60 things I’m ashamed to admit, and other unfascinating facts

  • Although I see the icons 1000 times a day, I have no clue what Delicious and StumbleUpon are, and I’m fairly confident nobody actually uses them.
  • I don’t own a flat screen TV. If I ever watch TV (hardly ever), it’s usually on a 13 inch CRT.
  • I have been known to put olives and french dressing on caesar salads.
  • I have owned the same Android phone for over 2 years, and have built more apps than I’ve installed. There are very few apps I feel like I need.
  • I have never owned any vehicle other than Nissan trucks.
  • My dream car is a 1983 Datsun 280ZX. Well, besides a DeLorean of course.
  • I got to level 25 in QBASIC Nibbles once. It was on a 386, but I still think it oughta count.
  • This is the first time in my life I’ve ever had roommates. I have four of them.
  • I have no clue how to change the oil in a car. Actually, I’m not sure I could identify much of anything under the hood of a car.
  • Two rooms of my house are taken up by 22 arcade games and a pinball machine. They’re for looking at, not playing.
  • I like Corona and Hawaiian shirts more than anyone ever should. Hey, I’m a Floridian.
  • I don’t really play video games anymore. The last console I ever bought was a Nintendo 64.
  • I’m not sure I remember how to write cursive or read an analog clock. I haven’t had to since third grade.
  • I’ve used Windows since 3.1. I have skipped upgrading to the following: Windows ME, Windows Vista, and Windows 8.
  • I’ve never used Netflix, Hulu, or Redbox in my life.
  • Twitter is useless to me. I’m not sure I could tell you what I ate for lunch in under 140 characters.
  • I’m a designer and I hate MacOS.
  • I don’t own a DVD or Blu-Ray player, besides the ROM drives on my PC. I own 4 VCRs for some reason.
  • I have twice as many LinkedIn friends as Facebook friends.
  • I have never seen the following movies: Titanic, Avatar, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars 1-3, Citizen Kane, Casablanca.
  • In high school, I was pretty well-behaved. I had my first beer at 22.
  • I recently considered buying a MacBook Pro. But I didn’t.
  • I share the same birthday as Mark Zuckerberg (May 14th, 1984).
  • I’ve been an eBay member since 04/25/1999.
  • I’ve never seen a single episode of American Idol. The only way I learn their names, is when I ask people how that awful singer on the radio got signed.
  • There were times in my life when I spent entire weekends drinking Mountain Dew Code Red and playing Goldeneye.
  • I am mentally incapable of using a Dualshock to control a FPS. I think it’s to do with being left-handed.
  • I don’t always wait for a pot to boil before dropping in the pasta. I’m convinced it makes no difference.
  • I’ve been creating t-shirt art for clients nonstop since 2005.
  • Sorry, but I didn’t like Inception. It dragged on too long, the plot holes were too large, and the backstory was lame.
  • I’m still using a ball mouse, apparently. Not because I hate laser mice or anything, but because I haven’t needed to replace it.
  • I don’t think Adobe Illustrator is a very intuitive program.
  • I think Digimarc and Shazam are witchcraft.
  • It’s really difficult to get me angry. Xcode manages to do it consistently though.
  • I was a liberal in high school. In college, I had a libertarian polysci professor that changed my life.
  • I’ve never seen an episode of Lost, 24, or House, but I have seen every episode of Twin Peaks.
  • I like the Japanese pop band, Perfume. I have no idea why.
  • My favorite movies are UHF, Spaceballs, and Gentlemen Broncos (look it up). I guess you could say I like lame comedies.
  • I spent the night in my truck on Christmas Day last year. Long story.
  • At some point last decade, I had every episode of The Simpsons downloaded nothing but KaZaA, Gnutella, Usenet, and IRC.
  • Besides spam, I never delete email. My Thunderbird inbox goes back into the late ’90s.
  • I’d rather have wires on my mouse and keyboard than spend money replacing batteries.
  • I caught a fish with my bare hands once when I was little.
  • I own a massive amount of vinyl. Not sure why, when there are 600gb of MP3s.
  • I have an extensive collection of classic handheld consoles. And their official carrying cases.
  • Most sentences I write are statistically likely to start with “I”. I wonder what Freud would think.
  • I once read Fast Food Nation. It took 3 years for me to eat McDonald’s again.
  • I’m not sure I could survive without Stack Overflow.
  • I’ve been a lurker on FARK.com for 12 years, and never once posted or submitted anything there.
  • On my IBM Thinkpad I’ve had since middle school, I’m on day 5,828 of my 30 day trial of Paint Shop Pro 4.
  • I have never beaten the original Super Mario Bros. Got all the way to Bowser though.
  • I wrote a couple of ASP Classic pages last year, for the first time in years. It was all the client’s server supported.
  • Thanks to Trillian, I’m still running AIM, ICQ, YIM, and MSN messengers.
  • I accidentally used mid-grade gasoline once.
  • I never had a Myspace. I have had my Facebook account since 2005, back when it used to be cool.
  • My favorite non-casual video games ever are Super Metroid, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, Half-Life 2, Metal Slug, and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
  • I’ve never once bought anything from Amazon.com.
  • I am allergic to nothing, and never get sick. …Not entirely true, but basically.
  • I’ve had the same eyeglasses since 2002. That would make them over 10 years old. Perhaps I should buy new ones.
  • I hate computers.

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