gridlore | 100 questions, because I'm bored.

snagged from

firecat while she was plotting a coup.

01. What is your name, birthdate and birth place?
Douglas, 7/4/66, Los Gatos, CA.

02. Blood type and Zodiac sign?
A+, Cancer

03. What is your height, weight and shoe size?
6', about 155lbs, 10 or 10.5, depending on the shoe.

04. How many people are in your family?
Define family. In my immediate family, I have

kshandra. Going out to blood relatives, I have my mom, brother, and sister. Then we get to in-laws, and the various wrinkles provided by polyamory.

05. What is one strength/weakness that you possess?
I have a strong will.

06. What's your motto?
I have a couple.

Think of it as an adventure!

The first duty of revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman

07. What are your favorite words?
"schist" A perfectly legitimate scientific term that sounds dirty.

08. What kind of animal would you compare yourself to?
Beside the obvious Antarctic seabirds? Probably a bear.

09. What are your hobbies?
Role-playing games, SF fandom, Usenet.

10. What kind of special talents or abilities do you have?
Well, I'm an excellent shot. I'm also very logical (which can get annoying to some people.)

11. Aside from work, what kind of computer do you use, and what software program do you enjoy using the most?
Pentium III PC. OpenOffice.org is probably the non-game program I enjoy most.

12. About how many email pen-pals do you have?
Most of my email comes from a couple of high-volume lists. While these people are friends, I wouldn't call them pen pals.

13. Did you ever use an ASCII based bulletin board system? Did you ever meet anyone from them?
Yep! Good old Nasty Playmates. We had a regular get together so I met many of the board users. Kiri and were both channel hosts for a time.

14. What is the first thing you do/website you check when you get online?
Check my LJ for replies to my posts, then read Usenet.

15. Tell us, what's something we should avoid at all costs?
Getting tattooed while drunk.

16. Favorite TV show theme song?
With lyrics: The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You
Music only: Babylon 5 (Season 3)
This doesn't cover shows that use "real" songs, like CSI.

17. What is your one favorite Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday TV Show?
Countdown

18. What phrase do you say a lot?
"If there's one thing I've learned.."

19. What brand of cigarettes got you hooked on cigarettes (if any)?
Not a smoker.

20. Is there anything you won't/can't stop doing?
Reading.

21. If you could only eat one type of food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
Pizza.

22. What are your favorite drinks?
Coke Classic, lemonade, Corona

23. What is your favorite food, and a food you would like to try but haven't yet?
Probably Mexican food, and I'd like to try more Thai stuff.

24. What food are you best at cooking?
Nothing. I can brown and boil, and that's it.

25. What's your favorite kind of flower?
Roses

26. Where do you buy most of your clothes?
Discount places like Marshalls and Costco.

27. What do you do with clothes that you regret having bought?
Give them to Goodwill.

28. Has anyone ever given you a ring?
Yes.

29. What brand/service is your cell phone? Also, what song do you use as the ringer?
No cell - yet. If I get a ring tone, it will probably be Enter Sandman by Metallica.

30. What kind of skin care products do you use?
Ivory soap.

31. Worst childhood Halloween costume?
I made a robot costume. Could hardly move in the thing, and it was falling apart by the time we got home.

32. How did you get your first scar?
Beats me. I have a few from my military days, and the big ones from cancer.

33. What was the last color you painted your fingernails?
Black. Close to twenty years ago.

34. What kind of perfume/cologne do you like?
None. I'm sensitive to those things.

35. What kind of shampoo, conditioner and other hair care products do you use?
Whatever is cheap.

36. Please comment on men's make up?
Why?

37. What is your favorite Shakespearian play?
The Tempest

38. What do you think of guys who tuck polo shirts into their jeans?
They should be lined up and SHOT! And their families! Burn them!
(Actually, I could care less.. why should anybody care about this?)

39. It's a bit out of the blue, but here's the Ultimate Choice Series! Based solely on the two choices given. Basically it is picking the lesser of two evils :

- Would you choose a hot, but really poor guy/girl, or an ugly but rich one?
I'd take the one I was in love with.

- Would you choose a hot, but really stupid guy/girl, or an extremely intelligent but ugly one?
If this is the only option, I'd take the smart one.

- Would you rather be with someone who you didn't trust, or who didn't trust you?
What a horrid choice! I'd rather be with someone I didn't trust.. Then I could keep an eye on them.

40. What kinds of things do you think it's really sexy when guys/girls do?
Be confident.

41. What kind of person makes you think "He/She really pisses me off!"?
People who revel in ignorance, hypocrites.

42. There may be many, but what one value/trait would you like to make sure your son or daughter had?
Honor

43. What kind of fashion do you think is really uncool? (girl's or guy's)
I am the wrong person to ask about fashion.

44. If you could travel back in time and stop yourself from doing 1 thing, what would it be?
Screwing up school. A little wall-to-wall counciling with my 12-year-old self would do the trick, I think.

45. Which Star Trek crew would you most like to have been a part of?
Deep Space 9

46. It is the year 2020 and your 15 year old child has decided that "goth" is back in style - would you be okay with that?
Sure. As long as the kid does well in school and shows me that s/he is capable of excercisiong good judgement, s/he can express personal statements by way of appearnance all they like.

