Edward I - ProfilesArchive

About Me

- I have a huge ego. Maybe the biggest you'll ever see. Everyone close to me agrees that every bit of it is deserved, though.
- I do things for people. When there is nothing that I can do for a person, when I can't even make them smile, tension builds up.
- Don't chalk my kindness up to empathy, or you'll build false expectations of me; I'm helpful because it's constructive.
- I'm pretty uptight. My friends don't seem to mind though.
- I can ALWAYS tell when I am being misled. It's not handy, it's a curse. ESPECIALLY when I sit back and watch how everything unfolds, just to admire how right I was and how cruel the world can be.
- The cut of my jib is razor sharp. It is lethal. It is not just a surface wound.
- Sometimes I get reclusive. For weeks at a time. I used to think it was because of who I am, but I've newly realized that I think it's because of who I'm with.
**********Family and friends who want to add me, my name on here is just "Ross H". I had to put an email/full name verification so that I wouldn't get so many screwy porno people trying to add me for no reason, but I couldn't use my actual name because business contacts would look me up and I was uncomfortable with that. Ross H gives me a nice cloud of ambiguity. If they want to find me bad enough to sift through all of those, let them find me.

My Interests

Proactivity, puzzles, pinball, board games, feeding squirrels, computers (databases, web development, software, servers, hardware, networking...)
Video Games: Dynasty Warriors, Final Fantasy, DDR, Age of Empires, Seven Kingdoms, Fallout, Resident Evil, Burnout, Katamari Damacy, Romance of the Three Kingdoms

I'd like to meet:

Best friends are in short supply. I want one. My best friend would be:
Someone to hang out with a few times a week. Ability to converse and not judge is preferred. I whine about a lot of shit, and I want to be able to whine with my friends without feeling like an ass.
Someone worth taking bullets for.
Someone who is capable of being happy without intoxicants.
Someone who has a vision or an idea or...something to listen to.
Someone who believes a third strike is one too many.
Someone who possesses and demonstrates the following: respect, wisdom, intellect, tact, timing, charm, inhibition, logic, loyalty, moderation, appreciation, purpose, etiquette

Music:

Supreme Beings of Leisure, Kaiser Chiefs, Jethro Tull, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Queen, Rush, Jem, Sleater-Kinney, Buckethead, Electric Six, The Knife, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Hammerfall, Of Montreal, Hot Chip, Dragonforce
I like charts. They know me better than I know me. At least they did before I started constantly listening to JAMS ONLY (The playlist featured above)

Movies:

The Fifth Element, Run Lola Run, Casablanca, Back to the Future, The Crow, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Crank, The Matrix
Have to watch the following more, but they show some promise: Face/Off, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill v.2, The Usual Suspects, all of the 007 movies...
I like quotable movies, obviously...

Television:

The Simpsons, Corner Gas, Cowboy Bebop, Mad Men, The Office (US. Haven't been introduced to the UK version yet, but I am not typically a fan of British entertainment, minus a couple of 1960s bands...), House, Dead Like Me, Star Trek: The Next Generation, MXC, Mythbusters, Jeopardy, Invader Zim, The Outer Limits, The A-Team, American Gladiators, Mr. Belvedere, Night Court, Square One TV, Ghostwriter, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (The Game Show)
I'm also passionate about the Brisbane Lions and Green Bay Packers (and other Australian and American football glory, respectively). The Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago White Sox are alright in the baseball world.

Books:

I don't read. I am way, way too slow at it. It makes me feel bad. These are good though:
Alan Lightman - Einstein's Dreams, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie *that one means a lot to me*, Dante - The Inferno, Shakespeare - Hamlet *and the rest of his work*, Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven *and also everything else*, Dr. Seuss - Fox in Socks, Connolly & Begg - Database Systems, Puzzle Books & altases & User Guides!! (I like input & mental exercise...)

Heroes:

I don't really respect anyone as a hero. Even legendary people have bad days, and I judge people when they're at their worst. There's no good way to learn all of the bad things a person has done once they've been immortalized for doing something great.

My Blog

Turning back the clock.

My autobiography -- written Nov. 1, 1991 [vital info has been removed to protect the innocent] My name is Ross H. I was born on January 18, 1983 at St. Lukes Hospital at 2:47 in the aftern...
Posted by Edward I on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:53:00 PST

I posted this as a bulletin, but I decided that I want to keep it.

1. what highway do you drive on the most?I-94, for sure. It shall stay that way for a long time. 2. when was the last time you bought a bathing suitPrrrobably about a year and a half. I'm ...
Posted by Edward I on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:17:00 PST

Technologies which should be completely perfected, but are not.

I'm going to keep track of a few shortcomings that interest me here, as they enter my mind. 1) Plumbing. How is it that my sewer is backing up into my basement right now? How ha...
Posted by Edward I on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:24:00 PST

Missing pet. :(

There once was a very large, black ant. One very rainy, stormy day, he decided that he was up for a challenge. He climbed allll the way up a two-story house. Then, he became tired. He thought he'd fin...
Posted by Edward I on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

Terrible parents lead to terrible kids...and I don't want live in a world of terrible kids

Background:I keep my bedroom window open to circulate some air... The neighbors are really disturbing. They don't talk to their kids in a normal voice. Ever. They just scream.&...
Posted by Edward I on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:07:00 PST

Explaining a wrong and righting my own

I'm sitting at Perkins, across the smoking section from a few friends, trying to have a good time and calm myself from a bit of an antisocial breakdown. My Zune is on the table, provid...
Posted by Edward I on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:48:00 PST

RPG characters

When I play Role-playing games, I typically make my character as similar to me as possible. With this, I encounter several problems:1) Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of role-playing?2) ...
Posted by Edward I on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:46:00 PST

Lunch specials

I'm very excited about lunch specials. A new chinese place opened right up the street. From 11am-3pm, 7 days a week, I can get one of 33 different plates WITH fried rice AND a soda for und...
Posted by Edward I on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:48:00 PST

This one began with a charm, I couldn't not finish it.

1. My ex is still.... clueless as to what or who she wants to be, or at the very least clueless how to go about it.2. I am listening to... the whirr of computer fans. 3. Maybe I should... get a p...
Posted by Edward I on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:01:00 PST

Re: October 20, 2006 Blog

"You know what the biggest rush in the world is...? Standing back and looking at something that (should be/should have been), but (won't be/wasn't allowed to be) because someone rushed destiny an...
Posted by Edward I on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:11:00 PST