Lessee.. what else..

Oh yeah, I take my laptop with me to Denny's so I dont have to stop working on my project du nuit, and, so my boyfriend can play too, we network our laptops with two wireless NIC's in ad hoc mode, and connect with the Ricochet, so he can surf while I work.

I get invited to parties and I beg off.. but if the boys wanna play starcraft (Insert Tribes, Quake, UT, RAII, etc) after work.. Im THERE!

Whenever I grow a mustache and goatee, I tend to talk to myself more frequently than usual, often assuming a female voice.

If I'm forced to sit still for more than five minutes I end up having to scream "THE MARMOSETTS ARE AFTER OUR CHEESE!" Which isn't necessarily false, mind you.

When left alone with refrigerator romance poetry magnets, my poems tend to stray so far from romance as to be deemed as hexes by some religious groups. Example: A year ago I left this message on a friend's refigerator...
"I like pink sausage, it pleases my lust for blood and produces death visions. But then they leave black drool on our egg meat. So kiss the juice of the sky, and eat the red sea, and run."
A month later his apartment caught fire, killing his cat. Coincidence? JUDGE FOR YOURSELF.

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Originally posted by Tau Zero:
I obsessively re-format any code that becomes my responsibility.� Tabs must always be 8 spaces.� Alignment of comments can be at odder spacings, but the actual tabs must be at columns 1, 9, 17...

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I'm similarly obsessive. The typical c code is:

void foofunction(void)
{
if( bar)
{

while I use the

void foofunction(void) {
if(bar) {
crash();
}
}

Because I've had to do some, er, deeply nested code over the years, I keep tabs at 3 spaces in emacs (my heavy-duty coding editor).

I've done a diff on code I've tweaked, only to find I've changed a variable or two, and reformatted all the braces.... /oops/

Ptl

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Originally posted by Petethelate:
I've done a diff on code I've tweaked, only to find I've changed a variable or two, and reformatted all the braces.... /oops/

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i have an absolutely outlandish sense of humour.....

i take showers in absolutely boiling hot water (well, overstatement, really, hot water) so much so that the bathroom feels like a sauna after i come out.......

I eat ice cream with a fork. I figured this out for myself when I was a kid, for the same reason as other people have mentioned: less metal == more taste.

I used to eat my food one item at a time. I still tend to minimize the context switches.

I sometimes surf the web or play games with one hand behind my back (literally).

I get seriously put off if I'm late to a dance, a movie, a concert, or any event like that.

I like wearing neckties.

When I was in high school, I would factorize all my friends phone numbers using a pocket calculator (only 7 digits). I thought this one girl was really cool because her phone number was prime.

I'm fascinated by meaningless series of numbers in general. If I were a sports junkie, I'd be into baseball stats. As it is, I could watch www.island.com all day.

If someone wrote a video game with one button, one score panel, and pushing the button incremented the score by a random number from 0 to 9, I could play it for hours.

Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be homeless, or to be an immigrant in a country where I don't speak the language, or to be "beyond salvage" like the hero in a Robert Ludlum novel or Enemy of the State.

When I was eight years old, I changed my name to Carl, after Carl Gauss. But I couldn't figure out whether to spell it "Carl" or "Karl" -- different books had different spelling. So after about three months, I gave up and changed it back.

When I bought my first motorcycle, I made a list of everything that was important in my life, and how much it would be affected if I got paralyzed. Then I weighed that against the expected pleasure return. I bought the bike (the first of five).

My mom knitted an afghan for me when I was a kid. I still have it on my bed. When I travel, I take it with me. I like the way it looks in an impersonal hotel room.

I like to walk 2-5 miles several times per month (for instance, South Ferry to Times Square).

I answer my phone by saying my name. Sometimes I answer in French ("Bonjour, c'est Michel"). This cuts down on the telemarketers.

I always carry my passport.

I make New Year's Resolutions and I track my progress. This year I have 30 and I've fulfilled 3 so far. I'll finish another one in about two weeks.

I've had two cups of coffee in my entire life. The first was Irish Coffee made by Larry Niven. The second was Jamaica Blue Mountain in a Jamaican restaurant on the evening of 1999-Dec-31.

