100 question meme!

[gridlore]

Stolen from the dread pirate cerebrate



1. Full Name: Douglas Edward Berry
2. Nicknames: The Sniper, Duck, Penguin Boy
3. Birthday: 7/4/66
4. Place of Birth: Los Gatos, California
5. Zodiac Sign: Cancer
6. Male or Female: Male
7. Grade: No longer in school
8. School: No longer in school
9. Occupation: Sales Associate
10. Residence: Two-bedroom apartment
11. Screen Name: Gridlore

Your Appearance

12. Hair Color: Dark, dark brown, with gray at the temples and in my beard.
13. Hair Length: Pretty short. I like a military-length cut.
14. Eye color: Greenish brown
15. Best Feature: I'm told I have a nice rear end.
16. Height: 6' (182cm)
17. Braces: For a brief period when I was teen.
18. Glasses: Self-darkening lenses in black wire frames.
19. Piercings: Other than the surgical ones, no.
20. Tattoos: The World's Worst Grateful Dead Tattoo.
21. Righty or Lefty: Left

Your 'Firsts'

22. First best friend: Bill. He was 4, I was 3.
23. First Award: Oo, hard one. It would either be the 3rd place trophy for my soccer team when I was 8, or the award I got for "Best Portrayal" in Fiddler on the Roof when I was 12 or so.
24. First Sport You Joined: Soccer, starting when I was 6.
25. First pet: Kitty, who predated my arrival in the family.
26. First Real Vacation: That I took myself? I don't think I've ever had one.
27. First Concert: The Kinks at the Greek Theater, Berkeley, 1982
28. First Love: Norma

Favorites

29. Movie: The American President
30. TV: The West Wing
31. Colors: Black and red
32. Rapper: Run-DMC
33. Band: The Grateful Dead. My tastes are all over the map, and I'll have bands that I'll listen to for weeks at a time, but I always go back to the good old Dead.
34. Song Right Now: Sublime - Date Rape
35. Friend: I don't have a favorite friend, I have friends whom I value for their differences and unique qualities.
36. Candy: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
37. Sport to Play: Football
38. Restaurant: Chili's, with an honorable mention to The City Diner, a local joint that serves incredible breakfasts.
39. Favorite brand to wear: I have no brand-name loyalty when it comes to clothing. My only standards are fit, comfort, durability and price. I buy my jeans from Costco, fer Pete's sake!
40. Store: Any bookstore.
41. School Subject: History.
42. Animal: The mighty Penguin.
43. Book: A World Out of Time - Larry Niven
44. Magazine: Pyramid (does an online magazine count?)
45. Shoes: Converse high tops

Currently

46. Feeling: A bit groggy. Didn't sleep overly well last night.
47. Single or Taken? Extremely taken.
48. Have a crush? Not currently.
49. Eating: Nothing at the moment, but there are two hamburger patties in the fridge that don't know that their days are numbered...
50. Drinking: Green Death Gatorade OK, I need to explain that. Years ago, before Gatorade had different flavors, it just came in this odd green color with nothing but the product name. So we named it Green death flavor. Now they call it "Lemon-lime" flavor, but it will always be Green death to me!
51. Typing: This. And a rebuttal in alt.atheism
52. Online?: I'm awake, right?
53. Listening To: WinAmp playing my hoard of MP3s.
54. Thinking About: The chemistry of an atmosphere of a world I'm writing up. I want Nitric Acid rains
55. Wanting To: Get one of the jobs I've applied for.
56. Watching: Nothing, yet.
57. Wearing: Grateful Dead t-shirt, blue jeans.

Future

58. Want Kids? I'm of two minds on that. I'd love to be a father, but have serious concerns on my ability to handle it.
59. Want to be Married? Have been for 14 years.
61. Where do you want to live? Back into San Francisco
62. Car: Not a car, but a motorcycle. Preferably a Harley-Davidson XL-883L Sportster. The Dream bike is a Harley FXDL/FXDLI Dyna Low Rider.

Which is Better With The Opposite Sex?

63. Hair color: No real preference.
64. Hair length: Again, long, short, it's the person that matters.
65. Eye color: I have a thing for green eyes.
66. Measurements: I'm not that shallow.
67. Cute or Sexy: Yes.
68. Lips or Eyes: Eyes. Far more expressive.
69. Hugs or Kisses: Hugs.
70. Short or Tall: Around my height is best.
71. Easygoing or serious: Both, at appropriate moments.
72. Romantic or Spontaneous: This is not a good comparison. You can be romantic and spontaneous at the same time.
73. Fatty or Skinny: Who cares?
74. Sensitive or Loud: Another odd coupling
75. Hook-up or Relationship: Relationship
76. Sweet or Caring: Caring.
77. Trouble Maker or Hesitant One: Trouble makers!

Have you ever

78. Kissed a Stranger: Yes
79. Had Alcohol: Many, many times.
80. Smoked: A few joints as a kid.
81. Run Away From Home: No.
82. Broken a bone: Nope
83. Gotten an X-ray: Dozens
85. Broken Someone's Heart: Don't think so.
86. Broken Up With Someone: No, usually I'm the dumpee
87. Cried When Someone died: Yes
88. Cried At School: Not after second grade.

Do You Believe In

89. God: No.
90. Miracles: The religious kind? No. Those moments when probability takes a walk and the 1% chance comes up? Yes.
91. Love At First sight: Yes
92. Ghosts: Yes. From personal experience. Now, I have no idea what these phenomena actually are (psychic imprints, the actual spirits of dead people, whatever) but I keep an open mind.
93. Aliens: Of course. The universe is huge and it is the height of hubris to assume that this is only place where we learned to bang the rocks together.
94. Soul Mates: Yes
95. Heaven: No.
96. Hell: Been there. A-7-1, Fort Benning, 1984.
97. Angels: Other than the baseball team that can't decide where it plays, no.
98. Kissing on The first Date: Works for me.
99. Horoscopes: No.

Answer Truthfully

100. Is there someone you want but you know you can't have? Of course! In a media driven culture we are constantly presented with desirable person that we have no chance of meeting, let alone hooking up with.

Comments

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

53. Listening To: WinAmp playing my hoard of MP3s.

Actually, "horde of MP3s" would also work in that usage.

-M