October 16, 2004

Curious, George - who are we? Before we lost our history, we had several threads where people told us about themselves - a/s/l, what jobs or pets they had, etc. Maybe it's time to update that.

I'll start. I'll be 65 in November, female, live in an agricultural valley in California, and am a retired accountant. I've also lived in Oklahoma, Mexico and New Jersey. You might be astounded to hear that New Jersey was my favorite. I originally majored in psychology, but switched to a business degree when it became apparent that you can't do anything with psychology without a PhD. I was in Berkeley, CA, at the end of the beatnik era and the beginning of the protest/hippie era, but the only reason I hung with the radicals and bohemians was that their parties were better. (Though, the liberal Berkeley influence has stayed with me.) I've worked in a state hospital for the mentally retarded (very bad), a winery (great fun),a couple of warehouse automation places when that was the leading edge, and subsidiary of a Japanese firm which sold mainframe computers and storage. I always loved working, and high tech was fascinating since I got to talk to engineers about my curiousities. Does that make me weird? Married and divorced twice. One daughter. I have 3 cats: a Maine Coon named Whiskers who weighs 16 pounds and has asthma (we live in the area with the worst air quality in the US), a Manx called Morris, who is pretty crazy, and Spot, a half grown kitten who just decided to live here. This place attracts strays - we have rabbits and chickens who've escaped their owners, and recently had an iguana episode. I love books, and travel, and change. After about 5 years in any one place, I get the urge to move on. But, I've always thought it would be great to spend one's whole life in one perfect place. So, anyway, let us know who you are.

posted by path 19 years ago
  • Wow! Two single with but a single thought, eh, path? Didn't ss this befoe I posted, sorry.
  • I'm 21, I'm a senior at a well known design school in the Northeast. I'm from the metro Boston area originally, and after school I aim to move away as far as possible as soon as possible. I am quite tall and thin and I look like this. I like New Order, Eric Satie and David Bowie, I love to cook and although I don't have any cats I like them a great deal. I like long drinks more than short drinks unless hot and don't like soup. I prefer good shoestring fries to big fat homefries and my favorite pie is pecan. My favorite writer is Anton Chekov and my favorite movie is Barry Lyndon. Currently I am boning a man with a vagina. We are very much in love.
  • I was just thinking about doing this the other day. Thank you for taking the pressure off. Aged-23 Sex-M Location-East Coast usa Likes-Reading (fiction and the other), History, Science, Art(like to look can't discuss), sitting, beer, and various forms of the distilled grains and fruits, travel dislikes - Hrmmm Education - Haven't graduated from college (yet) Animals-Dog(1) she's an old girl doesn't have the spunk she used to, although she can occasionaly bring it back
  • A kitty update: A while back I you asked you Monkeys for, and recieved, excellent advice about creating house cats from scratch. And as it turned out I got three of them. They arrived as three sisters, as seen in the photos, but you might notice the burgeoning balls on the one on the upper right (being tackled by his sister, "Squeak"). The morose-looking kitty who is looking down-and-away in that pic (and featured in the two middle left pictures) was obviously independant from the start (she was aloof and peevish even among cats) and so was chosen to go on to live in the great outdoors with my step-brother on his farm. Her name is Rory and I haven't seen her since. The other two are living happily in my apartment (they generally drive me fucking crazy when they are awake and melt my heart when they mellow) and are named "Squeak" (first pic on the page: she dowsn't meow, she squeaks) and "BB" (Big Boy or Big Bastard depending on what sort of mischief he is getting into). They are both easily twice as big as they were when those pictures were taken and I am one very happy cat. :-)
  • I am 30-esque, red-haired, lightly tattooed, ornery and single. I have two bad cats and a worse bird, like to build stuff, and a few credits short of a BA in writing. I make my living off the internet; I am a call girl who advertises exclusively online. I only do outcalls to luxe hotels in the downtown area (having someone to my space, which is called an incall, or going to someone's residence is too dangerous) and only see out-of-towners, which cuts down on stalkers. I think I've truly found my calling - even the things seen as negative in other jobs are positives in this one. I make decent money, but not more than probably a good bartender in a hipster friendly club. Also, I'm a loner and like it, and I wear glasses, but not while working.
  • a: 34 s: f l: LA (lower Alabama, geographically speaking) story: Proclaimed "too weird" by the last man brave enough to date me, I continue to watch foreign and sci-fi movies alone in this cultural wasteland. I was raised a Navy brat all over the world, I work in an art museum as the organized one, and enjoy gaming and drinking in my spare time. I have one cat and much emotional baggage. I want to be Siouxsie Sioux for Halloween.
  • Well, let's see... For some of the information about me, you can check path's post above. She's my mum, so the places she's lived can be applied to me as well. I'll be 36 in less than a week now, female, and currently going back to college in preparation to embark on a new career. I'm studying to get my degree in computer graphics and 3D modelling and rendering, and have already found a program to move on to when I'm done at the junior college I'm currently at. I intend to wiggle my way into the computer gaming industry. I have a whole herd of sleep disorders, and have been known to go long periods of time with no sleep because of this. I've also been diagnosed with PCOS. The sleep disorders and PCOS can do strange things to my moods, though I try to keep my moodswings off of MoFi. If I do moodswing at you, tell me and I'll go away until I calm down. Random acts of public silliness are a fascination of mine. To this end, I've been known to buy Jell-O anonymously for strangers in restaurants, show up at Denny's in pajamas or painted blue with gold stars, and have done tangos and slow-motion aerobics to the Muzak in 24-hour grocery stores in the middle of the night. I am planning to go bar hopping dressed as a nun one of these days. Unlike path, I do not get the urge to move every five years. I've tended to want to put down roots and just live in one place, though I still love to travel. I want a familiar, comfortable home to return to, however. I have yet to succeed at doing that. I read, write, do random graphic silliness when properly inspired, make a little music on the side, and cook (especially Chinese food.) I was a Goth before there were Goths, and still haven't completely outgrown that, no matter how often path has wished I would. I'm also a great big RHPS, gaming, mythology, history, and sci-fi convention geek. I'm a straight girl who's been told that she pegs "gaydar" as being bi. I've also been told that I've spent so much time around gay men and absorbed so much of the culture that what I actually am by now is a gay man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a fairly tall readhead (well okay, dark auburn,) wear glasses, have one tattoo (but want more.)
  • 38 years old this month. Graduate degree in healthcare mgmt. Two kids (20 and 13), one wife. Air Force officer. News junkie, media junkie. Love Montana---the most beautiful, friendly, and peaceful place I've ever lived.
  • I am 33, recently moved to Seattle. Prior to that, I lived for three years in San Francisco, three years in a small town in northwestern Illinois, and six years in San Francisco. Born and raised in Phoenix. Occupations occasionally include freelance writing and news reporting. Right now I'm making ends meet by toiling away in the corporate headquarters of the World's Most Evil Coffee Company. It's actually a very nice place to go every day. Why the sudden move to Seattle? I knocked up the neighbor's cat and ran up a huge phone sex bill on my roomate's dime. Actually, I was working for a mortgage company in the Bay Area and getting depressed about making damn decent money and never being able to escape the feeling of spinning my wheels, professionally and financially. I lived in Seattle very briefly in the early 90s and liked it, liked it even more on occasional visits over the years, so I simply checked out of my California life and moved north. There were some other things going on in my life as well, I'd rather not go into them. Let's just say that, for all intents and purposes, this move is my Mary Tyler Moore show moment. Nice to meet you.
  • Oh, Jerry, what photogenic kittens! I would snatch the one with dramatic stripes and insolent gaze in a trice, did I not have all these birds and beasties to fend for just now.
  • 34 male, married, 7mo old son. I'm currently working on a masters of science in traditional chinese medicine. A nidan in Aikido. 3 cats. Getting my first tattoo one week from today. Grew up in Texas and North Carolina (I do NOT have an accent -- except when I want to) and live in San Francisco. Attended art school, decided the world does not need another mediocre artist. I make an incredible pizza, and have a double uvula.
  • Who am I? (clips pen to lip) I'm a walrus.
  • Female, single, 34, California. I work in the wine business. I'm a music geek (okay, a geek in general). I like cooking for the mix of art and science, and because it requires focus and concentration. I'm a lifelong atheist who majored in religious studies. I enjoy discussing random obscure and/or current topics with people who are interested in ideas, which why I hang out here. I daydream a lot. I spend too much time online. I dislike telephones. The only thing my friends have in common is that they are all somewhat unusual. I'm trying to adapt to life without pets but I miss my cat (currently being spoiled rotten by my mom).
  • Seriously, though, screenwriter in L.A., 29 next week, feels overpowering urge to slap people who complain about how "phony" everyone in L.A. is, prone to "Breakfast Club" references. [walks away across football field, thrusts fist in air]
  • :-) beeswacky - the cats (they are cats now, I think) save me from solitude. I guess this would be a good time for a self link. I have about 20 more songs and I hope to record them soon, probably solo acoustic again. Then maybe I'll actually do something more than put them up on the internets for a bunch of monkeys to listen to.
