50 Questions
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1. Elaborate on your default icon. When I adopted it, I thought it was Lao Tsu. I've since been told that it's someone else, but I forget who.
2. What's your current relationship status? Married with children.
3. Ever have a near-death experience? Not in the sense of having my heart stop and then being revived.
4. Name an obvious quality you have. I'm a silver-tongued devil.
5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now? Blue-eyed Devil by Soul Coughing.
6. Any celeb you would marry? No one comes to mind.
7. Who will cut and paste this first? Any guess would surely be wrong.
8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity? When I lived in Japan I wore round-rimmed glasses, and Japanese people thought I looked like John Lennon.
9. Do you wear a watch? What kind? My cell phone doubles as my time piece.
10. Do you have anything pierced? My left nipple had a ring in it until about a month ago when it disappeared. I'm guessing it come out in my sleep. I never found it, and now I think the hole has closed up. It had been pierced for about twelve years prior to that.
11. Do you have any tattoos? Yes. Little Nemo.
12. Do you like pain? Not really.
13. Do you like to shop? No.
14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash? Candy and pens at the Dollar General.
15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card? Pizza.
16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? My wife.
17. What is on your desktop background? On this computer, it's a close up of the contents of my compost bowl.
18. What is the background on your cell phone? No idea. Something abstract that came with the phone.
19. Do you like redheads? Well enough. It's not a fetish of mine or even a preference.
20. Do you know any twins? Not since school.
21. Do you have any weird relatives? Uhhh... Is this a trick question?
22. What was the last movie you watched? Inherit the Wind.
23. What was the last book you read? Rainbow's End.
24. Is there such a thing as love at first sight, or it is more likely to be "lust at first sight"? I'd call it infatuation.
25. What's your favorite book? Fiction: Book of the New Sun (Yeah, yeah, it's five books. So sue me.) Non-fiction: That's a tough one, but just now, I'm going to say... hmmmm... Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin.
26. When was the last time you visited the street where you first lived? Actually, the Fayetteville public library, which I visit at least every couple of months, is a couple of blocks from where my parents lived when I was born.
27. When was the last time you googled your own name? I never Google my real name, but I Google "C-Realm Podcast" or "KMO" and pair it with some other search term fairly regularly.
28. What was your favorite subject at school? Art, I guess. I HATED school until I started college.
29. What was your least favorite subject at school? All of it. I sucked at math, but I didn't hate it any more than the rest. I tended to like or dislike teachers more than subjects.
30. Do you like having your photograph taken? I take a lot of arm's length self-portraits. If I didn't there'd be very few pictures of me not taken by surveillance cameras.
31. What time were you born? Dunno.
32. Ever seriously questioned your sanity? Yes.
33. How many phone numbers do you have remembered and can say off the top of your head? Three.
34. Can you Limbo? Not particularly well.
35. Have you ever killed your own dinner? Yes.
36. How long have you been living at your current residence? Nearly one month.
37. What phobias do you have? I have trouble urinating in public places unless I'm wearing a suit and tie.
38. What's your ideal breakfast? Freshly extracted vegetable juice.
39. Where are you right now? Home.
40. Why do you blog? To externalize and back-up my memory.
41. What would you call your autobiography? There and Back Again.
42. What's the longest time you've stayed out of the country/where? A year. Japan.
43. Do you use ICQ, AOL Buddy list etc..? No.
44. Do you have nightmares frequently? I don't think so, but I don't remember much of my dream life these days.
45. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Depends on what other kind of person I was.
46. Which TV character could you be friends with? I could hang with Hurley on Lost, T'Pol or Phlox on Enterprise, or Philip J. Fry on Futurama.
47. What's on your mouse pad? Don't use a mouse.
48. What is your ring tone? One of the ringtones that came with the phone. I don't remember what it's called.
49. What did you watch on TV last night? The Ultimate Fighter.
50. Scary movies or happy endings? How about poignant endings?
1. Elaborate on your default icon. When I adopted it, I thought it was Lao Tsu. I've since been told that it's someone else, but I forget who.
