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About Me Member Mad Scientist AllenMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Months
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Annoyances

Tue Nov 10, 2009, 8:00 PM
Sometimes, I get annoyed. Take, for example, a stroll in a local grocery store. I've fixated on my desire for honeycrisp apples and all I want is said apples. Lo and behold, some pollster walks up to me, microphone in hand and very insistently asks, "Good evening, sir. If you could change any law, what would it be?"

I want my apples. I'm not terribly interested in talking to anyone, let alone being cornered by some dweeb who thinks I might actually care about politics. Honeycrisp apples are the land-loving mother pigeon of all that is good and pure. They're succulent, they're juicy, they're - dare I say crisp... they're well nigh the definition of ambrosia. I frown and reply, "I'd do away with Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation - something about my new found misanthropy and sending everyone careening off into the cold reaches of outer space to die alone and afraid, their frozen, bloated corpses bobbing listlessly in the near vacuum has some appeal. Sure, some innocents and friends who I'm actually rather fond of would be sacrificed, but ultimately, it's for the best."

She lowers the microphone, a look of stunned, disbelieving defeat on her face. I retrieve my apples and am content. Oddly enough, they're the best tasting apples I've ever had.

  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: the mocking silence
  • Reading: the writing on the wall
  • Watching: time move inexorably on
  • Playing: with science and things with molecular structure
  • Eating: the tangible benefits of my labor
  • Drinking: the dregs within this cup called life

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The above illustrates what happens when hobbies get out of hand... my home server rack...

Disclaimer time: I'm not an artist nor do I play one on TV. I'm a color-blind electrical engineer turned software architect. While experience developing technologically-based 'stuff' has certainly shown me that applying those skills is as much an art as it is a science, highlighting any of my aesthetic abilities would be pointless. I'm really just some guy who likes to hike all over the place camera-in-hand...

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Central Indiana (regrettably)
  • Interests: archery, hiking, camping, basketball, writing, reading, sleeping, breathing, taking over the world
  • Favourite movie: LotR, Letters from Iwo Jima, Serenity, Blackhawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, etc...
  • Favourite band or musician: Many: Soundgarden, Seether, Shinedown, Live, Jethro Tull, Pearl Jam, Chevelle, Pink Floyd, etc, etc
  • Favourite genre of music: again, many, though grunge/alt metal and blues lead the way
  • Favourite poet or writer: Tolkien, E.B. Sledge, John Julius Norwich, Xenophon, Psellus, Douglas Adams, George Carlin ;)
  • Favourite style of art: Music
  • Operating System: Solaris 10, Windows of all manner, Mac OSX, OpenBSD
  • MP3 player of choice: hardware: my MuVo works, software: iTunes
  • Shell of choice: tcsh
  • Favourite game: (s) Dragon Age Origin, Fallout 3, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, The Witcher, Bard's Tale, etc.
  • Favourite gaming platform: Computer
  • Personal Quote: Nature abhors a moron (H.L. Mencken)
  • Tools of the Trade: My mind and occasionally a cheap camera

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:iconbillow:
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:iconlithwood:
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:icontorkhelle:
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