  • I'm 36, female, live in a culturally void part of British Columbia. I have 2 cats and a dog. One cat (squeak) is a certified nut job who only ventures out once and awhile, the other(fat-pig*) more than makes up for the antisocial behaviour of the former. I thought I liked dogs til I got a dog, but I still love him to peices. One day would love to have a double yellow amazon parrot - friend had one named Sid. When I was 13, art work from the students at Emily Carr was brought to my highschool and that day I decided I wanted to pursue a career in the arts and attend that college. Six years later I did. It was one of the most amazing times of my life, if I could have I would have moved into the college and stayed forever. I really wanted to be a industrial designer and design really cool kitchen equipment and furniture or go into advertising - I never made my mind up. While at ECCAD I met Martin Sheen (and Charlie but I didn't know who he was!), we talked for a bit about politics as he was walking away he quoted Mr Smith goes to Washington, "Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for". I shook my head and thought he was a major pessimist. I decided ECCAD wasn't for me. I love painting, drawing, design and photography but the politics of it all turned me off - I just wanted to create, I couldn't stand the popularity contests that occured there. About a year later I got involved with provincial mental health issues and became an advocate/lobbyist. When ever I was asked what I did I said "a loudmouth and shit disturber" (always ellicited a laugh) during this time I realized Martin Sheen (and Mr Smith) were right. I've had a hand in shaping various policies and laws at the provincial level. Again I loved what I did but the people and the politics of the "game" turned me off. It became apparent to me it wasn't so much about improving lives but about how to suck up to in order to go to Japan or the USA for some conference or other. I went back to being an artist until my SO decided to start his own business restoring classic and vintage British motorcycles. I can lap a valve with the best of them but decided to do the office work instead. Love to cook - especially middle eastern cuisine. Currently trying to learn htlm, css and xml but something new comes along and I venture down that path and get lost. I have an offbeat (sometimes raunchy) sense of humour. I love pulling pranks on people. I love to learn new things and take chances. *SO was upset when he found out I call her "the fat pig" on the net, I've been informed, "it's the H!, not the fat pig! :("
  • I am a disgruntled bookseller.
  • Jerry, your cats are absolutely adorable. And you can sing to me anytime. Great music! :)
  • Oooh! Oooh! This would be a good time to break the no self link rule on account of the topic...can we?
  • moneyjane, as I understand it, the only no-no there is a self-link made on the front page, and in any case if you're aboveboard about what it is, I don't think too many will fuss. I thnk the underlying idea is really not to sell stuff. (If I'm wrong, blame wendell, he's used to it). /fellow redhead
  • I'm 29 years old, male, wear glasses, single, no kids, no pets. I live in Hawai'i. I use bicycle for transport, which is one of the thousand reason Hawai'i is better than the mainland. I'm a student at UH. I'm currently majoring in CS, but I might change that to just about anything. I go to school on GI Bill, that I got from being in the USN as a nuke mechanic. I learned alot about the world from being in the navy, most of it so bad that I would doubt it hearing it from others. Before I joined the navy I held alot of odd jobs. The coolest job I had was phone psychic, for 8 months. I've also done some animal rescue, which I got into because of my experience with brids and reptiles. There's alot of other jobs, most not as interesting. Moved around alot as a kid. I used to have a goal of visiting every state in the US, since I was already well on my way there. After I hit about 35 states I realized that the goal was kinda dull: "I haven't been to Arkanss? Oh no!" So now I'm interested in getting some world travel. After graduation, I may teach English for a year or so in Japan. I read alot. Fiction, I trend towards Sci-fi, but also enjoy horror and fantasy. Non-fiction, I trend towards math and political, but also enjoy history, philosophy, and religion. I really enjoy reading the history of math and science. I believe that Discordianism the opposite of the Sub-Genius. Sub-Genius is a joke disguised as a religion, while Discordianism is a religion disguised as a joke.
  • WOW!!! Jerry, really great music! I'm awed. Thanks so much for sharing that.
  • Cool...been slaving on my blog all day, so this is good and timely. You might want to skip the latest post - I'm still going off about the KRS 1 thing. Which is something the blog is great for - if I'm getting too cranky about something posted here, I can let loose on my own dime and not drive people crazy.
  • I'm 17, but people who meet me IRL think I'm 20 so I guess I'll say I'm 20. I live in Dallas and wish to move out as soon as I can, maybe to Boston (ActuallySettle and I should switch or something). I like: driving around in the middle of the night, starving artists, Hello Kitty, college students, cold weather, laughing gas, schizophrenia, making out, Jewish people, smoking, New York City, late-night diners, hustlers, France, and Stanley Kubrick. I dislike: Fake British accents, the Bible Belt, the word "sodomite", narcissists, high school, marriage, faux-punk, most organized religion, perscription drugs, beaches, SUVs, pop rock ("bubblegum alternative" as my friend calls it), and the sun. I also like making weird noises, slapping people, and sexual innuendo. Bleep-bloop.
  • The coolest job I had was phone psychic, for 8 months. Ah, so your my husbands' psychic friend! /psychic friends hotline! /another redhead
  • Mr. Knickerbocker: Hell yeah on the Discordianism. To quote the Principia Discordia, "If you think the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again." Hail Eris.
  • I'm 37, single (who'da guessed), balding, multimedia expert. OK, stop laughing, now. By day, I'm disgruntled underemployed designer/programmer and on weekends, I do the occasional video project with a friend from college. I have a BA in Drama that I picked up when I got burned out on programming for a while, but so far, I haven't really done anything with it besides get headshots. I have occasional problems with depression and insomnia, but I've learned to live with them and have named them Wilbur and Aloysius. I am prone to non-sequitur and cartoon voices as a defense mechanism. I spend most of my days wishing I had a girlfriend, and most of the rest of the time completely lost as to how that whole process happens. It's a side effect of working with computers, I think - I can make them sing given time and an interesting project, but I'll be damned if I can figure out people. I really wish I were more dynamic and outgoing. I have no pets at this time, but plan to get a cat or two if I move out of my current abode. I read a lot and am a news junkie.
  • Have we really lost our history? I thought it was just resting somewhere until Monkeybashis 1 & 2 breathe the breath of life back into its nostrils and speak the magic words "talitha cumi". I hope so, in any case.
  • Hmmm. a. 27 s. dude l. San Luis Obispo, CA; (by way of Kailua, Hawaii; San Diego, California; Okinawa, Japan; and Subic Bay, Philippines.) Those are the places I've lived, but I've ridden across lots of Europe and explored many random switchbacks in the Alps (Italy/Switzerland/France) by motorcycle... Rode from SLO to Vancouver, BC once. (pretty!) Will have to hook up, so to speak, with moneyjane next time I'm up North... Apple Certified Tech. Monkey. eternal-Student. Motorcycle rider. :)
  • My Fellow Cockpunchers! It is increasingly clear to me we are all clones of One. Wot, if anything, do we intend to do about this odd circumstance?
  • Darshon, actually that's not me. I avoided calls from your husband, he's always talking about his psycho wife ;) Christophine, right on. Hail Eris. I didn't know if there were any other discordians that actually took it seriously. Do you use garage band to make music? I kinda like the one song, where's the rest?
  • I'm 28, single, and female. I'm currently working on my Master's in Biology studying the population genetics of Joshua Trees. I have sometimes blonde, sometimes red hair, blue eyes and a tattoo of yucca flowers on my leg that was done by my bestfriend. The two places I love most in the world are Western Massachusetts and the Mojave desert - I'm lucky enough to live in WM and work in the Mojave. I really hate to watch bad tv and movies - life is too short to have two hours sucked away watching something as awful as broken arrow, underworld, etc...I have an 8 y/o yellow lab named Aspen. I play double bass, enjoy good beer, hiking, and going to shows.
  • 24, single male, living in Blacksburg, VA. Currently work as a Documentation Specialist and web developer at a telecommunications company, but I just put in my two weeks notice. I'll be going fulltime with my own business developing GIS apps for the web. I write in my free time, fiction, non-fiction (I submit to several magazines). I'm working on my second novel and about to start my third. My goal is to become a film director, on or off the Hollywood track. I love Ireland, even though I'm not Irish in the least, I consume too much Guinness and smoke too many cigars/pipes. I love fake Irish and British accents, but real ones are better. I'm also a devout Christian, putting my political leanings at odds with mostly everyone here, but I still love everyone here dearly.
  • i like pink fluff, and i invented cockpunch.
  • *hands SideDish a large refreshing glass of it*
  • I'm thirty-six. I live in Louisiana, in the center of Cajun country. My Cajun girlfriend and I live in a small house on a swampy bottom next to a small coulee. We have two cats; I suppose they're Cajun too. One just brought in a small frog, which we rescued. For the past few years I've been building canoe trails in the Atchafalaya, our big swamp. I was born and raised in Germany and along the way have seen a lot of places. I originally came to Louisiana to dive offshore, and have since been a chemist, reporter and officer in the Louisiana Army Guard.
  • DISHY!!!!!
  • what can i say, i missed you guys too much
  • I'm 20 (wow, and one of the younger ones here) and live smack dab in the middle of Pennsylvainia. I'm currently attending Penn State as a Physics major and a Mathematics and Astrophysics minor, which affords me little time for anything hobby related. I also work part-time as a janitor at a YMCA. I am definitely very nerdy, so my main hobbies are mainly video games and Perl programming as well as fiddling around with Linux. I also enjoy reading anything and everything that I can find. Cigars, pipes, handrolled-cigs, good beer, and beautiful women are a few of my vices. Speaking of beautiful women, I've been dating one for three years and we became engaged a year ago this month. Finally, like most physics people I have two cats, one of whom is named Schrodinger.
  • I'm female, almost 37, married with three cats, and moved six months ago from my native Houston to Jersey City, New Jersey. Having (I hope) just sold my house, I'm about to jump into the job marke with both feet. I've been a tech writer for 5+ years, and before that worked as a paralegal for a corporate immigration attorney, and before that did grad school in medieval English history. I dabble in a lot of things for fun: history, music (consuming, not producing), Mac nerding, gaming, and blogging are a few.
  • I will be 43 in a few months. I am a registered nurse who works with the geriatric population as a care coordinater, restorative nurse, and social services. Married twice. I have four children, the two surviving children are my 25 year old daughter and 23 year old son. I have four dogs and two cats. They are family too. I like to read. I like to sketch. I am a motorcyclist (read biker). I have been riding my own bike since I was ten years old. My husband is my best friend. I have lived in MIssouri and Washington, and although I prefer Washington, for now I am stuck in Missouri.
