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UberBeyatch Newbie Larva Posts: 3 |
posted February 26, 2001 22:47
I wear dress clothes with sandals, and high heeled boots with t-shirt and jeans.. does that count as a quirk? 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! ------------------ IP: Logged |
Da Dweeb unregistered |
posted February 27, 2001 01:11
I have a penchant for not changing clothes. I think it grew out of my days as a college student, but it gets a bit ridiculous when I wear the same pair of black shorts for three months in a row. Which is the case as it stands now, I might add. 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... --- Da Dweeb IP: Logged |
Petethelate Uber Geek Posts: 863 |
posted February 27, 2001 11:27
quote: I'm similarly obsessive. The typical c code is: void foofunction(void) while I use the void foofunction(void) { 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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Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1685 |
posted February 27, 2001 18:56
quote:That's when you use the diff option to ignore white space. IP: Logged |
mephisto Assimilated Posts: 487 |
posted February 28, 2001 09:21
i have to exercise every day atleast two hours or i feel like something is really missing.. 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....... IP: Logged |
supaboy SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1242 |
posted February 28, 2001 10:15
I read the forums here bottom-to-top from the main forum page, opening each in a new window. In the forums themselves I read from the oldest of the topics with new messages to the newest. I open the oldest new-messaged topic in a new window, unless there are only one or two topics with new messages. IP: Logged |
Migrant Programmer Alpha Geek Posts: 255 |
posted March 06, 2001 15:12
I don't like cold bananas. When I bring a banana to work it's usually cold from my lunch bag (cold drink inside), so I put it under my desk lamp for a couple hours after lunch. I turn it over once. Yum! IP: Logged |
Doc Holliday Highlie Posts: 517 |
posted March 07, 2001 19:50
You must get a lot of curious stares at your desk Migrant. IP: Logged |
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 |
posted April 19, 2001 20:59
Wow, I just found this thread. I think it's funny that "List Your Odd Personality Quirks" is the biggest thread in all the forums! 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. When I get tired (20+ hours awake), start dropping articles, pronouns. Talk like Manuel Garcia Kelly O'Davis in "Moon is Harsh Mistress". IP: Logged |
rw Super Geek Posts: 194 |
posted April 20, 2001 00:21
quote: Then you should go all the way and eat your ice cream with chop sticks. IP: Logged |
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 |
posted April 20, 2001 01:29
Nah, I've tried eating ice cream with chopsticks. I eat a lot of other things with chopsticks (I can pick ice out of water with either hand), but the mechanics aren't esthetically satisfying to me in the context of an ice cream experience. IP: Logged |
mephisto Assimilated Posts: 487 |
posted April 20, 2001 09:04
quote: two words: wooden spoons.... IP: Logged |
BlacKat Geek Posts: 81 |
posted April 20, 2001 09:27
Well, if this isn't one of the most interesting threads I've seen in a LONG time! 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 { Ok, so I love perl, shoot me. IP: Logged |
Doc Holliday Highlie Posts: 517 |
posted April 20, 2001 21:07
I have a few more I've noticed lately... 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. And I (and my roomates) often make refrences to our time in the Vietnam war (even though we are all under 30 years old. Example, "I didn't get my can blown off in the 'Nam so that the downstairs neighbors could play loud music at three a.m." IP: Logged |
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 |
posted April 21, 2001 00:52
