100 things about me 1. when I'm 32 I'll have been clean and sober half my life 2. I know how to do an emergency tracheotomy 3. my mother is bipolar and I spent most of my childhood walking on pins and needles 4. The last day I abused any substances (drugs, alcohol, etc) was Sep 11, 1989 5. I know what the term "netiquette" means 6. I've taped up a crushed four year old girl in a trauma center so that her family could see her one last time 7. one of my good friends was shot dead over drugs at 19 years old 8. I have a serious weakness for girls with big, brown, almond-shaped eyes 9. I once doused a '63 Impala with gasoline and lit on on fire because it broke down and I didn't want to waste the full tank of gas 10. at 18 I was in love with a girl but was smart enough to know she was bad for me, and walked away 11. I've felt a person's pulse fade away to nothing as they die 12. I've stood at parade rest for hours at a time 13. I'm balding rapidly 14. I can play blues harmonica really well, but have never had any instruction 15. I've survived a Chicago winter in a Navy barracks 16. I know who Willie Dixon was 17. I appreciate Perl Poetry 18. I've driven from Laguna to Oakland in five hours, in an old Pinto sta-wag 19. I wish my hair was still curly like before it started falling out 20. I love the cartoon Futurama 21. I can explain how a UNIX computer boots up 22. I stop and look up at the sky almost every night 23. I used to spend hours playing with legos, now I spend hours building up computer networks 24. Today I joked with co-workers about making a "Leap Pad" to teach existentialism. It would just have dark blobs to show the futility of trying to find meaning in life 25. I laughed when a six year old called my childhood the "olden days" 26. I have no desire to be a teenager again 27. I am less patient as I get older, I can't stand when people don't thank me for holding a door open for them. I say "Your welcome" very loudly. 28. I've completed very little college 29. I served 5 years in the Military, but never once fired a weapon 30. I served 5 years in the Navy, but never once set foot onboard a ship 31. I like the cartoon Samurai Jack 32. I was a skateboarder before skateboarding was cool 33. I had bad acne as a teenager 34. I like to seem like the strong silent type, but inside I'm very sensitive and silly 35. my friends when I was young were always the crazy kids, the ones with almost no inhibitions 36. I didn't go to my ten year high school reunion 37. I've spent thousands of dollars on computer books, mostly books from O'Reilly & Sons 38. I wanted to grow up to be an author when I was a kid 39. I often think of solutions to problems while I'm jogging, when I didn't even know I was thinking about it 40. a girl who had a crush on me in the eigth grade made me a pie with dog crap in it, and I still have no idea why 41. our house caught on fire when I was in the eigth grade, we had to live in another town for several months while our house was repaired 42. my family name was 11 letters long before my grandfather shortened it to five 43. half of me wished I was still a Navy Hospital Corpsman during the second gulf war, so I could be there to help injured Marines 44. the other half of me was glad I was out of harm's way 45. I taught myself to be a UNIX administrator 46. I landed myself in drug rehab at age 16 47. I think of skateboarding objects that I see in everyday life, including people's faces. I imagine that their nose is a quarter pipe and I ride up and do a handplant on the bridge of their nose 48. I realize that xp (as in Windows XP) is the key sequence to transpose two characters in the UNIX editor "vi", but I'm not yet sure of the significance 49. I was once asked if I'm into Anime porn, and the answer was no 50. I've seen countless big fat southern women with tiny little skinny husbands, it makes me wonder if they eat all the food in the house 51. I'd rather do things myself than have to explain it to someone else 52. I tend to call my immediate family only when I need something, but visit my grandparents regularly. 53. the laptop I'm typing this on does 160 frame per second Quake3 time demos 54. I wanted to be a firefighter when I was 19 or 20 55. when the WTC fell I was busy trying to keep a news website online under all the traffic 56. my cube at work is almost always a mess 57. I love to argue, and love it when people argue back with vigor 58. I really like people who don't take themselves seriously 59. I have no problem speaking in front of large groups 60. I want to be rich, but not famous (I don't want fans or the press stalking me) 61. I've never been to New York, and really want to visit 62. I'm learning to play the guitar 63. I can get jealous 64. I care more about how well something works than how good it looks 65. I think a girl in low rise pants, with a tatoo at the small of her back is very sexy 66. I'm thinking of trying my hand as a cartoonist, just for a career change, not because I particularly like it 67. I'd way rather be in California with the earthquake risk, then on the east coast with constant hurricane threats 68. I wear boxers, and hate jockey shorts 69. I hate when people say "irregardless" or "supposably" 70. I don't feel threatened by gay men 71. my wrists are wrecked from typing 72. I love the movies "Tommy Boy" and "Happy Gilmore" 73. I always tell the truth, and can't stand those who don't 74. I've always had a strange feeling that I wouldn't grow to be very old 75. I always wish I could get more sleep, but rarely take advantage of an opportunity to go to bed early 76. I'm always amazed when girls think their guy friends aren't just trying to get into their pants 77. I was asked who I would want to meet if I could meet anyone in the world, and I had no idea who I'd pick. I guess I have no real idols. 78. I don't ever want to live in Florida again 79. I find televised sports extremely boring, but enjoy going to baseball games 80. I want to move out of the suburbs and into the city 81. I don't like soccer moms who can't drive their giant SUVs 82. I think Dane Cook and Steven Lynch are hilarious stand-up comics 83. I have trouble finding things to do at night besides eat out and go to movies (I don't drink, remember?) 84. I don't like being wrong 85. I want people to feel welcome to ask me for help 86. I am a workaholic, as long as things in my personal life are stable 87. I love when girls have a nice hourglass figure, even if they're a little overweight 88. I want to build a house with different themed rooms: japanese, new orleans, log cabin, game room, outside spanish patio, and more 89. I like keeping things working behind the scenes, with little to no recognition for myself 90. I don't like compliments. I accept them, but don't like getting them. 91. it is important to me to gain the respect of my coworkers 92. if somebody uses a word I don't understand, I don't pretend I know what it means 93. I can spot a bullshit artist when they walk through the door 94. I don't like noisy people, and especially hate noisy eaters 95. I can't go a day without coffee 96. I don't like when people say they're "fixin" to do something 97. I wonder if I should be doing something to help make the world a better place 98. I hate racists, and wonder what their parents told them about other races growing up 99. I didn't want to turn 30. 100. I generated the numbers at the beginning of these lines like this: `for num in `seq 1 1 100`;do echo "$num. " >> 100things.txt ;done`