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**GregoryZero** · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 2338 Location: California

I am also very horrible when it comes to managing my free time. It's taken me this long to think of another thing to say. I guess I don't view myself as a very interesting person.
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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

And here I was, figuring that I was the only one who used semicolons in text messages. We should presumably start a Facebook group or something.

Anyhow, interesting things about me, keeping the list to a bare minimum of most-anomalous high points:

- I was born with severe bilateral clubfoot in both feet. They were surgically "fixed" to the extent that they could when I was six months old, but it's left me with certain shortcomings like "does not have functioning Achilles' tendons". Pointing my toes, much less standing on them? Completely alien concept. (Which means that there's no real spring in my step, so I look a bit like I'm gorilla-ing around when I walk. Also, evidence suggests I'm probably quietly liquefying every joint in my legs. I'll save the whole depressing tirade for another time.)

- I won the California State Math Test for 5th and 6th graders when I was in 5th grade, getting one of two perfect 40-out-of-40 scores. Won the Santa Cruz County math contest every year until they literally stopped holding the things for my grade level, too - I must still have the plaques somewhere. I took math classes three years ahead of my grade level, where I got to be endlessly shuttled around between the various local high school / junior high / elementary school campuses. (In 4th grade, I spent my whole day on one campus; this didn't happen again until freshman year of high school. And then not again until I graduated high school and moved along to college For Real.)

- I had a personal website (antwon.com) back in the day where I managed to produce at least one post a day for over three straight years, ultimately totaling over 1.2 million(!) words of content before the server exploded. (This was an "E/N" site, a term which probably means nothing to you. You can read more about the concept here, assuming that linking to a MetaFilter thread I posted in over a decade ago counts as a "citation".) It started out as light fare - just a way to get regular visitors while working on my "real" content - but evolved into 1200+ word humorous essays generated daily, with links to intermittent longer fare I'd penned. (In a parallel universe, I could've lucked out, blossomed, and become a wordier variant of SomethingAwful. No dice. Such is life.)

- I was the first person in the world to successfully write a program in the programming language Malbolge. I was acknowledged for doing so in Wikipedia and everything! When the aforementioned server went down, though, my proof evaporated along with it, and I was quickly edited out of existence by the teeming hordes of citation-demanding wiki-goers. But I still had my moment in the sun, however little evidence remains.

- I'm still trying to visit every county in the United States. I'm "only" one-third done, but eh, no one said it would be easy. Not that I've even touched every state yet. So:

**inv4der** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 9658 Location: Meridian, ID

**boss1592** · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

God this is so depressing, I just realized what a boring person I am

Lets see

-I have never owned a mobile phone, and that doesn't look like changing anytime soon. Maybe someday
-My mother is on first name terms with one of the guys who originally created Grand Theft Auto, and also once partied with the guy who played pippin in lord of the rings
-My favorite TV shows are House M.D. and The Big Bang Theory
-I'll be eating a Dominoes pizza in a few hours time
-My greatest passion in life is cosmology and astronomy
-My favorite sport is football, which I usually play every Friday night, I play goalkeeper
-My favorite stand up comedian is Dylan Moran
-I enjoy karaoke, and partake in it as much as I can
-My favorite band is Green Day (as many of you may know at this point)
-My favorite films are Inception and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
-I enjoy country music
-I have cried once whilst watching a film, which was at the climax of the film Dead Man Walking, starring Sean Penn who is quite stunning in the starring roll
-I think The Godfather is the most overrated film ever
-Despite my hatred of them, I have actually seen all three twilight films multiple times, except the third, only once, because they are just so much fun to rip on

And... that's about it, for now

**JohnnyGrey** · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 2967 Location: Illinois

I much prefer a plate of (buttery, salty, not-so-healthy anymore) veggies than munching on fruit. There's really only 4-5 fruits I'll actually eat but even then I can only eat so much of them.

I've gone to a restaurant and asked for a coke and when asked if Pepsi was okay, politely refused and got a water instead.

Ever since August of last year or so, the majority of people I've hung out with have been LGBT members. My friend from high school is gay and we went to the same college so I tagged along with him when he went to the LGBT club and I met a bunch of really amazing people. I've met some of my now closest friends, had a bunch of amazing experiences and really just have a better view on life and stuff I guess.

I also don't really know how to ride a bike. My parents "made" me learn enough to ride around the block a few times when I was like 10 or so, but I never really touched one since.

I can easily go from being the "shy, awkward, quiet one" to being an attention whore depending on who I'm with (and if there's anyone to impress

).

My first kiss was the summer after my senior year of high school. Halfway through, her dog came by and licked her face, and then everything just tasted like dog afterward >_>.

For at least the first month of seventh grade I wore strictly Spongebob t-shirts. I was pretty awesome.