Heh, what fun! Can't resist joining in. Here's just a few: 1) When walking on the crowded NYC sidewalk, I have to walk in the outside "lane" closest to the street. I get really upset if someone is walking towards me and won't yield the outside "lane". I will walk in the gutter sooner than walk in the "inside" lane near the shops. I have no idea why. 2) I always eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch. For dinner, I eat the same thing for a few nights in a row, usually maxing out on whatever it was within a week or so. (I had a good run with Eggplant Parmesan/sauteed spinach though, must have been at least six months) 3) I also have the basket quirk at the supermarket! I refuse to use the pushcarts, sometimes lugging around gallons of milk, watermelons, squashes, and five-pound sacks of apples all in the same basket. On several occasions this has caused the basket to break yet I still stubbornly refuse to use a pushcart, because I think they are awkward and unwieldy. 4) I feel the same way about umbrellas. I can't stand the way New Yorkers whip out their umbrellas at the slightest raindrop, because then its impossible to walk down the street without getting poked by someone's umbrella. If it's really pouring that hard, I just wait it's pouring and I absolutely have to be somewhere, but I usually wait it out even if it means being late (something that never bother me although it probably bothers other people...I have to admit to being a bit selfish that way.) well, that's all for now, quirky ones! back to The Lone Gunmen. StarTrekker IP: Logged |
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 |
posted April 21, 2001 01:13
I have to add, isn't it strange how many of these quirks are universal? Like eating food items one at a time, writing in public places, all the things with beards and watches. It's strange. My watch quirk is that there's always a pocket watch hanging from a silver chain around my neck (wristwatches stop ticking after a few days of me wearing them, even expensive ones), but I never check it and I rarely know what time it is unless I am right in front of my computer. before I quit smoking cigs I always held the cigarette between thumb and pointer finger, instead of between pointer and second finger like most people. I started doing this in rainy weather to keep the cig dry and never dropped the habit. it takes me forever to get ready to eat. I have to have all the utensils all lined up, napkin, water glass, pitcher of water, reading material and something to prop it on, so I don't have to get up during the meal. Then, when everything is all perfectly ready, I inhale all my food in less than fifteen minutes. I actually timed myself tonight--thirteen minutes for a very large meal. It's very unladylike, but my whole family eats this way. It's really hilarious when we get together for Christmas dinner--my mom and I spend two days cooking this enormous meal and then we eat it all in about ten minutes. I wonder if anyone is still reading these things? I find all the quirks fascinating! Keep quirking! StarTrekker IP: Logged |
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 |
posted April 21, 2001 01:26
good lord, how could I have forgotten a) reading those quaint little tales on the back of food packages, often out loud: "Old Mr. Werther started making his buttery toffee in trays for all the village children..." b) sitting there watching the Defrag run for longer than I would like to admit, thinking "oh boy my computer is really getting all tidied up now, isn't it?" I love the way those little squares move around StarTrekker IP: Logged |
Doc Holliday Highlie Posts: 517 |
posted April 21, 2001 12:49
Star Trekker, My walking quirk is kind of like yours but I assume that everybody would be walking on the sidewalk as though they were driving. Everybody walking North should be on the left side (for example) and everybody walking the opposite way should be on the right. What I hate is when I'm walking "the correct way" and some dope stumbles into my path and won't stumble back out of it. Back where I grew up people did that when they were trying to pick a fight or were homeless and wanted to pester me. I don't know if what I wrote makes a lick of sence. Hopefully it does. IP: Logged |
BlacKat Geek Posts: 81 |
posted April 22, 2001 13:57
quote: 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!
