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Feb. 3rd, 2009 02:32 pmFound this on my hard drive, and wanted to save it somewhere:
( C and SQL standards, my version )
( C and SQL standards, my version )
Feb. 3rd, 2009
1. I have a dimpled columella nasi.
2. I met the love of my life at a dopefest** in Las Vegas. Bob likes to tell people he married a belly dancer he met in Las Vegas.
3. I didn't think anyone else would like my dancing until I was well into college. $#@%3 brothers.
4. However, this was not the reason why I couldn't fast dance at the first dance I ever went to. It was that every time we got up to dance, the guy I was with started dancing the funky monkey and I could NOT wrap my head around that (or maybe I was afraid that if I started dancing I would also start laughing).
5. Mom started working for American Airlines when I was in kindergarten, and our first trip was to San Francisco and New York City.
6. I cannot count the times I've been to San Francisco. NYC is in second place.
7. I've been to Stonehenge twice (Also Castlerigg (a stone circle in the lake district), and Avebury). I was rather disappointed in Stonehenge the first time with all the tourist milling around, but the second time they were keeping people from getting near the stones, so it was less prosaic.
8. I still prefer Castlerigg.
9. The only broken bone in my body is a heel spur. This must be a good trick because my podiatrist was impressed.
10. When I was in elementary school, I had to get speech therapy because I was swallowing backwards. I still have to concentrate sometimes when I want to swallow pills.
11. I've never lived outside of Texas; with the exception of college, I haven't lived outside of Tarrant County.
12. My great-great-grandfather's name was Julius Ceasar Lowe.
13. Also in elementary school, I was doing so poorly ("She would do so well if she would just apply herself"), that Mom took me to the Child Study Center in fourth grade. While I know now that I have ADD, I was diagnosed as having "the worst case of passive-aggression that [the psychiatrist] had ever seen".
14. While I was there, I was evaluated as being just a couple of points below genius level.
15. I was raised in an atmosphere of creativity - Mom did needlecrafts and painting, Dad did photography and woodworking, and I picked up hobbies from both of them.
16. I learned what a googol was a long time ago, because it was on the header line of a page in the dictionary we had. How do kids these days find interesting words?
17. My first job was printing napkins with names for weddings. Even though there was a lot of gruntwork in that, I really enjoyed it. I don't know if that started my interest in typography, but it certainly fed it.
18. When I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, I was able to spell it correctly on the first try. Bob and I figured out that I knew about the disease because I had read a Heinlein short story about a man with MG.
19. I've worked as a programmer in retail, physical security, oil&gas and telephony companies. I've learned something interesting in all of them, although nothing beats this company, where you will end up having serious discussions concerning teddy bears.
20. When I was a kid, I had a length of cartilage grow between my two top front teeth above the gumline. I had to have surgery to have it removed before the front tooth gap could be repaired. Many years later, a dentist took a full jaw x-ray and found a circular cutout where the cartilage probably was. He had never seen anything like that.
21. My body does not process nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) properly, so it causes dizzy spells for months, even years afterwards. I find a surprising number of medical professionals that have never heard of this. My body does really strange things, apparently.
22. When I worked on physical security systems, one of the systems I helped install was at the United Nations. Best work-related trip EVER.
23. I attempted to prove that every word in my thesaurus was connected to every other word. By hand. Twice. (The first time, I just gave up. The second time I actually found a dead end)
24. I'm a taurus, with aries rising and a gemini moon. This actually works because I can do the driving aries, but I'm mostly about comfort and pleasure; however, I love being on center stage. Bob is aries with taurus rising, but he is more taurus than aries to me. We were both born in the year of the tiger… 12 years and one month apart. < end silly astrology blather >
25. I've developed a habit in the past few years of snapping my fingers by snapping the middle finger, rather than the thumb.
Wow, I managed to keep this G-rated.
* Because Grace told me to.
** A party of members of the Straight Dope Message board. What did you think I meant?
2. I met the love of my life at a dopefest** in Las Vegas. Bob likes to tell people he married a belly dancer he met in Las Vegas.
3. I didn't think anyone else would like my dancing until I was well into college. $#@%3 brothers.
4. However, this was not the reason why I couldn't fast dance at the first dance I ever went to. It was that every time we got up to dance, the guy I was with started dancing the funky monkey and I could NOT wrap my head around that (or maybe I was afraid that if I started dancing I would also start laughing).
5. Mom started working for American Airlines when I was in kindergarten, and our first trip was to San Francisco and New York City.
6. I cannot count the times I've been to San Francisco. NYC is in second place.
7. I've been to Stonehenge twice (Also Castlerigg (a stone circle in the lake district), and Avebury). I was rather disappointed in Stonehenge the first time with all the tourist milling around, but the second time they were keeping people from getting near the stones, so it was less prosaic.
8. I still prefer Castlerigg.
9. The only broken bone in my body is a heel spur. This must be a good trick because my podiatrist was impressed.
10. When I was in elementary school, I had to get speech therapy because I was swallowing backwards. I still have to concentrate sometimes when I want to swallow pills.
11. I've never lived outside of Texas; with the exception of college, I haven't lived outside of Tarrant County.
12. My great-great-grandfather's name was Julius Ceasar Lowe.
13. Also in elementary school, I was doing so poorly ("She would do so well if she would just apply herself"), that Mom took me to the Child Study Center in fourth grade. While I know now that I have ADD, I was diagnosed as having "the worst case of passive-aggression that [the psychiatrist] had ever seen".
14. While I was there, I was evaluated as being just a couple of points below genius level.
15. I was raised in an atmosphere of creativity - Mom did needlecrafts and painting, Dad did photography and woodworking, and I picked up hobbies from both of them.
16. I learned what a googol was a long time ago, because it was on the header line of a page in the dictionary we had. How do kids these days find interesting words?
17. My first job was printing napkins with names for weddings. Even though there was a lot of gruntwork in that, I really enjoyed it. I don't know if that started my interest in typography, but it certainly fed it.
18. When I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, I was able to spell it correctly on the first try. Bob and I figured out that I knew about the disease because I had read a Heinlein short story about a man with MG.
19. I've worked as a programmer in retail, physical security, oil&gas and telephony companies. I've learned something interesting in all of them, although nothing beats this company, where you will end up having serious discussions concerning teddy bears.
20. When I was a kid, I had a length of cartilage grow between my two top front teeth above the gumline. I had to have surgery to have it removed before the front tooth gap could be repaired. Many years later, a dentist took a full jaw x-ray and found a circular cutout where the cartilage probably was. He had never seen anything like that.
21. My body does not process nitrous oxide (aka laughing gas) properly, so it causes dizzy spells for months, even years afterwards. I find a surprising number of medical professionals that have never heard of this. My body does really strange things, apparently.
22. When I worked on physical security systems, one of the systems I helped install was at the United Nations. Best work-related trip EVER.
23. I attempted to prove that every word in my thesaurus was connected to every other word. By hand. Twice. (The first time, I just gave up. The second time I actually found a dead end)
24. I'm a taurus, with aries rising and a gemini moon. This actually works because I can do the driving aries, but I'm mostly about comfort and pleasure; however, I love being on center stage. Bob is aries with taurus rising, but he is more taurus than aries to me. We were both born in the year of the tiger… 12 years and one month apart. < end silly astrology blather >
25. I've developed a habit in the past few years of snapping my fingers by snapping the middle finger, rather than the thumb.
Wow, I managed to keep this G-rated.
* Because Grace told me to.
** A party of members of the Straight Dope Message board. What did you think I meant?