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Paul, I too must unspin myself; I think it arises from spending time at my desk, whose chair has a corkscrew lift (rather than a gas lift)... but even when on my feet, I have to spin back the other way if I spin around.
I don't like walking outside with exposed forearms; even in the summer, I'll wear a long-sleeve shirt if I leave the house. If i accidentally stub my toe, I intentionally stub the other toe to balance it out... it hurts but otherwise I just feel lop-sided. My ex-girlfriend is really freaky about socks. She gets really uncomfortable around people who have loose sock material extending past the toes (or anywhere on the sock); she makes it her responsibility to adjust the socks of those around her. I never chew food on one side of my mouth; I have to alternate sides with each bite. I guess I'm just anally symmetrical. You ask me for a hamburger. |
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I have never had a TV.
I prefer a multiple people apartment to having my own place. (I think this is the fifth in a row.) On a hard-as-fuck mandatory school course on functional programming languages, I was probably one in a hundred who didn't hate them. I don't have a problem riding a bike on the other side of town when it's pouring water. I don't get tired, I shut down. But only like at six o'clock in the morning. If I didn't purposely take a "time out" and go to bed, I'd never sleep at night. When I have yesterday's food in the fridge, I eat it out of the storage box rather than generate more dishes. (Here it helps that I, too, do not need my food to be warm.) I actually like cooking good food and do so often. |
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Oh, and for all of you self-proclaimed legends in the shower... Yes, it is true... You do sound better in the shower! The explanation is really quite simple. It just so happens that the rate of sympathetic vibration created upon sound striking shower tiles is almost identical to that of the human voice. Thus, it naturally compliments and amplifies the sound of your voice. Secondly, since you hear this sound bouncing back at you, you begin to listen to the more accurate representation of what you really sound like, instead of what you think you sound like. (Bone conduction distorts the sound of your own voice, which is why you think there is something wrong with the recorder whenever you hear a clip of yourself played back.) All of this serves to cause you to relax the muscles that you typically attempt to manipulate in order to make yourself sound "better", which in reality only makes you sound like a cat in a blender. No mystery here at all! So in other words, I don't mind if you sing so much g, but for the love of God, and my sanity, PLEASE stay on pitch!!!! |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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Well I guess the things I do that aren't normal would be to:
- Take the stairs as often as possible when only a few stories. - TV Sucks. I don't even download shows. I watch Movies and occasionally sports when I'm at someone's house it's playing on. TV is evil! - Food right out of the fridge is fine by me. Best pizza come from the fridge after a night of chilling. - When I get a paper cup or any disposable cup with a seam, I always hold it so my fingers run along the edge of the seam. I'll pull the lid off an adjust it as needed. - If my drink leaves a ring on the table/coaster etc. I have to place the drink exactly on the same spot, every time. - TP roll over the top. - My leg can bounce for hours and me not even notice it. My wife notices it almost every time though. If she helps me to stop on leg, the other gets going in it's place. - Oh, and I have this thing for Clamshells now. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room” -blaise pascal
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Ruling teh World
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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When I'm in a car on the highway I always click my tongue or count in my head the distance between telephone poles.
I run a lot without a shirt, even when it is snowy. Today there was lots of snow and slush, but I was very comfortable shirtless Get lots of honks and weird looks, but hey- I'm comfortable. (I generally keep to the trails when it is really cold out) I have to organize my dresser just right at night so I don't forget anything in the morning. It is like I'm trying to out-think my future self. I like to walk around at night, by myself. Sometimes I'll bring a camera along to take pictures of things I think are neat. I love to be in the dark, in the cold starlit alleys, once I figured out that nothing can really get me. Big-city people probably will have a hard time relating to this. |
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Well, you are not alone!! Ernest Hemingway, for example, had a huge library in his john!
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Oh my god, me too! My fiancee absolutely hates it, but I don't even know I'm doing it. I actually have to concentrate to stop most of the time.
