5 weird things

Last meme for a while, OK?

Blame TruthIsStranger for this one: 5 weird things about myself:

  1. Artifacts I always have with me: pocketknife, magnifying glass, Zebra F301 ballpoint pen, and index cards.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. I am dyslexic and find reading (and particularly numbers) somewhat difficult, but still read constantly anyway.  It is worth the effort.
  7. 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.

 

Posted by George on 01/13/06 at 05:22 PM

  1. 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.

    Posted by Socialist Swine  on  01/14/06  at  02:43 AM

  2. 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…

    ;\

    Posted by tIs  on  01/15/06  at  08:52 AM

  3. Did some writing in response to this last evening.

    Posted by MrsDoF  on  01/15/06  at  08:57 AM

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