Joanne tagged me with the “7 Things You Don’t Know But I Do” meme. I don’t know who started this meme; the backtrack trail ended at Life of a Valley Girl, which was playing “Built This Way” by Samantha Ronson–a song and artist I’ve never heard of before, but it was a cool sounding song. And “Valley Girl” is apparently a Mac user, so we’ll give her a point for the song and a point for the Mac. Not that the points have any meaning, but there you go.

Anyway, on to conquer the meme! I’ll cheat a bit by using Joanne’s answers as inspirational material.

1. I don’t get enough sleep, generally.

2. Destiny is irrelevant. I think there are passages in the Bible that say the things in the Book of Revelation do not have to come to pass, but will come to pass if people do not change their ways. Nostradamus wrote that his prophecies of the future were possibilities and could be avoided. Astrology tries to anticipate the future in the hopes of using that information to our best advantage. And there are those who believe that destiny and prophecies are all a bunch of hogwash. In any case, they all agree that we determine the future through the choices we make. Predetermination? Destiny? Pure chance? Whatever may be, while prognosticators may predict future outcomes based on past and current behavior, all choices are ultimately ours, thus making any notion of destiny completely irrelevant.

3. My first animation project (outside of little drawings in the corner of books or pads of paper that you then flip through to animate) was on an Apple IIe. It was a combination slideshow and simple animation for a school project. I also did the voiceover. I had to route the computer video directly to the VCR instead of the computer monitor. There were limits on the size of a computer program, so the whole project took three programs. In between each one, I had to type in (without being able to see it on-screen, which would mean I’d have to start all over if I had a typo!) the command to run the next program. Unfortunately, for some reason the audio was recorded at a low volume, which meant in class we had to have the sound all the way up and use sheets of cardboard to direct the sound toward the class. That is until the last couple minutes, when the audio kicked in full volume.

4. I rarely drink coffee. Once a year at most, though I don’t think I’ve had any for a couple years. And, when I do have coffee: no cream or sugar, thanks.

5. I wanted to learn Latin since I was in elementary school, because it was the language that scientists spoke. (And, at that early age, I think I thought they meant that literally.) It was finally offered when I got to high school, so I took two years of it. They didn’t have offer a third year until my fourth year, and since I had already planned my schedule for my final year before my “counselor” told me Latin III was available, I didn’t take a third year.

6. I’ve never worn make-up. But, I did want a make-up kit when I was younger. It’s probably not what you think. I wanted a theatrical/special effects make-up kit, so that I could make people look old, maimed, alien, etc. (See 7 for more details.)

7. When I was a kid, I wrote, directed and acted in stage plays, in my backyard. Two or three of my neighbors were performers in them as well. First year, we had an audience of about five people–not terribly unlike this blog.

Now, who to tag? Who to tag? How about Phil, Jason and Pete because he’ll have to find a way to do it in GPS Camera Phone pictures.

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