  • Well, I'm going to guess I'm one of the youngest monkeys here (highschool age). I've lived in Seattle my entire (albeit short) life. My biggest pet peeve is the use of different words interchangeably,lke flout and flaunt, unintereseted and disinterested.
  • 62, female, vegetarian, hard-core Leftist Liberal, born and lived all of my life in New York City until 8 years ago when I moved to the mountains of Northwest Montana. I'm still suffering from culture shock and miss New York very much. I bead and read and surf the web to maintain my sanity.
  • I'm 28, a girl-type thing, and I'm getting my Ph.D. in American Studies here in Ohio. I'm originally from Texas, and I'm still figuring out this whole Midwest thing. I have a little doggy (chihuahua/pug mix) named Steve, who thinks he's probably a cat. My hair also alternates between blonde and red (or blonde and red, as it is now), and like Christophine, I enjoy dancing to the grocery store Musak (I hadn't thought of the random gifting of Jell-o. May I borrow that?). I live in the tiniest, cutest house that was converted from a 2-car garage (and then added onto, thank God), and when I move I want to take the house with me.
  • I am a balding, overweight compulsive masturbator who has not had a restraining order against him in nearly 3 years (yay me!) When I'm not caring for lepers and counseling troubled youth, I'm pushing social security recipients down stairwells, tossing stray animals under the wheels of public transportation vehicles and fighting the urge to not pick my butt in public. And yes ladies, I am single!
  • Oh, and Mojo_Jojo? I *was* Siouxie for Halloween last year. We rock. (...starting to believe bees theory that we're all One...)
  • 6' 2", 41 yr old, straight, single male living on Chicago's northside about a mile west of Wrigley field. People here said I look 31. My tastes in pop culture suggest that I lean toward the post-punk aesthetic and have a developmental arrest somewhere around 25, except when I shift into crotchity old guy mode and complain about the current state of pop music. I spent my childhood in a downstate backwater and escaped as soon as it was a viable option. I've traveled a lot and think Chicago offers the best of a lot of places, but winters and traffic here suck. I'm a self-underemployed webgeek consultant guy who lives on the 2nd floor and works on the 3rd. My office has more Windows machines than Macs, but I love my Macs more. Back in the dark ages before commoners had internet, I was an art director. I knew that was a temporary gig because I read future shock in college and assumed my real job would be making flying logos for the personal TV channel everyone was supposed to have. Most of my contemporaries moved to the 'burbs and started pumping out the puppies so I come here as a weak substitute for my former very social life. I'm not opposed to having a wife or girlfriend, but a series of previous disappointing experiences have left me with little enthusiasm for actively pursuing a new one. I am a part time pet owner, step-dad to my often traveling former roommate's boxer-lab mix. I think organized religion does more harm than good, but also believe that most humans need the crutch of some greater being looking out for them so actively campaigning against the god meme is a waste of time. In the summer I ride my bike along the lakefront most evenings. My projects for the winter are to master clean sounding barre chords on an acoustic and learn enough php/MySQL to write a content management system.
  • JerryG., I thought you were a tough guy, but you are such a softie. Bees and I will have to duke it out for your stripy kitty. Way kewl kat (other's cute, too. My name is BlueHorse. I'm here in the Twelve Step program because of my addiction to Taglines. Monkeyfilter: It's actually a very nice place to go every day. Thanks, Dantsea Golly, I love you guys. Everybody have a banana. Please put the peels in the barrels provided.
  • I'm 26, male, and living in Chapel Hill, NC (extended, post-college adolescence). I majored in English with a creative writing minor, so stereotype me based on those criteria, please. I grew up in what I like to call the septic pump of the Southeast (home of the hyper-tawdry and ridiculously racist roadside attraction South of the Border), where I developed a keen understanding of redneck culture. Subsequently, I cast off my own redneckism and transformed into a small town punk rocker (viz: a sad amalgam of grunge, hand-me-downs and sloganeering ... I got beat up a lot, but eventually learned to fight back) with a virulent streak of anti-racist attitude, which I maintain to this day. These days, I date a swell culinary school hottie and spend my days with web design ... and sporadically working on a monstrous manuscript with a working title of Talkie. No pets, but I love all of God's creatures except for the candiru. (Sorry if that was long-winded.)
  • Well I am a 36 yo female of the **REDHEAD** persuasion, like some many of these fine monkeys... I am a struggling free-lance web developer (since others have self-linked I thought it would be ok to share my pathetic little website wif ya'll) and a very recently finally fully-retired sex worker--HAIL ERIS!! I got married a year ago--to a mad scientist... no kids, ever. had a kitty but she died :( someday will get another and I hope its even half as cute as one of Jerry's 2 tattoos (I think I owe SideDish pictures??) lazy slacker bookworm with a useless History degree... ActuallySettle should you wind up in the Bay Area and need a mommy to spank you please get in touch ;)
  • I just moved to NZ where my mohawk is entirely un-appreciated. I miss LA (sometimes). I create web apps that write themselves (our soon-to-be not-so-little startup feels like 1999 all over again) i live and work in a big empty house with an amazing view on the wrong side of the planet. I'm a mad scientist with too many ideas and not enough indians.
  • I'm a tall man (just under 6'4") with brown hair. My birthday is in three days and I will be 42. I work out regularly and am in good shape for my age. I was married once, no kids and am currently single. I live in West Hollywood, CA and grew up in a place called Indio, California near Palm Springs. When I was a kid, my family had a trailer and later built a small beach house in Baja California where we would spend the summers. Due to those summers I have a great love and respect for Latin American food, art and culture. I am the typical over educated (BFA in Photography from Cal Arts, MFA in Cinema from LMU) under employed film/art/media geek and currenly pay the bills doing video graphics for a crappy daytime courtroom reality show that shoots here in LA.
  • I can't believe that anyone cares but here goes: Age 49 Married, two adopted kids Professional film and TV music composer- National Geographic Television et al. (Self plug alert: My next special airs Oct 20th on PBS) Also active as a jazz musician - 3CDs under my name also perform with the "Capitol Steps" a political satire group. Passions: My kids, music, politics (at least until Bush is defeated) chess and monkeyfilter (OK, I threw that last one in just to suck up)
  • 28 year old female grad student in epidemiology. I just moved to LA from NYC and am still learning how to adjust to life here. I'm trying to get a monkey meetup going, check here for details. My past jobs have included selling tickets, making coffee, bussing tables, and my family's favorite, urine tester (lab assistant in a lab that did human metabolism research). At one point, I was a urine tester by day and iliostomy bag changer by night--sorta like having clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, but with, y'know, bodily fluids. pyrrthon1, keep fighting the urge to pick your ass and hopefully that pinworm infection will finally clear your system.
  • 31 years old, male, single, dork, lurking in Dallas, drawing pictures for a living (and I get to eat, too! so far), otherwise fairly reclusive, and I'm not really sure whether that's by choice or neurosis anymore... I'm addicted to reading and that is why I was on Metafilter first and Monkeyfilter now, though I still like AskMe a lot. I'd be a mad scientist but the math requirements are ridiculous.
  • 32 year old woman in graduate school in Ohio. I'm this close to finishing my PhD in quantitative psycholgy. Once I am done, I am moving to Adelaide, Australia. It will either be because I am fleeing a country that decided that Emperor Bush was a good idea for another 4 years, or that I will appoint myself a personal ambassador to try to repair foreign relations with Aussies. In reality, it is because my SO, who lived here for 2 years, is now back at home, so it's my turn to move. Hopefully, in a few years, we can move to Chicago, one of my very favorite places in the world. I also have 2 cats (man, a lot of us have kitties. Monkeys love kitties!). One only has one eye, and the other is diabetic.
  • I'm a wee lad of 50 living on Vancouver Island (hence the wildly creative nickname). I grew up in Vancouver, traveled some and spent several years in the Yukon. Still don't know what I want to be when and if I grow up. Currently an IT contractor-tech-programmer-geek-for-hire, I'd rather be a pirate, maybe an international man of mystery or a leprechaun. I like animals, especially dogs and monkeys, but I'm allergic to cats. I also like toast, steamboats, words, silliness, Australians, living by the sea and beer. While I'm deeply suspicious of organized religion, fed up with politics and beginning to have my doubts about the future of the human race, I try to remain skeptically optimistic and cynically cheerful. Very nice to meet y'all, eh? * I think I have a crush on GramMa too *
  • I'm 28, and I got my PhD in (astro)physics a few months ago. I'm still living in Iowa City, teaching physics labs until I get a postdoc offer (currently, it looks like Los Alamos will offer me a job). I'm also really sad that my hagfish post is gone.
  • Male, 31, married. No kids, one creaky old cat (Bean). Born in the midwest, grew up in New England, living in New York City but maybe not for much longer (graduate school and gardening beckon, not necessarily in that order). For work I am a web designer/developer. For non-work I am a painter, photographer and also, again, a web designer/developer. Sagittarius.
  • Actually Kamus, I think that one of the reasons we do this sort of post is that it is more interesting to the person who posts than it is to the people who read them. Most folks, whether they admit it or not, are a bit self obsessed and enjoy talking (writing?) about themselves and their opinions. To write directly about one's self can be embarrassing sometimes, but it is an interesting exercise in organizing your thoughts about who you are and how you present your self to the world.
  • Good to see yer back, SideDish!
