jay | Silly fluff

-- Birthplace: Atlanta, GA
-- Current Location: Mountain View, CA
-- Hair Color: sort of auburn, lately with a few grey hairs
-- Eye Color: icy-blue
-- Righty or Lefty: converted lefty, writes right
-- Zodiac Sign: I don't give any credence to astrology
-- Innie or Outtie: innie

More stuff about me
-- Your heritage: English/Irish/Scotch, German/middle-Europe, Native American
-- The shoes you wore today: Black SAS loafers
-- Your hair: coarse, red, and curly.
-- Your weakness?: neophilia, obsessive information-gathering
-- Your fears: not being everything that I could be.
-- Your perfect pizza: Chicago-style with pepperoni and Italian sausage
-- One thing you'd like to achieve: to extend humanity's grasp

More stuff
-- Your most overused phrase on aim: *kiss*
-- Your thoughts first waking up: which one of us is making breakfast for the kids?
-- The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: cheekbones
-- Your best physical feature: Legs. Thighs and calves, certainly.
-- Your bedtime: about 1am on average... sometimes later
-- Your greatest accomplishment: at home, keeping my marriage going through some really bad times. At work, saving SETI.

-- Your most missed memories: roaming the fields and trails of my neighborhood as a kid.

What shizzles my nizzle
-- Pepsi or coke: Diet Coke, caffeine-free or vanilla
-- McDonald's or Burger King: Ick. Wendy's or In-and-Out.
-- Single or group dates: Depends on my objectives.
-- Adidas or nike: Converse
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea, sweetened
-- Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate, preferably bitter high-cocoa-solids varieties
-- Cappuccino or coffee: Decaf coffee
-- Boxers or briefs: white or grey cotton briefs

a little more about me
-- Smoke: Never
-- Cuss: No, hardly ever
-- Sing: Only to myself
-- Take a shower everyday: Yes.
-- Have a crush(es): Yes, several currently
-- who are they: some close, some distant
-- Do you think you've been in love: Yes
-- College?: Lots of it. MIT, Georgia Tech, Stanford. Four degrees, including a Ph.D.
-- Like high school: I did well, but was quite lonely.
-- Type w/ your fingers on the right keys: No. I'm a one-fingered typist and am looking at the keyboard to write this.
-- Get motion sickness: No
-- Think you're attractive: Sometimes. More often in the past couple of years, before then I didn't think anyone would want to be near me.
-- Think you're a health freak: Freak? No, but I watch my diet and get regular exercise.
-- Get along with your parents: Generally, as long as we don't discuss

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-- Like thunderstorms: Yes
-- Play an instrument: Yes. Clarinet, although it's been years.

I did this and that this month
-- Drank alcohol: Yes, a couple on Saturday night
-- Smoke(d): No
-- Done a drug: No
-- Have Sex: No
-- Made Out: No
-- Gone on a date: Yes
-- Gone to the mall?: No
-- Eaten sushi: No, ick!! Bait...
-- Been on stage: yes
-- Been dumped: turned down, but I've been only dumped once in my life
-- Gone skating: Yes, two hours ago
-- Been in love: Yes!! :-)
-- Gone skinny dipping: no
-- Stolen anything: No
-- Played a game that required removal of clothing?: no
-- If so, was it mixed company: n/a
-- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: No
-- Been caught "doing something": No... who, me?
-- Been called a tease: No
-- Gotten beaten up: No
-- Shoplifted: Never
-- Changed who you were to fit in: Tweaked attributes to fit in, at times.

Some jazz that doesn't really have a category!
-- Age you hope to be married: was married at 22
-- Numbers and Names of Children: 3 sons, ages 12, 8, 6
-- Describe your Dream Wedding: Different priest, not locked out of my car, no powder-blue tuxedoes!
-- How do you want to die: never, or at least in a cause...
-- What do you want to be when you grow up: Astronaut would be my ideal, but I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing
-- What country would you most like to visit: Antarctica (yes, it isn't a country)
-- Best eye color?: blue, still
-- Best weight: around 165-170
-- Best articles of clothing: pima cotton Land's End shirts. Mmmm... or my Italian black leather jacket with the zip-out sleeves.
-- Best first date location: Something low-key, not enclosed, with lots of opportunity to talk. Maybe even with singing waiters...
-- Best first kiss location: On top of a college dormitory while it was snowing
-- Number of boys/girls I have kissed in my life: Eight, not counting aunts and other relatives
-- Number of boyfriends/girlfriends you've had: Five
-- Number of people I could trust with my life: Nine, I think
-- Number of CDs that I own: about 15-20
-- Number of piercings: none (body damage!)
-- Number of tattoos: none (body damage!)
-- Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: about a dozen, in three countries
-- Number of things in my past that I regret: three or four