100 Things About Me

February 22, 2005
7:58 am
Posted in: Personal, Tech, WordPress

Everyone else has done it, and I’ve rather enjoyed their “100 things” entries, so here it goes:

  1. I’m a “left brain” person… analytical, and not very good at art
  2. My I.Q. is somewhere between 140 and 150
  3. I got 1420 on my SATs
  4. I also took them three times
  5. I was homeschooled through highschool
  6. I studied as a business major for three years, and then changed my mind
  7. I now am pursuing a degree in biology
  8. I want to be a dentist
  9. I’m good with my hands, and working in small places
  10. I can be extremely obsessive-compulsive at times

  1. This OCD is most obvious when I eat breakfast… God help you if you disturb my place setting
  2. I love computers
  3. This website was born on February 5th, 2003 @ 2:15 AM
  4. Three different blog engines have powered it: Blog, Movable Type, and WordPress
  5. My website is an outlet for all my frustrations, ambitions, desires and quirks
  6. I’m 6 feet 4 inches tall
  7. I’ve never weighed a pound over 178 lbs in my life
  8. Most of the time, I only eat when I’m very hungry
  9. I have a slight case of body dismorphic disorder with regards to body hair… sometimes I’m almost convinced that my chest hair is a parasite of some sort
  10. I had meningitis as an infant, spending several days in the ICU… the doctors told my parents I’d probably be retarded or have physical disabilities
  11. No… I’m actually rather smart and athletic, as it turns out
  12. I have blue eyes, brown hair, and a rather “young” looking face
  13. I couldn’t grow a full beard if I tried, and I’m not worried about it in the least
  14. I’m compulsive about using tweezers and nail clippers
  15. I have several parallel horizontal scars on my back, most of which are stretch marks from rapid upward growth
  16. Two of the scars are from actual injuries
  17. There are some risque theories floating around about how I really got the scars
  18. I played baseball from age 8 until age 16
  19. I was always good, but just shy of making the city all-star team
  20. I ran track for 4 years in highschool, mostly running the 800 meter sprint
  21. I suffered from oxygen deprivation every time, often passing out or losing my sight and hearing for several minutes
  22. My left bicep has always been bigger than my right (likely from baseball)
  23. I’m right handed, by the way
  24. I’m Roman Catholic, as is my immediate family, and some of my extended family
  25. I regard myself as a political independent, with strong Libertarian leanings
  26. I seriously considered joining the military after 9/11
  27. This is the first time I’ve ever told anyone that
  28. I’ve never really met anyone famous, besides a few musicians who got some radio play
  29. I worked as a waiter in a Denny’s restaurant for 9 months
  30. The experience taught me a great many things about people and business
  31. I’ve lived in Florida since 1985, but I’ve never once personally endured hurricane force winds
  32. I regard myself as a good driver, never having been in an accident and having avoided several
  33. Two of those near-accidents were the fault of anti-lock brakes… I hate anything that takes control away from the driver
  34. My first online service was Prodigy, circa 1991
  35. I own a modified Xbox that can run Linux, act as a networked media center, and play Xbox, and emulation games from its 120 GB hard drive
  36. I’ve contributed code, bug fixes, and plugins to WordPress, the software that runs this blog
  37. As of this writing, my website gets about 1900 visits a day
  38. I’d post here even if that was just 1
  39. The first thing I did after buying a label-maker was to make a label that said “Label-maker” and put it on the label-maker
  40. I also once scratched an itch using a bottle of anti-itch cream
  41. I have a cat, Gavin, and a leopard gecko, Ramses
  42. I built the computer I am currently using
  43. I took 7 years of Latin, which more than a little bit helped my SAT scores
  44. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m mostly attracted to skinny pretty girls
  45. Cleaning my bathroom usually involves latex gloves and a lot of beer
  46. When I was 9 years old, I designed and built a perpetual motion machine out of Legos, certain that I was solving the world’s energy problems
  47. It didn’t work
  48. I have a wicked cool inch-long scar on my foot where a ray got me in the Gulf of Mexico
  49. I was an avid reader as a child, reading the Chronicles of Narnia when I was 7, and Moby Dick when I was 9
  50. It’s quite possible that I read 1984 and Brave New World at much too young an age
  51. I’m a fan of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook
  52. Both of my parents are in the medical field
  53. I rode horses and showed competitively for several years
  54. I don’t care much for dogs
  55. I’ve visited the Holy Land
  56. I’m fascinated by etymology (study of the origins of words)
  57. I don’t believe in many conspiracy theories, but I never tire of listening to them
  58. Conservatives are just as capable of angering me as Liberals
  59. My digital music collection is an obsession… I have lots of stuff I will never listen to again
  60. I can’t wait for the GB to go the way of the MB in favor of TB
  61. I think many of the world’s problems stem from ignorance
  62. I hate having to shave
  63. I’ve been working on these 100 items for several months
  64. I play the guitar every once in a while
  65. The sound of two paper napkins rubbing together makes me gag
  66. I am violent in my sleep
  67. I don’t sleep walk, but I sleep talk
  68. The worst thing you can do when trying to wake me up is to use a soft soothing voice… I think you’re patronizing me and I’ll only flail more vigorously
  69. American Idol is ruining music
  70. I think Motorcycle helmet laws are ridiculous
  71. I often have a callus from hours of computer use (from dragging the mouse)
  72. My speaking voice is relatively high and non-threatening for a straight guy…
  73. …But my singing voice is a bass
  74. I think all the arguments against circumcision are valid, but I still have no problem with it… guess it is just tradition
  75. I’ve been pierced 12 times
  76. Only 4 piercings remain
  77. I have one tattoo
  78. I’d never get a tattoo that would be visible while wearing shorts and a t-shirt
  79. I don’t own a gun, but hope to soon
  80. I’m mostly nocturnal
  81. I’ve never been arrested, and have only been in the back of a police car once (I ran out of gas, and a kind officer drove me to the gas station and back)
  82. I haven’t had to stay in the hospital since infancy
  83. I have eagle eyes, and can read signs from really far away
  84. Family history suggests I will go bald at an early age and die of cancer
  85. I’m very much okay with that
  86. I’ll shave my head before I stoop to a combover
  87. I was very introverted as a teenager, but it was only a phase
  88. I have very quick reflexes
  89. I’m not afraid of dying… I’d just like a little bit of advance notice
  90. I’m really glad I finally finished this
Mark Jaquith

Hi. I’m Mark Jaquith (JAKE-with). I make the WordPress publishing platform and am a freelance WordPress consultant. This is my personal blog. You can subscribe to my feed or follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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