  • 27. USian. Married to a Canadian that makes me go *rawr*. Moved to Canada almost two years ago. We have a 14-month-old son and another baby on the way. I have three cats: Pandora, Moxy, and Squicket. We are moving soon to the next city over and hopefully our stress levels will go down accordingly. Virgo with Cancer rising (detailed, critical, emotional, sensitive). Online political quizzes place me as socialist these days (ha!). Studied languages at university: two B.A. degrees. Travelled to Panama and Spain during college. I am painfully honest and will talk about almost anything if it's a serious conversation. I am opinionated but I don't express my opinions very often in public online. Message boards make me nervous. I mostly lurk; chatrooms are easier for me, and I wish the MoFi IRC channel actually got used. I love to meet people. I love to throw house parties and have guests. I am pretty lonely these days. I enjoy cooking and I've been trying to write a vegetarian cookbook for, oh, about six years now. =P Someday it'll get done. I always have a book or four in progress plus reading to do online. I dislike trolls, jerks, Dubya, roller coasters, bad spelling and writing, and the way I look in photographs. I like driving barefoot, dyeing my hair red, going out dancing, sharing funny things I find online, and Mighty Taco jalapeno poppers with hot sauce.
  • I know it goes against all of the fun of the anonymous internet, but profiles are very useful as a memoryaid, for when this thread is buried in the archives. It is nice to know a little more about who people are, where they live, where they are coming from.
  • I'm also really sad that my hagfish post is gone. posted by dirigibleman Me too. I'm 25 shortly, I moved from my lifelong home of NY to SF two years ago for a girl. To my chagrin I've recently started "seeing" someone in NY, but I'm standing my ground because California is pretty and New York... isn't. But I miss the city, mostly for the food. I am a graphic designer, and I'm currently doing motion graphics. I enjoy what I do, but I'm very envious of the wide variety of experiences some of us have. I think I want to end up owning a winery here. Or maybe a strip club.
  • 30, female, Swedish, grew up in England, now live in Florence Italy. Journalist, sub-editor, translator, consultant on internet-type things, writing first novel, wait tables and tend bars when I get too lonely sat at my computer. Married to an incredibly tall and equally lovely Englishman (someone posted a link to his site here the other day! woo! fame by proxy!), have two ex-racing greyhounds and a teeny-tiny Italian greyhound who is just like a normal greyhound only about a third of the size. Enjoy reading, singing, cooking, learning new languages and dyeing my hair interesting colours (including, occasionally, red. What's up with all the gingers around here?). Any other monkeys out there in continental Europe? Strong showing from the American continent and the Brits - anyone else in Euroland?
  • Cute dogs, mothninja.
  • Late to the party... I'm 34 but I'm gonna start lying and telling people I'm 27, 6'4", 200 lbs, dark hair, blue eyes, and separated :sniff: for about 7 months now. I play bass guitar in an original progressive metal band, just for fun and stress relief -- kinda like Tool, but a little heavier and more complex. I'm a computer programmer, own my own company (of one), and live on my own planet. I drag into work at 10:00am, dork around all day here and at MeFi, occassionally crank out some brilliant code, and get paid wheelbarrows of money for it. I have a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, but my programming skills are self-taught. I drink too much and am addicted to adrenaline -- I race cars, rock climb, snow board, and drive too fast in my stoopid-fun custom turbo Miata. My cat is super-friendly, but is getting fat, so I'm training her to walk with a harness to help her keep in shape. I'm a liberal libertarian living in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. It's a nice town, but it's also the home of Bob Jones University, so my friends are valuable. For some reason, most of my friends are bartenders. I have no idea why. Oh, and I have a lovely circumsized penis.
  • Good idea! 1. I am 43, married, 3 kids--21, 19, and 5. A college professor living in a very Norman Rockwelly town in the midwest, quaint and cultureless. I have thought about launching some kind of internet campaign to get cool people to move here: "Wanna buy a lovely Victorian home for under $100,000 in a pretty town full of same with no crime and a scenic square with lots of Victorian buildings ready for someone to open some cool restaurants, art galleries, and shops?" The town is Carthage, Missouri. 2. I teach American history, specifically Indians and the West and sometimes Latin America. My book about Northwest Indians and how their religion changed in response to white contact is out, with some good and some mixed reviews. 3. Summer is roadtrip time for my family. My wife and I are incapable of taking a shortcut when a long, out-of-the-way route through obscure towns is available. Last summer we followed the Lewis and Clark Trail from Missouri to the Oregon coast, photoblog here: http://travelswithsam.blogspot.com/ 4. I don't know HTML. If I could request a pony of Monkeybashi, it would be some simple markup tools on the posting page. But then, no one owes me a pony. 5. Came here via lurking at Metafilter, and have come to treasure this place for its civility. MeFi has become a cesspool of late, and will probably never recover. 6. I write academic grants in my spare time. If you need a history or education themed grant written, drop me a line.
  • LordSludge you sound so sexy ;) I have developed an appreciation for uncircumsized lately, but I am sure your weiner is positively beautiful!
  • 29, married to a beautiful woman I fell in love with the first time I laid eyes on her. We have a 20-month-old son who was the inspiration for my handle. I reside in a small city north of Calgary, Alberta. A draftsman by trade, I wear two hats at work, one as an Estimator and one as a Project Manager. The estimator hat fits better and rarely requires the heartless business attitude and adult babysitter skills necessary for PMing. Religion interests me greatly; I grew up Anglican, gave it up for Agnosticism, and became a Mormon at the age of 20. I spent two years as a missionary in England sharing my beliefs with any who would listen and found that listening to others and what they think and believe helped me not only understand my own religion but appreciate the truths other people held dear. I guess that's why I like it here so much, I get some insight into what other people think. No pets, just plants, Outdoorsey, one tattoo, like to laugh... a lot.
  • 27, female, recently and blissfully married. I do engineering documentation control for a medical device manufacturer. Before I did that, I headed the helpdesk for the same company; although I miss the world travel the job offered, I don't miss the daily dose of arrogant-doctor-customers I dealt with. I have a cubicle with a window and can wear jeans every day if I choose. I spend countless hours wrestling with Microsoft software and recalcitrant engineers who don't like to follow rules. I make them anyway. When I'm at home I do needlework, play computer games, and tinker madly in the kitchen. I have a 55-gallon tank of fish (two oscars and a slew of other chichlids). Eriphyle is a handle I picked ages ago by flipping through a book of mythology. She's a minor character in the Trojan wars.
  • I am your worst nightmares become horrifying flesh.
  • But, flash, the good thing is that most of us will never see that flesh. We can continue to think of you as the handsome monkey you are in your public persona.
  • (Yes, I have pictures, folkes. Be warned.)
  • Mr. Knickerbocker: There aren't too many that seem to see beyond the "joke" of Discordianism, but we are out there. I'm glad to meet another. :) Fnord. I actually use Acid Screenblast, but it's the same idea as Garageband. The rest of my music is not currently online, since I have a small pittance of a webspace and it's mostly full with other things right now. Glad you liked the one I linked. It's arguably the best of the bunch so far. meridithea: Woohoo! Someone else that shares my tendency to dance in grocery stores! :D Feel free to borrow the Jell-O buying and make it your own. It's not original with me either. It just appealed to me a great deal with I read about it in How to Play with your Food by Penn and Teller. Medusa: Hail Eris! All hail Discordia! Hail hail! Hail yes!
  • ok. newer member here, but lovin' the monkey love. 26-yo Aussie male, web geek at the state library here in melbourne, also a music geek and theatre type. Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hon's) - Media Theory (minor in Theatre Studies)/Dip. Arts (English - Cultural Studies). Half a Masters thesis (looking to go back next year... sad story) formative years spent in Moe (they kill babies there) but moved to western suburbs of Melbourne as an early teen. Now live in the northwest of the city and love it. the handle is a contraction of my main musical project. also can be found online elsewhere as p7 or Killah Sonic. scattershot approach to capital letters.
  • The MoFi database will be up again one day, in some form, so don't be sad monkeys. And it's nice to have a thread like this, especially considering the number of people that have joined since the original thread. Anyway, here's me, for anyone that hasn't read my non-MoFi babblage: 28-year-old sometimes-redhead but currently blonde. Mother to a 20-month-old son and hoping for another, for some unknown reason. (He's standing next to me now, saying "Mama! What doing!") I happen to like monkeys, primatology being one of my favouritest subjects ever. I also like sports, but the friendly non-violent kind, like netball and touch rugby, and then I watch rugby from the sidelines and pretend I know what I'm talking about. My husband is an utter sweetheart and saves my ass with regard to MoFi on many occasions. I have a collection of Sandman comics and figurines, ten zillion CD-Rs with who-knows-what on them, and far too much work to do. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and it's bloody cold today.
  • "Mama! What doing!" LMAO I am so happy to learn that MoFi is no sausage party, and it explains a lot about the great vibe around here. Nice to meet you all! And kamus, any chance you can link to some of your music, or tell us what to watch (listen for) on PBS on the 20th? My father was a film composer and it is something I am contemplating taking a shot at. It is intimidating but I think in cues so I want to try. And thanks for the feedback re. my own songs. It's been a while since I put some effort into them but they are starting to call me again. And: a: 34 s: M l: Ottawa
  • Okay, I have a brand-new crush! LordSludge you sound veeerrryy sexy.
