Tue Jan 30 6:45:50 1996
Name:
A: baby-X
Email:
A: baby-x@swarm.com
Home Page:
A: http://www.swarm.com/~baby-x/
Would you prefer your email be linked, unlinked, or anonymous?
A: I love listening to sendmail cranking away; link it.
How do you FEEL about food? Why do you eat?
A: This depends upon context and circumstance. I FEEL that food, or eating at any rate, should be something more than a simple exercise in sustinence. I'm not quite sure I very often manage to make it this, however.
What is your biggest flaw?
A: Lack of consistent motivation.
3 favorite authors
A: Milorad Pavic, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary MacLane.
What are the hallmarks of success in life?
A: A circle of close friends. A positive impact upon others. A well-functioning Linux box.
What is your biggest mental fuck-up?
A: Letting general situations "fulfill" specific wants.
What is your favorite animal?
A: The owl.
Describe it.
A: The owl watches unseen and learns from what he sees.
How long do you usually know a girl before you kiss her?
A: An eternity.
Jump her?
A: Longer.
Dump her?
A: Have never done this.
How old were you when you first kissed?
A: 18.
Had sex
A: 18.
Smoked Pot?
A: 18.
Do you use recreational drugs?
A: Yes
What?
A: Pot.
When?
A: Not for a couple years now (too tied to nights of emotional disaster).
Still?
A: No
Have you ever been married/lived with someone?
A: Cohabitated
Who worked?
A: Nobody, it was in college.
Who cooked?
A: Both of us.
Who cleaned?
A: Both of us.
Do you know how to cook?
A: Yes
Do you like to cook?
A: Yes
What are the things you cook best?
A: I sort of cook (yes/no was too limiting). I make pea soup form my father's recipe really well.
Have you ever used any of the following (which?): gel hairspray mousse cologne deodorant conditioner zitcream aftershave
A: Mousse (ick), deordorant, zitcream.
What was the most crazy thing you ever did as an adolescent?
A: I wasn't crazy until I got to college.
as a college student?
A: Made a royal stink about being able to bang on a big Henry Moore sculpture. Oh, and my semester spent as a pseudo-hippy.
as a working stiff?
A: Going on vacation in NYC and moving there instead of going back home.
If you were a fruit or a vegetable, what would you be?
A: A sweet potato.
If I were, what would I be?
A: A beet.
If you were at a party, and across the room you saw a very handsome man and your girlfriend chatting quite animatedly, what would you do?
A: Try to figure out where the girlfriend came from.
Do you think there is life after death?
A: No
On other planets?
A: Yes
Are you psychic?
A: Yes
Do you think you have any sort of understanding of what it would be like to completely insane?
A: No
Why?
A: "Completely" suggests to me something so far beyond the usual world that I don't have a context for it.
Were you ever in the armed forces?
A: No
Did you ever kiss a girl who had big, hairsprayed bangs?
A: No
What was the most important scientific achievement in the last 50 years?
A: Either flat-rate wireless net access or the Voyager space probes.
What is the biggest problem...
...all women have?
A: Saying they want one thing while continually taking the exact opposite.
...all men have?
A: Being in general so fucked up that no one notices those of us who aren't doltish testerone freaks.
...with our society?
A: An utter and despairing lack of real passion.
Which do you prefer:
A: Animals
Why?
A: Letting a geranium curl up on my lap or play frisbee would look stupid.
If you won $1 million, what would be the very first thing you would buy?
A: A latte.
The second?
A: A new computer.
The last?
A: A latte.
Who has been the greatest influence in your life?
A: I honestly have no idea.
How do people describe you?
A: Someone described me as "scary-looking" not long ago and I still can't find out who. Rolling Stone said I was an "aberration".
How do you describe yourself?
A: I'm a rootless cosmopolitan.
Do you subscribe to any magazines/newspapers?
A: No
Which?
A: Um, I said "no".
What are your favorite shoes?
A: My Alps.
Additional Comments
A: I have absolutely no idea why I just filled this out.