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Thirteen Things - 2

Today's group on Flickr Group Roulette asks us to list "thirteen things about you." I made up a list of 27, intending to pick the top 13. After running the list past a few people, they urged me to reveal all 27. So be it!

 

Well, so the stinking bike wouldn't cold start and the battery is dead. Before I read my manual on how to jumpstart, I thought I'd unveil this second part.

 

This is the second list of thirteen. OK, so it's a baker's thirteen. Sue me.

 

1. I worked as an embedded systems programmer, creating something that looked like a cable box and read stock quotes broadcast between TV channels. I was charged with created the BIOS, which was a bit more complex than the ones you'd see in a PC-AT. I have pretty deep Geek chops.

 

2. I worked as a defense contractor. I can't say it was related, but I was not permitted to leave the country for a couple years afterwards.

 

3. I am an airport planner. I do things like arrange the roads and parking and terminal buildings at airports.

 

4. When I took the ACT, I missed 4 questions in math. I missed 2 questions on the entire remainder of the test. Perversely, I chose a math-centric career. Kids, don't do that at home.

 

5. I didn't drink until I graduated high school. Nor did I have sex. That might explain why I am how I am.

 

6. I sang baritone in highschool until I got addicted to Journey. Subsequently, in the school performance choir I sang bass parts up to Irish tenor.

 

7. I was in four plays (two of them musicals) in highschool. I was the lead in three of them, although I can't remember what they were.

 

8. The first thing I notice in women is their hair. Then their eyes. Never their boobs. When walking away, I am more likely to look at their shoes than their butts.

 

9. I had a photographic memory until I went to college. Even now I have a memory for the mundane. I have a particular affinity for music and lyrics.

 

10. I got paddled in elementary school for giving a girl a bloody nose. She and her friends held my arms and kicked me. They started it but they went unpunished... until after school.

 

11. Politically, I consider myself a conservative Constitutionalist.

 

12. If I am driving, I am speeding.

 

13. Grown women in pig-tails give me the heeby-jeebies. I have a strong repulsion towards pedophilia, and women attempting to look like school girls are repulsive.

 

14. Unlike the worst President since Carter, I believe that oral sex is sex. Also? I like oral sex.

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