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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 1/25/2007

At YourHub.com, we like it when our users provide a profile. It gives us a bit more information, so we know where the stories and blogs are coming from. Plus, we like to see a photo of your smiling face.

Well, I was reading through some of the profiles on our Featured Profiles page and decided to have a little fun. [Note: If your profile isn't featured, click here to let us know and we'll put you up there.] I compiled the text of all 42 profiles into one huge document, and then cut and pasted sentences from everyone's profiles into one giant, multiple-personality YourHub.com user.

After reviewing the results, I have to say, we, as a YourHub.com user, have some real issues, beginning with our family tree and our overall perception of space and time. Give this, the Collective YourHub.com Profile, a read, and see if you recognize any part of it as your own writing. (If your face is on the Featured Profiles page, it is your own writing. If you haven't posted a profile yet, just log in, click on the word "profile" in the big red dot in the upper left hand corner. Have a photo of yourself ready.)

The Collective YourHub.com Profile, Vol. 1

Hmm what can be said in a your hub profile?

I was born, grew up, then discovered YourHub.com and was born again.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1958 (the year that gave us those great cultural icons, Madonna and Michael Jackson,) I grew up on a street with a group home, a child molester (who was found dead at the bottom of the stairs; it was ruled a stroke), a deaf couple (whose doorbell made the lights flash -- cool), a disabled alcoholic (who I found passed out on our doorstep in the morning, his key still clutched in his hand, having given up trying to fit it into our lock), the only Spanish-speaking people in the state (whose matriarch, chain-smoking, detailed her six miscarriages to me) and that's just a half a block. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to dance!

I am a HUGE Mammoth fan.

I like to take long walks around a mall, watch weird DVD's in my kitchen, and drink milk out of the carton. My favorite juice is prune juice. Sometimes I like to make faces. I'm 38, happily married and I have three sons and a daughter. I have a wife, a mortgage, two dogs, a one-year old son and a massive action figure collection. I'm a writer, astrologer, an eccentric gym rat and mother of 2. During the weekday I work with numbers all day, so it's nice to come here and use those other symbols - words - once in a while.

My mom says I'm freaking hilarious!

I moved to the Denver area in 1998 after marrying my husband Scott. He is incapable of growing a decent beard, and was sure vampires were coming to get him when he was a kid. We're not talking your wimpy, new-age, Frank Langella vampire, but the full-on, old-school, Jack Palance model. He writes articles covering events and subjects of interest to the entire Metro-Denver area.

He has performed over three hundred concerts throughout the Midwest and East as soloist, soloist with several symphony orchestras, duo pianist, a partner in four-hand concerts, chamber groups, and was the pianist with the University Of South Dakota Avante Garde Chamber Players. Prior to 1985, he lived for 10 years in Africa teaching and working with the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. His work is known internationally and has been screened at The Emerging Filmmakers Project, Moondance International Film Festival, Trigger Street, ManiaTV!, Amazon/Tribeca Online Film Festival, The Red Reel, Loveland's Independent Filmmakers Showcase, Colorado Chautauqua Association Forum Series, and monthly at Denver's Starz FilmCenter through Group101 Films Colorado.

He has spent time as a media strategist for numerous community organizations, a water media artist, an incredibly slow runner (albeit, a three time finisher of the Mt. Evans Trophy Run), an inept fly fisherman, a prospector and treasure map maker and the owner of a historic gold mining claim near a Colorado ghost town.

I live with this powerful woman who makes me proud. A man in generally good health need never to lose his vigorous capacity. She appreciates my matured powers to give tenderness; to give love. My wife is high strung, which I attribute to her training as a Navy SEAL and/or her numerous years as a sherpa on Everest. We met, dated and got married in the Denver area in the late 1980's. We moved to Southern California in 1990 vowing to stay just a few years.

In less than two weeks, I'll be sitting up in Des Moines, Iowa attending Drake University.

My mother was a gifted grade school and Sunday school teacher, perhaps accounting for my interest in teaching. She enjoys an active family life with her husband, 2 grown sons, their young daughter, and faithful Labrador, Rocky. She is also married to one nice, Italian guy named Sam. Both she and her husband enjoy golfing, but not together. She is a food and nutrition consultant and writes consumer articles on health and nutrition. For a number of years she worked at MIT's Lab for Computer Science, at MIT's Project Athena as Operations Coordinator and at BBN (now GTE) at the CSNET network hotline.

We have a German Shepherd, a Tabby, and a Quaker. Our family is fortunate to have been chosen by two shelter Chihuahuas. Okay, I never liked the child molester.

I look forward to exchanging opinions with you and giving tips on home construction. I stay very active in our church and with Girl Scouts. Maybe I can meet some interesting people.

My goal is to share honest, non-snooty, advice on wine as if you were talking to your next door neighbor and he said, "Hey maaaan, last night, me and the old lady, we had a really nice bottle of wine, I totally would recommend it." Otherwise I'm just your typical teenager, obsessed with her boyfriend and trying to find something to fill up her time.

I put way to much energy into bull#!@% and not enough energy into things that essentially matter for the progression of my wellbeing.

Beyond academics, I enjoy skiing, soccer, tennis, camping, playing my guitar, and traveling. I am an evangelist for Jazzercise, the world's best exercise and therapy for only a few dollars per class. Alternate hobby: Sudoku puzzles with increasing tendency towards blogging.

Finally, I don't think people realize the value of YourHub but the fact that it is growing rapidly shows that more and more people are catching on to the enormous power that this free outlet gives them to express themselves. Because when you work your way down to the bottom line, the Internet is all about people and what they have to say.

Ok, there was a train of thought, but it got derailed. Thanks YourHub.com for your brilliant community word sharing format.

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