Seven bits of useless information

I have been marked. It is a heavy burden, but it is mine alone… Until I pass it on to 7 seven others. If you thought I am suffering from AIDS or some similar STD then let me tell you that the bushy part of the toothbrush goes into your pie hole. Rather, I have been tagged to write seven things about myself. Pissu Perera and Mia are the tagees and I am the tagged. Now you know who to flame in case you are bored to suicidal depression because of reading this post.

If you are a person who gets easily bored I recommend that you do not read this since this is not the usual cutting edge, biting, tasteful, high drama, full of intrigue sort of post that you have come to expect of me. You might suffer the feeling you get when you switch from something bad to something even worse. You have been warned.

What you will find below will shock you to the core. Sexual exploits, criminal activities, anti-social behavior all revealed in a shocking 7 point format that is designed to satisfy even the most gory appetite.

Also I’m sorry but the only blogs I check out regularly are Maddox and Gizmodo (not a blog actually), so if you tagged me and I didn’t reply you know the reason. That was a nice ego booster. Now onto the dirt.

1. I give out the image of being an egotistic, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, elitist person, but that is just a persona I like to portray. Most of it is just tongue in cheek fun. Of course sometimes people just don’t get it and they create a completely incorrect impression of me which leads to some discomfort. Overall I’m a highly optimistic person with a bit of cynicism mixed in. Sort of like a Transformer in car mode, ‘more than meets the eye’. Thank God the movie came out on time to give me an appropriate tag line.
2. I don’t wholeheartedly believe in the Bible, or God’s word or the Christian life style or whatever. I argue with people for hours over the existence of God (I really do believe in God) and then turn around and say that I don’t believe the Bible. Some people find it hard to understand this viewpoint so they do what all humans who are intellectually challenged do, open their mouths and look like landed fish. I think this has something to do with going back to our roots in the sea and warding off predators by telling them ‘My mouth is in fact bigger than yours, therefore I suck harder’. A bit science for you there. That’s what I love about myself; I’m a roly poly bundle of misinformation.
3. I have bad dress sense. I mean real bad like green pants with brown shirt, dark blue slacks with cream shirt, black pants with maroon t-shirt. That’s how bad it is. And my clothes lack that certain pizzazz. A hobo has better clothing than me. I look ok in work clothes but the moment I go casual any semblance I may have to a well dressed person is purely random. You don’t go ‘man, I would like to get into that guy’s pants’ when you see me. I meant girls don’t think that. Not guys. Optimally, guys should see me and think ‘man, I would love to find out where he buys his clothes’. And no, I have never worn a pair of jeans. Ever.
4. If you think you are obtuse then stay away from me. I have no problem with ‘duh, I can’t understand how the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees’ but if you’re a ‘I told you the US would not get stuck in Iraq because Bush said the war is over’ type, what the hell are you doing using up all my air? And keep the hell away from me because, contrary to all evidence, idiocy may be contagious. Please, everyone just try to have an open mind. I know it’s difficult for you to actually use more than a handful of your neurons but you’re giving the rest of us (me) a migraine and possibly premature death by cardiac arrest.
5. I love programming. Although sometimes I don’t seem to do anything at all, I may suddenly get caught up in a project and I start doing new things. Here are some samples since I started learning PHP (some of them are works in progress so you can’t actually do anything with it). I get a weird thrill from seeing the computer do what I instruct it to do. And for all you domination fans out there, put your whips back in the closet, I was not talking about that sort of thrill. I think most of the satisfaction comes from creating something (probably tying to make up for my lack of artistic talent). And the best part is that a lot of people are actually ready to pay good money for something that I would have done for free.
6. I have two story arcs continually running inside my head. It’s larger than just idle daydreaming and quite an interesting experience. Whenever I find myself bored or idling -BOOM! – I’m taken into one of the story arcs. One story consists of a Warcraft and LOTR (what else?!) inspired mythical land on the brink of war. Most of the characters are pulled right off of fantasy books that I have read. In this story line there is one primary character that I thought up and several other sub primary characters from things I have read, played or watched. The other story is inspired by Halo, MechWarrior and StarCraft and Excession among other stories. It’s made up of several characters with intertwining stories which come together in one big bang. Both are works in progress, so to speak.
7. I’m 23. At the writing of this post that is. You may gasp in shock ‘my God! How can you be so young and talented? Not to mention ruggedly handsome?’. Yeah, I know some guys like me get all the luck. Did I tell you I look good in a suit? No? Anyway, my only flaw is that I cannot dance. I am as smooth as a lame hippo with arthritis on the dance floor.

Yeah I lied about the sexual exploits and criminal activities. At least the anti-social behavior was included right? What did you expect? My parents occasionally check it out so this will remain as clean as a whistle.

I suppose there are more than seven things in there about myself. You may be surprised to learn that I do not enjoy writing about myself. I mostly stick to fiction and the skewed vision of reality that I hold dear. It’s so much easier making things up that sound real as opposed to writing about things that are real. That is probably the reason why I did so well in English Literature and not so well in Accounts. Apparently there is a technical term for that in accounts; I think it’s called ‘Cooking the books’.

At any rate you have my ‘seven’. I can’t say I enjoyed writing factual information but the experience has been somewhat satisfactory nevertheless. Any prospective stalkers can go through it and contact me on 1-800-IAMANASS and I will be sure to get back to you. As is the case of all viral activities I now infect seven other people to spread the germ.

And the nominations for ‘Next in line for infection’ are…

Chamara of Apramana fame. You really have to bookmark this blog if you want to learn about designing.

The Goddess of Abundance from The Dark Asylum. Another ‘more than meets the eye’ transformer for sure.

Niroshinie who is always off on a tangent.

Niro of A week in Sri Lanka

chanux

Hak

N of Child of Twenty Five

I would tag Jahufar as well but his blog is down. And he is too pedantic.

P.S. – Yup, you found me out. These are indeed people who commented on my blog.