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Rail Road

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About Me

I wake up, sit down at my computer, eat, and go to work. I come home, I sit at my computer, I eat, I ponder, I procrastinate, and then I sleep. Occasionally laundry or some house-hold maintainance interferes but generally that's the pattern. I have no fascinating hobby, no serious long-term life goals, and the absence of motivation disallows me any sense of direction... Or is that the other way around...
I do pushups, occasional curls and crunches, along with eating somewhat properly to show myself that I can, and improve my physical appearance. I used to do it because I felt that being more physically capable would increase my overall confidence in myself, and while it has, it also allowed me to realize that there are many more factors involved in my self-esteem and personal motivation that cannot be 'ripped' or 'toned' out. I aimlessly wander through life missing deadline after deadline for a every opportunity at improving my life because I'm not sure what to do with it. I sort of feel like Kain from Kung Fu, except that I don't know Kung Fu, and I don't really travel anywhere. Like a metaphorical Kain, where I am Kain, and his travels are just aimlessly wandering through other peoples' lives searching for purpose. Yeah, that's the ticket.
I took one of those question and answer test things, and I don't find it to be particularly accurate, but it's interesting. Here it is:
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 63%
Stability |||||||||||||| 56%
Orderliness |||||| 26%
Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 70%
Interdependence |||||| 23%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Mystical |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Artistic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism || 10%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 50%
Self absorbed |||||| 23%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Need to dominate |||||||||||||||| 63%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Avoidant |||||| 23%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||| 70%
Wealth |||||| 23%
Dependency |||||||||||||||| 70%
Change averse |||||||||||| 50%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||| 56%
Individuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Sexuality |||||||||||||| 56%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||| 50%
Histrionic |||||||||||| 50%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Vanity |||||||||||| 43%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Female cliche |||||||||| 36% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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You Are 48% Cynical
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My Interests

Philosophy, psychology, the human condition. Those, and anime, computers, debate, warping perspectives using my powers of persuasion and subterfuge to engineer individuals against one-another. I also like taking long walks around town to clear my mind.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet the standard fair. Jesus (whom I have now met over MySpace!), Bhudda, Allah, Einstein, Janeane Garofalo. I'd like to talk with the people who own Target and Costco some day just to ask them how they did it and what their true intentions are aside from prophit margin. Yes, one invests in charity and the other in its employees, but I'd rather find out exactly what they're trying to pull off behind all of the propaganda. I have a creeping suspician that they may be manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

And with that, I give you Mariah Carey. Why? My favorite love song. A love song because I didn't happen to run across any of my favorite metal bands when I was browsing.

Music:

I listen to everything. That is, so long as blue-grass and slow jazz are not included in the catagory of 'everything.'

Movies:

This is a difficult topic because I've seen too many to seperate the memories into titles. A few of my present favorites are 40 Year Old Virgin, The Butterfly Effect, Crash, Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story, the most recent King Kong, Spiderman 2, Heat, Mystic River, Chasing Amy, and uh... for flavor let's just throw in Jackie Brown. Pulp Fiction is up there too. Actually I have too many favorites to remember all in one sitting, but you get the jist of it.

Television:

Anymore, I watch about twenty minutes of TV once a month. I have the internet, and no TV in this apartment is hooked up to the cable line. When access is available I tend to spend my time on Comedy Central, more specifically the Daily Show. I'm a fan of the first one and a half seasons of Family Guy (the rest seems recycled), South Park's up there, and then Chappelle's show. I enjoy the humor.

Books:

I don't read much at all. I never have... no particular reason in mind. Perhaps if it were more encouraged when I was young I'd have taken a liking to it, but as it is, I feel uncomfortable sitting and reading anything, even if I enjoy it thoroughly. Makes me feel restless.

Heroes:

I was always partial to Nightcrawler from X-men. I suppose if it had to be human I idolize my cousin Tyler, from whom I have stolen all of my charisma and charm, along with a dash of my philosophy. Also Megaman.

My Blog

Christmas and Mass Effect

Christmas and I have a love-hate kind of relationship.  I hate Christmas music, sermons, marketting, presents, and social obligations associated with friends and family around the holidays. ...
Posted by Rail Road on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:46:00 PST

Bioshocked?

*Edit* Somebody else echoes my sentiments!  See the bottom for the link.--------------------------------------------Those of you who actually read this probably know I'm a critical asshat, so pre...
Posted by Rail Road on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:24:00 PST

Death Note

http://www.mangaspot.com/deathnote.phpThis links you to the fan translated scanlines for the super-popular Japanese manga "Death Note."  I just wrapped this up last night and I thought I'd share ...
Posted by Rail Road on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:01:00 PST

An Incomplete Adventure, what comes next?

I had a dream last night that was unlike anything I've had prior.  It felt like a window into the future, and an explanation of the supernatural... I'll copy it down here as I jotted it down when...
Posted by Rail Road on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

The Marine and Vanguard

Glancing over my old blogs I realized I left the one in there that said "see the marine" (paraphased) and I'd like to take this opportunity to say I was kidding.  The movie was just so terrible I...
Posted by Rail Road on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:46:00 PST

Passion, and Darkness

What's a life worth living without regret?  Regret roots us to our most human foundations, it reminds us of what we strive to attain and all we once thought was important and have learned was not...
Posted by Rail Road on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:49:00 PST

Filler!

The last blog is relatively outdated so here's a new one with absolutely no content at all.See you bowling! In retrospect I will add a little something to the tail end of this: If you weren't around f...
Posted by Rail Road on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:07:00 PST

Beginning of the end

They took away the job I wanted today, the promotion I thought I was gaurenteed.  They tell me I've performed admirably and gone above and beyond in keeping Electronics running smoothly over the ...
Posted by Rail Road on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:28:00 PST

The Marine

Go see the movie.
Posted by Rail Road on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:09:00 PST

2 am

I'm enjoying my new system, although every little bit of information I learn about upcomming Windows Vista makes me regret my purchasing spree a little more, and reminds me of why I came so close to d...
Posted by Rail Road on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:44:00 PST