2. What's your current relationship status? Married with children.
3. Ever have a near-death experience? Not in the sense of having my heart stop and then being revived.
4. Name an obvious quality you have. I'm a silver-tongued devil.
5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now? Blue-eyed Devil by Soul Coughing.
6. Any celeb you would marry? No one comes to mind.
7. Who will cut and paste this first? Any guess would surely be wrong.
8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity? When I lived in Japan I wore round-rimmed glasses, and Japanese people thought I looked like John Lennon.
9. Do you wear a watch? What kind? My cell phone doubles as my time piece.
10. Do you have anything pierced? My left nipple had a ring in it until about a month ago when it disappeared. I'm guessing it come out in my sleep. I never found it, and now I think the hole has closed up. It had been pierced for about twelve years prior to that.
11. Do you have any tattoos? Yes. Little Nemo.
12. Do you like pain? Not really.
13. Do you like to shop? No.
14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash? Candy and pens at the Dollar General.
15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card? Pizza.
16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? My wife.
17. What is on your desktop background? On this computer, it's a close up of the contents of my compost bowl.
18. What is the background on your cell phone? No idea. Something abstract that came with the phone.
19. Do you like redheads? Well enough. It's not a fetish of mine or even a preference.
20. Do you know any twins? Not since school.
21. Do you have any weird relatives? Uhhh... Is this a trick question?
22. What was the last movie you watched? Inherit the Wind.
23. What was the last book you read? Rainbow's End.
24. Is there such a thing as love at first sight, or it is more likely to be "lust at first sight"? I'd call it infatuation.
25. What's your favorite book? Fiction: Book of the New Sun (Yeah, yeah, it's five books. So sue me.) Non-fiction: That's a tough one, but just now, I'm going to say... hmmmm... Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin.
26. When was the last time you visited the street where you first lived? Actually, the Fayetteville public library, which I visit at least every couple of months, is a couple of blocks from where my parents lived when I was born.
27. When was the last time you googled your own name? I never Google my real name, but I Google "C-Realm Podcast" or "KMO" and pair it with some other search term fairly regularly.
28. What was your favorite subject at school? Art, I guess. I HATED school until I started college.
29. What was your least favorite subject at school? All of it. I sucked at math, but I didn't hate it any more than the rest. I tended to like or dislike teachers more than subjects.
30. Do you like having your photograph taken? I take a lot of arm's length self-portraits. If I didn't there'd be very few pictures of me not taken by surveillance cameras.
31. What time were you born? Dunno.
32. Ever seriously questioned your sanity? Yes.
33. How many phone numbers do you have remembered and can say off the top of your head? Three.
34. Can you Limbo? Not particularly well.
35. Have you ever killed your own dinner? Yes.
36. How long have you been living at your current residence? Nearly one month.
37. What phobias do you have? I have trouble urinating in public places unless I'm wearing a suit and tie.
38. What's your ideal breakfast? Freshly extracted vegetable juice.
39. Where are you right now? Home.
40. Why do you blog? To externalize and back-up my memory.
41. What would you call your autobiography? There and Back Again.
42. What's the longest time you've stayed out of the country/where? A year. Japan.
43. Do you use ICQ, AOL Buddy list etc..? No.
44. Do you have nightmares frequently? I don't think so, but I don't remember much of my dream life these days.
45. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Depends on what other kind of person I was.
46. Which TV character could you be friends with? I could hang with Hurley on Lost, T'Pol or Phlox on Enterprise, or Philip J. Fry on Futurama.
47. What's on your mouse pad? Don't use a mouse.
48. What is your ring tone? One of the ringtones that came with the phone. I don't remember what it's called.
49. What did you watch on TV last night? The Ultimate Fighter.
50. Scary movies or happy endings? How about poignant endings?