Thanks Tess for the idea to start this thread.

If we accept something you submitted, we’ll look for a new topic that you started and use that as your bio.

In fact, this is the post for my own bio, so here it is:

In college, I read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. After graduation from Revelle College, UCSD with a BS in Cognitive Science, I met Alex Boese, the curator of the Museum of Hoaxes in a creative writing course. I tutored people in math and science and writing and then landed a computer job. Like so many software engineers, I worked for several businesses that eventually ceased to exist. I co-founded StoragePoint.com, which crashed and burned like any good little dot-com company. While I continued finding work with software companies, I got involved with Slashdot and a few other sites where an open membership was allowed to register individuals’ judgments of quality. I studied a rarely used but highly efficient method of finding consensus that has been named after the French philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet.

A fellow software engineer introduced me to Austrian Economics and dredged up themes from Atlas Shrugged. He used Austrian Economics and Atlas Shrugged together to convince me that public policy inevitably leads to disaster. I now spend my time encouraging people to stop relying on political rulers for solutions, to consider the possibility that public policy is an avoidable evil, and to use the “Condorcet Method” to find consensus. This last item is the foundation on which I intend, with your help, to enrich the lives of everyone that gets involved with Litmocracy, 99 Burning, and other projects of which I am a part.

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I am a mother of four grown sons, grandmother of seven. They are by far my greatest accomplishments. I am a Registered Nurse, but unable to practice due to a disability (which is slowly resolving). I’m taking a four month course to become a medical coder. Mostly, I’m reading and writing. I’m currently reading fifteen books. I finished one a few days ago and began two more, something I can say on almost any given day. I try to limit myself to seven, but it is a challenge. At least it’s not gambling, right? My lifelong dream is to take an extended working vacation in Italy.

I look forward to submitting as well as receiving and giving useful feedback.

D.A. Cairns is married with two teenagers and lives on the south coast of New South Wales where he works part time as an English language teacher and writes stories in his very limited spare time. He has had more than 20 short stories published (but who’s counting right?) He blogs at Square pegs http://dacairns.blogspot.com.au His second novel, Loathe Your Neighbor, is coming soon from Artema Press.

I would introduce myself in the classical way, basically giving you my name and such, but I do not have one yet. I hear it’s a hot conversation topic right now in my home to be, but for now, I am referred to as ‘baby brother’, ‘demon child’ and a variety of other nicknames.

I should be able to give you a better idea of my age once I decide on my birth date, which should be around March 19 of 2012. In the meantime, I am content to float around in Star‘s belly and to benefit from her increased appetite and yes, her increasingly weird cravings.

I aspire to be all that I can be. I know my parents, Deminizer and Starlizard, are hoping that I am a healthy, intelligent, creative and curious child. They met here on Litmocracy 5 years ago, and I am proud to say that I am to be the first child issued of the first couple that ever hitched up here on the site.

I may be small yet, but I am already famous: my picture will make the cover of Issue 22 of Literal Translations, Litmocracy’s quarterly magazine. Make sure to check it out and grab yourself a copy!!

I look forward to sharing my thoughts, and hope you will enjoy them. For now, I think I’ll take a little nap to be fully rested for this evening’s kicking activities.

I’m really happy to be part of the community, and look forward to enlightening exchanges. Feel free to PM me, and I’ll be sure to make mom or dad type my reply back to you!

I’m not yet sure where I’m going to take this, but I do know that among other things I am very good at academic writing.

Do you want to live your life well then accept the below listed:

1. Enjoy a pint of water first thing in the morning.
2. Grab a few fresh fruits on your way out.
3. Avoid going to junk food shops with your work mates.
4. Exercise on the go.
5. Drink herbal teas.
6. Eat a handful of nuts.
7. Say yes to freshly squeezed juice.
8. Deep breathing. 

Use it in your life and living healthy.

Have any questions? Feel free to ask. Have any grammar corrections? Feel free to correct.