Tell us something about yourself!

Alex · **Reply #1420 on:** March 18, 2010, 04:40:09 PM

Oh boy, now we're calling them "stats".

I've worn a hat every day for the past 4-5 years.

Serris · **Reply #1421 on:** March 18, 2010, 04:51:25 PM

The only hat I wear is a safari hat.

lbt/cty_lover · **Reply #1422 on:** March 18, 2010, 06:24:23 PM

I like playing frisbee.

Also, I am really enjoying the discussion on energy over on that thread about energy. I haven't debated in a while, and Malte is a formidable opponent.

Noname · **Reply #1423 on:** March 19, 2010, 12:48:33 AM

I only rarely wear a hat, and either is looks really good on me, or really bad. There's no middle ground when it comes to me and hats for some reason. :blink:

Waluigifan · **Reply #1424 on:** March 19, 2010, 07:51:56 AM

Normally I love horror movies, but the movie I saw yesterday night was so sick and scary that I had to turn it off because I was afraid of getting nightmares of this movie!!
of this movie!!

Anyway, horror and splatter movies are still my favorites.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1425 on:** March 20, 2010, 01:14:20 PM

When I get angry, NO ONE can calm me down. In fact, if people tell me to calm down, I'll just get even more mad....

Pangaea · **Reply #1426 on:** March 20, 2010, 05:10:10 PM

I like hats, but I don't often wear them because they tend to make my head itch

(that, or my head just gets uncomfortably warm after a while). In winter, I usually cover my head with a hood.

Alex · **Reply #1427 on:** March 20, 2010, 06:30:44 PM

I have seen every aired episode of 'Supernatural' at least twice.

Waluigifan · **Reply #1428 on:** March 20, 2010, 06:41:20 PM

I don't know if I'm gay or not. o.O

jedi472 · **Reply #1429 on:** March 20, 2010, 07:29:13 PM

I've got a girlfriend, so I'm pretty sure I'm straight.

lbt/cty_lover · **Reply #1430 on:** March 20, 2010, 09:21:15 PM

I have a very large collection of mathematics books.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1431 on:** March 20, 2010, 09:23:51 PM

Quote from: Waluigifan,Mar 20 2010 on 02:41 PM

I don't know if I'm gay or not. o.O

Well, you aren't alone in that, I'm not sure if I'm gay, bi, sraight, or anything at this moment. Right now I seem to have strong feelings toward the same sex now....but it might change in the future.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1432 on:** March 20, 2010, 11:39:29 PM

Quote from: Rat_lady7,Mar 20 2010 on 12:14 PM

When I get angry, NO ONE can calm me down. In fact, if people tell me to calm down, I'll just get even more mad....

Same here

.

Even though I have not dated for years, I know I'm straight 'cuz I only feel attracted to guys

.

Noname · **Reply #1433 on:** March 29, 2010, 03:22:55 AM

I believe that solar energy has great potential, but we must work much harder and invest much more money into research and development in order to unlock it. Simply building more solar plants is not enough, given their relatively low ability to generate power at present.

Pangaea · **Reply #1434 on:** March 30, 2010, 09:43:11 PM

Yesterday I managed to get myself bitten by a dead turtle. :blink: We were dissecting them in Vertebrate Biology lab, and I was trying to lever the mouth open with a lab instrument, while at the same time I had a finger in its mouth (I can’t remember whether I was actively attempting to push the jaws open by hand, or my finger was simply in that position because of the way I was grasping the turtle’s head). Anyway, the tool slipped out, and the beak snapped shut again...on the tip of my finger. It didn’t hurt that much; about the same as a pinch from a small crayfish (my Vert Bio instructor keeps a tank of crayfish in the classroom, which I have handled

), though it was a little more painful than I expected. Honestly, I wasn't too surprised by such a thing happening, considering my aptitude for bungling lab work in most every manner possible.

