Friday 20 January, 2006

Weird Dragon

OK, I have to pick up kolibri's gauntlet and list my five weird habits as per the rules of the meme. Drum roll please:

1. I strongly dislike wearing shirts. I don't know if it is my Carribean genes, but I hate wearing shirts. They chafe and irritate my skin. Thus when you meet me you will notice that I keep tugging the collars of my shirts, and I wear really light ones made of super-soft materials. But at home I get rid of them if at all able.

2. I quote the holy bible. This is not that unusual of course, except I am a hard-core skeptic. There is just lots of cool stuff in that book to quote, even if I am not that keen on the overall moral message.

3. I will memorize incredibly long passages of my favourite books. To achieve this, I will compulsively re-read my favourite books until I know them by heart. This unsettles kolibri a lot. Dune is especially bad case, but there are dozens of others.

4. I talk to the weights in the gym. I tell 100 kg that it weights only 20 kg. If I repeat it often enough it makes the weights feel lighter.

5. I cannot sleep when I am designing a new game. I have to systematically tire myself out first with books, excercise, movies and other games. Otherwise I will stay awake going through the detailed design of the game throughout the night, without being able to sleep for a moment.

I will not torture others with this. Meme seems to have gone through the blogistan already.

Posted by Dragon at 20 January 00:05, 2006
Comments
# 1 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on January 20, 2006 10:23 AM):

Lot of people seem to be talking to things or themselves. I've never done that, I'm not that weird ;)


# 2 - Rel Fexive (on January 21, 2006 06:26 AM):

Firstly, about shirts: I started a new job this week, and it is the first time I'm having to regularly wear a shirt and tie since I was in school. And that was a looong time ago. I hate them, bloody uncomfortable things.

When I took my shirt off Friday evening, I had a big Y-shaped red mark around my neck and down my chest. Partly from (I suspect) irritation from the shirt, and partly from scratching because it's uncomfortable. So you're not alone in your shirt-hating-ness.

Bible quoting: Everyone should be able to quote one piece of scripture, minimum. Mine is the proper version of "pride before a fall" - it should be "pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18.

Oh, and I shout at inanimate objects when they don't do what I want them to do; does that count? ;)


# 3 - Dragon (on January 21, 2006 03:05 PM):

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household." (Matthew 10:34-36)

You are doing well Rel! Only 2 more weird habits are needed!


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