I do Sudokus frantically in my car at red lights. I can't remember for the life of me how to spell exercize, or is it excercize? I've been told I'm pretty cheap, and that it's related to the size of my nose. Sometimes I get ashamed of repeating a song more than once. I don't really want to try everything once, but I'll try out a lot of stuff. I'm not terrified of not experiencing everything there is to before I die. If you like Fish Tacos, I'm sorry, but we can never get married. I might ask you weird questions, be prepared. I can watch my favorite movies all day long, which is funny because I hate most movies I see. I catch people splitting their infitives, and using "who" where they should insert "whom", and secretly correct them in my head. I think I am awesome at making mix CD's, but others might disagree. I act like I have huge muscles all of the time, but you would agree if you saw the size of my guns. I don't ever use emoticons, but I won't hate you if you do. I love telling stories, I don't care if it didn't happen to me or I've told it to you already, just listen damn it. I love making up jokes, because anyone can do that crap, just nobody tries. I could eat tacos every day for the rest of my life and be happy. I subtly change my MySpace about once a week, and convince myself that someone will see it, but probably they won't. I can't bring myself to fix my clock when the power goes out, I just memorize the time difference and that's how I tell time. I'm not really 5'9", I'm probably closer to 5'8", but it's a sustainable white lie that makes me happy to tell. I like word games, and logic games, and board games, and baseball games, and mind games, and yes, video games. I'll use the words "vacuously true" and "QED" and "tautology" and "pantaloons" and "modus tollens" and giggle at myself. I'm not afraid to use the same word five times in one sentence. I used to love making music and playing my bagpipes, clarinet, marimba, singing, and now guitar, but now I'm content to just listen. I offer people gum all the time as an icebreaker, and I when I would have Dentyne Ice on me to give out, I would always inwardly chuckle. I saw this written on the wall at the bathroom in the library at RPI and I couldn't stop laughing or re-telling it to anyone that would appreciate it (if I re-tell the story, don't interrupt me):
I am a huge nerd, is that what you were looking for?
Feel free to judge me.
I'd like to meet:
From left to right: Ulam , Feynman and
Neumann
Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie
Stupid picture section:
Old pictures: #1
#2
Music:
A lot of stuff, but more recently, I've predominantly listened to these - Weezer, Cake, Presidents of the United States of America, Muse, Butch Walker, Deltron 3030, Metric, Philip Glass, Weakerthans, Daft Punk, 311, Cave In, Audioslave, Dethklok, The Molotov Cocktails, and a bunch of other guilty pleasure bands that I won't list. Here, go ahead and see what kind of mp3s I have on my computer:
http://www.last.fm/user/dtardif/
Movies:
Reservoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, Crank, Cheats, Pi, Eight Days a Week, Shaolin Wooden Men, Fight Club, Big Fish, The Graduate, Two Towers, Sin City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I really don't put up with mediocre movies, so I usually group them with just bad. So that means I typically like good dramas, not action films, and rarely comedies. I guess I'm a bit of a movie snob, but for 10 freaking dollars I think it's not a bad thing to be.
But I love Kung Fu movies, so that's maybe an exception.
Television:
Clone High, Newsradio, King of Queens. And Scrubs and Deadwood and Venture Brothers. But seriously, don't watch TV you moron.
Books:
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The River Why and The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
