I Can Has CrackBerry!

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Was asked to submit answers to Seven Interesting Things About Me Meme. I note that "interesting" is subjective - thus, 7 Things About Me...

1. I've become increasingly fixated on handsfreeness. Somehow, the idea of actually holding the telephone while talking, really annoys me. It's too bad I keep breaking my headsets. Seriously - I got a bunch of those cellphone wire headseats for like $5 each, and I've destroyed almost all of them. Crushed in an armrest. Dropped an earpiece in the gearshift.


2. As above, I am not a delicate individual. As a boy, I was the proverbial bull in a china shop. Most everything I own is damaged in at least some minor way.


3. I love socks. Scratch that. I like socks. (I'm not a Boreanaz-esque sock freak.) I pretty much never go barefoot, except in the shower. I keep pairs of socks that I use solely for sleeping in. These are not special "sleeper socks" or anything. I've just blocked them off.


4. I am strangely slow to adopt new technologies - and yet when I do - behave like a five year old, as if this is something actually new. For example, I just got my CrackBerry - after almost a year of resistance - and am oddly animated by it right now.


5. I am remarkably solicitous of authority figures. This makes for me being a fantastic cog in service sector employment. The Navy Officers generally expect people to do what they say, but my Civilian customers are almost always pleasantly surprised by my attitude when they dump the crap they don't want to have to do onto me. That said, I am not a fun person to have to take assignments from for similar reasons. I often forget that being completely unfazed by scutwork is not a common trait.


6. As with Scutwork above. I spent an hour fiddling with the above icon at the pixel level. For no real reason.


7. For some reason, right now I want to see someone write one of two cracked out "Five Things" crossover series. One in which Buffy Summers goes out on bad date after bad date with a series of "coming of age idiot-man-child" protagonists like JD from Scrubs and Ted of How I met your Mother. The other cracked-out crossover concept involves Faith seducing random people to infiltrate their organizations as part of one secret plot after another - maybe, like, John Casey of Chuck, Barney on HIMYM or the Sheinhardt Wig Corporation. Really, there can't be enough cracked out crossovers on TV. It's probably a good thing I don't have a series of my own. I would destroy TV with camp. And then have Profit orchestrate the demise of everyone Dexter doesn't kill...