InsaneJournal

Current mood:	lethargic
Entry tags:	meme, survey

Facebook Meme

So there's this silly meme going around Facebook lately, where you write down 25 random things about yourself. It's not that bad, as memes go, so I suppose I'll participate. I won't tell anyone else to, though.

1. I spend far too much time on IRC. For those who don't know, IRC is a multi-user chat protocol. It's those ‘chat rooms’ that we (or at least I) was, as a child, warned to stay out of because they're full of evil hackers. I, for one, can attest to the partial truth of this statement. I also run an unofficial IRC server for UW students.
2. I have had an FBI agent knock on my front door unexpectedly, unsolicited, and, in fact, looking for me.
3. Hugs are awesome, and I'll take a hug from anyone who's not creepy and doesn't smell.
4. There are three teeth in my mouth that aren't the ones I grew up with. And nobody can tell which ones.
5. I'm using “real quotation marks” in my HTML instead of "1970s teletype quotation marks".
6. Oh, and I put the punctuation outside the quotation marks. Makes more sense that way.
7. My hair used to reach to the bottom edge of my shoulderblades. Then I cut it off. I originally grew it out because I was irritated that both my mother and my girlfriend got a haircut at the same time. “If they won't grow their hair the way I like it, I suppose I have to do it myself!”
8. I'm severely undernourished with respect to fruits and vegetables. I'm working on remedying this.
9. Hospitals suck. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
10. I use a different random password for every account I have. I Remember most of the ones I use regularly, which is about 15.
11. I keep pressing ⌘Q instead of Option-Q, which keeps closing Terminal. I need to get used to Mac keyboards. Also, I sometimes try to use Ctl-A Ctl-A to switch between programs in Windows. Et cetera.
12. Lego is awesome.
13. I'm a transit nut, I like trains and buses. I also collect transit tickets, tokens, transfers, cards, and payment systems of all sorts.
14. Once I rode the bus all the way from Seatte to Vancouver, BC. Crossing the border on foot was interesting... . Despite what the itinerary says, we came back on Amtrak.
15. I've also ridden Amtrak across the country, from Seattle to Chicago to New York, and then to Boston. That was fun, and I'd do it again in a flash.
16. I'm a phreaker. This means I know a lot about telephones.
17. I'm a hacker. This means I know a lot about computers.
18. Rarely do I notice the sun setting. Apparently it's dark now.
19. I moved into Seattle on my second birthday precisely.
20. I type a lot, so I have a real keyboard. It's five months older than I am. If you spend much time typing at all, I recommend you buy one. They're about $70; once you spend a few weeks typing on one you'll feel so much better. I'm sort of a keyboard evangelist. What do you spend most of your computer time doing?
21. I'm a staff member on ticalc.org. And no, we're not a part of Texas Instruments.
22. lm havnq a hell of a time wit h this stup,d hndhr,tnq rLqnjtsn. Welcome to the 21st century, where computers can transcribe handwriting with 98% accuracy. Apparently I'm the other 2% all by myself.
23. I'm really good at starting projects, but really bad at finishing them.
24. In high school I took Latin for four years. I should probably have taken it for three.
25. This is not the twenty-fifth item in a list.