  • Do I have to do this again? Okay, I just celebrated my 49th birthday, and as I've said a hundred times before, my birthdate was a movie. Originally from Cleveland, but a Southern Californian since the age of 6. My college years were highlighted by a dream part-time job as apprentice/sidekick to an L.A. radio legend you probably never head of (where I originally went public as "Wendell"). No, it is not my real name. I used to write funny stuff and do silly voices for radio folk from Gary Owens to K-ROQ. Also wrote stuff for the "People's Almanac/Book of Lists", most notably "The Sex Life of Schopenhauer". Among my brushes with fame are being mistaken by Robin Williams for a dead tennis player. I'm still recovering from the Worst. Marriage. Ever., and if forced to, would classify myself as asexual (although the puppet sex scene in "Team America" did turn me on). I have been hospitalized three times in the last three years, for a virulent staph infetion, congestive heart faulure and suicidal depression. The Social Security Administration very recently (on my birthday, actually) declared me Disabled, but I still have been able to restart my long-dormant writing 'career' doing occasional stuff for the TV editor a MSNBC.com (here's my latest self-link). I have user #206 at MetaFilter and started my first blog five years ago (that's 180 dog-years in internet time). I used to work designing specialized contract databases (using -gasp- MSAccess) and previously did a variety of mid-to-low-level accounting and systems analyst jobs for companies, most of which are now defunct (one of which collapsed so publicly and dramatically that my bosses advised me not to wear clothing ith the company logo i public - for my safety). My greatest frustration is that, through my illnesses and crises, my cognitive abilities are way less than they used to be. (Don't ask how long it took me to write this, but it's great mental exercise for me.) After ten months sharing a closet-sized apartment with the father I never had a good relationship with, I'll be moving soon. (I love the San Luis Obispo area; hey, jeff, you got a couch I can crash on?) I do have a million anecdotes, when I can remember them. And, I have plenty of experience as a scapegoat, so, when in doubt, blame Wendell. I'm going to sleep now (11:54PM, California time), and will deny every word of this in the morning.
  • I'd like to introduce our latest monkey, Angry Angry Mister Fluffy. As you can see, he is cross. Mess with him not.
  • Hey Jerry G. Since you ask, here is my gratuitous self-link which has some of my jazz stuff. I don't have much of my film music posted there but you can find a couple of random cues here mostly from a feature film I did last year. The PBS show on Oct 20th 8pm is Quest for the Phoenecians and is naturally heavily middle-eastern in style. Thanks for asking.
  • *sigh* someone mentioned dobbs thought I was alone in the universe
  • Mister Fluffy is soooo cute! And vicious, of course.
  • Keep typing on those internets, Wendell. Whatever it takes, me old, whatever it takes.
  • I feel a sense of security when Wendell is around. He just makes me feel all cuddly and safe. Don't know why.
  • Yes, I'm cuddly and safe. Just ask my ex.
  • I’m way late to this thread but here it goes: I’m 22 until December. I’m a guy who is sort of single (I can explain if necessary) I’m a theatre student at the University of Idaho trying to be a lighting designer. I act occasionally. I like beer way to much, specifically Pabst Blue Ribbon. I’m becoming more and more of a hermit and I wish I had a cat. And Sundays are kinda depressing.
  • I'm way late to this thread as well, but I aspire to be a more faithful monkey, so here goes... I am 28, my birth certificate says FeMale (guess someone got confused on my name... the 'Fe' is in a different typeset). I'm in love with an amazing artist who gives me new perspective on the world every day. I make my living in biopharmaceuticals, which means I get to dress up in a space suit at work. I read, play guitar, walk/hike around a bit, people watch, live in my own little world. I'm very interested in talking to LarryC about Northwest Indians, but his e-mail is not in his profile.*hint* Interest in that topic is what secretly drove me to post this because I am generally pretty shy. But don't tell the other monkeys. Tell them I posted because I think they're cute, 'kay?
  • Mister Fluffy! I bow to your extreme cuteness. (Mister Fluffy and Steve the Dog should get together and be spectacularly grumpy together some time.)
  • I'm 25, a writer for hire, and get called a Music Nazi sometimes. I'm still in journo school, with a minor in political philosophy. I will never pay off my student loans. I'm dating a girl who doesn't like Monkeyfilter because she thinks you all have a complex from not being on Metafilter. "Anyway," she says, "They're not as smart or funny." What can you do?
  • js, you should HEAR my husband about Monkeyfilter!! mind you, he has never visited our fine home, but I cannot share a news item or piece of trivia w/him w/out his "oh honey, did you learn that from the monkeys?" quip....some people!
  • Im a 25y.o male residing in Sydney Australia. I guess you could say I'm commitment phobic so I try to avoid serious relationships. Lived in the states (Vermont, Manhattan) on and off for a few years working as a ski Instructor and Bartending. Have regrettably settled down (somewhat) and am now trying to put my Economics Finance degree to good use. Work as an Analyst for a Funds Management Co. Sounds glamorous but the reality is entirely different. Enjoy playing Rugby Union, Skiing, Athletics, Fishing, Reading. Currently petless since I live in a shoebox sized apartment. I did used to own a cat, Snuggles, who regrettably died at age 17 whilst I was OS. I am now a kind of step parent to two adorable Border Collie Labrador cross puppies- Harry & Ruby. Although nicknamed Smackie amongst colleagues/friends, Pete "Bondurant" happens to be one of my favourite characters in several books by my favourite author- James Ellroy. "American Tabloid" and its sequel,"The Cold Six Thousand", are the best crime (fiction?) you could ever possibly read.
  • Well, i was going to write about myself... but its all on my blog , so why reinvent the wheel? I must say though that i cant decide if i have a bigger crush on Quonsar or Quidnunc!
  • Ramix, can we say 'threesome'? And I want pictures! ;>
  • Oh hello -- I'm late and quite breathless. I'm pretty much new here, and I like it a lot. I don't post much, but that's because my coding skills are really faulty and so many monkeys are smarter (and cuter) than me. I was born a humble farm lad in the bulcolic town of Rockville, Connecticut, in the middle of the twentieth century -- though the town (which technically no longer exists) was still firmly based in the nineteenth. I was ejected therefrom at the age of seventeen, due to troubles surrounding my sexual identity. I soon leapt-froggy from Hartford to New York, where I plied my trade as a 42nd Street hustler when said locale was still a wonderful, disreputable place. A few blocks away, the Chelsea Hotel cost $23 a night, and you could see the Velvet Underground for four dollars at Max's. After a few enjoyable years as a common ruffian, I landed a job in the design department at an art museum, which provided me with a back-door education and led eventually to a longish involvement in a((n) originally) anti-war silkscreen collective in Boston, which became a business venture after the end of the Vietnam war. My love and I had, during the early eighties, a rather fabulous impromptu nightclub in our loft above Auditorium stop on the Green Line. But of course, it couldn't last forever. Most of our friends died in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and we found ourselves living on the Cape, sorting things out. The last thing we did together was form a theatre company there, which went along swell for over a year and then ended with a bang. He died about a year later, from causes related to AIDS. After that, I lived by myself for nearly two years in a log cabin deep in the woods in Maine, an experience I wouldn't have missed for the world, and which still remains with me. Re-entering cibbilization, I spent another several years in Cambridge, Mass., a number of which were spent managing a large emergency food program, hands down the most rewarding work I've done. For the past five years, I've been the slightly insane, (yet ultra-easy to get along with), thoroughly burnt-out, but generally much-loved landlord of a hulking Victorian house in Providence, which I leave less and less less...although I sometimes bomb around town in a little gay sportscar, listening to The Slits.
  • Er, I meant 'bucolic'. And I wanted to ask: Can we see a picture of the chihuahua pugdog? Pretty please?
  • Little Durian I kiss your face. In spite of the tragedies, I hope your life is as as positive as you're portraying it. And, did/do you know a guy named Dan (has a labrador who likes watermelon), who worked/works at the Inn? I've lost touch with him. My fault, but we've been friends since the late 60s, and I miss him. (Sorry for the personal note here.)
  • 39 year old divorced father with two kids, who I've just tucked in to bed. I'm part of the Canadian contingent of Monkeyfilter. My kids and I have a cat, a gerbil, and 3 fish. I love playing and watching sports (god, I miss hockey already!), and my new favourite hobby - internet poker (which i'm playing right now). I've always imagined you all to be twenty-somethings, so its nice to see that I'm not the only old-timer here. And it's great to get to know the newcomers. Cheers, all!
  • Why did that show up as a hyperlink???
  • Another Aussie here (yay, feel the aussie-monkey-love!).. early member, but it burns me on a daily basis that I didn't get a higher user number. Anyway.. 25 y.o. IT professional trying to figure out if I still want to be in IT. Desperately wishing that I had the dedication to become a professional cellist; instead, I practise infrequently and get (slightly) annoyed at the perfection of Yo Yo Ma's Bach suites, whilst at the same time swooning with joy at the simple-yet-complex beauty of it. Oh yes. I'm a music geek/snob too ;) Recently read the entire Aubury/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian and loved every page. Desperately ignoring my impending blackbelt testing (ITF Taekwon do) and trying to figure out if I'm emotionally retarded.
  • Hey is it too much to ask that if your Bio is currently blank, yet you have posted something here, then why not cut and paste your comment in. It'll be easier to just click on a members name in future rather than find this thread and then search through it for the person you're looking for.
  • Thanks so much, path, and a smooch right back atcha. (You make my tail prehensile!) I didn't know Dan, but I think I may know who you mean. Why not e-mail the inn, and see what someone there can tell you?
  • I haven't had him (Steve the pug/chihuahua Dog) very long, but I will post a pic as soon as I can make one, ok? (I'm a bad, bad dog mom... no pictures!)
  • Sheeez, I happen to actually take some time off to go out to the real world
  • Hello all it is very nice to meet you. I am a boy in my early twenties in Melbourne. I used to study physics but now I sit in my bedroom except for when my girlfriend drags me out of it. I read a lot and spend far too much energy getting angry at authors I have never met (Jonathan Safran Foer and Dario Fo being the most recent targets of my rage.) Am trying to swear off television because it makes me first throw things at it and second laugh hysterically and third cry and fourth ruin the quiet enjoyment of those around me. One reason I like the internet is that no-one can tell if you're throwing things at the screen.
