44 Things About Me
May 6th, 2005 by mark
On the eve of my 44th birthday, here are 44 things about me.
- I love cats
- My favorite food is chili
- I don’t use an alarm clock
- My favorite television show is “Amazing Race”
- Or maybe Survivor
- Five years ago today I lost my job in South Carolina
- My favorite place in the United States is Portland Oregon
- My least favorite place in the United States is South Carolina
- I have a goatee
- I used up all my dental courage years ago
- I own 6 computers and 2 Tivos
- Last year I gave away 1000 pounds of books
- I love to cook
- My favorite dessert is cheesecake
- I have lived in 7 states
- I have visited every state except Alabama
- I have been to 11 foreign countries
- I prefer movies at home to movies out anymore
- My favorite fiction book is “Cryptonomicon”
- My favorite movie is the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy
- My greatest fear is being alone
- I’ve never smoked anything, ever
- I can type 58 words a minute
- The last time it was measured, I could read 1100 words a minute
- I have been skydiving
- I once rode a motorcycle 135 miles per hour
- I wear bifocals
- I can count to 10 in Japanese
- I written almost 170,000 words on this site in a little over 5 years
- I stopped counting lines of program code I’d written at a quarter of a million
- I love having my feet rubbed
- I know how to tie a bowline
- I can remember Christmas when I was 2 years old
- My least favorite activity is cleaning out old tupperware containers in the refrigerator
- I wear a fedora to work every day
- I can solve a Rubic’s cube
- I’m smarter than I give myself credit for
- People would be surprised to know that I am very insecure
- I hate being told the same thing more than once
- My hair is turning white
- I can’t hear as well as I used to
- I am glad to be alive
- I like myself more today than ever before
- I love my wife more than anyone else
