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Usually when I see these "bold the ones that apply" memes, I find some statement in the list that I really don't want to publish my position on, so I just skip the whole thing. But this one is more innocuous than most. It's also very long so I've highlighted the keywords—just let your eye glaze over and look for interesting stuff.
*Edit*: I've coded up an HTML form to help you fill out your own answers for this meme.
*Edit 2*: Make the checkmarks and red underlines appear for users of Internet Explorer 6 (why don't you guys join the 21st century and get firefox?).
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Some stories related to above:
× I have jumped off a bridge.
No, but I once convinced some fellow students that I had. We were hanging around a bridge over the Charles River (called "Quinobequin" when it was Massasoit land), waiting to begin a canoe trip. I pretended to fall off the bridge, then ran along its underside, then back up and across the topside highway. When I got back to the group, some of the other kids were still trying to figure out where my body had landed, but it seemed the camp counselor hadn't bought it.
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.
I fell asleep in a train station in Springfield MA and missed the last bus back to UMass. The station closed for a few hours in the middle of the night and I had nowhere to go. There was a bank up the street with an ATM booth and I had a card (ATM's were still relatively new back then), so I stayed there for a while, until a cop came by and told me to move along. A lily-livered guy tried to rob me; I told him to scram. The robber's boss came by to ask if I was muscling in on his territory; I told him I would be taking a bus out of town in a few hours and he wouldn't see me again.
I fell asleep in Penn Station (NYC), trying to get home after totalling my car in New Jersey. A thief stole my suitcase. He woke me up just enough to realize a minute later what he had done, but by then it was too late. Never got that stuff back. The loss was covered under my parents' homeowner's policy.
✓ I have a custom-built computer.
Well, perhaps "jury-rigged" is more like it. The cable for my laptop's screen (which was starting to fail in April) finally gave up the ghost, so I replaced the lid's wire harness with the similar part from my daughter's old laptop. A lot of my keys were sticking, so I also replaced the keyboard with hers (which itself was a replacement keyboard I bought for her on eBay). I didn't bother swapping the cover plates, so now I have a ThinkPad 600E that claims it is a ThinkPad 600 (on the front; back still says 600E). I also didn't bother covering up all the screws with those stupid black stickers. Anyway, the computer is functional again, although it's a little harder than it used to be to latch the lid closedw
*Edit*: I've coded up an HTML form to help you fill out your own answers for this meme.
*Edit 2*: Make the checkmarks and red underlines appear for users of Internet Explorer 6 (why don't you guys join the 21st century and get firefox?).
| × I miss somebody right now. | ✓ I don't watch much TV these days. | ✓ I own lots of books. |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. | × I love to play video games. | ✓ I've tried marijuana. (So I can now say from fursonal experience that it does not cause hair to grow on your palms!) |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. | × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. | ✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. | × I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. | ✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. (It's a pen-knife. You wanna make somethn of it? You and what army?) |
Some stories related to above:
× I have jumped off a bridge.
No, but I once convinced some fellow students that I had. We were hanging around a bridge over the Charles River (called "Quinobequin" when it was Massasoit land), waiting to begin a canoe trip. I pretended to fall off the bridge, then ran along its underside, then back up and across the topside highway. When I got back to the group, some of the other kids were still trying to figure out where my body had landed, but it seemed the camp counselor hadn't bought it.
✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.
I fell asleep in a train station in Springfield MA and missed the last bus back to UMass. The station closed for a few hours in the middle of the night and I had nowhere to go. There was a bank up the street with an ATM booth and I had a card (ATM's were still relatively new back then), so I stayed there for a while, until a cop came by and told me to move along. A lily-livered guy tried to rob me; I told him to scram. The robber's boss came by to ask if I was muscling in on his territory; I told him I would be taking a bus out of town in a few hours and he wouldn't see me again.
I fell asleep in Penn Station (NYC), trying to get home after totalling my car in New Jersey. A thief stole my suitcase. He woke me up just enough to realize a minute later what he had done, but by then it was too late. Never got that stuff back. The loss was covered under my parents' homeowner's policy.
✓ I have a custom-built computer.
Well, perhaps "jury-rigged" is more like it. The cable for my laptop's screen (which was starting to fail in April) finally gave up the ghost, so I replaced the lid's wire harness with the similar part from my daughter's old laptop. A lot of my keys were sticking, so I also replaced the keyboard with hers (which itself was a replacement keyboard I bought for her on eBay). I didn't bother swapping the cover plates, so now I have a ThinkPad 600E that claims it is a ThinkPad 600 (on the front; back still says 600E). I also didn't bother covering up all the screws with those stupid black stickers. Anyway, the computer is functional again, although it's a little harder than it used to be to latch the lid closedw