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ha, free, yes i usually stay on pitch...i come from a fairly musical family (i am the least musical by far)...i remember once singing for my father over the phone when i got a part in Oklahoma...now it was over the phone back in 1977 from maryland to LA...so it wasn't a great connection, and i was young and not overly confident singing to my dad...anyways his question to me was, "mmmm, g, are you tone deaf?" didn't actually inspire tons of confidence at the time...but then i joined a band in college and was singing there and gots lots of tail and that helped my confidence quite a bit...now i sing to the kids at the hospital everyday (keeps them calm...think it is the fact that, as a tenor, my lullibies are sung in a tone somewhere between a mom and a dad...confuses them, but soothes them too...i get offers all the time by parents to come babysit...of course i polietly decline...i sing to the kids at work, doesn't mean i want to hang out with their snotty offspring on my free time)
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Sounds like you have potential! Singing is after all, 90% mental, so that confidence factor you mentioned is extremely important. I say keep on singing and have fun with it. (Might want to avoid blasting people out of bed before the crack of dawn though, unless they're all used to it by now... Groggy people aren't particular what they grab to throw at whoever is yanking them out of their slumbering bliss... It could be Pavoratti, and they wouldn't care! Otherwise, just perfect the art of ducking! )
On the other hand, I always knew I was in trouble, when a new student walked boldly through the door and promptly announced to me that "I really don't *neeed* lessons, I am virtually a legend... (in a stoned hallucinating kind of way) I mean, people compliment me *allll* the time when I have sung! ( Hello! Because it's OVER!!!) So truthfully, I am *only* here for a few brush-up tips!" Yes...I prayed on more than one occasion for God to rapture me right then and there, so that I didn't have to suffer through their 'glorious gift'! I actually had one lady that showed up with a similar story, carrying a loaded out case of accompaniment tracks, informing me that she really didn't need any real lessons or technique, just a few little pointers on some of her songs... Oh Dear Lord Jesus help me... She could not, to save her life, match even ONE pitch... not one!!! (Of course this was the same woman that my boss at that school had come and begged me to take off her hands, because her ears couldn't take it anymore!! Ahh, the entertaining, funny, (and torturous) memories you have resurrected! Thanks for the laugh! |
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Ruling teh World
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Wow, those are really nice shots. What camera are you using? Granted, my digital camera is not a really nice one, but even if I had a tripod, it would take really shitty night shots.
Do you know where children get all of their energy? - They suck it right out of their parents! |
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Ruling teh World
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Canon A520, I was using a 2 sec exposure. Nice buy at $200 shipped
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One weird thing I do is that I prefer to eat each item on the plate (completely) before moving on to the next item.
I'll eat the steak first, for example. Then the potatoes; then the veggies. I eat the steak first, because it's better when it's as hot (in temperature) as possible. The potatoes hold their warmth pretty well, so I eat them second; and the veggies are okay lukewarm, though I'd prefer them hot as well, given a choice. My parents once had a friend who ate this way, and they thought he was so weird. Then their very own daughter started doing the same thing. haha. Must be karma, or something. I think there is at least 'some' logic in the way I eat. I like hot food to be hot, so when I cook, I always heat the plates in the oven before putting food on them. I mean, if you put hot spaghetti on a cold plate, you get a puddle of water in the plate, turning the sauce into a soupy mess, right? So... definitely a good idea to heat the plates first. |
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Very nice, WLP.
I really do like reading about how weird 'other people' are, btw. It makes me feel 'less' weird - or at least like I have plenty of company. This whole 'night' thing you have going, WLP... it keeps reminding me of various scenes from the movie 'Interview with a Vampire'... how the Brad Pitt character longed to see the beauty of the sunrise, and finally was able to, in a movie theater, after a century of being a vampire. The idea of 'night' never bothered me until I saw that movie. Since I live in a hot climate, everyone here (in summertime) does plenty of stuff at night, like grocery shopping, most errands, and so forth. But the 'idea' of night 'can' give me the creeps when I think of that movie. Weird, huh? |
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I had to think long and hard about actually having a quirk, but here's mine. Every time I visit a new city I've never been to, I add it as a clock on my iPod Nano if it's available. It's weird and stupid, but I like doing it as a reminder of where I've been to.
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I can't do it. It just doesn't taste the same. Sure it all goes to the same spot, but you miss out on all the great flavors in the mean time. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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