5 weird things
January 13, 2006
Blame TruthIsStranger for this one: 5 weird things about myself:
- Artifacts I always have with me: pocketknife, magnifying glass, Zebra F301 ballpoint pen, and index cards.
- I did very poorly in school. My academic record is definitely Bush-league though I can assemble an English sentence when I need to. (You better believe I wrote my own damn papers.) In college I initially flunked Greek, but then took the course again and wound up tutoring other students.
- I am extremely good with mechanical things. It’s almost as if I can see through them and watch all the working parts in action. This leads to long-winded explanations about stuff to people who really don’t care.
- I collect slide rules. They just seem so clever, how they perform computations by adding and subtracting logrithms. I keep one in my briefcase for routine math. This occasionally gets me some very funny looks.
- One of my favorite sounds is a well-tuned boxer-type aircooled engine. If I ever buy an electric car I will miss that sound.
- I am dyslexic and find reading (and particularly numbers) somewhat difficult, but still read constantly anyway. It is worth the effort.
- I often make mistakes when counting to five.
There you have it: five weird things about myself. I hereby tag no one with this meme. Want to write weird things about yourself? Knock yourself out.
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Huh, that’s an interesting coincidence I have difficulty with numbers as well, any series of numbers with more than three digits is apt to get mixed up when I read it. I have to use my finger to cover the digits that I’m not currently attending upon to keep the numbers straight.
slide rules actually are very cool… I don’t collect them, or think I even own one anymore, but they are cool.
to improve your and the swine’s number issues practice reading microsoft product license keys.
here is one for you fellows now:
AJ8902HKZ 9OH3214OH etc…
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Did some writing in response to this last evening.