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Originally posted by Alien Investor:
I eat ice cream with a fork. I figured this out for myself when I was a kid, for the same reason as other people have mentioned: less metal == more taste.

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Originally posted by rw:
Then you should go all the way and eat your ice cream with chop sticks.

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Well as for my own personality quirks:

I count stairs (there are 13 in the house I live in now, 19 in the house before, 11 and then 7 and a landing). Tho I must say, this is *really* helpful when walking around in the dark.

I talk to myself... especially when coding.

I always wait about twice as long as I need to to either shave or get a haircut. Tho I don't have a problem with hygene, I just wind up with clean, long'ish hair... getting kinda unruly now actually.

As for coding style, I prefer all my tabs to be set at *2* and I like to code thusly:

sub foobar {
  while(1) {
    if (0) {
      # foo
    } elsif (1) {
      # bar
    }
  }
}

Ok, so I love perl, shoot me.

Every morning when I look in the mirror I do two things. I inspect my face for damage (must have got that habbit from my teenage zit-face years)and I stick my tounge out as far as I can. I have no idea why or what I'm looking for, I just do it.

For the past four months or so, every time I take a shower I anounce to my roommates that "I just whooped some ass in there!" and then I let out one slow sliding whistle. They hate that.

When I'm at the gym I find myself counting how many reps and sets complete strangers are doing. Even if I'm talking to someone else I'm still counting out what the person behind them is doing.

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StarTrekker said:
I love the way those little squares move around.

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LOL. Sigh, so do I. Tho I probabably shouldn't admit that. I love watching all my files and bits get tidied up. But then, on average, I'm generally a fairly tidy person... tho I do have my "lax moments"... like right now... damnit, I'm thinking about it so now I may have to go tidy up! AHHHHH!

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Doc Holiday said:
Everybody walking North should be on the left side (for example) and everybody walking the opposite way should be on the right.

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I think in "T minus" time. I've always done this, but I do it a lot more now that I live near the Staten Island Ferry. If I leave home at T-minus-8, I don't have to run to catch the ferry. The latest I've ever left and caught the ferry is T-minus-4.

When I totalled my motorcycle and was lying in the street, I was hoping someone would ask me "have an accident?" so that I could say "no thanks, I just had one!". Alas, nobody did.

Similarly, I'm still hoping for an appropriate time to yell "dump it and jet!" to a companion who's read The Demolished Man or The Stars My Destination.

I use hierarchical filenames on the paper folders in my file drawer ("money.tax.1999").

A couple of times in my life, I've forgotten whether I'm male or female.

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Originally posted by Alien Investor:

When I totalled my motorcycle and was lying in the street, I was hoping someone would ask me "have an accident?" so that I could say "no thanks, I just had one!". Alas, nobody did.

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On a single-deck bus, my favourite seat is near the back, above the rear wheel arch - less legroom again.

i always prop my feet up on the radiator when i'm sitting at the computer. i have lines across the bottoms of my converse high-tops from the radiator causing the rubber to melt a little.

i don't like plain potato chips. or barbecue ones. only a few flavors: sour cream + onion, ranch, cheese, or salt + vinegar. anything else just doesn't cut it for me. i lick the flavor dust off before i eat the actual chip, too.

i don't hold my pen normally. i sort of grip it between my pinkie, ring, middle fingers and my thumb. i get a lot of flak from people at school for it, so i tell them it's because i learned to draw before i could write well.

i put myself out as a metal/industrial fan, but deep down inside, i love madonna.

i only wear high-topped, cap-toed shoes. converse high-tops for sneakers, steel-toe doc martens for when it's snowing out. i never wear the same color converse. today it's one steel-gray shoe and one red one.

in theology class, i told my ex-nun teacher that my religion was cult cthulhist, and my role model was wednesday addams. i am eevillll.

Yes, I'm also the kind who puts his ankles behind his head occasionally and is double jointed.

When I was a child, I used to bite my nails, even toenails--which required some flexibility. I can still do so but I'm glad I'm not...

