Journal Zirnike's Journal: The best thing about movies... 2
...is that you can stare at a woman's breasts without looking like a jerk.
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Name: Yes.
Age: 30
Current Location: My bedroom
Status: Online (AIM, ICQ, MSNM)
Number of Sibling Units: Younger sister (also an engineer. Counterintuitively called a 'civil' engineer)
Parental status: Almost never online, or even on the computer. Plus their computer has a bad NIC, I think.
Handedness: Varies. Right normally, left for drawing (but not writing) and eating.
Pets: One computer, one car*
Height/Weight: 6'5", and large (as in, the doctor's scale is insufficient)
Hair/Eye Color: Hair black, curly, where it exists. Brown eyes with gold flecks. Pale skin, which means that I look like I have 5 o'clock shadow about 15 minutes after I shave.
Hair Style: 1/2-3 inches long, depending on when my last haircut was. Most of the time, a black haired version of Patrick Stewart's hair. With a goatee, though.
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: Yes - one operation, one from an iron.
Vision: I visualize myself owning Black Dragon Enterprises, a engineering firm specializing in general mechanical solutions to all sorts of weird problems. Plus weapons development.
Googleable?: Yep. Zirnike here, and with my old CTF clan. By real name only by my senior design project, and buy another guy with the same name in the same state that referees pro hockey games.
Shoe size: 13.5
Average tv time per week: A lot. Mostly because I listen to the TV while web browsing.
Average COMPUTER time per week: Over 100, easy.
number of alarm clocks: 3, generally.
childhood nickname: My only nickname was used by only one person (who I happened to have a crush on...)
childhood pet/stuffed animal/imaginary friend: Not really.
I can't find a bunch of my CDs. They have to be around somewhere... I thought sure they were in my car (they were in the case I keep there as I listen to them often). I distinctly remember finding my copy of Milla Jovovich's album (The Divine Comedy... It's actually quite good), but now it's missing. Sigh...
It is now 6 degrees warmer in my room than in the rest of the house. Hot enough that I need to keep the fan on (74, hot for me). In some ways, it's good... easier to sleep for me.
And, as a final bit of annoyance, I spend New Years Eve trying to fix my Playstation 2. I had to totally disassemble it and clean the laser lens (they're not all exposed to a standard CD cleaner). It works a lot better now, at least. Nobody seemed to be doing anything this New Years.
I finally got the 5th Malazan Book of the Fallen (Midnight Tides). Man, Steven Erikson is a good author. I highly recommend anyone interested in decent fantasy novels go and grab Gardens of the Moon. It might be a bit hard to find, but it'll be worth it. I also just finished Ian Banks' Complicity, which is typical Banks, in that it is extremely readable, and very good.**** Also read The Hero and Cally's War, both by John Ringo (with another author). Cally's War (that one with Julie Cochrane) is fairly good. The Hero... Well, is like the rest of the Legacy of the Alldenata books. It's noticeable that he's a fairly new author in terms of style, but the plot, ideas, etc. are all pretty cool. You should be able to find A Hymn Before Battle (you could ask me, I might be able to find my electronic copy) online. The books came out on some CDs that Baen put out (I think in the War of Honor hardcover, which I have, somewhere).
* Currently with transmission problems. I shouldn't have declared my car was female... Now every once in a while she gets grouchy and makes me spend a lot of money on her.**,***
** Said from inside my bunker.
*** but as I said before, I would feel odd riding a guy...
**** Some good sex scenes, too, not that I noticed...
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hi! how are you? been a while
just wanted say "hello"
maybe with a few more visits to Boston i can become an honorary member of the
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