Like I said in the previous post, I’ve been tagged by several other members of Planet Atheism, a couple of times (3 times here, one on the PA announcements blog). I’m supposed to write 8 random facts about me, and then tag some other bloggers.
As for the first part, let’s see…
- I love all things zombie. Since I discovered George A. Romero’s movies, I’ve turned into a zombie nut, and have bought a lot of DVDs, video games, books, comics, etc. with zombies (including variants such as the 28 Days Later infected). It’s hard to say why the genre appeals to me so much; maybe it’s because zombies force us to look at ourselves with brutal honesty, sometimes for the first time. Plus, I love “what if” scenarios such as a world-wide zombie apocalypse: what would I do? Probably not survive long, but I’d sure try.
- I love unintentional humor, that is, things that weren’t intended to be funny, but somehow are. For instance, bad translations (such as in many video games), or the crude anti-communism in 60s Marvel comics (”We have no choice! Our communist overlords will slay us if we fail in our mission!”), or some “odd” titles (”Giant-Size Man-Thing”).
- I’m usually shy in person (much more so than on the Internet), especially with people I’ve just met. Except after a few drinks; then it’s hard to shut me up.
I don’t become “dumb” or violent, though, like some people do when they drink. - I love learning and solving problems, but after everything is working perfectly and there’s no more room for improvement, I usually get bored with my own solution, and start looking for something new to challenge me — even if it involves replacing my “perfect” solution with something else in need of improvement. Similarly, once I exchanged an 8-bit computer for an inferior one, simply because it was completely different, and new to me, while I knew mostly everything about the one I had.
- I’ve loved computer and video games since I was 6 (I’m 32). Before then, I remember that I was usually bored, as a kid; most things I did became repetitive and predictable after a while, and I didn’t have any real friends back then. Computer games were my “salvation”, because there’s always something new — they’re “a world that never ends”, to quote Machinae Supremacy. My interests are more varied these days, but I don’t know how I’d have survived the otherwise absolute, insanity-inducing boredom of my childhood and early adolescence without computer games.
- I dream of one day earning enough money to live comfortably from my blogs and sites, without a day job. Yet, contradictorily, I blog about things that interest me, such as philosophy, atheism, blogging, and personal stuff (all of which earn me virtually nothing — after all, there are no related products for advertisers to sell), and for serious money-making I should be writing about gadgets, phones, personal development and similar stuff. I guess I’m too honest not to write about what I want.
- I have a curious mix of confidence and lack of it. I know I am capable of just about anything if I put my mind to it, but I’m always afraid of not putting my mind to it if I try to do something, either due to laziness or fear of failure. In other words, I usually succeed if I try… and I know it… yet quite often I don’t try. This is something I should do something about.
- I get a little bored with Italian and Mexican food (both very popular here in Portugal), but I love Portuguese, Chinese, Israelite and especially Japanese cuisines.
- I can trace my loves of reading, fantasy, Tolkien, and the English language to one 1982 computer game, The Hobbit. More on that story here.
And I guess that’s it. With an extra one, too.
Now, I hope you’ll forgive me, but I won’t be tagging anyone. Many members of PA have already been tagged, and I’m too lazy to go check which have been, and which haven’t. But if you read this and, for some reason, haven’t been tagged yet, feel free to consider yourself tagged.
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If you’re unsure of your ability to survive a zombie invasion, you could perhaps test yourself beforehand to see where improvements might lie.
1-7 I completely identify with.
I like the Zombie movies also. I bought “Night of the Living Dead” on video tape. I’m 51 and when I first seen it, it scared the crap out of me. I love movies. I really liked “Dawn of the Dead”, creeped me out bad!
Why not ask your visitors same. Maybe you should do so in the forum, but is it only blog owners (I’d be stupid to assume it was JUST atheist blog owners) who are asked to do so?
Zombies are intriguing much like Terminators… they stop at noghting!!!
(But were once human)
What I want to hear, is a personal tale from you.
By Israelite food, I assume you mean Israeli? Or Jewish?
[quote comment="26792"]By Israelite food, I assume you mean Israeli? Or Jewish?[/quote]
To tell the truth, I’m not sure. “Israeli” is probably the correct word, yes (blame it on the fact that English is not my first language). According to Wikipedia, yes, it’s Israeli cuisine, which is itself kind of based on Jewish cuisine.
Kren, feel free to start a similar thread in the forum.
As for a personal story, I link to one in point 9.
I was brought up on the kind of Jewish food that’s really Eastern European cooking. I don’t know, but I assume that Israeli food is a mixture of that and Middle Eastern food, which sound interesting.
Speaking of zombies, you may have already seen this, but I thought I’d share it as it gave me a good laugh. Enjoy.
If you like zombes I suggest urbandead.com