0×30 Things About Me
May 7th, 2009 by mark
0×01: I am learning how to play piano, proving that old dogs can learn new tricks.
0×02: I was born in Brooklyn, but now I live in Manhattan. Kansas.
0×03: My favorite movie of all time is Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
0×04: I read Neal Stephonson’s “Cryptonomicon at least once a year.
0×05: There have been six cats in my life. Shalimar, Kashmir, Abby, Nekko, Taz, and Bootstrap.
0×06: I was socialized as right-handed, but believe I may really be left-handed.
0×07: I have lived in twelve cites. (Brooklyn, Elwin, Decatur, Brookston, Normal, Springfield, Vancouver, Summerville, Pawnee, Overland Park, Olathe, and Manhattan.
0×08: I have 6 websites (5 individual and 1 shared), 12 email addresses, and own three domains.
0×09: I have arthritis in my lower back, and a fallen arch in my right foot.
0×0A: Lasik surgery didn’t work for me, I started wearing trifocals less than two years after the procedure.
0×0B: I can listen to the same music over and over again.
0×0C: I have learned how to cook fish, something I never ate as a child.
0×0D: I have been to Europe three times and look forward to many more trips.
0×0E: I haven’t talked to my brother in more than two years.
0×0F: I have had, and used daily, the same primary computer for over six years.
0×10: I use serial commas.
0×11: I have great difficulty spelling and depend upon spell checkers.
0×12: I do not watch any television.
0×13: I do watch movies (on DVD) and some television content (also on DVD).
0×14: I read, on average, 75 books a year.
0×15: Usually I am in the middle of two or more books at once.
0×16: My favorite vegetable is corn.
0×17: My least favorite vegetables are all the others.
0×18: I like to do crossword puzzles.
0×19: Except for my wedding ring I don’t wear any jewelry.
0×1A: I am a strong advocate of “Net Neutrality.”
0×1B: Voting for President Obama was one of my proudest moments as an American.
0×1C: I own several copies of “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking.
0×1D: I have eight instant message personas. Nine if you count Facebook.
0×1E: Despite using only 5 or 6 fingers I can type about 55 words per minute.
0×1F: Over the course of a year I lost 50 pounds. And I’ve kept it off for two years and counting.
0×20: I prefer email to phone calls.
0×21: In three weeks I will have been out of high school for 30 years.
0×22: For only the second time in 25 plus years of working, I have more than 10 days of vacation per year.
0×23: I have owned (or leased) ten cars in my life. Plus two motorcycles and a scooter.
0×24: I once owned a DN class ice boat.
0×25: I have had my oldest Internet domain (and web site) for more than a quarter of my life.
0×26: If I couldn’t create software for computers, I’d want to create things with software; architecture or industrial design.
0×27: I have only 28 teeth, and three of those are plastic.
0×28: I’ve been to 14 rock concerts in my life.
0×29: My favorite food group is cookies.
0×2A: I cannot stand the flavor of anise.
0×2B: I eat cereal nearly every day for breakfast.
0×2C: I have three computers on my desk at home, running two operating systems, neither of which is a Windows variant.
0×2D: I believe that faith is not believing without proof but rather trusting without reservation.
0×2E: I generally take a computer (or two) with me everywhere I go.
0×2F: I have had my nose broken, along with a thumb and the tip of my right forefinger.
0×30: The oldest posting of mine I can find online is from December 8, 1995.
This is the 5th “things about me” posting on my birthday. Previously we had: 43, 44, 46, and 47. You now know 228 things about me (counting repeats and duplicates).
Hexadecimal sure takes the years off! Happy 30th.
Thanks. You have to like those numbering systems with more than 10 digits.
You are also the pride-and-joy, favorite, one and only brother-in-law of your wife’s sister. #229