Misfiring Neurons Just another geek with a blog

Five Useless Bits of Information

I thought my blog was way too obscure for this craze to reach me, but Valery tagged me so, in no particular order, here goes:

1. When I was very young, I was daddy's little boy. I used to go to preschool at his place of work just outside of town, a large manufacturer of military and industrial goods which is nowadays known as Arsenal. Usually we'd catch a bus in the morning and walk home in the afternoon. According to the teachers there, I was the only child to cry for his daddy - everyone else wanted their mommies when something went wrong.
2. I love traveling on my own, I find there is something very exciting about it - just yourself, the road, and the sounds of the night. The fear that you might miss your next stop, or catch the wrong train. The feeling of being lost, before the warm comfort of finding your way again.
3. I once worked as a barman at a rave party. I served drinks to people for about 8 or 9 hours straight, all through the night. I don't think I'll ever do anything like that ever again unless I really have to, and always tip other people generously when I am the one being served. Since I didn't really need the money, I went and spent all the cash I made that night on an outrageously expensive Calvin Klein jersey that I'd seen in a shop somewhere. For the record, I bought it because I loved they way it looked, not because of any name tag.
4. I fell in love with a girl over the Internet. It was as awesome as falling in love can be, and yes, I think true love does indeed exist in cyberspace. However being stuck on a different continent to your loved one is very, very painful.
5. I have a very well developed sense of three dimensional space. I can imagine an abstract object in my head, turn it around, figure out how to fit it onto other things, and so on. I can play Blockout about as fast as my fingers can make the right adjustments to the pieces. I did an aptitude test once which also picked this up - I maxed out the "mechanical insight" section. I put this down to playing with many mechanical toys and lots of nurture from my two engineer parents as a kid. On the other hand, I am terrible at drawing, and have the exact opposite of photographic memory.

My turn to nominate successors now! Rather than the usual five blogs, I'll try something different and tag five "offline" people just to see what happens: Ceilidh, jack, stelf, Andrey Barabonkov, and Boyan Krosnov (technically he has got a blog, but seems to have forgotten about it).

Butterfly

Butterfly

Originally uploaded by Pavel'.

I love the bokeh of this photo!