47. How long do you spend in the bath/shower?
I'm amphibious. I love long showers.

48. Would you have liked to have an identical twin?
Hell no!

49. You can switch bodies with a celebrity for one day - Who would you be? and how would you spend your day?
If this is a Being John Malkovitch-style ride along, James Hetfield of Metallica. Just to experience what it feels like to do a show like that.

If I'm in control.. Pope John Paul II. I'd make some changes in Church structure, and since I'm Pope, my word is infallable when it comes to doctrines of faith. hehehehee...

50. Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines?
United States Army!

51. Were you ever in boyscouts/girlscouts?
Yes.

52. What part of yourself makes you think, 'I sure am cute!'?
Nothing.

53. When have you thought, 'I'm such a little devil'?
Since roughly 1968.

54. If you could live your life over from any point, when would that be? Why?
From about the time I was 12. That's when I gave up on school. Given a do-over, I'd actually play the game they handed me.

55. Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship?
Yes.

56. Do you think love and marriage are separate?
Of course. People don't need marriage to be in love, and marriages were about family connections for a long time before the idea of chosing your own spouse came about.

57. What would you do if you turned into a cat for a day?
Sleep. I'd be a cat, after all.

58. What would you do if you became invisible for a day?
Not much. Since my ability to see depends on light hitting the back of my eyes, I'd be blind if I were completely invisible. (See question #10)

59. What TV show do you wish they would put back on the air?
Babylon 5

60. Do you dream in color?
Usually.

61. Shopping Pride! What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought in your whole life? How much was it?
Our car. About 8 grand, IIRC

62. What is the best cure for a broken heart?
Time.

63. When was the last time you made someone cry? What did you do?
I can't remember the last time I made someone cry.

64. At what age did you realize you could stand up to your parents?
I think was eight.

65. If you had to go to confession - how long would you have to be in the box?
Not long. Just long enough to say "Cram your guilt-fest in your cassock."

66. Next in the Ultimate Choice Series! Your boyfriend/girlfriend suddenly breaks up with you.
Which of the following reasons for the breakup is worse?
"I've fallen in love with your best friend."
"I've fallen in love with my best friend."
I don;t see any real distinction.

67. What is something you want to buy right now, and have the money to buy.
Fractal mapper program.

68. It'd be cool to win a lot of money. What would you do if you won $3 million (after taxes) in the lottery?
Pay back the people to whom we owe money. Get Kiri and me good cars (or a bike, for me) and invest the rest.

69. What magazines do you read?
Time and ewsweek. I occassionally read Dragon as well.

70. What books have you read recently?
Just finished Jaws of Darkness, by Harry Turtledove

71. How many piercings do you have?
None.

72. What would you advise people do if trying lose weight?
Eat a balanced diet, get excercise in their daily life, and work with their doctor on a sound weight-loss plan that concentrates on health.

73. If you could have one non-domesticated animal become domesticated and own it as a pet, what would it be?
A wolf pack.

74. How many times a week do you have sex?
0

75. How do you get rid of body hair?
I don't.

76. Is there any hair growing on the top of your feet?
Yes, like most other H. sapiens

77. Minimally, how long should you know someone before you can say that you've fallen in love with them?
For me? About five minutes. (Waves at

kshandra)

78. Do you think you have a split personality?
I have facets, but not an actual split.

79. What color is most of your underwear?
White

80. What song has a special memory for you?
Damn Yankees - High Enough Has some meaning for Kiri and me.
Rolling Stones - Shattered Back in HS, at parties we'd all sing along with this.

81. Besides money/credit cards, what do you carry in your purse/wallet?
My DL. Not much room in there.

82. What do you treasure most?
Knowledge

83. Do you believe in the existence of god(s)?
No.

84. You're walking along the beach and stumble upon a bottle. You rub the bottle and a genie appears. He grants you 1 wish. What would it be?
To be perfectly healthy, in all physical aspects.

85. What do you do to lift your spirits when you feel like nothing good is happening?
I rant on Usenet.

86. What blood type can you not stand? (have bad compatibility with) Why?
Say what? Medically, giving me B- would be bad.

87. What would you do if you met a person who was just like you?
Beat the crap out of the smug sonofabitch.

88. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Alive.

89. When do you think of yourself as a genius?
Every waking moment

90. When was the last time you got pissed off?
This morning, reading some posts on gay marriage.

91. What made you happy recently?
Kiri getting her MOUS certification, the Red Sox winning the World Series, more hours at work.

92. Which one of your friends do you not understand at all?
I'm invoking the 5th Amendment.

93. Tell us about a time recently, when you looked stupid for having thought something wrong.
Long comedy of errors at work over a furniture purchase.

94. Make up a word and definition.
Squeitude (n) A large mass of pre-teen girls.

95. Do you think guys and girls can be friends?
Sure.

96. Share the three most painful experiences of your life.
1. Learning I had cancer.
2. Learning I had been cheated on.
3. Realizing that my father was never going to accept me.

97. You are one of the Greek gods - which one are you?
Athena, in her aspect as goddess of war.

98. If the world was going to end in one week, what would you spend that week doing?
Riding a Harley up the coast.

99. How often do you write poetry?
Rarely. I don't even write lyrics much anymore.

100. It's the 100th question! Say one last thing! (if you can, you must be tired of answering these)
Anybody whose read this far say "Kumquat" in a reply, and you're in my next book.