Current mood:

amused

25 things meme
I'm not tagging anybody since many folks have done this already, but if you haven't, I'd enjoy reading what you would list. Cross posted from my Facebook account.

1) I filled this out partway once, but Facebook's javascript messes with Firefox's ability to save state and I lost it all.

2) I really do like these sorts of memes

3) I was born in Dublin, Ireland and registered with the American Embassy at birth. Yes I could theoretically run for President.

4) I used to post to livejournal a lot, but facebook in particular has clobbered my writing there

5) I've been playing D&D since around 1980 or so.

6) Even though I'm quite the extrovert, I'm fairly shy. At parties with people I don't know, I have to work not to become a wallflower. Kiersey temperament chalks me up as an ENFP

7) Before I started raving, I was scared/uncomfortable in large crowds. Now they pretty much don't bother me.

8) I've spent 17% of my life in World of Warcraft since it launched.

9) I loved my trip to Thailand so much I'm seriously searching for more opportunities to go back there. I'm exploring options for learning Thai.

10) I made some of the earliest e-commerce websites, back before the term e-commerce had been coined. If I'd been a few years later, I'd be very very rich, but I was into the web too early, got bored with it, and moved to my true love: games.

11) I love my friends incredibly deeply. If you are a good enough person to that I want to be friends with you, I will care about you a lot, and do my best to be there for you.

12) I spend my days making video games. This is not as glamorous as it may sound, but it is fun, even if it is hard work.

13) I love sushi, grilling steaks, homemade milkshakes, and the chocolate chip cookies that I bake.

14) I love bodysurfing, but don't get to do it much since the Pacific is less friendly than the Atlantic. I love Westhampton Beach.

15) I live many thousands of miles from my family, and I miss them a lot. My brother and I used to hang out talking for hours a day.

16) My septum is deviated. I don't know how it happened, but I suspect my last wrestling match in high school because it started with me getting a shoulder slammed into my nose and spending the entire remainder of the match on my back spraying blood.

17) I'm generally happy and positive. I've tried really hard to find a dark emo part of myself and still haven't come across it. Various tools were used.

18) Once I love somebody, I never stop. This can be painful, but on the upside, I have some very deep relationships in my life.

19) I went to college planning on studying Creative Writing and Physics and becoming a Science Fiction author. I wasn't going to do Computer Science because my dad has a PhD in that. I graduated with a degree in Computer Science, having taken no Creative Writing classes, and a single Physics class.

20) In the early 90s I, like many of the people into industrial music, discovered that there was happy sounding electronic music. My path into techno was through the soundtracks of euro-demos that I downloaded for my Amiga 3000 computer in college.

21) I love cooking for my friends. When I have a party I have to actively make sure I don't end up spending most of it in the kitchen preparing food.

22) I'm a social hub, I tend to actively connect lots of people. This is good, because it means I have lots of friends who I like, and who now like each other, but this means I'm very busy trying to stay in touch with everybody, and in fact don't have the time to stay as close to all my friends as I wish.

23) I like the idea of living in a high-tech co-op, a shared housing situation with a group of my friends. I recently met some folks who are doing something I had only idly imagined, renting out a giant mansion as a large group. It looks like it works well, and it is making me think about that idea again.

24) I'm a really physical person. I'm perfectly happy to crawl into my friends' laps and demand a backrub. I'm also perfectly happy reciprocating, and by all reports give very good ones.

25) My name means "Charioteer". It is not an unusual name in Ireland, though it confuses the heck out of people in the US. It is an old name, and lots of Irish kings were named Cormac.