Stolen Meme

Here's a nice questionnaire I stole from Neil. I don't like stealing Neil's XHTML as he uses some depricated elements that I don't use. But it's not so bad when you can :% s/<b>/<strong>/ and :% s/<\/b>/<\/strong>/ in VIM. Which reminds me, I'm in the middle of writing myself some convenience functions in my .vimrc to do what xmagic does on the pages on South Square's site.

• Layer one





• Name: Tom.


• Birth date: 1986-02-19.


• Birthplace: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK.


• Current Location: As above.


• Eye Color: Brown.


• Hair Color: Brown.


• Height: No idea.


• Righty or Lefty: Righty. I have been accused of being left-handed for using my pointing device with my left hand but I had entirely right-handed reasons for this (i.e. right hand on keyboard while using pointing device).


• Zodiac Sign: Aquarius or Pices depending on the calendar. It don't matter, of course.





• Layer two




• Your heritage: English as far as I can tell.


• The shoes you wore today: The usual---my trainers (the only shoes I wear on a regular basis).


• Your weakness: Anxiety disorders; but they're getting easier to deal with.


• Your fears: Dead things.


• Your perfect pizza: Vegan and yummy.


• Goal you’d like to achieve: Re-write my XHTML preprocessor some day and maybe make it more generally useful and turn it into something that's useful for more people than just me.





• Layer three




• Your most overused phrase on AIM: I don't use AIM.


• Your first waking thoughts: “I don't want to wake up.”


• Your best physical feature: My incredibly sexy septum piercing.


• Your most missed memory: Hmm.





• Layer four




• Pepsi or Coke: I'd prefer a glass of water.


• McDonald’s or Burger King: I used to like Burger King and a boycott McDonald's so neither.


• Single or group dates: Dates are yummy and I've never been on one.


• Adidas or Nike: I'll have to say neither but my trainers are Adidas-branded.


• Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea, it seems, is owned by Nesles or Neslé (whom I boycott) but Lipton Ice Tea is reasonably nice.


• Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate is good. Shame there's so little nice vegan chocolate.


• Cappuccino or coffee: Neither.





• Layer five




• Smoke: Nope.



• Cuss: Indeedy (see previous post :-).


• Sing: I sing along to nice music but that's it.


• Take a shower everyday: Yes.


• Do you think you’ve been in love: Not romantic love, no.


• Want to go to college: No. University's good enough for me.


• Liked high school: Upper school wasn't that fun; the constant homework depressed me.


• Want to get married: I will never marry. A civil partnership could be a good idea though---still, it's kind of unlikely.


• Believe in yourself: Yes, I do.


• Get motion sickness: Only when reading on a car or bus.


• Think you’re attractive: Yes. But my body could certainly do with a few more modifications.


• Think you’re a health freak: No, I think I'm perfectly reasonable in wanting to be healthy.


• Get along with your parent(s): Yeah, I just had lunch with my parent.


• Like thunderstorms: Yeah.


• Play an instrument: No.





• Layer six
  
  In the past month:




• Drank alcohol: No.


• Smoked: No.


• Done a drug: No.


• Made Out: No.


• Gone on a date: No.


• Gone to the mall: No.


• Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No.


• Eaten sushi: No.


• Been on stage: No.


• Been dumped: No.


• Gone skating: No.


• Made homemade cookies: No.


• Dyed your hair: No.


• Stolen Anything: No.





• Layer seven
  
  Ever:




• Played a game that required removal of clothing: Yes. Strip blackjack … in the Sixth Form common room. We didn't get very far though.


• If so, was it mixed company: The game had female and male players, not that it makes any difference.


• Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes.


• Been caught ‘doing something’: That's rather vague.


• Been called a tease: Nope.


• Gotten beaten up: No. I can't see why not though, I've been openly bisexual since at some point during my GCSEs. But then I was (and still am) a pacifist and I've understood the basics of behaviour modification (i.e. ignoring people to extinguish behaviour) for a long time.


• Shoplifted: No.


• Changed who you were to fit in: Nope.





• Layer eight




• Age you hope to be married: I will never marry.


• Numbers and Names of Children: I'd love to have two children of relatively similar ages at some point. I've considered Holly or Elizabeth as names for my future children but I don't want to give them the same name as me if I ever change my name and Holly's a name I'd like. If I adopted kids (a possibility) they'd have their own names already.


• Describe your Dream Wedding: Let's see. I'd be there, my partner(s) would be there. There'd be a registrar and there'd probably be friends who could double-up as witnesses. Beyond that I couldn't tell you.


• How do you want to die: I've not really thought about that yet. But I'd like to be awake to experience it.


• Where you want to go to college: I wouldn't mind learning a language at Bradford College. I'll have a look in the catalogue next year---I doubt they'll have Esperanto but they might have Spanish or Finnish.


• What do you want to be when you grow up: Prettier. I might need some money for that though, so I'd like to be employed when I grow up too. Programming would be an ideal job, however I haven't yet identified an ideal field---I'm very interested in web design (including static markup, CGI, accessibility, usability, etc.) at the moment.


• What country would you most like to visit: I have an interest in spending a year of my course (or my year out in industry placement) in a northern European country such as Finland or Sweden.





• Layer nine




• Number of drugs taken illegally: Two or three.


• Number of people I could trust with my life: One or two.


• Number of CDs that I own: I'd say around a hundred. That's including audio and software disks.


• Number of piercings: Six. My reverse prince albert had to be retired to make space for my stretched prince albert, unfortunately. Once my prince albert is adequitely-sized I may get my reverse prince albert back and start stretching that (it's been out for several weeks and it's still not closed up---always a good sign).


• Number of tattoos: None yet.


• Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper? : Probably about once.


• Number of scars on my body: One on my forehead.


• Number of things in my past that I regret: Several.