1. I never cross against the light.
2. I never run stop signs.
3. I do not watch TV shows alone
4. I weigh 195 pounds.
5. I'm 6.0 feet
6. I played the trombone for 6 years
7. I thought I might be an architect, so I took three years of mechanical drawing.
8. I don't write in cursive except for my signature, which looks like "Annln Doyww"
9. So because of 7 and 8, I write in really square CAPITAL LETTERS a lot of the time
10. My lowercase handwriting is really tall and skinny and gets taller when I'm in a hurry
11. I only wear black clothes, including underpants and socks, for practical reasons.
12. A lot of my stuff is black, so I often lose things on top of other things that are the same color.
13. I leave the goddamn cupboards open all the time
14. I find meteorology very interesting, and thus took MET 101. I can read a weathermap now. whee
15. I like robots because when I was young my Dad showed me the MIT engineering competition on TV.
16. Plus battlestar galactica and jason of star command, which you do not remember.
17. Probably 90% of the sex I've ever had was with women who have online journals. Huh.
18. I don't really like being touched by strangers.
19. One of my best friends, Ed, loves telling awful stories about my behavior as his roommate and friend of 20 years.
20. My other best friend, Kris, I've known just a little longer, and we never had to room together longer than a day or two.
21. I am fascinated by lying and deception and have many books on the topic.
22. I am also very impressed by Paul Ekman's research into facial expressions, which is heavily related to 21.
23. My girlfriend used to work with John Gottman, who used the facial affect coding system in his lab. She has been qualified to translate facial expressions to emotion data in a clinical setting.
24. 23 used to creep me out a little, but also intrigued me. I borrowed her training materials and notes when we first started hanging out together.
25. When I lived in portland, a bunch of my fillings fell out and I did not treat those huge rectangular holes in my molars. The consequences were years of pain and 5 or so root canals to repair the damage, ongoing.
26. Going to the dentist makes me extremely anxious, though I can't figure out why. The pain of any dental procedure is trivial, compared to 25.
27. I like cats. I like them so much that when I see an actual cat, I automatically say "keeeetie!" in a high pitched voice.
28. I find dogs smelly and annoying, or cute. Depends on the dog.
29. Hedgehogs are all right, but illegal here.
30. I don't have a pet because I am so good at neglecting things that I killed an air plant.
31. The very first video game I played was the Sears Tele-games (Atari VCS) cartridge "Tank-Plus". No, it wasn't an "Atari 2600" yet because they didn't get model numbers until the 5200 came out.
32. I still have that VCS, and it still works. In fact, I have a cartridge that makes it into a synthesizer and am using it on recordings even now. It sounds like this (our loud flash page) (no flash? mp3.).
33. There are a few video games that aren't fun to play with me: Star Control, Command & Conquer, Total Annihilation. TA, especially. Well, maybe these days it'd be amusing, since I haven't played in years. Nah.
This is exhausting and they're getting longer. I'll stop at 1/3rd done for today.