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[bigdamnnerd]

Stolen from hiddenbook:

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are close, but we know nothing about each other. To rectify this, I want you to ask something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

(I can’t do polls since I am cheap and have a free account; so I can’t do the anonymous question thinger.)

Comments

ok..

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you wear a TuTu to L+L?

-ScaryMike




man. I'm funny!

Re: ok..

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Well, you would too. You've seen the way the women hang off me when I'm wearing that thing. And now, with my newly aerodynamic head, there's nothing stoppin' my womanizing ways.

[ardoise-vide.livejournal.com]

why don't you get along so well with your parents?

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't say I don't get along with them anymore--I'm just not close. My mom had pretty severe anger manangement issues when I was growing up, and lets just say that the last straw was when she broke a pair of my glasses while I was wearing them. I started staying after school just to avoid going home, and ended up hanging out in the computer labs at school a lot. Then I went to college in Madison, and have been here ever since. And, funnily enough, the less time I spend with them, the better I get along with them. :)

[epidiah.livejournal.com]

Which is sexier: bald gamers, or bald men who game?

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Your semantic skullduggery has confounded me!

I'm gonna say bald gamers.

[enzie.livejournal.com]

How'd you name yer cats?

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Claude I didn't get to name myself. He was a girlfriend's cat, and about a year after when she became an ex-girlfriend, she decided she was just too allergic to him, and needed to give him up. Well, my cat at the time, Guildenstern (neé Bobby) was Claude's litter mates, and were both named by the same farm family. The ex-gf had decided not to rename him, and by the time he was "mine", it was definitely too late for a grand renaming.

Newton is a slightly different matter. He was the friendliest cat at the east side PetSmart, but he had the unfortunate name of Rum-Tum-Tugger. Having never seen Cats, I decided he needed to be renamed. But what? Being a geek, I was sure it had to be something that reflected my (and of course his) inner nature. As I was driving him home from the pet store, I noticed something. The only pet carrier I had at the time was a dog-sized one, and RTT was sliding around in it when ever I would stop or accelerate, he would slide around in the back seat. Then it hit me. Forever after he would be Newton, in the hopes that one day he would discover gravity. And, the name has been accurate thus far, as he is a quite clumsy cat, constantly testing his theories about the inner workings of gravity.

Also, Newton is my favourite discontinued PDA by Apple, so it works nicely as a double meaning.

[enzie.livejournal.com]

heh. newton is an excellent cat name.

[jane]

Have you ever been outside of the country? What kind of travelling would you do with extra time and moneys? (but not extra monkies)

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

In December of 2000 I travelled with a friend to London to visit another friend who was doing dissertation research there. We spent about a week and a half there, with a three day jaunt to the Emerald Isle. London was all right, but now that I've seen all the touristy things there, I don't really have an urge to go back. I'm just not that fond of waking up with black snot filling my nasal passages. It's a dirty, dirty city. Ireland, however, was a blast, and I didn't spend nearly enough time there. Someday, when I have said extra monies, I'd love to go back.

[jane]

hmmm... see, this is something I've noticed in living a zillion places here in the US, tourist brochures always show the TV version of a place. It's funny how the power lines and litter and eyesore buildings don't make it into the pictures and the air quality is quietly overlooked.

A co-worker of mine just got back from a trip to Russia. She said that the hardest thing to get used to in the first couple days was the different air. I never thought of that as a possible problem. Maybe in the Himalayas...

But yes! I for one envy your trip to Ireland. There's many many places I'd like to visit there. :)

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

The best part of the Ireland portion of the trip was how it was handled. We rented a car in Dublin, and then just drove around. We had a couple of intended destinations: the Cliffs of Moher, Newgrange, and the Hill of Tara, and other than that, we just drove around and stopped wherever looked interesting. No set schedule or itinerary, and we'd stop at whatever B&B we ended up near that evening.

[navik.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's totally the way to do it. Vacation is about relaxing, not about adhering to some damn schedule.