I am quiet, prosaic, and funny.
My Self-Summary
I am a voracious consumer of entertainment media,
books,
movies,
television, and
music. I attempt to
exercise daily, but it will never
be the focus of my life.
I am not very political, but I have more sympathy for the left wing
than the right.
I am an introvert. I never regret time spent in the company of
interesting people, but socialization tends to exhaust me.
I am thrilled by cleverness. My favorite people aren't just
intelligent, they make me laugh.
What I’m doing with my life
I have a career doing (mostly) things I am good at and that I
enjoy, there is little more for which I could ask.
I’m really good at
Problem solving, memorization, games, and making awkward comments.
The first things people usually notice about me
My quiet nature. Occasionally I feel the impulse to inform people
that I'm not silent because I don't like them, but because I can
think of nothing to say.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books:
Classics -
Brave New World,
The Great Gatsby,
Short stories and novels by
Philip K. Dick
Modern -
Cryptonomicon,
The Yiddish
Policemen's Union
Humor - Anything by Douglas Adams,
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Movies:
Awesome -
Fight
Club,
The
Warriors
Crazy -
Dark
City,
Donnie
Darko,
PI
Funny -
The
Big Lebowski,
Office Space
Pretty -
Pan's Labyrinth
Crazy Awesome -
Twelve Monkeys
Pretty Awesome -
Bladerunner,
The Lord of the Rings,
Watchmen
Music:
Hippie Rock -
Camper Van Beethoven,
The Flaming
Lips
Nerd Rock -
Jonathan Coulton,
The Decemberists,
They
Might Be Giants
Rock Rock -
Frank
Black,
Harvey Danger
Virtuosos -
Bela
Fleck,
Tom
Waits,
Victor Wooten
Food:
I enjoy nearly every kind of food. When I cook for myself it tends
to be pasta, chili, or stew.
The Fine Print:
Implicit in all categories above is the phrase "...and many more!"
The six things I could never do without
Something to learn
Someone with whom to speak
Reading material
Time to myself
Music
Chapstick -- Please refer to 'Requiem for a Dream' for a short list
of things that might happen to me if chapstick were ever made a
controlled substance.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
The next few hours.
On a typical Friday night I am
Trying to decide what to do.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I have difficulty making serious connections with people and
consequently have few real friends. As George Costanza shrewdly
observed, "Nobody ever says it's them, not me! If it's anybody,
it's me!"
My Wu-Tang name is "Excitable Misunderstood Genius." Don't tell
anyone.
Nearly 20 years after first making the connection, I still believe
Kraft macaroni & cheese shapes (for instance, Spidermans) "just
taste better" than the standard elbow shape.
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Don't look to me for justification. Just do it. Do it.