Kevin's Watch

matrixman wrote:

Esmer wrote:i accidently saw my sisters boobs once.

At least it wasn't a Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction in front of a national audience, eh?

But seriously, I've also accidently seen private parts of family members. Yeah, it was awkward, but, meh, I got over it.

But the emotional scars last forever. . .

After I was sure that my parents were asleep I would turn my T.V. on and watch Carson and Letterman. After getting caught several times watching Letterman on school nights I started sneaking a 5 inch black and white set under my covers which I would watch very quietly.

I can't watch Letterman now because I don't want my cherished memories of
such things as 'Monkey Cam' or the once awesome Top Ten Lists to be tainted.

Add me to that list of non-drivers.

I despise shopping for clothes to the point where if I find something I like, I will buy several of it. As a result, I dress pretty much the same way every day.

I once had 32 pet mice.

I used to maintain a website that archived the lyrics to songs based on sci-fi/fantasy novels.

I have written over 5,000 pages of Star Trek fan fiction.


Oh, and I invented the wheel.

in the year i have had my cell phone (my first ever) i have used 24 hours on it.

Sorus, Sea, Sarge and I could form our own little clique: the Driverless Club. (Yeah, we hit off the tee with only fairway woods and long irons. Ka-ching!)

Wyldewode wrote:

matrixman wrote:

Esmer wrote:i accidently saw my sisters boobs once.

At least it wasn't a Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction in front of a national audience, eh?

But seriously, I've also accidently seen private parts of family members. Yeah, it was awkward, but, meh, I got over it.

But the emotional scars last forever. . .

Glimpsing a family member's naughty bits doesn't even make it on my list of traumatizing events. Not that I've had a whole lot of such events.

But speaking of scars, I did have a real scar from a burn as a result of accidentally spilling scalding hot water onto my leg. This was back in the winter of '83, and it was the only time I ever went to the hospital as a patient, though just for a short stay. My dad didn't like having to come back from work early in order to drive me to the hospital. I remember the time frame of this incident only because I had then been reading The Wounded Land - that was what I took with me to the hospital. So while the staff treated my, erm, Wounded Leg, my mind was with Linden and company in Sarangrave Flat (the part in the book where, oddly enough, Linden would suffer her own injury, but to the foot, not the leg). Anyway, my burn scar did look a little nasty to me at the time, and it took years to fade away.

Oh, and one time I had a bicycle accident that could've been a lot more serious than it was. I was going rather too fast on the sidewalk when my bike caught a steel fence and I ended up flying over my bike and onto concrete. When I got up I saw blood on my hand where either the fence or my bike had cut me. I was sore but didn't break anything, and so I just went back home. Didn't go to the hospital - I'm not even sure if I ever showed my family the injury. I think I just kinda sucked it up. I guess there was the risk of metal poisoning from my wound, but as a 10 or 11-year old I was not thinking about that.

Yeah, that's about it. Afraid I don't have any exciting head trauma adventures to share, like aTOMiC's.

I have one scar for every year of my life, and have had half that many concussions

Holsety wrote:

DLH wrote:in other news, another forum I go to recently went through a sort of epidemic where a good part of the active posters equipped themselves with cave story avatars and sigs. I was one of the first to start the snowball effect.

O RLY!?

OSH-

don't get me started again! it was hard enough shrugging off that bandwagon.

I named one of my boa constrictors "Pretty Boy"

matrixman wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:

matrixman wrote:12 months ago I purchased my Canon A710 digital camera. In that time I have taken 4,347 photos with it - and that's only counting the ones I have actually saved. That works out to an average of around 12 pics a day.

Got you beat: I took over 2,000 photos in two weeks in London. My index-finger still has a circle where I hit the capture button.

I'd like to visit merry old London some day. I want to follow in your footsteps, do London the Lord Foul way...

To be fair, I only kept about 600. Most were multiple pictures of one landmark, such as St. Paul's. I'd take a first "oh-wow" excited picture, which might've been hasty and at a bad angle, and then after calming down I took a few decent pictures of the place.

the only other stitches i have ever gotten? (the first being my ankle - after the staph infection.)

i was cleaning a window at home and it was so old my hand went through. no problem, little injury. but when i yanked my hand out i severed 99% percent of the tendon in my right ring finger. well i lived about a twenty minute walk from the hospital. so i hiked to the er. upon arrival i announced to the girl i had cut myself - she turned white. i looked down and noticed i had bled through the towel i had wrapped my finger in and all down the right leg of my jeans. i received external and internal stitches for that. still have a nice scar.

I can cross one eye and keep the other one straight.

I can pop a wheelie on a go-kart. I can also watch Hook five times in a row, at maximum volume, and it always puts me to sleep.

my one vanity is scented soap. i love the stuff. especially lilac and lavender.

I'm quite snobbish about bed sheets. I prefer 400 thread count and above. I received a set that are 250 thread count, but I can certainly tell the difference on my skin!

I don't use deoderant (and don't need to either)

Wyldewode wrote:I'm quite snobbish about bed sheets. I prefer 400 thread count and above. I received a set that are 250 thread count, but I can certainly tell the difference on my skin!

Most thread count is bollocks. There's been quite a scandal recently over advertised thread count versus actual thread count (seriously, check The Google). I practically had to become a textile expert to get decent sheets (said the man reclining in his 450 count Egyptian Cotton sheets that'll put cheap 1200 count sheets to shame).

My understanding is that you can't discern much difference after 600 thread count. Is that what you found, Cail?

I dunno, but I have some of the 450 thread count Egyptian cotton and I LOVE them, warm like flannel, soft, and they breathe....fantastic!

That may explain why of the two new sheet sets we bought for the new SleepNumber bed, the ones with the higher thread count (800) just don't seem as nice as the ones with the lower (600). So how do you tell? Is it material over density, or some magical combo?

dw