Ok, ok, I got tagged a couple of times now...

[tirinian]

25 things...

1) I am procrastinating doing work, even now.
2) I got my first D&D set from my parents for my ~10th birthday. They claimed for years they regretted that present a lot.
3) I have been playing assassin games at MIT regularly since before the sophomores were born.
4) My major gay-cliche is being a musicals queen. But I don't really have a good ear for music.
5) I wish occasionally that I remembered more of my math, but I doubt I'll ever go back and relearn it.
6) I don't really watch TV anymore.
7) But I kill just as much time on the computer as I would by watching TV.
8) I play a lot of starcraft.
9) I am very good at an quick initial analysis of new data, and not nearly as good at a dedicated long-term analysis.
10) I never cook.
11) I'm not religious, but I have a lot of respect for Faith.
12) I have given something up for Lent each of the last two years and kept to it.
13) I don't make New Years Resolutions.
14) I'm pretty good at WizWar. I'm not very good at Settlers.
15) I still regret losing a friend over a role-playing game, but I don't think I'd do anything differently if I could do it over.
16) I'm a plot-source. I'm not nearly as good at characters. I'm ok at mechanics.
17) I doubt I will ever move out of (greater) Boston.
18) I "collect" comic books in the sense that I don't throw them out after I buy them, but I don't keep them in great condition for resale or anything.
19) I don't pay enough attention to managing my money.
20) I suffer from Geek Social Fallacy 4, but mostly manage to keep it under control.
21) I am hard to motivate to work without a deadline.
22) I don't travel to visit places, I travel to visit people.
23) Nonetheless, I've been to a lot of places, 'cause we traveled a lot when I was a kid.
24) I "talk" online (IM and zephyr) a lot.
25) I took a class in giving massages, years ago, and still have a massage table in my room.

Comments

[dpolicar]

Re: #15 -- anyone I'd know?

[tirinian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know her. You gave her a Master nomination for Levels.

[dpolicar]

Heh... that was long enough ago that I had to look it up.
Though, thinking about it, I suppose she'd have been high on my list of people who might plausibly end a friendship over an RPG, had I made one.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

4) My major gay-cliche is being a musicals queen. But I don't really have a good ear for music.

"You may be seated next to a gay man in the theater - he will be the one saving the playbill."

[tirinian.livejournal.com]

While funny, I don't think that one rises to the level of being a major cliche. :-)

Geek Fallacies

[desireearmfeldt]

Wow, I had never come across that particular idea before and (having googled it) am a little bit surprised at how familiar it rings... :)

Re: Geek Fallacies

[desireearmfeldt]

(The whole set/concept, not $4 in particular.)

Re: Geek Fallacies

[tirinian.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the fallacies are actually exclusive to geeks, but they definitely are fairly common among some of my friends. (Less so than when my friends averaged younger, I think, so maybe people grow out of them.)

Re: Geek Fallacies

[(Anonymous)]

Though some of the failure modes certainly ring true:

"GSF3 can combine disastrously with the other "friendship test" fallacies; carriers may insist that their friends join them in snubbing someone who fails the test, which occasionally leads to a chain reaction which causes the carrier to eventually reject all of their friends."

[shumashi.livejournal.com]

I still remember the time you and I went to see "The Full Monty, the Musical." There was the line "Let's start at the very beginning," and you and I chimed in with the two gay characters on stage, "a very good place to start." It much confused the rest of our party. :)

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

3) I have been playing assassin games at MIT regularly since before the sophomores were born.

Oh, man. That makes me feel old. :-(

On the other hand, I'm sure this one is true of a number of people reading your list. :-)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Well, many of us started playing assassin games before the sophomores were born, but have retired since. That doesn't actually make us less old, though. :)