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Height: Fairly Average.
Weight: Thankfully within healthy parameters. Increases during
the holiday seasons and intense periods of research.
Eyes: Two of them and Nearsighted.
Hair: Mostly black although I expect that to change due to the
life of stress, anxiety, and trauma that I intend to lead and also because
all of my uncles and my grandfather on my mom's side have a tendancy towards
male-pattern baldness. I'm already picking out hats for that fateful
day when I wake up and discover that the top of my head has become a reflective
light source.
Distinguishing physical characteristics: No facial hair - wrong genetics.
No tattoos - too chicken. No scars - see the last one. Piercings
- I only have the holes I started with. No nervous twitches (although
that's just a matter of time). Otherwise no distinguishing
characteristics.
Distinguishing psychological characteristics: It has been observed by
the people I associate with that I have a slight tendency towards
overanalysis. I have a fairly quirky view of world and the other
people in it. I divide all the people I meet into two basic
categories: Mostly Harmless and Potentially Dangerous. I am easily
distracted, absent-minded, and have a fairly low threshold of boredom that
causes me to either rapidly lose interest in trivial matters or to add
complications and humor to what are normally trivial transactions.
Distinguishing spiritual characteristics: Cosmic irony magnet. Languages:
My command of English is far superior to my command of American.
I can understand spoken Chinese but I'm effectively and embarrassingly
illiterate and am regarded with a great deal of cloying sympathy at family
reunions. I used to have a fluency in French but now I couldn't ask
my way to a bathroom - something that you should learn in every language.
My stock phrases:
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What are the chances?
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O.k., I see where this is going.
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I'm sure we're doing this to build character.
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My life would be much easier if the universe would stop using me as a case
study for cosmic irony.
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You know things are bad when there's not enough money for petty evil.
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The history of mankind has always been about sticks and berries, no matter
how advanced we think we get.
My current areas of non-thesis intellectual interest:
- Game theory
- Metacognition and learning
- The evolutionary relationships between people and technology
- The preservation of the human race
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