25 Things you didn't need to know about me
I was tagged in couple of those 25 things you don't know about me lists on Facebook a while back. I got a bit inspired by that and some other
people's interesting facts. I however never got around to posting my list. So since this has been a horribly boring day here are 25 boring things about me you might not have known, needed to know, or wanted to know :) .
1. I have irrational fear of rotating doors.
2. I am certified as an "Information System Security Officer".
3. I collect playing cards. One from each deck with a unique back side.
4. I have never smoked in my life despite living with a smoker for 8-9 years. Seriously, not a single puff!
5. I didn't just have imaginary friends when I was a kid, I had an entire imaginary scout division since I wasn't allowed to join one.
6. I am slightly prejudice against people that claim shopping as their hobby. Seriously, that is like stating vacuuming is your hobby!
7. I once completed a 4 year school in 3 years because I was in a hurry.
8. One of my dreams is to own a pillow with a electric cooler in it so I don't have to keep rotating my pillow when my head gets too warm at night.
9. I find it extremely hard to listen to lyrics in songs as the music always seem to take over and the voice just becomes one of the instruments.
10. I once won an award in an invention contest for inventing a backpack that could be turned into a tent and sleeping bag.
11. Caroway seeds are about the only thing that I have serious problems eating. They make me gag. Runner up, rotten shark.
12. I have managed to get rid of almost any irrational belief I grew up with. This includes Santa Claus, Christianity, Tarot Card reading, elves, astrology etc. I however still struggle with not knocking on wood and wishing upon an eye brow...
13. The hardest thing for me to accept in life is that to succeed you need to spend more time talking to the right people and not actually getting things done.
14. I started programming web browsers for mobile phones before I ever owned a mobile phone.
15. Oh and did I mention that I have serious phone phobia. I will go to great lengths to avoid picking up the phone... well except when I wanna browse.
16. If I had just one wish (that couldn't be used to wish for world peace), I would wish I could sing.
17. It annoys me at great lengths that my job title is incomprehensible to a large part the population (interaction designer). Seriously, I don't think my family has a clue what I do.
18. My great great great great great great great great great grandmother was captured by Algerian slave hunters in Iceland and she spent almost a decade in slavery in Algeria.
19. I regularly force myself to read women magazines to try to get in touch with my feminine side despite thinking they must be written by dust bunnies without a brain.
20. I no longer have a TV at home and I love it. Only few years ago I thought people that didn't have a TV were just plain weird...
21. I love sad books and know nothing better than the rare occasion when a book makes me weep!
22. The most relaxing thing I can do is to spend hours in the kitchen cooking a really complicated meal.
23. I used to secretly play with Legos well into my teenage year.
24. I keep a devil costume in my office just in case...
25. And despite of all of these things I still often wonder why I am so normal :) .
The way you're presenting the
The way you're presenting the comments on your site is utterly confusing... =P
i know :(
I really need to escape this Drupal blog system. The problem is that it is so obscure that there is no automatic import into Wordpress :(
Hi, Maybe this can help:
Hi,
Maybe this can help: http://socialcmsbuzz.com/convert-import-a-drupal-6-based-website-to-wordpress-v27-20052009/
Just let me know if you need any help.
Cheers,
Aadil.
Hi
Thanks for the link and offer for help! It is mostly about feeling like sitting down and fiddling with it. Not my favorite kind of thing. I will maybe do it one day when I am convinced that Wordpress is really better :)
No sweat! Wordpress is not
No sweat! Wordpress is not that better than Drupal imho. The ultimate would be hand-coded html blogging. :)
Dust bunnies...
"19. I regularly force myself to read women magazines to try to get in touch with my feminine side despite thinking they must be written by dust bunnies without a brain."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a good one!
P.S. Your Captcha is way to difficult 1+13, you need to be a math genius to get that one right ;-)
//Daniel
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I only want genius comments ;)
Stuck on a farm
The reason for me not being allowed to join the scouts wasn't idealistic. It was because it would require my parents to drive me 5 km couple of times a month and they didn't have a car :(
And no, there is no way I am gonna start smoking now. You guys just have to listen to be babble instead :)
Didn't say start
i didn't say start, I said try.. you cannot be vocal against something you have not tried. Then again i've never heard you be vocal about smoking one way or the other.. so if its just a personal choice that is of course fine.
Tell that to homophoebes and
Tell that to homophoebes and other prejudicing people. In theory I agree that you can't make a conclusion about something you never did, but you still can have an opinion about it. Whether "smoking is bad for your health" is a conclusion or opinion is the question.
Anyway, an interesting list of items. You have mentioned the Algerian story at least once. When looking at your two latest blog entries, first regretting the poor selection of groceries and then explaining your joy of cooking, it seems like that activity is something you rarely get to enjoy. Or perhaps it has become a challenge for you to actually produce something nice out of bland groceries?
Nasty smoking
It has become time consuming to hunt down all the ingredients I need :)
And I can still be vocal against smoking even if I have never tried it. It stinks and sticks to your hair and clothes if you are around smokers. That is probably the top reason why I would never smoke. I felt like a skunk those 8-9 years living with a smoker.
Scouts
I wasn't allowed to join the scouts either! My Dad said they were too akin to Hitler Jugend...
I knew some of these but by a
I knew some of these but by a long way not all, I have a friend who collects the 6 of spades though, which is pretty close to what you do! Also you should try smoking, because I was the same for a long while and then I actually stopped and tried rather than speaking out, and really smoking is great, although maybe that's just my opinion on it