I am happy to announce that after approximately 3 months of podcast, the Mindcore show has acquired listens from over 1200 unique IP addresses. What does that mean, 1200 computers have gone to my podcast, and hit play.

That is awesome!

I am currently on schedule to graduate in December with a B.S. in neuroscience, and my wife is starting at Regeneron in June in Tarrytown, New York. Tarrytown is a suburb about 45 miles outside of NYC. I am very excited about that. I will follow her there in December.

So for the next 7 months, I'm planning on finishing my short stint in Dallas, TX. very strongly.

I started a vibrant student club at UT Dallas, which is Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists at UT Dallas, or A.S.H., I have also begun to do fundraising talks at the North Texas Church of Freethought, which is an accomplishment that I am proud of.

I am also hosting a Skeptic's at the Pub meeting at the Absinthe Lounge in Dallas on June 17th.

With any luck I will be attending the CFI student leadership conference in Amherst, New York, this summer on July 17. CFI is a think tank, which I have decided must some day become my employer.

This summer I have a prestigious S.U.R.F. fellowship doing neuroscience research with superstar Kim Huber. Kim Huber is a neuroscientist who works on understanding genetic and epigenetic factors in neuroscience. I am very honored to have this prestigious opportunity.

I am also hosting the North Texas Skeptics meeting for the second time in a row, on May 17, to show the film Marjoe, which is a disturbing documentary on faith healers.

Things have never been better for me.

My wife is awesome, and we are able to be calm about this move to New York, because we will actually have the resources for me to visit a minimum of twice a month. So apparently I will be on the East Coast regularly this year.

Kalisa and I have found ourselves understanding each other on a much deeper level than we ever imagined, and I could not be happier with my amazing wife.

My goals which I am setting for the rest of the year is to continue to host Skeptic's at the Pub meetings, to build enough momentum for A.S.H. that it will live on after I leave, and to continue to make money for the North Texas Church of Freethought.

In addition I hope to start a CFI advisory council here in Dallas before I leave, creating the foundation for an eventual Center for Inquiry in Dallas Texas.

This is important and rewarding work, and I have never been happier.

There have been friends that have said that my atheist activism is just my anger at the pain I felt as a Christian.

This is patently ridiculous, I had a temper problem that once required counseling, and now I can only remember one occasion on which I have lost my temper since I stopped believing in God. Perhaps it did much to calm me down to stop imagining there is an invisible man in the sky fucking with my life.

That is a slightly annoying thought.

I feel no anger at having been a Christian, only embarrassment.

Just as embarrassed that I am that I ever bought Ecinechia, the herbal supplement that does nothing that it claims to.
Life has never been better or happier for me. I wake up every morning excited about the day, about the opportunities that I will cease, and live this one life, which will end forever.

Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.