:

On the same day, in the same lab, I accidentally snapped the blade off a scalpel (for the second time in the semester

) and nicked myself on two fingers of my left hand (possibly on my right hand as well). More evidence of my utter incompetency in regards to lab work.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1435 on:** March 31, 2010, 01:02:59 AM

^

Hehe, this reminds me of a couple of years ago in a Biology lab when we were dissecting fetal pigs. See, I randomly get muscle spasms. I understand Aspies display some symptoms of Tourette's, so my doctor had concluded that to be the cause behind my spasms. Anyhoo, we were told to carve down the belly of the pig the way an autopsy is started on a human. As I was beginning to carve, my entire right arm suddenly stiffened up and had a spasm. This caused me to press down so hard with the scalpel that I pretty much split the pig all the way through, and then almost got my lab partner with the scalpel (he was standing to the right of me)

. When the instructor came by and looked at our pig, his first response was, "What the hell happened to that poor pig? He looks like he's been attacked by a mass murderer." Oops

. BTW, I named him Bacon Bits

.

Also, in Chemistry class during my junior year of high school, I was holding a test tube above a Bunsen burner while heating the contents, unaware I had the tube aimed at the guy's head to the right of me (geez, there's somethin' about folks bein' in danger if they stand to the right of me :blink:). Suddenly, the contents exploded in the test tube, and a ball of something hot sailed right by the guy's head

. The dude had an afro, so I'm surprised he still had his hair

.

Pangaea · **Reply #1436 on:** March 31, 2010, 10:53:09 PM

^ Okay, so maybe my imagination for laboratorical manifestations of Murphy's Law is pretty limited. (In other words, my statement about my screwing up labs in every way possible was hyperbolic.

) Still, lab work is definitely not my fortÈ. If your instructor thought “Bacon Bits” looked like a murder victim, then he would surely diagnose the aftermath of my dissection attempts as the work of a deranged hyena.

Of course, the real concern is that I'm dangerously clumsy with lab tools. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to stand anywhere near me (to the left or right

:) when I have a scalpel or other piece of potentially injurious equipment in hand.

In other news, today, in the span of two hours, I checked out seven books from my college library, and another 22 from the local public library. (Five of the latter were on Vikings, five on ravens and crows, five on owls, four on bears, and the other three on miscellaneous subjects. All seven of the college books were Viking-related.)

Pangaea · **Reply #1437 on:** April 02, 2010, 12:41:40 AM

Double post. Phooey.

I’m not especially fond of April Fool’s Day. I’m unfortunately rather gullible (I tend to take things literally), and easily embarrassed, so I’m usually not amused when someone pulls a prank on me, especially a cruel one.

That’s not to say I don’t pull April Fool’s jokes, but I prefer to do so in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody (no pranks that I would mind being the victim of). Last year, I baked a lemon cake, and dyed it with food coloring so that it looked like a chocolate cake. Then I served it to my family. Stupidly I told them that it was a vanilla cake before they started eating it (hoping for a three-way psycho-culinary bamboozling: your eyes tell you it’s chocolate, your mind tells you it’s vanilla, your taste buds tell you it’s lemon), before realizing that it would have been an even bigger surprise if they were expecting chocolate, but tasted lemon; two flavors even more disparate than lemon and vanilla

(I never said I was a good prankster). Still, the joke worked quite well (and since my dad wasn’t around when I announced the “true” identity of the cake, he ate the cake under the pretense that it was chocolate); it took everyone quite a while to guess what the cake’s actual flavor was. The best part was, everyone thought it was a good joke, and they liked the cake.

I did the same thing again this year, this time with a strawberry cake. (It’s probably going to become a yearly tradition.

) Unfortunately, most everyone guessed the flavor right away.

Serris · **Reply #1438 on:** April 02, 2010, 01:40:33 AM

I am not fond of April Fools despite the fact that it is VERY hard to fool me.

Noname · **Reply #1439 on:** April 02, 2010, 02:17:07 AM

I do not like April Fools, although I can fool almost ANYONE on MSN in a small way.