4 posts from June 2008

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Remember that myth as a child that the first generation Furbies could be taught swear words? It was a treasure trove of excitement for children. I had a similar experience when I found the Talking Jesus Doll. Imagine, teaching Jesus to say things about burning your parent's house down or hunting for braaaaiiiinnnnssss among your peers. Super fun. As I told a coworker yesterday, my goal when encountering children is to try and destroy their innocence within moments. Talking Jesus would go a long way to help with that plan.

https://www.buytalkingjesus.com/?cid=544908

The Rules:

1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves
2. People who are tagged write a blog post about their own random 8 things, post the rules and tag 8 others
3. Don't forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them they've been tagged and to come back and read your blog for the whole story.

Fact 1:
I have an obsession with light switches. Well let me explain that better. When a room has two light switches on each side of the room, but they control only one light, it is possible to turn off the light by turning both of the switches to the up, or on position. This is not right in my mind. If both switches are set to on, then the room should be doubly lit up. Our house has switches on either side of the stairs which control the lighting over the steps. If the light is on, the switch at the bottom of the stairs is down, and I am at the bottom of the stairs, I will walk up to the top of the stairs, turn the lights off to ensure that both switches are down when the light is off, and will walk back down the stairs in the dark. Fun, no?

Fact 2:
The sound of people chewing or drinking liquids irritates me worse than nails on a chalkboard. I don't know why but if the room is silent and someone starts chewing or drinking, I will start talking or leave or make some other noise to cover it up. It's this sloppy smush smush noise that bothers me.

Fact 3:
I used to play the guitar pretty well, but have since forgotten how to. I know a G chord and that's it.

Fact 4:
I get really lazy during the week but on Saturday I clean my room like a meth addict. You wouldn't know about it from how it looks right now but as of Saturday at 10:30 it was sparkling and ready to go in an interior decor magazine. And now it has a pile of clothes on the 50s chair and shoes scattered around.

Fact 5:
I'm a nerd. I'll say it so y'all can say it without feeling bad. I love sciency nerdy stuff, and have an unnecessary amount of knowledge that can be used on a game show sometime in the future. When we play along with Cash Cab, I'm usually only one strike down. I need to brush up on my music/acting folk since that is my real weakness. But sciency goodness, I'm covered.

Fact 6:
I purposely mispronounce a lot of words. Tesoro becomes Tesro and some other ones I can't really think of. I'm sure to the uninitiated that it seems like I'm a hick (especially with my gratuitious use of the word y'all) but it's totally intentional, I promise.

Fact 7:
Whenever I play a computer game I'm all about playing with the stuff in the game, not actually doing the game. An example of this is the Sims. I build funky houses and fill them with cool stuff and weird designs. When it comes to making the little people live in there, I usually play with them for an hour (about a week of Sim time) and then I build a special house in the back yard, fill it with houseplants, rugs, and art, and a fireplace. Then I unceremoniously kill off my little sim people so that I can move new Sim people into the house. They never knew the horrors that the previous owners experienced. Same with Sim City - build a cool city and then set it on fire. GTA4 is fun just for this fact. Steal a car, smash stuff with it. Maybe I will do a mission, if I a feel like it.

Fact 8:
I almost got arrested for dumpster diving. I'm a classy guy, right? No we were really bored one night and decided to go paruse the local bookstore dumpster for free coverless romance novels. Not more than 5 minutes into my escapade did a cop show up and enquire what I was doing. I made up some BS story about looking for boxes to help my friend (who was driving the getaway car) move his apartment since he was being thrown out the next morning. Thanks to my unblemished record I got off with a warning. :)

I saw this on www.howispentmystimulus.com and had to repost it.

"This is the George W. Bush Memorial Dyson. I wanted to buy something that will suck as hard and for as long as this administration."

Sybann, Raleigh, NC

http://www.howispentmystimulus.com/posts/view/375

Me personally? I put my stimulus into my existing CD at a nice rate of 5%.