101 Facts About Me

1. My name was chosen by randomly opening the Bible.

2. I haven't heard any good whale jokes lately.

3. I was born on May 27, 1982 at 2:20 a.m.

4. My favorite childhood stuffed animal was a bear named "Gray Bear."

5. My Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP—Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving.

6. I'm 5'11".

7. My grandfather from my dad's side was a Colonel stationed in the Philippines during World War II, where he met my grandmother.

8. With my mother's European ancestry, this makes me one-quarter Filipino.

9. I'm multiracial but not multicultural.

10. My cousins are redheads.

11. I have freckles.

12. I also have nice teeth (no braces!) but bad vision (corrective lenses since the 3rd grade).

13. I was conceived in Egypt (or so I'm told).

14. I've lived almost my entire life in the King County area in Washington state.

15. I have two younger brothers.

16. My dad is a traffic engineer; my mom is an elementary school teacher.

17. My mom home-schooled me 4th and 5th grade.

18. I graduated from high school in the Class of 2000 ("Decatur Gator").

19. I applied to the University of Washington—and was accepted.

20. I changed my intended major three times during my first two years.

21. As a freshman I wanted to major in Computer Science, but I kept falling asleep during math class.

22. I switched over to Business Administration, but that couldn't hold my attention either.

23. I ended up double majoring in psychology (human behavior is a fascinating subject) and communications.

24. When I was little I wanted to be a truck driver when I grew up.

25. In 6th grade I decided I wanted to be a writer, then in junior high I had aspirations to be a software engineer.

26. All I've wanted is to find something I can be passionate about and do my best... I believe I've found that in creating my own websites.

27. I received my driver's license six days after my 16th birthday.

28. I've been in one minor accident—the morning sun blinded my vision and I rear-ended someone.

29. I drove a blue '87 Subaru wagon throughout high school.

30. I don't own a car, so don't expect me to complain about gas prices.

31. I'm a saver, not a spender, and have an interest in personal finance.

32. I try to keep active by jogging and doing strength training.

33. Electronica/trance/techno is my favorite kind of music.

34. It moves me in ways other music doesn't.

35. Dune is my all-time favorite sci-fi novel.

36. I hate bad movies with no depth or thoughtful themes.

37. People who can draw, paint, or sing well amaze me.

38. Don't call me smart; I just know what I'm doing (intelligence seems so subjective at times).

39. My first job was as a ride operator at an amusement park.

40. I made $5.70/hour to make kids puke.

41. The Onion and The Simpsons always make me laugh.

42. My face hurts if I laugh too hard and too much.

43. I enjoy irony, satire, and double-meanings.

44. Sometimes I feel like my life is full of contradictions.

45. Digger was the first computer game I ever played.

46. It was on my dad's grayscale 286 laptop.

47. I was a teenage hax0r ("hacker") on American Online back in the day.

48. I made "proggies" with Visual Basic 3.0 that used Windows API to manipulate AOL v2.5.

49. Everything I learned about computers I taught myself.

50. In college, I create an internet start-up called "Random Innovations" with a business partner. Our main product was U-Match, a social networking service for college students (very similar to the Facebook, though we came first!).

51. Our business planned failed, however.

52. My parents divorced when I was 13.

53. They're still friends.

54. I walked my mom down the aisle when she remarried.

55. I had a very active imagination when I was little... and I still do today.

56. My fondest memories are from my childhood.

57. I used to dress up in capes, make cardboard shields, and run around with plastic swords and battle evil monsters with my friends and brothers.

58. I could entertain myself for hours with Legos.

59. One of my preschool friends taught me how to steal Legos from the classroom.

60. My mom eventually found the stolen goods and made me return them.

61. Our family used to go on fun summer vacations every year.

62. I missed that the most after the divorce... it just wasn't the same anymore.

63. I had a slight speech disorder when I was little.

64. I was shy as a child.

65. I was that quiet guy who drifted through high school.

66. Sometimes it's hard for people to get to know me.

67. Because I never let them know who I am.

68. I think more than I talk and rarely share everything out loud.

69. Unless you somehow manage to break through to my extroverted side. ;)

70. My favorite drink: water, the ultimate thirst quencher.

71. Next on the list: a good amber ale.

72. I hate potato chips.

73. Because I ate a whole bunch once and got sick.

74. Strawberries are my favorite fruit.

75. I'm a slow eater.

76. Even when I'm hungry.

77. I love the smell of cleansed, fresh air after a saturating rainfall.

78. I'll try about anything at least once.

79. I'm fairly open-minded and accepting towards new ideas.

80. I'm very tolerant toward other people's belief systems.

81. As a child I was raised in a New Age sect.

82. I've questioned and analyzed the beliefs that were spoon-fed to me and also searched for my own.

83. I'm not religious.

84. I believe in karma, order, meaning, purpose.

85. I believe the only hell is the one we create for ourselves.

86. The social sciences intrigue me.

87. Deep down I want to inspire humanity.

88. But I don't know where to start or how to go about doing so.

89. I seek to unveil the unseen; I wish to hear words that have not yet been said before; I desire to bring forth intangible thoughts and feelings into a lucid, coherent reality.

90. I love to daydream.

91. I love clean sheets, soft pillows, and warm blankets.

92. My mind is most active at night—most of my analytical and creative thoughts come to me while I lie in bed.

93. I dread insomnia.

94. When I have a fever, I hallucinate and experience intense, unintelligible, terrifyingly stressful night terrors.

95. Cynicism and apathy are my inner-demons.

96. I'm a horrible speller and spell check everything.

97. I've kept a journal since I was ten-years-old.

98. One of my favorite and most inspiring humanistic psychology books I have ever read is The Transparent Self by Sidney M. Jourard.

99. A favorite quote: "Shall I permit my fellow men to know me as I truly am, or shall I seek instead to remain an enigma, wishing to be seen as someone I am not?"

100. I like it when people sign my guestbook... otherwise I never know what you're thinking.

101. There are many more facts about me that won't fit on this list. ;)

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