  • Late to the party again. Ah well. I'm 22, attend college in Idaho for a degree in CS, and could teach doctorate level courses in slacking and procrastination, with intermediate courses in frenzied bursts of writing/coding. I'm a lab monitor. It's like tech support without the phone calls. Beats telemarketing though. I enjoy warmth friends and Monkeyfilter. I also hate, grammar and the rules of, punctuation. You thought I forgot the commas didn't you?
  • Ye know, saying, "Welcome, vamoose," seems a whole lot like saying "Hail and farewwell". Hm. These things ye throw at the screen, are they by any chance knit and woollen and possibly a sock? /sartorial inspection committee, NOT
  • 31. Male. Southern Californian by birth, South Floridian according to the current address on bills sent to me. Choral conductor, voice coach, public school music teacher, sometime composer/arranger and (most recently) keyboard player for an indie band. Separated. Litterateur. Leftist. Autodidact. Crank. Read my blog for more, or don't.
  • Boy, I missed the fun when I unplugged this weekend. For those of you who care, and I mean both of you: 29. Male. Tragically, tragically white. Thin, though developing Handles of Love. Aside from a bit of extra hair and skin that occasionally likes to mutiny, a fairly attractive guy. Married, for a little over 18 months now to a wonderful woman who's a reporter. Originally born in Sedalia, MO, then moved to Springfield. Lived most of my life there, met my wife, and followed her out to Nashville. Then followed her to Little Rock, Arkansas and made an honest woman out of her. I'm the son/nephew/grandson/etc. of jewelers (a nice family tradition that dates back to about 1890). I worked as a jewelry salesman for about ten years, then realized I didn't want to gouge out my eyes with a rusty spoon, so I moved on. BA in philosophy, currently working on a BS in computer science. Probably the thousandth failed writer each of you has known. Recently took up stained glass as a hobby, and am enjoying it very much. Right now I'm horribly underemployed as a bank teller (wonderful job market out there, no, really), the second-oldest member of my branch's staff, and the lowest rank. But I'm working on it. Two tattoos, one an abstract single-line drawing of a cat, the other looks like this (warning: slow-loading page). All in all, content and very happy to be here. And overjoyed that SideDish came back to play with us some more.
  • beeswacky, i'm afraid no socks. usually it's the newspaper or cushions from the couch - haven't quite devolved to throwing breakables yet (at least not very often). in closing, if you'll excuse: i come to read and sometimes parlez but now to bed: ave atque vale.
  • I'm 32, living in Nashville, TN, and I subjected my last MoFi swap group to an entire cd of bluegrass tunes. I'm so very sorry and I won't do it again, I swear! I moved to TN to be with a guy that I was dating long-distance. We're getting married in December, much to the quidnunc kid's disappointment. In my spare time I like to write thank-you notes and cross-stitch. I'm an accountant but I long to win the lottery so I don't have to work anymore. I joined MoFi very early on and I ended up lurking quite a bit more than I thought I would. Still, I'm very interested in what goes on here and I'm so happy to learn more about you all.
  • They call me Danger. I live in Austin with my wife and our (puppy)dog. I'm unemployed and vascilating between luxurious mis-spent mornings and the got-nowhere-to-be-blues. I'm obsessed with coney island, I couldn't care less about grammar, I skipped book 2&3 of the Dune series and picked up with God Emperor, I try to keep a civil tongue in my head, I miss the mountains, I wish I smoked more pot, as I get older the world seems to get larger and stranger, I had a dream about spiders on my pillow last night, I'm really happy I got a shout out from the london meet-up, I wish I was smart enough to figure out what Yeats was on about in "A Vision", I've got a freezer full of green-chile, I think 'ghosty ghosty crocodile' is an excellent name for a blog, and each morning I try to write at least two pages. Anyone interested in the continuing, though sporadically updated, adventures of Nickdanger, unemployed wall watcher, are respectfully directed toward his web journal where irrelevant ramblings abound. Oh, and there's a picture of a cute puppy.
  • I'm a 29 year-old purple-head, and have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1986. Great time to transplant into 49er territory. I still go to games occasionally (my mom has season tix), but it's getting a little depressing. I'm in a PhD program for bioinformatics, and am working through the following series: publish -> graduate -> marry -> travel -> get job -> have kid(s). I have the man and the company and the babysitter lined up, I just need to squeeze some useful (or at least impressive) results out of the data I'm currently avoiding. Yeah...guess I should go work on that now. Bye.
  • I think my blurb in the following thread should actually be in this one... so now it is...
  • I'm a 24 years old male from Mont-Laurier, Quebec. 10 years ago, calling me a canadian would have gotten you a cold stare. Now I don't care. I went into computer engineering for all the wrong reasons, and spent five years in Montreal living a semi-Lebowski lifestyle. Now I'm back in my small town Leboswkying full-time. I really should never have read Camus' The Stranger. When the main character said "I used to be ambitious, but now I'm over that", that was the End of my willingness to do any effort.
  • Richer, can we call you Canadien? (sorry for any missing accents).
  • No. We haven't called ourselves that since the 60s. Québécois is the 'right' term.
  • Altough I must admit it's all political. Calling all those who speak French and historically come from New France Québécois exludes a lot of Franco-manitobans, Fransaskois, Franco-Ontarian, Acadians, Franco-Americans (Kérouac, for instance) and Cajuns. But Hey, I was born in Canada. Identity problems is the price we have to pay for living in "le plusse meilleur pays du monde". And as long as October 1970 isn't coming back in my lifetime (or ever), I'm willing to live with that.
  • Wow, so many posts! And I read every single one, except that I won't remember most of it later (damn my horrible memory!) So, yeah, me. Raised in Los Alamos, NM, lived in El Paso TX, Memphis TN, Queens NY, and Sacramento CA (current residence - nearly 4 years now!) I like to move. I cried when I left New York, but that was because it was from there to Memphis. I dearly love Sacramento, though. I've been doing office management-type work for one company for the last 3 years, and have gone as far as I'm gonna get. I'm having a bit of a mid-life crisis (even though I'm only 26). I used to have worthy & somewhat lofty goals, but after working on my Mom-in-law's jewelry website, for more than 2 years, I decided not to do web design as a career. I've tinkered with computers a bit, so decided to do network admin-ing, but after 3 years of being that person at work, I don't want to do that, either. I'd like to try my hand at sociology, but don't have the money for college. So I did the next best thing & recently took up painting-for-functionality, to see if I could be an artsy-type. It's okay, but I want to do something else. No idea what, of course, just something. Sigh. Perhaps it's not a mid-life crisis, maybe I'm having my second teenager-hood. Anyway, I just got married this May 15, and am still trying to adjust. I knew it'd be hard, but holy crap! The thing that really sucks is that even though he has changed, I've changed more, and for the worse. I have become that which men fear - a bitchy, naggy wife (although if he'd clean up the damn coffee he spilled on the front door I wouldn't nag...). I think I fear his becoming a 50's kind of husband, which is a ridiculous notion. I'm still paranoid about it, though. I've got 2 kitties, Gizmo & Polly, who have chosen their favorite people (Giz has my husband, and Polly has me). Polly didn't have a fun time growing up with the animal sanctuary, so I'm working very hard at getting her over her fears. The other day she had a huge breakthrough - she curled up on my lap & went to sleep, yay! Speaking of that, I was a volunteer for the place where Polly lived until 1 1/2 years old, for two years, but quit just this last week. They took every Sunday, and with lots of projects going on at Mom-in-law's house, I need those days. And, as I was there longer, I was given more administrative duties, which didn't sit well with me. Oh, and: I lurve dark beer, the History channel (pointless because of that bad memory), dancing stupidly to bad songs while my husband laughs, and flaunting my bad taste in music & movies.
  • Richer - that is interesting. I knew Québécois was used widely to differentiate French Quebeckers from other Canadians, but didn't realise that it had replaced the use of Canadian/Canadien entirely. Which also seems ironic (in my non-technical use of the word), considering that the French were the original Canadians when the Anglos were all Americans (even when they lived outside the 13 colonies).
  • I'm 30, female, and I live in the Twin Cities, MN area. I grew up in NJ and I don't find it odd at all that someone would declare that state their favorite - I'd give alot to be back there. I have a degree in chemical engineering and work in a corporate cube-farm, where my outspoken nature tends to offend the natives. For fun I play the violin, sew, and write for a game review site. I've been living with someone for the last 6 years, and probably won't get married anytime soon. I'm a lefty both in the handwriting sense and the political sense. I have a cat and three rabbits.
  • It goes a little something like this. At first, the people living in New France were the "Canadiens", in French. After the Conquest of Quebec, the name stayed. Most of the English-speaking immigrants considered themselves British (or Irish) anyway. But somewhere around the formation of the Dominion, we became the "Canadiens-Français" or French Canadians. Canadian/Canadien came to mean any citizen of Canada. In the 60s, to differentiate ourselves from both the ROC and the French, we started using "Québécois". With the independance movement, it's very political, since calling yourself "canadien" usually means you're a federalist.
  • Hi everyone. My name is MsVader, and I'm an internet-holic. I sit in front of a computer all day (I work in publishing with a program that no one's ever heard of) and I end up spending a lot of time lurking here and at MeFi. Every once in a while I'll get crazy and comment. Originally from New Jersey, I now live in Maryland with my boyfriend (emptybowl from MeFi) who I met online. You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey out of the girl. I'm adjusting to life here, but it's hard. Since I'm a total food snob, I'm suffering in corporate-death-chain land (are there no good italian restaurants here?). Plus, I've left all of my friends and family behind, so I'm in search of new friends (any MD monkeys out there?). We love to play games (board, card, computer, etc...) and have hosted one MeFi gaming meetup, which ended up being a lot of fun. Another meetup is in the works. Stats: 33, female, strong like Bull, liberal/libertarian, love dogs, allergic to cats, enjoy decorating and entertaining, very opinionated, working for the man (literally - a new government employee here). I think monkeys are dirty, creepy little demons, but I like you guys. :)
  • I subjected my last MoFi swap group to an entire cd of bluegrass tunes. I'm so very sorry and I won't do it again, I swear! Don't worry, I loved it! You're all good.
