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25 things

myrtti — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:47:00 +0000

When I was a kid, I cheated my mum that I’d do my evening prayers if she’d subscribe the weekly Donald Duck cartoon magazine for me.
I love to gnaw plastic things, bottle cap seals, zip ties, etc.
I’m not allergic to any foodstuff to my knowledge, but I get migraine from even smelling raw celery and I hate spinach soup.
One of my favourite foods contains celery. I can’t cook it myself.
I hate telephone calls, but when I needed a new phone about a year ago, I bought one of the most expensive ones. I still use it mostly as a camera and an Internet device.
I was a Lion King fan as a teenager. After that I became a Star Wars fan. I collected anything from Star Wars toothpaste to cola bottle labels to LionKing erasers. I sold my Star Wars collection in the Finnish equivalent of eBay few years ago, and my Ex still has my LionKing quilt cover.
Of all the junk in my apartment, I value my books and CD’s the most
I don’t understand digital clocks as well as I do analogue ones. I have to have my wristwatch, kitchen watch and mobile phone clock as analogue ones. I also have two clock widgets on my computer’s desktop. My terminal windows have to be translucent so I can see the clock widgets through them.
My dad taught me to knit at the age of seven or so – but taught me to purl the wrong way. My teacher scolded me when I taught my schoolmates the wrong way. My dad still does it the wrong way.
I hate apples and bananas. I could (and actually have done so) eat 8 clementines or satsumas nonstop.
I’m neurotic about events that I might be late from. I don’t hate traveling as much as I hate the idea of being late from the transport of traveling.
My physiotherapist told me I could have been a great ballet dancer because my joints are hyperextensible. I really wanted to be one when I was 7.
I’ve always called my sister my sister, and once got into a huge fight with my classmates because they insisted that I should call her my half-sister (which technically she is).
I didn’t drink any alcohol until I was old enough to legally do so
My title on my business card is Software Developer. In reality with my current skills in programming, I couldn’t develop more complex systems than HelloWorlds even if the ghost of Grace Hopper bit me.
My fridge always contains apple sauce.
I’m not superstitious but I never open an umbrella indoors.
If I could go back ten years in my life, I’d go to that crafts vocational college instead of trying to become B.Eng in Mediatechnology. I could have become a ceramist.
I’ve been mistaken for a Brummie, a Turku and an Iisalmi dweller and a Valley girl.
I’m pretty emotional person and my emotions usually manifest physically. When I’m angry, I want to break things. So far I’ve broken only two plates in my life by throwing them.
I’ve always wanted a loft bed.
There’s a theory about gateway drugs and how pot can be a gateway drug to stronger ones. I believe there’s a gateway applications that lead you to using Linux. Mine was Sodipodi. It sucked in Windows.
I believe in general conscription and feminism. I don’t believe in armies, wars or female chauvinism.
I compulsively keep receipts of my purchases for at least a month. I don’t know why.
I hate sitcoms from the bottom of my heart. I feel ashamed for most of the characters. I don’t own a tv.
I don’t have a drivers licence, but I’ve always dreamt of owning and driving a Vespa. Preferably a pink one.

also:

I’m terrible in Maths.

“OK, who’s bright idea was this?” -meme

myrtti — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:14:57 +0000

I can’t be blamed for this, srsly. Sorry folks.
Blame Og Maciel.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

Forest friends

myrtti — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:51:57 +0000

a “recent” meme via Maco:
I’ve had three major naming schemes with my ICT appliance/hardware. First one started on 2003, with my first computer resurrected as a home server. It was named as pingu, for its penguin soul and also for its Swiss namesake animation series. Later, as I moved to using Linux on my personal desktop (and later laptop), my computers got names like nanook (I remember doing a GNOME splashscreen out of that Wikimedia Commons picture), auviq, perhaps even orca. Related to those came Finnish words for snow, lumi, kinos, nuoska, loska.

Later I got employed by COSS for my first “Real Job”. By that time I had developed a caffeine addiction and had to compensate the horrible tar side product also referred as “coffee” at the office. So started a new naming scheme for computers at work. Came mocha, cappuccino, espresso, macchiato, latte, lumumba, kahlua.

Currently I work for Nomovok and my whole ICT hardware has gone through a total overhaul. I urgently needed some kind of a scheme to name my loved tools. So now, I’m living in the era of Winnie the Pooh scheme:
Kengu – homeserver – Kanga
Tikru – desktop – Tigger
Kani – laptop – Rabbit
Puh - Nokia 6021 – Pooh
Nasu – Nokia N95 – Piglet
Ruu – Nokia IT 770 – Roo
Ihaa – external 320GB hard drive – Eeyore
Möhköfantti – Samsung SCX-4200 – Heffalump

And they all live in…
PuolenHehtaarinMetsä – WPA2 ESSID – HalfAcreWoods

A meme that I can happily participate in to

myrtti — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:56:57 +0000

via bergie:
myrtti@tikru:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 115 sudo 58 grep 35 ssh 34 man 31 ./plain-pdf.sh 21 cd 20 bibtex 16 ./modified-html.sh 15 ls 15 ifconfig