As for sleeping, I sleep face sideways and on my chest. I used to sleep face into the pillow and could breathe through the pillow enough to sleep with. Odd eh? Dreams, however, are always inevitable when I take extended sleep. They're usually surrealistic adventures of some sort.

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Originally posted by Drasca:
Wait a minute.. do you mean you guys can't touch your chins to your knees? I think I'm taking my flexibility for granted now =/

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Same here Drasca. For me that is nothing.

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Yes, I'm also the kind who puts his ankles behind his head occasionally and is double jointed.

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Ok now that is impressive. But I can put one arm over the shoulder and down my back, take the other one under my shoulder, and up my back and shake hands.

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When I was a child, I used to bite my nails, even toenails--which required some flexibility. I can still do so but I'm glad I'm not...

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ok, at least now I know I am not the only one who did that, now I feel better.

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As for sleeping, I sleep face sideways and on my chest. I used to sleep face into the pillow and could breathe through the pillow enough to sleep with. Odd eh? Dreams, however, are always inevitable when I take extended sleep. They're usually surrealistic adventures of some sort.

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I sleep the same way, and when I dream, the only thing that wakes me is my alarm clock. My wife can push and shake me all she wants, but I won't wake up unless the alarm clock goes off. The only exception is when I think to myself before bed what time I need to wake up. Then I usually awaken between 5 to 10 minutes before I need to be up. I also for some reason have almost complete control over my dreams. My brain seems to know when I am dreaming and I can do all kinds of fun things. It's about as close to being in a Star Trek holodeck as you can get.

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CrawGator

"Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful. Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you can please."

- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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Originally posted by Doc Holliday:
Demo, I can't imagine anybody with adult proportions being able to touch chin-to-knees. That's amazing.

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Seriously? I sit like that at my desk all the time, because my legs get cold and my back gets uncomfortable with my feet on the floor. And I'm much less flexible than I used to be 10 years ago.

As for sleeping weird, sometimes when I'm sick or really cold, I'll sleep in a fetal position, but lying face-down with my back up in the air and huddle that way.

drasca- i used to bite my toenails, too. mom thought it was the most disgusting thing she'd ever seen, and threatened to send me to the freak show. eeheehee.

xanthine- i'll have to try picking up a dreamcatcher...placebo effects really do work on me. i'm so easily duped. lol

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demosthenes says "nurf."

Oh well. As for personal habits, I can't stand the door being ajar. I have a small paranoia that people are looking at me through the crack (which my parents occasionally did to check up on me while sleeping). The door must be open or fully closed, not left slightly ajar. I usually go out of my way to close the door.

I wiggle my ears and when I get headaches my glasses don't fit. The same muscle area I use to wiggle my ears keep my glasses from fitting when I have a headache (well when my head literally seems to expand)

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Originally posted by ARJ:
Seriously? I sit like that at my desk all the time, because my legs get cold and my back gets uncomfortable with my feet on the floor. And I'm much less flexible than I used to be 10 years ago.

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Originally posted by StarTrekker:
I envy the lucid dreamers! I always wanted to do this. I wish there was some way to train myself to lucid dream.

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Actually there is *one* way (haven't tested it myself but others have with moderate success). Assuming you're going to get some real sleep, say to yourself "I will raise my arm" or "I am raising my arm" several times before sleeping and if you find yourself raising your arm in the dream you might realize you're dreaming and in control.

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I don't think thrashing around while sleeping is that unusual.
Any other athletic sleepers that want to confess? What's the largest thing you've evern knocked over? Have you ever broken anything?
StarTrekker

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Hmm. Thrashing around while sleeping? This is one of the reasons I keep heavy blankets or tuck blankets down. It doesn't work all the time, since I'm still prone to wake up as if a tornado went through my room. However it works sometimes. (I'm still not sure how you've had your pajamas backwards but then again I prefer to sleep in boxer very little except when cold)

I'm a stillsleeper, not an athletic sleeper. Sometimes I fall asleep with a book on my chest, and when I wake up, it's still there. I'm going to try that with a glass of water some night and see if I can sleep without spilling it.