Ding! 27KFollow

For this post, the 27th such post I have made over the last 11, almost 12 years, I figured I'd do something a little different. You guys are probably gettign a little bored of the usual Ding style post anyways, so i'll save that up for a big one later on at 30k. In the mean time, instead here is a list of 27 little known, random, and entirely useless facts about Kaolians you probably didn't want to know!

1. I once broke my toe accidentally kicking a door jamb.
2. I'm ambidextrious. I write equally poorly with either hand.
3. I'm fairly allergic to lawn grass.
4. I built a crappy railgun in high school for science class, which actually worked pretty well.
5. The name Kaolian came from the Everquest 1 Random Name Generator and has nothing to do with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Afghanistan, or certain pilots named Morgan who may or may not be secretly my Nemesis.
6. I detest tofu, but i'm ok with Lima beans. I hate Cabbage but I love Brussle sprouts.
7. I have every single paper i've ever written on a computer since 2nd grade saved for some reason. I figure it will be useful in the eventual psychological post analysis.
8. I can't spell words. I've never really been able to spell, but it got much worse after I took my first German classes and has never recovered. It's apperently genetic as very few people in my family on my dad's side can spell. We don't know why.
9. I once had an IT job where one of the primary duties consisted of ironing.
10. I've been stabbed in the back by a crazy person, accidentally shot at by a .38, and punched in the nose by a toddler before. Getting stabbed, even with an ink pen, huts.
11. I've piloted a WW-II era C-47 Skytrain, an 120 foot retired WW-II era minesweeper, and a 1902 vintage steam locomotive briefly.
12. I'm an Eagle Scout.
13. I once had a hair in my ear grow the wrong way and make this annoying scratching sound in my left ear for months until the ear doctor finally noticed it and figured out what it was. It was very annoying.
14. I'm a decendant of Franklin Pierce, amongst other interesting historical figures apperently.
15. I've seen a wild Blue shark while salmon fishing out of Tillamook, OR.
16. I've stood on the remains of 16 wrecked ships for no apperent reason. The oldest being the Peter Iredale.
17. I design and build my own stunt kites.
18. I've never actually seen a mongoose.
19. I've built somewhere around 1,600 computers personally over the years, most of them for other work. I can assemble a computer from a pile of boxed parts to a fully assembled, buttoned up working bootable unit in 15 minutes 34 seconds. We actually had a race to find this out. It was fun. I won a sandwich.
20. I have a Wooly Mammoth Tooth in my rock collection that my Dad found somewhere.
21. I once sold books to a certain "Richard Starkey" in Prescott, AZ when I worked at the Barnes and Noble there. yes, I did get an autograph. I never did figure out why he was in Prescott though, since there really wasn't anything worthwhile there to visit. It was definitly Ringo though.
22. I once told a pun so bad, it caused someone to spontaniously combust. Now I can't visit norway ever again.
23. It's harder than it looks to think up 27 useless facts about yourself, especially knowing that probably no one is going to actually read them.
24. I've been shocked by electricity at least 14 times over my life, most of which occured when I was very young. Yes, that does explain a few things...
25. I play the Trombone and Drums.
26. I wage wars against cows because one of them peed on my space shuttle sweater my mom made while I was wearing it during 1st Grade dairy field trip. Since then, the only good cow is a steak...
27. My toes can make this wierd annoying popping sound, on account of them being too long. I'm not sure why. It makes it handy to pick things up with my toes though. I seem to be the only one in the family that developed the odd toes though. Which really gets annoying during shoe shopping time.

So there you go, 27 things you now know that you'll spend the next 4 minutes trying to un know! See you at 28K!

Grats, dude. I guess you really aren't a malicious computer virus.

SpoilerJUST KIDDING. You can't fool me.

Your rage is both just and meaningful.

Grats!

Congrats!

Tillamook sounds like a place in a Tolkien book.

Wow. I've been away 3k posts worth of Kao. Grats!

Edited, Nov 5th 2011 4:08pm by LeWoVoc

Looks like I'll need to come up with nine useless facts about me in a month or so. Grats, and thanks for the idea, Kao, I'm totally ripping it off.

You're still keeping track? Geez.

Congrats Kao~!

Needs moar airplanes.

Just an idea, since the budget cuts coming, bet you could pick up random parts at DRMO and build yourself something.



Like that guy down in AZ who almost built an AH-64...



...before the Feds figured it out and got him.





On second thought, maybe not such a good idea

Same here.

Oh, and gartz!

You're an Eagle scout who's allergic to outside? SpoilerOr is it a specific type of grass?


Congrats on 27k!

Garts, have some cake.

Grats, nub. Now post moar, scrub.

Oh shi-

Grats Kao! And I did read them all.

Woohoo gratz Kao!

Huh. I keep forgetting the help forum. I should go hang there.

Congrats Kaolain! I know one of the 1600 is my computer.

Where we're post counting, we don't need forums.

Grats Kao!

Although I have to wonder, did I see you in EQ Traders Corner before?

I was the guy who dumpster dived 200+ Blue diamonds and ate a ban. =X

All three were directly related to the 1,600 computers.

You got banned for dumpster diving BDs? lol

grats!

I feel even worse for knowing exactly what he's talking about

Thanks everyone! Rate ups for all!



Yeah, luckily there isn't much lawn grass in the middle of the forest. It won't kill me, I just sneeze and icha whole bunch and get these horrible contact rashes. Mowing the lawn is always fun...



I dunno, I don't have particularily high arches near as I can tell, but then again its not like there are alot of normal size 15 feet for comparison around here.



I have been around there before. probably less than 200 posts or so though.


Well, the toddler definitly was. The stabbing was math class, the shooting was target practice.




I thought the second toe was supposed to be way longer than the big toe? though mine is appernetly about half an inch shorter than my pinky on my hand. Which seems odd to me.

When you sold stuff to a vendor in Everquest, you could actually buy back the stuff you sold accidentally...at whatever the vendor would normally sell that item for if it was actually put up for sale. There's a limit to how many different items the vendor could hold before it dumped what you sold into oblivion, but it was a pretty big limit. Originally you could only see like the first 16? different items or so (depending on what the vendor was already selling), even though there was a lot more. Dumpster diving in Everquest basically tried to access those hidden items.

In FFXI terms, think of it like being able to go through an NPC's inventory list and somehow buying Khroma ore that someone else vendored because they didn't know what it was for and didn't want to bother looking it up.

Yeah, we had a different term for it: merchant mining.

Ah, there you go. :)

Different servers, different terms. :P