User:D Inwood

About D_Inwood

I have listened to SGU for about five years now, and have been attending skeptical events in Vancouver, Canada for about the same amount of time. My favourite events are the Skepticamps that seem to happen about once a year here.

I have done some transcriptions in the past, mostly on the Atheism Plus Scribe project where I transcribed several episodes of Radio Freethinker. I also transcribed the "Science Resources for Children" video on Skepchick.

I grew up in Ontario and moved to BC about a decade ago. I now do office work in the transportation industry. I enjoy reading about geography and astronomy, and like to watch sci fi shows in my spare time.

Goals on SGU Transcripts

It's scary how much work there is to do here to have all episodes transcribed, categorized, and linked up. But I hope that some day we'll have a critical mass of volunteers and get it all done. The Skeptic's Guide is a great show, and I want it to become much better known than it currently is.

My current aspiration on this site is to find all of the episodes that have been transcribed, but are lacking redirects, and set up redirects for them so they can be found. After that, I will return to transcribing recent episodes of the show.

Why do I do it?

I am not very good at generating my own content, but it turns out I have the right personality to do slow transcription work, and amplify the voices of those I support. There aren't very many podcasts that express any interest in facilitating transcriptions though. It is nice to see the SGU puts links to the transcription pages on their show notes for all episodes, so listeners can actually find it.

What I have learned here

I love how well organized this website is, and it has inspired me to get more organized in my own life. I am now categorizing news articles and blog posts I read, complete with links and dates, so I can reference them later if I want.

I have also grown much more confident in updating wiki-style websites, which I wasn't very good at before. It's nice to be able to just copy other peoples' code and tinker with it until I get how it works.