedge
Number: six (that’s a lie…)
Political Affiliation: technocrat
Hobby: media creation
Drink – daytime: Earl Grey tea, strong, with milk and sugar
Drink – evening: Stoli & soda
Toy: Lego
Website: the Pantone online color catalog
Food: peanut butter