Odds and ends, in random order
-- I had hearing problem for a couple of years of my childhood.
-- Bones used to hurt big time : heel, kneecap wrist, and 3 ribs.
-- Never played Musical instruments
-- I couldn't learn how to diagram a sentence.
-- I didn't understand the subject/object distinction until college.
-- I'm supposed to be a math genius. I'm not.
-- I'm sexually attracted to vegetarian women, even before I learn that they're vegetarian. This, and other
experiences, have convinced me that sexual attraction is chemical, like pheromones.
-- I've had more nicknames (sirmonta, lombu, monti etc) than anyone I've ever known.
-- screw drivers are my favorite tool.
-- I will try any food in a restaurant, no matter how exotic.
-- Is the big hand on a clock the fat one, or the long one?
-- I never chose a career. It chose me by accident.
-- I can't stand to wear a ring
- No person I've met in a club has ever taken me home. Parties are another story.
-- I dislike all domesticated animals - cats, dogs, horses, you name it.
-- Good posture is a most attractive trait in a woman.
-- I bought my first car in the begginning of new year,I bought my Second car in the begginning of
new Millenniun.
-- I talked early, walked late (at least, I think this is right).
-- I would be happy if I never had to work on another computer, ever. But this is what I do for living :-)
-- I had very bad hay fever and asthma as a child, which I've grown out of.
-- For much of my Roller Coaster riding career, I was afraid of heights. But I loved it.
-- I want to be a vegetarian, but lack the discipline.
-- I want to stop indulging my sweet tooth, but lack the discipline.
-- I don't think, I know, that most Hollywood movies are worthless crap, and that this problem is getting
worse all the time.
-- Classical, opera, rock, blues, most ethnic music, are mostly good. Metal, punk rock, rap, and
techno are mostly better.
-- I flush public urinals with my elbow or legs.
-- I used to think that Bill Gates is the soul of evil. I guess I was wrong.
-- I am more organized than I used to be.
-- The bikini is the greatest invention of our culture, except the electric light and the flush toilet.
-- The first good operating system has yet to be written.
-- We haven't learned to do philosophy properly yet.
-- Science is just as much good as anything else.
-- I tried to do one-arm pushups, but failed.
-- I have never cheated except my sister. I stole bananna from her plates.
-- I used to dislike my big nose, but until today, hadn't thought about it.
-- There is one scar on my body from occasion when it was seriously burned: hot water.
-- Kindness is the supreme virtue, and patience is second.
-- My ancestry is mostly indian and middle eastern, not that it matters.
-- Overrated, untalented entertainters (let the misspelling stand): Madonna, TAFKAP. They're both from
Minneapolis. Coincidence? You be the judge.
-- I have never understood why rock concerts are so loud. Maybe it's because I'm subconsciously afraid
of being hearing problem again. Or being deaf made me unable to adjust to loudness. But I enjoy it
-- I wish I owned an orchard.
-- Choosing between books and people would be very, very difficult.
-- These people getting tattoos because they're fashionable are going to be very sorry when they get
old.
-- The only kinds of literature I'll read are sci-fi novels. The rest of them seem hopelessly inane. I've
never read a murders and thrillers, and only a few romance novel .
-- Marilyn Monroe was attractive, but she should have spent some time in the gym toning that flab.
-- Driving used to be pleasurable. Now train ride is more pleasurable.
-- People who talk on the cell phone while driving should be sent to jail: one day for every fifteen
minutes on the phone. (I've done it myself, actually.)
-- I used to like the name Monica, until that airhead Lewinsky happened on the scene.
-- My handwriting has improved. It used to be very bad.
-- Intelligence counts for next to nothing in this world. Energy, determination, and character are much
more important.
-- I started losing my hair. Grass doesn't grow on a busy street.
-- Woody Allen's short stories are much funnier than his movies.
-- When did I stop singing in the shower?
-- Astrology is bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
-- Even after 20 years of knowing someone, they will surprise you.
-- I dislike my appearance.
-- I used to fall in love a lot. I still do. But with my wife.
-- I hate being drunk, hate being stoned, hate all altered mental states except those induced by non-
chemical means. I never taken drugs in my whole life.
-- I'll stop procrastinating tomorrow.
-- Sometimes I dislike being touched, sometimes I don't mind, and sometimes I like it.
-- I'd like to learn to fly airplanes, but not helicopters.
-- American football is symptomatic of much of what is wrong with this country: short attention
spans, too much complexity, and too hierarchical and specialized. It is boring and extremely
contrived. Its dirty little secret is that it's popular because it's televised, and it's televised because it
has so many interruptions that the networks can use for commercials. There are many other good
reasons no one but North Americans play this game.
-- Soccer is a beautiful game, and very much like reality itself in the way it flows. It is uneventful for
longer periods, subtle, and its sense of time is true to life. There are many other good reasons it is
the world's most popular game.
-- Wisdom teeth keeps hurting me.
-- Until a few years ago, I factored numbers compulsively. Driving along, I would factor almost every
license number or house number I passed.
-- I talk to myself when I'm working, even when there are people sitting next to me.
-- I used to enjoy looking at things in office supply stores. I don't enjoy this any more, maybe because
the little stores have been replaced by big impersonal ones.
-- The human race will be extinct before another 100,000 years pass, and probably much much sooner
than that. It's almost certain to be our own fault, and we will deserve it.
-- I can't act worth a crap. I will never be in another play as long as I live.
-- I smoked unfiltered Camels once, but didn't pick up the habit.
-- I believe that no one is special. Except my family and girlfriend. Sometimes I feel such love for them
that it brings tears to my eyes.
-- I've done many bold things - hell, many hare-brained things - but the idea of bungee jumping scares
me.
-- I'm not skilled with my hands, except at tearing things down.
-- I sweat excessively. I drink plenty of water.
-- When I die, bury me in the green plain in an unmarked grave, with coffin.