Maybe some more later
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:38 pm Post subject:

Wow... lots to put down here.

1. I have the absolute worst luck with women. I'm not getting into the story, but I have been thieved two times, forced out of the military, and a restraining order on me to live in my apartment and make me pay all the bills.

2. My dad has been disabled since I was 9 or 10, needs two canes to walk. He's inspired me to do what I do and to keep doing it, even though he needs the canes to walk, he still loves and continues to work on his projects.

3. I never went to prom. Thought it was a waste of time, and I don't regret it. I was too busy tearing apart things.

4. My mom got so sick of me tearing apart my computer when I was about 15-16, so she put a lock on the computer case... in which I looked up online how to pick locks, picked it, and got back into it.

5. I modified my first Atari 2600 at 16 years old.

6. I did terrible in school. I just simply didn't care. I wanted to go home and tear things apart.

7. I never went to college. I need to fix that, but it seems like every time that I get the thoughts to do so, something comes up and sets me back.

8. I only play video games once a week, and if I do that, its not a long time. I'd much rather build the projects than to play on them.

9. I suffer from depression pretty bad, and anymore it is why I do my projects. Keeping my mind off of things seems to do the trick, and the result, I make something neat.

10. I drink far too much. I know that I can stop, and I have for over a month at a time. I just enjoy it.

11. I used to know how to tie a tie, but since I left the military, I forgot.

12. Regarding to The-B.O.D.'s post, I am also "that one guy." I have tiny LAN parties with my friends every weekend, and every weekend I slowly introduce them to older and older internet fandom. This past weekend, I showed them the Terrible Secret of Space.

13. No matter how dire of a situation, I never ask for help. I just don't do it. Money, I just sell part of my collection. Emotional, I talk to myself and sort out things. I can be a loner, so not having a lot of friends has never been an issue with me. When I do feel down due to it, I just make/modify something.

14. I cannot eat ice cream. It hurts my mouth too much. I just simply can't do it, can't stand it, can't stand the cold, just everything about it.

15. I absolutely cannot eat cereal with milk in it. Milk in a glass, I'm fine with. On it... forget it.

16. I don't like sweets. I LOVE dark chocolate, regular chocolate I can handle, but anything from cake to whipped cream, I hate it. Some candy I like, and I like pie that isn't too sweet or with whipped cream on it. I also don't like cold pie. See, Ice cream.

17. I don't gamble, and I don't play the lottery. I am entirely too competitive that I know it would end up bad, so I don't play.

18. I cannot stand talking on the phone. Mainly because, when I am talking on the phone, I can't be doing something else. If I am not doing something, I get bored. When I get bored, I get irritated. So yeah... no talking on the phone with me.

19. Last but not least... I admit, I am not as smart as I look. I do a lot of research on Google for things. The Atari in the computer is just a glorified step by step instructions on Ben Heckendorn's page on how to build an Atari 2600 portable. I learned to build my first computer by printing up instructions, and the bracket I made tp fix X360s is a custom bracket that you can buy for $40 (the one bracket that requires you to drill holes and bolt the bracket through the steel cage, to the heatsink), but made MUCH cheaper. I go home depressed at least once a week, wondering how I got this far.
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**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

I used to be able to ride a bike, when I was a kid. More recently, my sister tried to get me to try again (her boyfriend is a cyclist and works at a bike shop, they both bike a lot) and I could not. You know the phrase "It's like riding a bike"? Well, it wasn't.

@youhas Your description of how you walk with no spring in your step reminds me of my old roommate who could not jump to save his fucking life. Seriously, he's 6'3" and can barely touch the net of a basketball hoop. He doesn't have any physical leg/foot problem that he's aware of though, just sucks at jumping.
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I'm back I suppose

**CorpusCollosum** · Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 1823 Location: San Francisco

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**dragoninforcer** · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 1457 Location: Long Island

guess i'm gonna have to do this too........

1. I'm what you would call "overweight", or what Wii Fit would call "obese". I'm 14 years old, around 5'3" to 5'4", and 175 pounds (i lost like ten pounds over the summer).

2. I love science. Science is just something I have found interesting since I was little (and math, too).

3. Simple Plan was the band that got me started into "rock" music, but i think the defining moment was the day my dad bought Green Day's American Idiot first day (he loves Green Day). And GH/RB got me into the hard rock/metal music i listen to today.

4. Now that you know i listen to hard rock/metal now, you should know that when i was a little kid, my favorite band was...... wait for it....... *NSYNC.

5. I'm the biggest procrastinator you'll ever meet. Just ask my teachers.

6.I prefer playing my real instruments to the video games, which i still play every now and again. I still love everything Harmonix makes (addicted to VidRhythm atm).

7.I go on scorehero on a daily basis. Usually nothing too exiting but you never know

**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485