Last updated November 17, 2008.
- I don’t tell people this exists. Good job if you found it.
- I invented twitter in 2006, or at least a precursor.
- My theme song is “I Don Quixote”, from The Lord of La Mancha.
- I take astronomy at university.
- I could have taken philosophy but the money isn’t as good.
- Sometimes I like philosophy more. Sometimes I hate it more than anything.
- I’m 27
- but still have stuffed animals.
- I own my own football.
- It’s red, purple, and plush.
- I own a gyroscope, a compass, and an abacus.
- I don’t remember how to use the abacus.
- I’ve eaten shark,
- and whale,
- and horse.
- My favourite place is the Renforth warf.
- I love swimming,
- but not at the wharf.
- I have no sense of direction (or distance) on the water.
- I just ate a very large portion of chocolate.
- I have blue eyes.
- I don’t know what colour to call my hair.
- I have a terrible memory for everyday things
- but I know the speed of light is 2.99792×10^8 m/s
- and that pi is about 3.14159265358979.
- I am Canadian.
- I make it a point to spell things the British way when I remember.
- I have six scars that I know of.
- One of them is because I wanted jelly beans.
- It is a Harry Potter scar.
- I cannot do magic
- but I cannot leave the magic.
- I love Fraggle Rock.
- Wembley is my favourite Fraggle.
- My favourite episodes are Marooned and Change of Address.
- I don’t have a favourite song.
- My favourite note in a song is the low A between “to be” and “of use” in the line “Even this foul creature may yet prove to be of use to me” in “The Bells of Notre Dame”
- I hated 1984 and I’m not afraid to argue the point.
- I despised Wuthering Heights but for unsupportable reasons, so I won’t argue that one.
- I’m a terrible corriemuchloch.
- I wish more people knew what shoeburyness meant.
- I buy only name brand cereal.
- I buy any brand shampoo
- and the cheap Zellers looseleaf (better than Hilroy).
- I can’t remember any movies that have made me cry, but I think there has been one.
- I like watching movies that have the same mood I’m feeling.
- I decided Go was my favourite movie without ever seeing it in English.
- I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite movie anymore.
- I speak Japanese, poorly.
- Pocahontas is my favourite Disney movie.
- But Hunchback of Notre Dame has better music.
- By definition, I it is impossible to change your destiny.
- There is no difference between “dating” and “a relationship”. See point 99.
- Some people see little difference between “being friends” and “dating”.
- I was the editor for my high school yearbook.
- I played trumpet in a jazz band. I was terrible but I loved it.
- My grandfather had an arranged marriage to the ugliest woman in Europe, or so the story goes.
- I am Bohemian. Seriously.
- I can play piano.
- I have nothing memorized, so no I will not play anything for you.
- I stopped responding to my first name in grade 8, even with the teacher, but not on purpose.
- This website is like a toy to me.
- My goal in life is to own my own land with trees and access to a river or a lake
- and to have my own library.
- I’m terrible at procrastinating. (I.e., I’m too good at procrastinating for my own good.)
- I’m a pack rat with anything informative like books, notes, and photographs
- I used to say if I’d be anything it’d be something like Shinto.
- I’m an atheist, not least because Shinto is as bullshit as anything else.
- I always think it’s a bit weird when white people become Buddhists.
- I drink an average of 1 litre of milk a day.
- I prefer skim milk and abhor 2%.
- I like songs by the Beatles.
- Just not when the Beatles are the ones playing them.
- I have been to six countries, but I think two don’t really count.
- If I won the lottery I’d give a big chunk to my mom,
- and I’d still go to school,
- but I might change the subject.
- I hate Telus.
- I don’t drink alcohol
- unless someone else pays for it
- but only to be polite.
- I’ve never smoked pot and have no desire to.
- My favourite slogan is “Blood. It’s in you to give.”
- I love curling.
- I curled for the first time in October 2011.
- My mom loves Colleen Jones.
- Colleen Jones scares me.
- The CBC once quoted me in their coverage of the federal election.
- I once had my photo on the cover of the local paper.
- It was a very, very bad photo.
- I failed the first level of swimming lessons because I couldn’t blow bubbles.
- I can blow bubbles now.
- I can’t dive but I would like to learn.
- I had the chance when I was younger but didn’t take it.
- The Olympics make me feel lazy and out of shape.
- Peter Mansbridge is my favourite news anchor.
- I have never been to Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, or Antarctica.
- I used to intend to go to all five but I am much more jaded about travel now.
- I hate it when people over complicate things.
- I’m a lumper, not a splitter. Ask Professor Bisson for details.





