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camwynI'm waiting on the database software to finish something in another window. I can't work with it until the process finishes, so in the meantime, what the hell, there goes another bandwagon I haven't leapt on...
Fifteen things I'm reasonably sure y'all don't know about me.
1. I have been a computer nerd almost as long as it is possible for someone my age to be. My very first computer was a Timex-Sinclair ZX81 - 1K of memory, membrane keyboard, and all. Given that these came out in 1981, and that I was born in the Year of the Tiger, I'm a little surprised I was even able to *type* on anything that small.
2. I once participated in my high school's annual fashion show despite having no sense of fashion whatsoever. The theme was 'A Tribute to Hollywood' that year, and they needed someone tall to wear the Dick Tracy outfit. Which leads into
3. Counting both RL stage experience and online RPG's - and even, to a limited extent, tabletop RPG's - I have probably played as many male parts as females, or more. It began when I was six years old and was asked to play Santa Claus. Apparently I'm quite good at it.
4. I can knit, although I've yet to finish a sweater I started working on in late 2000. (I lost the instructions and only found them again recently.)
5. I have never broken any of my bones, or sprained anything. I have been present at the breaking of other people's bones, though. (Susan slid into third base and screamed, but I tagged her out anyway. I swear, I didn't know.)
6. I once tried a piece of dry dog kibble to see what it tasted like. You know how they say it has real chicken flavour? They lie.
7. I have a pair of asbestos-raddled shoes under my desk at work. I wore them into New York City on September 11th because we didn't have time to stop and get anything at K-Mart instead.
8. The easiest way to make me scream RL is to walk up behind me when I'm deeply involved in something - anything, be it reading, writing, using the computer, watching TV, even cooking - and tap me on the shoulder or otherwise touch me. I don't care how friendly a gesture you mean it to be, where I come from that's generally the prelude to sentences like 'give me all your money'.
9. I signed up for food prep/hospitality management curriculum classes in 1999 in the hopes that Y2K would destroy all the damn computers and I'd be ahead of the game because I'd have a career that didn't depend on the wretched machines. (I said I was a computer nerd. I didn't say I was happy about it. I'm just good at it.)
10. I once put a quarter on a large nickel-iron meteorite at a science museum and felt something move under my hand. I grabbed it quickly and looked at it. Turned out a piece of the meteorite had come loose and fallen off. I didn't quite know how to handle the situation - 'Mr. Curator, this pebble just came off, I swear I didn't mean to hurt your giant space rock, does it help if I contributed a quarter to the museum, can you glue it back on'- so I took the piece home.
11. Aside from a half hour of mild dizziness after chugging my first (and to date, only) serving of mead at a RenFaire, I have never been drunk, nor anywhere close to drunk. I don't plan to be, ever. Sugar/caffeine rush, on the other hand... that I've done, to the point where the crash afterwards left me seeing mostly in shades of grey.
12. I have never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie. Nor have I seen any movies by Kevin Smith. Nor have I seen any of the movies in the Alien series. I haven't seen The Usual Suspects, either, nor Fight Club, nor many of the 'cool' movies of recent years, and for the most part I don't plan to. A great many of my friends seem to think I've seen them. I haven't. I can discuss them reasonably well based on what I've heard about them, that's all.
13. I was yelled at by a genuine New York City crazy person in a church once. It's a long story and it ended with me breaking down in tears while one of the people who worked for that particular church muttering 'the things you see when you don't have a gun', which was actually enough to make me laugh because that was an older woman who, up until that point, I'd thought was totally prim and proper.
14. I believed in Santa Claus until I was ... oh, somewhere in fifth grade. I never even thought to question the possibility, but a friend of mine heard me mention something about asking Santa for stuff I didn't get at my birthday party and told me what the deal was. When I went to my parents with this information, they told me some stuff about the spirit of Santa being the important thing. Since my b-day is several months away from December, I had time to adjust, and it was cool.
15. I was, the last time I checked, violently allergic to most forms of makeup. Hypoallergenic stuff is generally okay, but I haven't bothered buying any, or using any, beyond theatrical greasepaint in years - and that was for clown work. It's just simpler this way.