  • Monkeyfilter: Dirty, creepy little demons. sorry
  • I yam what I yam.
  • 30, just married (did we lose the moneyjane cliche thread? have to check...) assistant professor (ass pro to my brother; no further comment) 2 cats, living apart from my SO at the moment by about 2 hours of flying time due to work, Australian working overseas as it happens, hopeless Pratchett addict, and I love shiny things
  • 30, recently got my PhD (good luck ngm and yentruoc!) and currently research assistant searching for a great idea for a grant proposal. I spend far too much time on the internet but I'm trying to slow down. I want to read books. I listen to a lot of radio programs on the web and now have a fairly big (6Gb) collection in MP3 format. It's ever growing and all neatly archived but I don't yet know what I'm going to do with it. I just can't put myself to delete it. I have two hobbies:- . Ultimate frisbee . Skepticism. It's not just idiot-bashing; I'm genuinely interested into why people believe weird things, as Shermer puts it, be it alternative medicine, pseudo-science or religion. This fascinates me. Apart from that, I also play Go and Scrabble online. Oh and I'm French. Also I really like the dark monkey style. Try it !
  • Koant, why don't you start a 'Net radio broadcast?
  • tracicle: Last week, I've been this close to start a MP3 blog dedicated to radio talk shows and documentaries. I have a name for it and everything. I would resort to torrents or edonkey pointers for sharing the large-ish files. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite fit with my cutting-down-on-web-consumption effort. I quite simply don't have the time to do it. But in any case, if someone wants to have a look at the list of programs I've recorded so far, just drop me a line.
  • If you have them listed online somewhere, throw us a link here or in your profile. I'd listen to them when I'm in the mood. :)
  • thank you for your interest tracicle but I think I would rather not put that list online as it points to borderline-legal content and I don't want to be tracked back, so to speak. The way my mp3 blog was supposed to work would have bypassed these technical nuisances.
  • 47, married, male, work in TV (which was once the New Media), Canadian. Live near Vancouver, a place that was once the best city on Earth, IMHO. Then along came Expo 86. I like cats, motorcycles, cars and travel. Last trip, London. Started playing golf a couple of years ago. Bad at it, but there's hope. Like al kinds of music from Baroque to Beck. Came here looking for a flame free exchange of ideas...found it.
  • zedcaster, please share with an uninformed Californian how Expo 86 changed things.
  • Well, for one, Vancouver lost all the indie cred it had amassed in the last 100 years or so. I liked their early stuff better.
  • Ah! Expo '86....brings back memories. I was a pseudo-college-dj for a very short while and got into Expo the day before it opened. Free rides abounded, lot's of alchohol and caviar and limitless space. A group of us had taken the college bus across the border, gotten really stoned and then proceeded to get into a car accident. Not our fault (no, really), and not one hurt. Good times, good times. No reason to go back after that. Yeah, Vancouver changed. But, it was inevitable, really. Besides, look at the boatloads of people coming in.
  • Unemployed, newly resident in Portland. 26 years old, born in Arlington, Virginia, home of Warren Beaty and Scott Rockenfield (the drummer for Queensrÿche), attended St. John's College, Annapolis and University of Chicago, looking for a job, lived a little in Russia and in Turkey, would like a job, has a B.A. and a M.A. and am unemployed, if I hadn't mentioned.
  • PF, where 'bouts in Turkey--and what did you think of it? Russia must have been way kewl.
  • a:28 s:M l:Taipei, Taiwan Originally from the States (more specifically, the Dirty South), I moved to Taiwan three years ago to study Chinese, teach English, travel, and make money. Somewhere along the way, I got tricked into teaching Kindergarten and now I love the little crumb-snatchers. I hope to return to the US next year to go back to school and become a "real" teacher. I currently have no pets, but I do have a plant that I am very fond of. I have a wide ocean of ever-changing likes and interests, so I'll limit myself to what's great this week: Kate Bush (discovering her years too late, but still enjoying it), John Stewart (the way he called Bow Tie a dick made me fall in love all over again), tempura-fried tea leaves (words cannot describe), 2046 (the prettiest film I've seen all year, although "Sky Captain" is a close second), good cheese (because life is too short for crap, oily stuff).
  • Tinfoil Sorting Hat: I thought Sky Captain was that way too. I'll have to see 2046. Ima bouta look for links for it. The prettiest film I've ever seen was Hero. I highly recommmend it if your in to that kind of visual stimulation.
  • Mr. K.: Thanks for the tip. I've seen Hero and I thought it was well shot. Christopher Doyle was the cinematographer for both Hero and 2046. If you haven't seen his other works, I highly recommend them, especially the films he's done with director Wong Kar Wai.
  • BlueHorse: I discovered PF's blog while he was traveling around Russia (mostly Siberia), and he has fantastic stories to tell. Unfortunately, his archives are very perversely arranged, so you just have to keep going back and back and back... until you get where you want to go. But if you do that, along the way you'll find his Istanbul stories as well, complete with photos. As an appetizer, I quoted a couple of his Russian entries here.
  • path, I think richer's comment summed it up. Expo 86 was Vancouver's effort to become (as we were told by the politicians) a World Class City. What we got was a fun summer, followed by the loss of the cosiness Vancouver once had. We lost our indie cred. We sold out. I'm not naive enought to think Vancouver would never "grow up" but I don't know what the rush was. I think if we had been more deliberate and had done things slowly we would be more like say, Portland OR, than like Seattle WA. Nothing against Seattle, it a favorite of mine.
  • Time to 'fess up? I'm another Canadian (10 provinces and 3 territories and 2 official languages, and I like it that way, damnit) [smirks at R]. I'm back in gorgeous Nova Scotia after a 10-year stint in Calgary [waves to Outrigger and Squeak]. I'm of the female persuasion, red-haired, and 45. I prefer to make my living editing things written in English. Sorry about the 911 socks- I thought the humour was in the irrelevance, not the irreverence.
  • Anyone remember the provincial propaganda surrounding expo 86 and the grand plans they had for the area? Took them a very long time but surprisingly it's coming out similar to what they envisioned. I remember post expo 86 there was a surplus store in chinatown offering up the goods they couldn't sell at the exposition, a $80 swatch became a $20 one lol To add to the expo question, we lost our innocence but I don't think expo 86 was the reason I think it was the final push over the edge. There were signs that indicated that was the direction Vancouver was taking before 1986. I was there recently and I almost didn't recognize the city and I was born and raised there.
  • ...in gorgeous Nova Scotia... Hurray! Up with articulate Bluenoses! *hearts fish tick*
  • Up with articulate Bluenoses! Not such a terribly rare commodity, you know... Are you one, actually, beeswacky (asked only mildly nervously)?
  • Laaaate late late, but I'm having guilt attacks about not being the right sort of person here, so I feel beholden to disclaimer myself. I'm 27, possessed of two X chromosomes (I hesitate to say female, because people tend to assume teh h0ttness if I say that), and a mildly depressive office drone. Single, obviously. I love pets but my lease doesn't allow them, so I live vicariously through my siblings' pets. I have one sister, and her best friend might as well be in the family, so it's one and an honorary. A depressingly stereotypical dork fangirl, my hobbies include quilting, vegetarian cooking, video games, and selling convention costumes to anime fans. I am rabidly keen on bridging gaps between groups of people who don't understand each other and loooove being the dork-to-mainstream dictionary/emissary. I'm feeling really bad right now because I'm female and not hot, and it looks like people come to Mofi for the hot chicks. I'm sorry. I'll post less. Or can I be the official statistical outlier that doesn't really count? I'll make up a badge and everything!
  • ...it looks like people come to Mofi for the hot chicks Not me...I came for the free beer cockpunch.
  • hot chicks! Actually, it's sorta hard to see what everyone looks like here, so I just pay attention to the conversation. Wurwilf, smile and relax, you beautiful monkey. Have a banana daiquiri.
  • reference here. ...and I wasn't joking. I'm not beautiful at all. But I won't tell, and you can keep your perfect score in Monkey h0ttness. ;)
  • Wurwilf: Meetups aside, this is the internet. We're all anonymous and invisible here...reduced only to the comments we choose to post. I'm not trying to come off too harsh here, but I don't know any nicer way to say this: The only thing unattractive about you is your attitude.
  • So I am late to the thread too. But I am in an upswing on posting lately, so I will chime in. Let's see... I am 31, female, and single. I grew up in TN (east and middle), but relocated NYC almost 4 years also as the result of a quarter-life crisis. I currently work in the field of non-profit fundraising for Planned Parenthood, but would like to switch tracks and do more grass-roots activism. That is, as soon as I can figure out how to support myself doing grass-roots activism. My pet issues (aside from reproductive rights) are what many would consider fringe... namely separation of church and state, paganism and size acceptance. Yes, that means I am a fat, hell-bound liberal. With two cats. But inflammatory titles aside, I do the usual stuff... films, music, books. I hang out with my good buddy Forksclovetofu, whom I have known since college. I collect interesting men, and I am currently dating a wonderful guy who was a former New Wave almost rock star. I also collect PEZ, artwork featuring octopi, and 1950's and 60's kitchenware.
