Quirky fact traits
I got tagged by bikerbear. I guess I should answer the call.
Each person starts with eight random facts, traits, or quirks about themselves.
LJer's that are tagged get to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
At the end of your blog, you get to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
1- (quirk) I totally love the smell of new electric motors or transformers. The varnish on the windings to me is a wonderful perfume. The first times said motors/transformers are put into use and become warm, the smell intensifies. However, if these items overheat and burn out, the very distinctive smell becomes one of the worst ever.
2- (trait) I have a photographic memory. This is a blessing, and occasionally a curse. I can daydream in Technicolor, complete with THX sound. But I can sometimes be haunted with unpleasant images as well.
3- (fact) I have been electrocuted in varying degrees over so many years that I could never tally them. Hundreds. Such is reality for an electronics geek since age five. Even been struck by lightning. This has not only made me very respectful of electricity, but has made me very comfortable working with it. I have no worries working in live equipment and electrical panels. But I still cant stand static electric shocks.
4- (quirk) I am an automatic proofreader. I can spot errors in pages of newspapers often by casually leafing through them. I get a sense something was wrong a page or two prior, then turn back and find the error buried in text I did not actually read. I still dont know how this happens. On a related note, I never use spellcheckers. With my ham-fisted typing style, I make errors relatively often and occasionally miss them.
5- (quirk) I have a habit of building things with no plans whatsoever. It could be a building, an electronic circuit, rooms, wiring harnesses, plumbing or any other field I am proficient in.
6- (fact) I cant stand peanut butter or liver.
7- (fact) I used to build what would now be considered 'boomboxes' before my teens, before such things existed. Most often mono, and made either in wooden enclosures I would build myself or repurposed speaker cabinets, these would consist of amplifiers of at least 5-10 watts of power, running on a pair of 6 volt lantern batteries, with an am/fm tuner stuck in and a jack for a tape recorder to patch through. Through middle school, I provided the crankinest rock and roll that could be heard throughout the fields at recess and outside gym classes and games. I wish I had thought of patenting those things.
8- (fact) I have intermittent tinnitus. See #7.
I tag...
anziulewicz
bbbuster
bitterlawngnome
devcubber
jrjarrett
notdefined
progbear
ursuspersonatus
And anyone else who wantsta.
Each person starts with eight random facts, traits, or quirks about themselves.
LJer's that are tagged get to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
At the end of your blog, you get to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
1- (quirk) I totally love the smell of new electric motors or transformers. The varnish on the windings to me is a wonderful perfume. The first times said motors/transformers are put into use and become warm, the smell intensifies. However, if these items overheat and burn out, the very distinctive smell becomes one of the worst ever.
2- (trait) I have a photographic memory. This is a blessing, and occasionally a curse. I can daydream in Technicolor, complete with THX sound. But I can sometimes be haunted with unpleasant images as well.
3- (fact) I have been electrocuted in varying degrees over so many years that I could never tally them. Hundreds. Such is reality for an electronics geek since age five. Even been struck by lightning. This has not only made me very respectful of electricity, but has made me very comfortable working with it. I have no worries working in live equipment and electrical panels. But I still cant stand static electric shocks.
4- (quirk) I am an automatic proofreader. I can spot errors in pages of newspapers often by casually leafing through them. I get a sense something was wrong a page or two prior, then turn back and find the error buried in text I did not actually read. I still dont know how this happens. On a related note, I never use spellcheckers. With my ham-fisted typing style, I make errors relatively often and occasionally miss them.
5- (quirk) I have a habit of building things with no plans whatsoever. It could be a building, an electronic circuit, rooms, wiring harnesses, plumbing or any other field I am proficient in.
6- (fact) I cant stand peanut butter or liver.
7- (fact) I used to build what would now be considered 'boomboxes' before my teens, before such things existed. Most often mono, and made either in wooden enclosures I would build myself or repurposed speaker cabinets, these would consist of amplifiers of at least 5-10 watts of power, running on a pair of 6 volt lantern batteries, with an am/fm tuner stuck in and a jack for a tape recorder to patch through. Through middle school, I provided the crankinest rock and roll that could be heard throughout the fields at recess and outside gym classes and games. I wish I had thought of patenting those things.
8- (fact) I have intermittent tinnitus. See #7.
I tag...
anziulewicz
bbbuster
bitterlawngnome
devcubber
jrjarrett
notdefined
progbear
ursuspersonatus
And anyone else who wantsta.