100 things about me...

I smoke, drink, and curse like a thrown-down devil
I really enjoy dark Japanese Yakuza movies
I laugh at myself (alot) - in fact I possess a curious defect of self-schadenfreude
I believe in Hubris
I have regular dreams of evading and hunting down enemies who are trying to kill me
I am a badass in the kitchen
I am not a tidy person - I submitted to the wisdom of entropy long ago
My political worldview is heavily influenced by the real politik of classical roman empire building
My social worldview is heavily influenced by the Sales Conference scene in Glengarry Glen Ross
My most treasured book is Memoirs of Hadrian - I read it once a year, slowly.
I spit curses on people who dont return a proffered 'hello'
I have a compulsive fetish for tech gadgetry
I can sing most frank sinatra songs by heart (and some from the heart)
I dread dying alone in a nursing home more than anything else
I think global warming is caused more by solar maxima and a shifting geo-magnetic core than industrial pollution
I make a formidable martini
I believe Oswald was a patsy
Im good with remembering actors and movies. Im good, but my brother is a rainman
It is my opinion that the flashback scenes in godfather 1 and 2 are what made the movies into classics
when I was younger I would go cliff diving at 2am alone off La Jolla Cove in San Diego
I understand that your strengths are also your weaknesses
Ironically, I can chain smoke unfiltered pall malls but filtered cigarettes give me a vise-like headache
My favorite song is Brittny Spears - Hit me baby one more time. I can listen to it for hours over and over again.
I always tip more than 20%
I cannot eat cooked fish - makes me retch
I have a neuro-physiological need for chicken tempura once every two weeks
I want to learn to tango and play Flamenco guitar before I die
I drink my coffee black and my espressos with a cut of lemon
I broke my collarbone jumping off the back of a moving truck
Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa movie
until someone figures out how to move complex organic systems faster than the speed of light, I will scoff at people who believe in UFOs and aliens on Earth
I grok Russian Techno
My phonemail message is 'lasciate ogni speranza, voi chi entrate'
I believe Barack Obama is a greater threat to America than Osama Bin Laden
I think that viral pandemics and asteroid collisions will end the reign of the human species on earth and that the Universe will end in a post-expansion 'heat death'.
I love jackie gleason's orchestral music
I am a good speed shooter with a 9mm
I believe that the NSA has already solved the factorization issue for public key distribution encryption
I have every issue of Wired magazine. Its sad watching it turn into a Sharper Image catalog.
I'm a pretty decent storyteller
I always fall asleep reading a book
I am usually reading 3 or 4 books at a time
I think that Social Secuirty is a ponzi scam
when i was in 5th grade, my class ran a mini-city, running businesses, fake money, etc. I was the banker, casino owner, and lawyer
in high school, I was elected Commissioner of Finance and voted Most School Service. Bletch
I own 200 acres of land in southern virginia
I make my own italian sausage raviolis from scratch
I once had 40 cats, 3 boxers, 12 guinea hens, and a turkey named Bubba
I love the click and snap of a zippo lighter
When I graduated from college, I wanted to make and sell reproductions of greek and roman antiquites and arms
I think nature is one big computational system
I think Wilhem Dafoe, John Malkovich, and Lawrence Fishburn would make an awesome movie together
I desperately miss san diego mexican fast food
I want to learn hardware programming so I can make interactive sculpture
A great dinner party from history to me would be Lawrence Durrell, Julius Caesar, a young William Shatner, and Robert Heinlein - and myself.
I believe that Solzenitsyn must be read with cheap vodka by a raging fire on very cold nights
I have had a bottle of Tuscany cologne for 4 years
My favorite constellation is Orion
The opening line of Kipling's Kim is my favorite: 'He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.'
Ben Webster must be listened to with ice-chilled scotch
I love the color of Scotch
I told my dad in 91' that he should write a program to catalog all the sites on the internet because it was going to be big one day. He said no, its just a fad
My brother is the funniest person I know
I have never seen Citizen Kane (much to my mortal embarassment)
I hold weekend naps to be an inalienable right of man
I grow my own rosemary and thyme
When I am drunk I start to talk about quantum mechanics and information theory
I make a wicked Chimichanga
I believe that Sammy Davis Jr's Mr Bojangles is a perfect song
My worst job was proof reading the white pages
I dont believe in the death penalty - it is an insufficient sanction for truly inhuman crimes. Life incarceration in a prison glory hole would be more appropriate
My mother listened to barry manilow, captain and tenille, and the carpenters incessantly when I was a small child. as a result I am scarred today with knowing the lyrics of most of their songs by heart
I only buy dollar store sunglasses
I regret not serving in the military
Snatch is a great movie, but easily tiresome - like Madonna for that matter.
I am not afraid of death, but I will not suffer a long languishing crippling death
I can recite every line from Blade Runner
I think that marijuana should be legalized - alcohol is a far more socially damaging drug
I make my biscuits and gravy from scratch
the only rap song I get is 'Damn it Feels Good To Be A Gangsta' - Geto Boys. All the rest can burn for all i care
William Gibson's Neuromancer was a pivotal sci-fi book for me, but Greg Egan's Diaspora is the best science fiction work ever written
I made a goldfish pond for my garden
I am proud of the fact that my great-grandfather started the classics department at Stanford
I have a mexican catholic peasant altar in my den with a complete collection of veladoras, loteria cards, a spanish bayonet, and gitane cigarettes
I never got woody allen. Make no sense to me, bores the shit outta me
I think voting is a moral obligation - men have died to protect that right. We owe them
but, I think politicians are pathological con artists by nature
I used shave my head with a #2 Gilette Mach3 Turbo twice a month
I have a wicked evil - barely socially acceptable - sense of humor
I am a jedi master of relaxation
I am told that my eyes change color from green to blue depending on what I am wearing

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