  • Are you one actually, beeswacky...? fish tick, some days I am singular, sometimes; like Mr Whitman, I contain multitudes. Born in Nova Scotia, but have lived for extended periods in Canada, Britain, and the States, so I never know how to answer such questions without going into tedious detail, and in fact something in me dislikes labels on people in much the way Mr Frost disliked fences. Which is one of the reasons I prefer merely to bee. Apologize if I make ye nervous, certainly not my intent. Like words, and talking, and I like tick talking.
  • beeswacky - something in ye dislikes wearing labels, but p'raps not the dispensing thereof, wot? Sorry to try to pin ye, but ye were asking fer it, sez this 'Bluenose', and not really nervous a-tall, a-tall. Candy is dandy but salt cod lasts forever.
  • Heh. Was hoping ye were not such a pooor thing as all that, tick
  • errrrrr, you really will wish you hadn't started this. The trick is to never let me get started. {Wolof, we must prepare the defences for the arrival of the barbarian hordes headed by naturesgreatestmiracle. Sharpen up those spikes and start digging the pits for the cavalry. I have been training our archers and they grow more accurate and stronger everyday.} I always forget how old I am, but when I look at my ageing proof of age card (no drivers licence) it tells me I was born in 1973. Such a long time ago.... I spent my formative years (as the Jesuits would have it) in the small town of English town of Rushden. There I would while away the hours in the adjacent wheat fields and semi-rural expanses. One of my most joyful memories is having my friend's dad chase me down the street in a rage after I called him a 'jam tart'. I learnt that calling someone a pastry was apparently offensive and that one should never trust a friend when it came to their opinion of their parents mental state. I could have been a pasty white anorak wearing shoegazer, but thanks to my parents moving to Australia when I was 6, I am not. Instead of being a moderately wealthy painter/plasterer with RSI and breathing problems I am working in a university library. This is what happens when you and your parents believe that going to University bestows some magical property upon you and is not just another hoop to jump through. I have an incomplete PhD in History and am finishing a gradudate degree in information studies. I think too much and have the propensity to often say what I think. Earlier in my life this was not a good thing, but I think I have the hang of it now. I am an iconoclast - I enjoy playing team sports (Touch, or as #1 said touch rugby), and I love cycling but I definately have an incurable curiosity about things and some would say an unusual sense of humour and like to mimic, impersonate and use my voice for general fun-type purposes. I am all over the shop in my interests and don't have enough time to indulge in them at the moment, mainly because I have a problem with saying no to people and not helping out with things that I am involved in. I live with a cat that adopted us several houses ago. She is quite small and amazingly timid, but can perform amazing acrobatic when in the mood. My other housemates are also female. One if my current gf (soon to change thanks to the immigration laws) and the other is a friend who I had my other long-term romantic relationship with. I miss my brother, he recently moved overseas. I have lived with him for all but one year of my life.
  • I'm female and in my thirties, and used to have tons of cultural identifications but sorta don't, anymore. So I can't find much of a handle to introduce or define myself except what's on my profile. Um. Third generation Californian. Paraprofessional librarian (am a cataloger, sans MLS). Psoriatic. Dog owner (of only one now: my beloved super-pit-bull Brandydog, who for twelve years has allowed my female self to take a walk whenever and wherever I damn please). Economics relocated me from the Bay Area to LA last year. I don't drive, and don't watch tv. Spent most of the nineties educating homeless junkies and street kids about HIV. Been arrested twice. Feminist. Have sworn off sex until my damn psoriasis is in remission; if/when it does, I plan to make up for the past few years. I have really pretty hair, and wear a shoe size of 6 1/2. Salon's TableTalk was my first forum, and I have no idea how I found Monkeyfilter. Anagrams of my full name result in gibberish. Claim to fame: Tom Waits offered me drugs when I was fourteen.
  • Nickdanger funfact #2: "My father used to chase cars down the street." Nickdanger funfact #3: "Seriously" Nickdanger funfact #4: "One time he did it during our neighbor's kid's graduation party. Everyone was shocked and looked on in a sort of unbelieving stupor."
  • mmmmm, tasty link, thanks, Hat. Wurwilf daaahling, hotness is as hotness does. *GramMa grabs up the tassels and prepares to shake it for the Monkeys
  • Wolof, we must prepare the defences for the arrival of the barbarian hordes headed by naturesgreatestmiracle Couldn't we just have a beer with her instead?
  • goofyfoot: That's the most awesome claim to fame I've ever heard. It was pot, right? My biggest claim to fame is that my roommate's mom was in a national TV commercial. It'd be pretty tough for someone to come up with a lamer claim to fame.
  • Oh yeah? My housemate was the "Punk Rock Girl" from the song with the same name by the Dead Milkmen. Not the girl in the video, but the girl that hung-out with them and was the inspiration for the song.
  • If we're going to bring up claims to fame, path and I have one that we share. We ate lunch in a restaurant in Delphi a couple tables away from John Hurt, who had put henna in his hair, was wearing makeup, and was dressed in drag. It turned out later that he was filming The Naked Civil Servant at the time. Until we discovered that, it was a little disconcerting.
  • Wolof, we must prepare the defences for the arrival of the barbarian hordes headed by naturesgreatestmiracle Couldn't we just have a beer with her instead? Though I am a midwest girl, I swear I have only been to Walmart twice, and I don't eat at McDonald's. And I actually tried toast with vegemite with an open mind. With a ton of butter, you can barely taste the yeasty stuff. I don't own an American flag. Plus, my boyfriend's mom said that I "am not too American". Still, I do say "tomato" with a long "a". dj, are you at the library at the University of Adelaide? Claim to fame: I was on a business trip to Dallas in in the mid-90s. I went to my hotel room to find a guy trying to unlock my door. I politely said to him that I think he had the wrong room. It turns out that Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger himself!) was staying in the room next to me and, appartenly, can't read numbers very well. He is short.
  • and, apparently, I can't spell.
  • dj and I are having the first Adelaide Meetup Sunday week. (Nov 7th.) Later on, we are going to meet nature'sgreatest in an alley somewhere and spank her bottom with a feather.
  • spank her bottom with a feather Is that some weird Aussie thing? I am going to have to do some research on Aussie culture. I've really only been in the company of one at a time.
  • Will we have pictures, Wolof?
  • Oooh! Oooh! I have a crappy claim to fame - I made the local news once for selling a record number of candy bars for charity. My 15 minutes, or 90 seconds anyway, was over by the fourth grade. Plus, I kicked Craig from Craigslist, but completely on accident I swear.
  • Warning: Wendell Anecdotes Ahead! I mentioned some of my Brushes With Fame at the MeetUp (but was drowned out by the reaction to the Jets getting a first down). In 6th grade, my parents took me out of the L.A. Public Schools and into a Private School they could barely afford just to get me away from the Bullies. I ended up just dealing with a much higher socioeconomic class of bullies, including one of the sons of TV Legend Steve Allen (who, ten years later, after another of his sons joined a cult, wrote a book about his own failures as a father... yeah, Steverino, I coulda told you about that). In order to pay for my schooling, my mother went to work as Librarian and Substitute Teacher at the same school, and during one rainy-day recess, she revealed to a group of students a grade ahead of me the family story of how, if my dad had had one more gin and tonic the night I was born, I'd have been named "Wendell". Yeah, that's right, Wendell is not my real name, but after it got out, it might as well have been. more later...
  • Phooey. I suck for missing this link until now. Some quick facts- age: 34; gender: m; location: 25 feet off the coast of Oakland, CA; born: Baltimore, MD; raised: Montreal and Boston; occupation: creative services; interpersonal status: single; astrological sign: Taurus; cats: two O'Keefe & Kanga; preferred operating system: OS X; religion: n/a; political affiliation: D; tattoos: three; current facial hair: stubble and goatee. More scintillating details (and a frightening photo) available on the bio page on my site.
  • I am now in love with O'Keefe. That picture is so cute it makes my heart hurt.
  • El Queso, sadly, I can't get any of the links. I'll try again tomorrow.
  • cali- shh, she'll hear you. i'd just bought the bureau, and she was giving her approval. path- i was rebuilding the site, should be ok now.
  • No, still can't access them.
  • how very odd. they work just fine for me :)
  • David Guy English Male 26 Tired
  • but employed! (how is that going?)
  • Yes, I work in the uni Library. Having a beer sounds like much less work than my previous suggestion.
  • *waves back to fish tick* *assumes tick knew I was just having fun in Simian Savannah thread* *assumes the (supposed) Canadian I-don't-want-to-offend-anyone stereotype is now strengthened* *stops gesturing*
  • Great! Beer when I get there!
  • *takes note of curious Canadian behaviour* *apologises for possibility of giving impression of being offended* *polishes off maple leaf*
  • Latest obscure brush with fame: Just found out my housemate had met Patrick Stewart last year, chatted with him about Red Dwarf and shook his hand. So I shook my housemate's hand. So I have shook the hand that shook the hand of Patrick Stewart! Go me.
  • Related obscure brush with fame: my husband once waited at Patrick Stewart's table in a restaurant. After the meal, Patrick (may we call him Patrick? I think so) ostentatiously crossed the restaurant to seek him out, thanked him for a great evening, shook him firmly by the hand and by this subtle means palmed over a £10 tip. That man is class. I think the lesson here is that eventually the hand of Patrick Stewart touches us all, in some small way.
  • Mayhaps I will post a note to drag this onto the sidebar. It was some fun reading this again!
  • eventually the hand of Patrick Stewart touches us all, in some small way Only in my dreams ...
  • Patrick Stewart, petebest, it's all good.
  • How many lights are there?
  • Ummm . . . a thousand points?
  • am I now wot once I woz 2 years ago? I don't think so I have more horses and more bees more time to write such scrawls as these
  • Here's to the now bees Toodle-oo to the then If now bees evolves more He'll write it up zen.