Eight Random Things Previously Unknown

July 26th, 2007

BlogsA while back Louis Gray tagged me for an “eight random things you didn’t know about me” meme and I recently got over my head cold enough to give this idea the due attention it deserves. I don’t usually blog about my personal life so this list is a bit judicious and divulges the safest yet somewhat interesting stuff that won’t get me in trouble. Here goes:

  1. I have meet Steve Jobs. My pal Dave and I went to the opening of the Palo Alto Apple Store several years ago and the Jobs-man was hanging out, taking in the scene. I asked him if he would sign my Graphite iBook but he politely declined. Avie Tevanian was handing out T-shirts.
  2. Favorite painters: Kandinsky, Pre-Raphaelite, Magritte, Duchamp and I know too much about Andy Warhol.
  3. Cats I have known: Patches, Julio, and presently Java Scharffen Berger and Lilikoi.
  4. Some favorite movies: The Graduate, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Being John Malkovich.
  5. Actors I’ve had unhealthy obsessions with over the years: Parker Posey, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Isabelle Adjani.
  6. Favorite foods: Pizza, asparagus, a solid carne asada burrito, sushi, chips.
  7. I used to smoke - a bad habit picked up from the college days in the Pacific Northwest. Quitting completely took about a year with some help from Kirk and Spock (I still need to write a post about that experience).
  8. My interest in sports on a scale from 1 to 10 is about a 2. Needs more frickin’ lasers.

As far as tagging others, I’m not feeling super taggy today, but here are three people I’d like to bother. Participation is optional, as always, and if you’ve already participated in this blog meme forgive and ignore me:

Thanks Louis this was fun!

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  • DaveD
    I smoked starting in 10th grade until I graduated with my first degree. Got lucky somehow - somewhat. I smkoed when I was driving, studying and drinking coffee, and in a bar drinking (duh).

    More - I quit three times. First time was because I "was quitting". Only started back up because a group of us walked into a bar, took off our coats, poured from the pitcher, and the rest lit up.

    Learned my first lesson about weak moments right then and there.

    Quit later. I don't know, probably broke and didn't want to bum one from anyone... and then it hit. Walked into a bar with a group of friends. Took off our coats. Hit up the pitcher. Everyone lighting up... and one friend (where are you now MikePit?) stopped me from bumming a smoke. Told me to wait, because he had just the right thing - came back from the bar with a BIG stogie of a cigar. And yes, I think it took 3 days to shake off smoking that thing like I id a cigarette.

    One more thing, my dad died a few months earlier after smoking a carton a week for 25 years - at age 55.

    I did start up one more time. My last finals. Promised myself I'd quit the day after them. Guess what? I graduated with a 3.2 GPA and quit the next day.

    That was in 1981.

    So... that's my story. Now, tell me about Kirk and Spock. :-)
  • Heh, I'm saving my Kirk and Spock smoking experience for a post. But anyhow I picked up the smoking habit in college and was never a heavy smoker - I think it took me a week to get through a pack. But still, I found it hard to quit and did a lot of buying a pack, smoking one cigarette, and throwing the pack away, for a few months.
  • DaveD
    Didn't mean to imply I wanted your story in the comments here. Just prodding you to write up that post - it sounds like a good one!

    As for my habit... it was half a pack a day. And yes, part of my reason to quit was because I was between jobs in college (I worked thorugh school at some 20 jobs - I remember trying to count them one time)... and I'm sorry, I won't bum a cigarette because I don't want to spend the 50 cents on a pack. (Yes, that should clearly age me... we're talking the late 70s.) I hear a pack of those things go for a few dollars nowadays.
  • I've had a hard time quitting, it's become such a part of me - however this sure brought back a lot of memories. Maybe I can try again.
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