{"id":2374,"date":"2009-02-09T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/twenty-five_ran\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:55:49","slug":"twenty-five_ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/02\/twenty-five_ran\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Five Random Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completed this exercise for a game going around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1003846100\">Facebook<\/a>.  I thought I&#8217;d repost it here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My general knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep.  I learn just enough about something to be dangerous, then move on to another subject.<\/li>\n<li>I have never received a traffic ticket.  I&#8217;ve only been involved in two very minor fender-benders&#8211;one of which didn&#8217;t even bend anything.<\/li>\n<li>I once student conducted my high school&#8217;s band, despite not being able to count.<\/li>\n<li>My personality type is ISTJ.  People who don&#8217;t know me well probably think I&#8217;m quiet\/shy or aloof; in reality I just don&#8217;t put as much effort into making small talk as I should.<\/li>\n<li>I (still) have a piece of Neyland Stadium turf I extracted following Tennessee&#8217;s 1998 victory over Florida.  My lucky turf propelled the Volunteers to a national championship that season.<\/li>\n<li>I dislike talking on the telephone.  I avoid using it, particularly with strangers.<\/li>\n<li>The most valuable thing I&#8217;ve ever had stolen from me is a trumpet.  Ironically, it was taken from a back storage room at church.  I don&#8217;t have a clue who took it.<\/li>\n<li>I paid as much for my bicycle as I paid for my car.  Granted, I have a high-mileage car.  But my spending reflects the fact that I enjoy riding the bike much more than I like driving a car.<\/li>\n<li>An adventure I&#8217;d one day like to do: Go for a week of cycling in the Alps.  Or, closer to home, ride to the top of Mount Evans (CO) or the Bear Tooth Pass (WY, MT).  There&#8217;s nothing like the feeling of resting on the summit after you&#8217;ve conquered a challenging mountain.<\/li>\n<li>I have only taken one airplane trip in the last 20 years.  I&#8217;m well grounded.<\/li>\n<li>Red lights and traffic backups really annoy me.  Sitting in a car is a giant waste of time.  I&#8217;d like to be Knox County traffic engineer for a day and make intersections more to my liking.<\/li>\n<li>I have a soft spot for animals, particularly cats.  One of the hardest things I&#8217;ve had to go through was losing my cat in 2007.  I still think about him everyday.<\/li>\n<li>I only saw one movie in a theater last year: U2 3D.  It&#8217;s probably the closest I&#8217;ll get to a concert.<\/li>\n<li>Tom\u00e9 clases de espa\u00f1ol por tres a\u00f1os, pero recuerdo casi nada de la prueba. Y confiar en m\u00ed, fue una experiencia dolorosa.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a leg man.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy looking at old photographs.  I try to visualize what life was like for the subjects in the picture.<\/li>\n<li>Relatedly, I&#8217;d love to be able to time travel and witness great (and not so great) moments in history.<\/li>\n<li>I currently have 382 items saved on my YouTube playlist.  95% of those are music videos.  I use it as a virtual iPod (since I don&#8217;t have a real iPod).  One thing on the Internets that really annoys me is having my saved videos pulled.  Come on, YouTube.<\/li>\n<li>When a song is stuck in my mind, it cab get lodged there.  Sometimes I listen to a song four or five times in a row.  When I&#8217;m out riding, it&#8217;s not uncommon for me to only have two or three earworms throughout a two-hour trip.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a news\/information junkie.  I get antsy if I&#8217;ve been away from the TV\/Internets for more than five hours.  I want to know what&#8217;s been happening in the world.  When on the web, I hit &#8220;F5&#8221; (refresh) often.<\/li>\n<li>I have never bought a ticket in the five-year existence of the Tennessee Lottery.  I put more stock in odds than I do in good luck.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a poor speller.  Not just a bad speller, a horrible speller.  One of my most vivid memories from 1st or 2nd grade was trying to figure out the word &#8220;few&#8221; in a spelling test.  I got it wrong.  Were it not for spell checker, I would look pretty ignorant here.<\/li>\n<li>I generally don&#8217;t believe in conspiracy theories.  They&#8217;re unrealistic.  People talk too much; it&#8217;s difficult for a large organization to pull anything off without someone blabbing.<\/li>\n<li>Despite having lived most of my life in Tennessee, I don&#8217;t care for country music or NASCAR.  I hate the Tennessee Titans.  I generally support the Democratic Party.  I&#8217;m a fish out of water.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a frugal person.  I can&#8217;t remember the last time I was at the mall.  If everyone was like me, the economy would have gone down the drain a long time ago.  So go ahead, whip out that credit card, and buy something you don&#8217;t need&#8211;make up for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2009\/02\/twenty-five_ran\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Twenty-Five Random Things About Me\"><p>I completed this exercise for a game going around Facebook. I thought I&#8217;d repost it here. My general knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep. I learn just enough about something to be dangerous, then move on to another subject. I have never received a traffic ticket. I&#8217;ve only been involved in two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}