I won't spread it further, but here are eight factlets about me which you can't live without knowing :-)
- The first program written for someone else was about 24 years ago when I was 17. It ran on a Commodore PET 3000 and helped my school doing the room and time planning (cross checking if rooms or teachers were assigned to two classes at the same time).
- I almost had to repeat class in school four years in a row, each year missing the margin just by a hairbreadth in at least two school subjects (mostly Latin, English, Chemistry).
- My favorite book authors (judging by the number of books read by the same author) are Jane Roberts and Terry Pratchett. The last book I've read was Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster and the next ones will be Ubik by Philip K. Dick and True Believer by Nicholas Sparks.
- When I was 20 I became a member of Mensa. I canceled my membership after about two months, because I thought most people there were jerks.
- The worst effect caused by a bug in a software written by me was a terminal emulator software which caused the police to visit some of the users, because the program accidentally dialed 911 (the local area code where I live is 0911, a local phone number was in the program's address book and the program sometimes dialed the wrong entry).
- I'm interested in painting and tend towards abstracts. My favorite non abstract painting is Girl with Pearl Earring by Vermeer. My favorite painter over all is Mark Rothko and my favorite contemporary painter is Fletcher Sibthorpe (I have a signed print of his Blue Shadows hanging in my living room).
- Three things, which I am utterly bad at: Singing, couple dancing and reading aloud (true story: one of my teachers once said "Every time you are reading, I am wondering if we have the same book").
- I love British Humor. Monty Python, John Cleese, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are my heroes for their hilarious ideas and for their keen eye of people's and society's quirks.
- Movies which I really enjoyed recently: Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Ratatoullie.
9 comments:
Second that about Mensa! Though I lasted quite a bit longer.
Hey, still Mensa member, but not particiating actively right now. :)
And Pratchett rocks, got all his books.
ratatoulie is a great piece of technical animation, fascinated me too......and without doubt the single most horrendous bug next to hair up one's butt is the POLICE EMERGENCY one we all suffer.......
Keep up the work of a young mind nicholaz, your viewers are simply better
Reading "Wintersmith" a few weeks ago I suddenly realized I haven't read any "Tiffany Aching" novel by Pratchett so far. Amazon to the help, I finished the Wee Free Men over the weekend and about to sink my teeth inte the next one soon.
Great fun to read, but my intentions was not to spread the meme. Still fun to read...
Wow, couple of Pratchett fans here :-) I've read most of his books, my favorites are the ones about Ank Morkpork and those featuring DEATH :-). Haven't read some the latest ones though, I think he's lacking a bit creativity lately.
Tillie: Of course I would have stayed with Mensa had I known you are there :-)
Oh, I just saw that I got the Monty Python links wrong, here's one I love best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05EmK66Gsk
Oh, and here's one more just for the fun of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
Hm, I *particularly* loved Latin, English, and Chemistry.... ;)
And don't get me started on Mensa. I was sooo proud to join, and months later, I was soooo keen on leaving again!
I couldn't go watch Ratatouiolle because we had a rat in our shed a week before it had started in cinemas around here, and I was the one chosen to...see the rat off. And it was a cute rat, too. I couldn't bear watching another cute rat in cinema....
Alyx Sands
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