quote: Actually, in England the people pretty much do this. On escalator's you stand on the right, and walk on the left here. If you don't be prepared for either verbal abuse, or a being moved to the right. When walking people also tend to walk in "lanes" which makes it very, very effiencet when it's busy. Of course, the tourists have no idea about all this and cause "people jams" all the time, but then at least it gives the natives a reason to bitch about the tourists. IP: Logged |
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 |
posted May 02, 2001 11:02
More quirks ... 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. I have a personal, secret protocol to use if I ever go back in time and meet myself. If anyone ever greets me with this protocol, I'll know that it's me, from the future. IP: Logged |
rw Super Geek Posts: 194 |
posted May 02, 2001 22:19
quote: I don't know if this counts as a quirk, quite, but it has always been my wish that the last words I utter before I die will be a horrendous pun. IP: Logged |
tafkact Highlie Posts: 614 |
posted May 03, 2001 14:06
Utter a horrendous enough pun, and those just may well BE your last words IP: Logged |
nekomatic Assimilated Posts: 375 |
posted May 08, 2001 08:07
On a double-deck bus, my favourite seat is upstairs at the very front. Many of the double-deckers in Manchester have the two front upstairs seats offset, so the one on the right has more legroom than the one on the left (this is because the one on the right is immediately in front of the staircase). I always go for the one on the left, the one with LESS legroom. On a single-deck bus, my favourite seat is near the back, above the rear wheel arch - less legroom again. Maybe it's a subconscious hankering after the foetal position thing? IP: Logged |
Zargof Neat Newbie Posts: 12 |
posted May 11, 2001 09:03
Whenever I read a word or name I'm not familiar with, I'll read it backwards to see if it makes more sense. If I have the time or I'm bored I'll try some simple cryptographic techniques such as letter substitution etc. I have a thing with American spellings of words, to me it just looks wrong. It has gone so far as that when programming I have written forwarding functions that use the British spelling. I correct other peoples spelling mistakes in comments. I'm ambidextrous and when eating cereal I'll just switch from my right to left hand without noticing. Like some others here I'll watch something like defrag for hours, but I get impatient if a webpage takes longer than 10 seconds to load. I know songs by track number rather than title. I'll let my room get ridiculously messy, then have a huge tidy up get everything nice and neat, and then do exactly the same again. Hmm.. nice to see the varying degrees of insanity on display here. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Xanthine Highlie Posts: 513 |
posted May 13, 2001 15:33
I sleep curled up in a ball. The more exhausted I am, the tighter the ball. I bite my fingernails. I am right-handed and wear my watch on my right wrist. I quit shaving my legs due to clumsiness and the resulting scars. As far as clothing goes, if it is not oversize, ripped, stained, frayed or threadbare, then it is not mine. I sneeze loudly in sets of three. I carry my backpack everywhere, with homework. I wear hiking boots all the time, unless the weather is warm, when I switch to Birks, Tevas or nothing. If I do not exercise for more than two days I either climb the walls or drive everyone around me crazy. I talk to my experiments. I like to study on the floor. I'm bad with silverware. When I'm alone, I will sometimes give it up and use my fingers. I do not go to bed - I pass out. Maybe in my bed, sometimes on the floor, very occassionally in class... I hit ctrl^x when posting to the forums, then wonder why it doesn't do anything. That's enough weirdness from me for now. IP: Logged |
Demosthenes Assimilated Posts: 372 |
posted May 13, 2001 16:20
funny...i sleep in the fetal position, with my knees touching my chin. i usually don't dream, and when i do, i have recurring nightmares...so i don't move around much while i'm asleep. 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. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Doc Holliday Highlie Posts: 517 |
posted May 14, 2001 01:09
Demo, I can't imagine anybody with adult proportions being able to touch chin-to-knees. That's amazing. I don't know if it counts as a quirk but I rip the sheets off my bed every night while I sleep. Every morning the sheets are all waded up on the floor and every so often even my pillow case is ripped off. IP: Logged |
Xanthine Highlie Posts: 513 |
posted May 14, 2001 01:24
My brother and I used to have recurring nightmares, so our parents got us dreamcatchers. Something to try. You'll need to clean it occasionally (a couple good shakes into the wind works). Ain't the placebo effect grand? I still dream, but they're usually good or bizarre - always in color though. Your curling abilities impress me. I can come close, but not that close. IP: Logged |
Drasca Alpha Geek Posts: 344 |
posted May 14, 2001 03:34
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 =/ 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. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Migrant Programmer Alpha Geek Posts: 255 |
posted May 14, 2001 09:29
I don't hold my pen the "right way" either, Demo.. I hold it between my index and middle finger, with my thumb, index finger, and middle finger at the point. I was learning how to write/etc before they tried to teach me the "right way". I'm glad they didn't try too hard. Oh.. I've converted other people to my way. =) IP: Logged |
CrawGator Alpha Geek Posts: 326 |
posted May 14, 2001 13:39
quote: Same here Drasca. For me that is nothing.
quote: 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.
quote: ok, at least now I know I am not the only one who did that, now I feel better.
quote: 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.
"Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) IP: Logged |
ARJ SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1000 |
posted May 14, 2001 15:20
quote: 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. IP: Logged |
Demosthenes Assimilated Posts: 372 |
posted May 14, 2001 16:12
sitting or sleeping chin-to-knees, for me, is nothing at all, and i'm 6 feet tall, so i hope i'm at adult proportions. i'm double-jointed as well, and i can touch my tongue to my nose, curl my tongue, etc. etc. maybe i'm just inherently flexible. 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 ------------------ IP: Logged |
Drasca Alpha Geek Posts: 344 |
posted May 14, 2001 17:20
You experience lucid dreaming (control over dreams) as well? Nice! Well, I don't always have control- I'm usually enjoying myself too much. Whenever I have a recurring dream, its always different and I always recognize it and take control over the dream. Once, at a blue space station where I normally fought back alien invader/pirates- not sure what the threat was, I ditched the place and escaped off on my own and found myself somewhere totally new onto an territorial island marked by a live grid. It was very odd, but interesting. 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) ------------------ IP: Logged |
Doc Holliday Highlie Posts: 517 |
posted May 14, 2001 23:24
Sometimes I'll accidently fall asleep with my chin touching my chest but that stretches the Trap muscles at the back of my neck and I wake up in blinding pain. Pain so bad I want to throw up and cry. Imagine a calf cramp that's built up for 8 hours, it's worse than that. I've taken up to 16 Ibuprophen to stop the pain. I always take 9 to start with and build up from there every half hour. When I get stressed I also bunch those muscles up and get the same pain. I never realize I'm bunching them up until the pain sets in. IP: Logged |
MrJ Geek Larva Posts: 21 |
posted May 16, 2001 21:51
quote: I sit like that too, usually only one leg at a time. I barely fit on my chair with both legs so I can't relax that way. I don't consider myself very flexible and I never have been. IP: Logged |
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 |
posted May 17, 2001 16:32
I envy the lucid dreamers! I always wanted to do this. I wish there was some way to train myself to lucid dream. I don't think thrashing around while sleeping is that unusual. I've woken up in bed with coffee grinds (in college, in a tiny dorm, our coffeepot was near my bed). I have these built-in bookcases near my headboard, and I frequently wake up in bed with books and knick-knacks in bed with me. I usually knock the ashtray off the night-table and onto the floor in my sleep, and usually the phone gets knocked off the hook, too. I sleep near the window, and once I ripped the curtains down. As if that weren't bad enough, most of the blankets and pillows wind up on the floor each morning, and I am usually missing one sock (I sleep with socks, no matter how hot it gets). Sometimes my pyjamas are on backwards, or not at all, and even the fitted sheet gets torn off the mattress so that I usually wake up half on the sheet, half on the bare mattress. Needless to say, I prefer to sleep alone strictly for reasons of comfort. Any other athletic sleepers that want to confess? What's the largest thing you've evern knocked over? Have you ever broken anything? StarTrekker IP: Logged |
Drasca Alpha Geek Posts: 344 |
posted May 17, 2001 16:50
quote: 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. 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) ------------------ IP: Logged |
Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1685 |
posted May 17, 2001 16:55
Pajamas? (I only wear them as a concession to others, never when I'm sleeping alone or with intimate company. If I need to get up, I usually have shorts or sweats handy.) IP: Logged |
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 |
posted May 17, 2001 21:07
Sometimes I sleep like a vampire -- flat on my back with my hands crossed over my chest. 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. IP: Logged |
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