7 random and/or weird facts about me.
Shannon tagged me, dammit.
The rules of are:
- Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
- Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
1) I have, until now, refused to do all kinds of “meme.” I just don’t like them. First of all, what does that word even mean? And how is it supposed to be pronounced? It’s all too confusing. Shannon emotionally blackmailed me into doing this one. Cheap shot.
2) As much as I rant and rave about good coffee, I cut my teeth at Starbucks. I fucking worked there. I remember my first day, as they were teaching me to make god-forsaken frappacinos. Or a couple of days in, when one girls tried to show me how to steam milk. She showed me pretty badly. It smelt horrible. But it still got used. Until I worked there, I hated coffee. Then I started drinking it, because it was free. They do offer plenty of mega-sweetened drinks for the uninitiated (And truth be told, the caramel macchiato was pretty damned nice, if made properly). But as I got to enjoy coffee, and began to realise how shit it was at starbucks. Not just the quality of the drinks being made, but the quailty of the actual coffee. It’s inispid and bitter, no matter how perfectly you extract a shot. It got to the point where on my breaks I would get coffee from the Mojo cafe next door.
3) Have you ever tried spaghetti bolognaise ice cream? It’s a crazy invention. Had it in Germany as I was travelling around Europe. Don’t worry, it’s not flavoured like spagbol, it just looks like it. They put vanilla ice cream through a spaghetti maker, top it with a jam or other sweet red sauce, and top it off with white chocolate shavings (for the parmesan cheese, of course). How does someone come up with this sort of thing? Was bloody good, but a little disconcerting that it was based on a pasta meal.
4) I had a bowl cut to the age of 16. Not that my hair was deliberately cut like that, it’s just how it grows. In fact, right now, as I write this, my hair is pretty much in a bowl again. It’s gotten long, and has no product in it. Must change that before I leave the house.
5) I sometimes dream of being a rock star. But then, don’t we all, really? There’s just something about that moment in a song where the guitarist rips into a mind-melting solo I can get lost in. Sometimes I let my imagination take over, and I’m transported to an alternate world where it’s me up there playing… fun times. Till I come back to earth and suddenly feel very clumsy around my guitar.
6) The closest I got to Rockstardom was at age 8. Oh yeah, true rockstar styles, I was a part of the support band for the gatekeepers of the Ray Charles concert at the Mission in 1994. Picture me, eight years old, dressed up in my black and whites, holding my tiny violin, playing with a group of 10 or so at the gates to the concert as people entered the Estate. No idea what we played. Probably wasnt overly good either - groups of kids that age playing violin is rarely a pleasant experience. But hey, it got me and mum free tickets to the concert. Dad had to buy another one. I don’t remember much about the actual concert, apart from the big piano on the stage and seeing Ray come on stage and wave. The rest of my memories are about running in the hills around the Estate and playing with those light sticks that people sell everywhere. Fun times.
7) I just wrote a massive one, then decided it was a little bit deep, and too good, to be part of this. So let’s go with something a little more light hearted. People who see me use a computer often say “Holy shit, you’re left handed, I never noticed!” I use the mouse with my left hand. The only reason they’d never noticed it because I write with my right hand, and do everything that would be expected of a right handed person with my right hand. I’m not one of those natural lefties that was forced to use the right hand. It just goes back to when we got our first computer. The tech who came and set it up told us that if we could learn to use our left hands for the mouse, it would eventually be much more comfortable and better for us, less cramped. This was at the time where arrow keys dominated. Now, for gaming anyways, everything is WASD, so his theory got the boot. But hey, I still use my left hand.
So, tagging time. I’m only going to do four.
Some Go Softly of, well, Some Go Softly
Bone from A Big Guy in a Big City
Bio from Of Horses and Hell
Mr President from Textual Relations
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Adey Ben, 2 months without a post is terrible. Get moving!!!!!
yojoe What about Missile Pops?
Shannon OMG. Check it out… http://mudhead.uottawa.ca/~pet e/beard.html
Ben A singular beer won’t quite cut it. But you’re on the right track…
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Great list. I use the mouse with my right hand, but I switch the mouse controls. Drives my husband up the wall!
Noooooooooooooooooooo…..
I’ve always wondered why keyboard companies don’t make left handed keyboards.
[…] Three times, to be precise, first by Jayne, then by the lovely Stella and last but not least by Ben. The tag by Stella possibly means the most to me and not just because I have a penchant for […]
Holy fuck balls, that ice cream spaghetti sounds wickedly delicious. I’m going to figure out how to make that without a spaghetti maker. I’m doin it, you just watch!
Also, every man, deep down inside, wants to be a rock star. And some chicks. That’s why Guitar Hero is so fucking awesome. Because you can pretend. Now if only they could simulate groupies …. hmmm …
Well done you… I totally thought you’d be the one NOT to do it
That spaghetti ice cream sounds AMAZING….
PS: I love starbucks lattes, but maybe I don’t know any better…
[…] Ben AND Jayne made me do it. […]
Jayne - Yeah, that’s the weird thing. I don’t switch the controls. So my index finger is stretching all the way across the mouse… I’ll probably pay for that when I’m older. Bring on the arthritis / RSI.
SGS - Stop your moaning.
Wendy - I’ve never thought about it. Would it really be needed? What would be changed? I guess you could swap the keypad and the number pad / arrows….
Josh - Holy fuck balls is right. Unfortunately, while I did enjoy it, I’m not that much of a sweet tooth so it was more for the experience than anything else. And long live Guitar Hero.
Shan -
Romi - See above
And as for Starbucks, I guess it’s an american thing. Honestly, compared to the coffee we get in NZ, it’s terrible. Even the beans are shit. You probably just don’t have the comparison. Oh, and, uh, everyone’s entitled to their opinion ya da ya da ya.