Today's pulp survival tip is #63: Practice all your disguises and alternate personae extensively before putting them into play.
Fifteen things I'm reasonably sure y'all don't know about me.
1. I have been a computer nerd almost as long as it is possible for someone my age to be. My very first computer was a Timex-Sinclair ZX81 - 1K of memory, membrane keyboard, and all. Given that these came out in 1981, and that I was born in the Year of the Tiger, I'm a little surprised I was even able to *type* on anything that small.
2. I once participated in my high school's annual fashion show despite having no sense of fashion whatsoever. The theme was 'A Tribute to Hollywood' that year, and they needed someone tall to wear the Dick Tracy outfit. Which leads into
3. Counting both RL stage experience and online RPG's - and even, to a limited extent, tabletop RPG's - I have probably played as many male parts as females, or more. It began when I was six years old and was asked to play Santa Claus. Apparently I'm quite good at it.
4. I can knit, although I've yet to finish a sweater I started working on in late 2000. (I lost the instructions and only found them again recently.)
5. I have never broken any of my bones, or sprained anything. I have been present at the breaking of other people's bones, though. (Susan slid into third base and screamed, but I tagged her out anyway. I swear, I didn't know.)
6. I once tried a piece of dry dog kibble to see what it tasted like. You know how they say it has real chicken flavour? They lie.
7. I have a pair of asbestos-raddled shoes under my desk at work. I wore them into New York City on September 11th because we didn't have time to stop and get anything at K-Mart instead.
8. The easiest way to make me scream RL is to walk up behind me when I'm deeply involved in something - anything, be it reading, writing, using the computer, watching TV, even cooking - and tap me on the shoulder or otherwise touch me. I don't care how friendly a gesture you mean it to be, where I come from that's generally the prelude to sentences like 'give me all your money'.
9. I signed up for food prep/hospitality management curriculum classes in 1999 in the hopes that Y2K would destroy all the damn computers and I'd be ahead of the game because I'd have a career that didn't depend on the wretched machines. (I said I was a computer nerd. I didn't say I was happy about it. I'm just good at it.)
10. I once put a quarter on a large nickel-iron meteorite at a science museum and felt something move under my hand. I grabbed it quickly and looked at it. Turned out a piece of the meteorite had come loose and fallen off. I didn't quite know how to handle the situation - 'Mr. Curator, this pebble just came off, I swear I didn't mean to hurt your giant space rock, does it help if I contributed a quarter to the museum, can you glue it back on'- so I took the piece home.
11. Aside from a half hour of mild dizziness after chugging my first (and to date, only) serving of mead at a RenFaire, I have never been drunk, nor anywhere close to drunk. I don't plan to be, ever. Sugar/caffeine rush, on the other hand... that I've done, to the point where the crash afterwards left me seeing mostly in shades of grey.
12. I have never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie. Nor have I seen any movies by Kevin Smith. Nor have I seen any of the movies in the Alien series. I haven't seen The Usual Suspects, either, nor Fight Club, nor many of the 'cool' movies of recent years, and for the most part I don't plan to. A great many of my friends seem to think I've seen them. I haven't. I can discuss them reasonably well based on what I've heard about them, that's all.
13. I was yelled at by a genuine New York City crazy person in a church once. It's a long story and it ended with me breaking down in tears while one of the people who worked for that particular church muttering 'the things you see when you don't have a gun', which was actually enough to make me laugh because that was an older woman who, up until that point, I'd thought was totally prim and proper.
14. I believed in Santa Claus until I was ... oh, somewhere in fifth grade. I never even thought to question the possibility, but a friend of mine heard me mention something about asking Santa for stuff I didn't get at my birthday party and told me what the deal was. When I went to my parents with this information, they told me some stuff about the spirit of Santa being the important thing. Since my b-day is several months away from December, I had time to adjust, and it was cool.
15. I was, the last time I checked, violently allergic to most forms of makeup. Hypoallergenic stuff is generally okay, but I haven't bothered buying any, or using any, beyond theatrical greasepaint in years - and that was for clown work. It's just simpler this way.
Today's pulp survival tip is #63: Practice all your disguises and alternate personae extensively before putting them into play.
