John Gibson tagged me with the "6 weird things about yourself" meme. I was hit with this one last year, but I can always draw on more weird things about myself.
- I have autographs from both Isaac Asimov and Ted Nugent.
- I strap a laptop on my exercise bike to work out while reading blogs.
- I wrote an application just to track the books I read, when I read them, and to maintain a list of books to get.
- I once converted a walkman into a guitar amp while at sea long before I had heard of anybody else doing this.
- I have dressed up like W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx and have done impersonation of them.
- I use to knit, embroider, and crochet.
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http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2007/05/motu-proprio-watch-breaking-news.html
I really like the idea of strapping your laptop to your exercise bike… Not sure I want to try it though lest it fall off or the rocking damages the drive. The most I manage is to watch something on it while exercising on the bike.
+JMJ+
Hey–I don’t suppose you could make your computer book application tracking available?? Sounds like something I really need.
Did you crochet in thread or yarn?
(very cool!)
My grandad was called Ted Nugent!
God bless
I don’t do memes, but a while ago in an apa (think of it as a print precursor of an e-mail list) someone listed several things under the heading “Things I have done that you probably haven’t done.”
Using the same heading I wrote the following:
I have taken a ball point pen out of a man’s shirt pocket using only the big toe of my right foot, but only because he invited me to do so. I would not do something like that uninvited.
The first two times I was in London I spoke from a folding platform at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. This, too, was by invitation.
If I would list the wierd things about me, they would definitely go more than five!
Anyway,
1) I still write letters to friends and mail them via post.
2) Last year, which means I was 29 years old, I spent hard-earned money buying myself a Sea Monkey kit.
3) When I was around 11 or 12, my orthodontist told me I don’t know how to swallow properly (which, according to her, was one cause of my overbite) and that I should practice doing it. Until now, I haven’t gotten it right.
4) It’s a yearly ritual for me to read the entire LOTR trilogy.
5) I once got trapped in the toilet cubicle in the ladies’ dressing room during karate class.
Can I join?
1. I like watching HollywoodMovies in Japanese dub with English subtitles.
2. I have a weird way of holding writing materials when I write (If you saw the Passion of the Christ, at the way the soldier holds the nail to drive it to Jesus’ hand, you’ll get an idea how I hold my pencil as I write)
3. Drew Jesus a lot since I was a kid. I like drawing so much there’s only a few days in my life I did not draw something. I drew Him a lot of times my grandma wasworried that I’m not gonna draw anything else.
4.I like to experiment with food; I put a lot of pepper in my omelette and mixed orange juice and milk once.
5. Fell in a pit full of cow dung in my childhood.
6. Has a preference for Medieval Latin spelling (i.e. Divitiae-Divicie; Hymnus-Ymnus, Ympnus, Hmypnus; Aeternae-Eterne; Alleluia, Alleluja-Alleluya; Aegyptus-Egiptus, Egyptus; Coelis-Celis; Iesus Christus-Ihesus Xpristus; Mihi-Michi)
7. Can run quite fast but gets tired easily.
Oops, I posted 7. Very sorry.
1. I’m an aspiring music historian (trust me, musicologists are weird).
2. I have been known to wear a green wool cloak in winter (I made it myself).
3. I can read 9th Century Gregorian chant notation that looks like squiggly lines to most other people.
4. Because my father wasn’t physically able to crawl around in the attic and under the house, I re-wired three rooms of our family home on his instructions when I was only 10 years old. Did a good job, too.
5. When I was 11 I built myself a play-hut out of willow branches tied together with willow bark and covered with straw, because I had seen something like it in a museum of local Native American culture.
6. I have sung for Mass in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, played the harp in the banquet hall of a castle in Wales, and danced a jig (a real jig, not just pretend) on a hillside in Ireland.
Cool! A man who knows how to knit. BTW, I tagged you the other day for another meme if you are up to it.