half man, half inappropriate

Day Two: Nine things about yourself.

1. I’m very good at history, but only history since I’ve been born.  I can tell you what went down in whatever month and year I was alive, what was playing on the radio, and other obscure pieces of trivia.  There are plenty of gaps in my knowledge though.  What you might think would be common knowledge in 1993, I might have no idea about it. However, you might wonder why I even remembered that Carl Winslow from Family Matters had middle name of Otis.
2. On the real, I’m beginning to think Computer Science was a bad major.  Maybe that anticipated money hasn’t come in yet, but I have a strange feeling that I would have enjoyed college and post-college life more if I had majored in Studio Art or at least minored in it.  Designing graphics ain’t that bad.  On the other hand, I also have a feeling that if I majored in Studio Art, I would have hated drawing by the end of my college career.
3. In games with multiple playable characters such as Defense of the Ancients or Street Fighter, I only play with one character, and I stick with it.  Why?  I can’t quite explain it either.  The game developers obviously created several characters so you can explore and play out the game in a nearly infinite amount of ways, but I’d much rather play as E. Honda every time I play Super Street Fighter IV.  I think I once again would rather master one thing than be just be good at several.
4. I feel like I’m still that same 5-year-old that I’ve always known, but I’m just in a grown-ass man’s body now.  I might know more stuff and be a little bit wiser, but I still feel like a kid.
5. If you think I’m weird now, imagine how weird I was in my single-digit ages.  I grew up on sitcoms, cartoons, video games, and I didn’t get much social interaction until I reached my double-digit ages.  With 90s media as my reference of what the real world was like, I have come a long way to shake off old ideologies.  Catholicism messed me up, too.
6. When the yo-yo fad re-emerged in 1997-1998, my buddies and I were all up on that sh!t.  I can shotgun, walk the dog, rock the cradle, and bust an around the world, bitch-asses.  I validated my heritage by becoming skillful with our own weapon turned toy.
7. Most people don’t know this about me either, but I f*ckin’ love magic tricks.  I’m not sure why I grew out of it.  (It must have been those damn video games once again.)  As a kid, I’d love to bust out magic tricks for everybody.
8. Before the game programming dreams and even before the comedian dreams, when I was in 4th grade, I actually wanted to be a cartoonist.  People of my generation would agree that Nickelodeon during the 90s had the greatest set of cartoons ever.  That 90s Nickelodeon programming just inspired me to illustrate my own cartoons and what not.  I actually did write my own comic strip from about 1999 to 2001.  The comics were unfortunately lost in a tragic backup accident.
9. Contrary to popular belief, I did not get the scar on my face from falling on a coffee table.  More details in a future post…