a hurricane of yuck

You can learn a lot about someone from the music they listen to. Here's the game: hit shuffle on your music player, and write down the first 25 songs that come up. No cheating or skipping songs.


01 - "I Wanna Be There" by Blessid Union of Souls
02 - "Down in a Hole" by Alice In Chains
03 - "Watch T.V." by Rasputina
04 - "Down Once More / Track Down This Murderer" by Andrew Lloyd Webber
05 - "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else" by Type O Negative
06 - "I need I Want I Will" by Auf der Maur
07 - "T.N.T." by AC/DC
08 - "The Fever" by The Von Bondies
09 - "Railroad Lullaby" by The Twilight Singers
10 - "Devil's Night Out" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
11 - "The Ides of March" by Iron Maiden
12 - "James Bond Theme" by Monty Norman Orchestra
13 - "Walkin' on the Sun" by Smash Mouth
14 - "Can't Stop Lovin' You" by Van Halen
15 - "Disneyland" by Five For Fighting
16 - "No Place To Hide" by Korn
17 - "Son" by Jethro Tull
18 - "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera
19 - "Passage to Bangkok" by Rush
20 - "Waste of Time" by God Lives Underwater
21 - "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by Backstreet Boys
22 - "Worcester Mass." by Henry Rollins
23 - "Dear Christine" by Klaatu
24 - "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" by Ramones
25 - "The Star Spangled Banner" by U2

Another excellent meme swiped from ciliandis:

-BOLD the ones you ARE. (I took this to mean bold those that could or have been applied to me, not those that actually do apply to me.)
-ADD stereotypes that you've heard but aren't here.
-PICK the stereotype that fits you the most, and put it in the SUBJECT when you re-post this. (I went for the one that has been applied most often.)

( behind a cut for friend-list brevity sake )

Swiped from fossilapostle and specieszero:

Do you re-roll cocked dice? Yes, unless they're only very slightly cocked.
Do you re-roll floor dice? Yes.
Do you roll where everyone can see it? Almost always. If playing a game in tight quarters or a crowded table, I might roll my dice in a box to prevent ruining the game board state or losing dice, but usually I roll my dice in plain site on the table.
Do you feel betrayed by your dice when they roll poorly? They're dice. I might bemoan a roll and feign betrayal or hurt, but honestly they're just dice and can't seriously betray me.
Do you have a favorite type of die? What is it? Not particularly. I mostly play board games so I use the d6 most.
Do you have different dice for different functions? Not particularly. It depends on the game, but I mostly play board games so all dice are fine.
Do you have different dice for different games? Most board games with dice use d6, but I do play some board games that use other dice. When roleplaying then yes, of course, because there are a variety of game systems out there that use a variety of dice. Do I use any particular dice specially for any particular game? No.
Do you have more of a single type of die than the others? What is it? Probably d6s or d10s.
Do you have FUDGE dice? Yes, several sets. I bought a GM pack, but most of those ended up confiscated by painted_wolf  because she runs FUDGE a lot and I rarely roleplay. That's okay, though, because I swiped her purple set.
Do you have scatter dice? Probably not. If I have to ask what scatter dice are then I probably don't have them. What are scatter dice?
Do you let other people touch your dice? Yes.
Do you have dice superstitions? What are they? No.
Do you buy more dice even though you don't need them? Yes. It's an addiction. I commonly refer to dice as "gamer candy" or "gamer crack."
What's your favorite die? I think my favorite would be the big doubling die I use as a d6. It is totally geektastic to use as a normal d6, especially when I roll a 2 and say 1. People look at me like "WTF?" and I explain that two is 2^1, therefore it is one. Same thing when I roll a 4 and say 2. 4 = 2^2. People get especially confused when I start rolling 8, 16, 32, or 64 on a d6.
If you were to put custom symbols on a die what would they be? I don't know. It might be cool to have a set of braille dice. I wonder if they make those? ~off to google braille dice~ Well, kinda... thought I want dice with the actual braille symbols.
Do you have dice made of anything particularly different than normal? Unfortunately no, but at one time I was considering commissioning a friend of mine to make me dice from pretty rocks. I want to get one of those really cool metal and/or glass carry cases they make for cosmetics and use that for dice. I've seen a couple of people do that, too, and it orks really well.
What do you keep your dice in? I found this really cool clear plastic paint can container at Staples and it's just barely big enough to hold all of my dice.
Do you have more than one dice container? No, I keep all of my dice not specifically associated with a board game in my dice can.
Do you keep dice in your pocket? Your glovebox? Your workplace? No. Just the paint can.
If you have a partner that games, do you have separate dice? Yes, although she frequently urges me to comingle dice with her or just give her my dice, or we swipe dice from each other (see above) or we might occasionally trade dice.
Do you have any of the first dice you bought or received? I do believe I still have my first set of translucent blue dice.
Do you play certain games just because they have you roll lots of dice? No.
Do you love your dice? How much? I don't "love" my dice but I tend to have obsessive collecting fits.

For those curious about the answers to the 50 First Lines meme:
http://srturtle.livejournal.com/319665.html

Swiped from princess_rinoa:

Five Things I was Doing 10 Years Ago
1.) Finishing my fall semester of Sophomore year at Plymouth State College.
2.) Still working at DCI in Lisbon (hellish winter commute through the Franconia Notch!)
3.) Joined the band Thirty Dirty Birds, which later evolved into Aprtment 81.
4.) Switched to working for the college in catering and ITS Help Desk after my car died... again.
5.) Moved out of one apartment and into another.

Five Things on My To Do List Today:
1.) Get caught up at work.
2.) Eat dinner.
3.) Sleep.
4.) Sleep.
5.) Sleep.

Five Snacks I Enjoy:
1.) Mango!
2.) Sugar free jello with whipped cream.
3.) Hummus & tortilla chips.
4.) Celery with peanut butter.
5.) Celery with cream cheese.

Five Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire, in no particular order:
1.) Pay off the truck.
2.) Get rid of said truck and buy a hybrid car.
3.) Pay off the student loans and painted_wolf's current tuition and fees.
4.) Buy a small house and pay off my parents' house for them.
5.) Put the rest in savings and investments.

Five Places I Have Lived:
1. Nashua, NH
2. Lisbon, NH
3. Plymouth, NH
4. New Hampton, NH
5. Ellsworth, NH

Five Jobs I Have Had:
1. Grocery Bagger
2. Nurses Aide
3. CNC Machinist
4. Help Desk Supervisor
5. Executive Director of a community media center

Swiped from jesshartley:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Game from an animal that someone in your family killed.
2. Ice cream from a dairy farm that makes their ice cream on the premises. Bonus points if you can eat your ice cream and see the herd of cows that it came from.
3. Wild berries that you find, pick and eat yourself.
4. Something deep-fried that was never meant to be deep-fried.
5. Pizza from a NY City pizzeria that's at least 40 years old.
6. Bread made from scratch, still warm from the oven. Preferably that you've made yourself.
7. Food from a street vendor. Bonus points if you and that vendor don't share a language in common.
8. Fish you have caught and cleaned yourself. (Ha! Me?! Catch a fish?! You don't know me very well! Certainly not for lack of trying...)
9. Birthday cake (and frosting!) from scratch.
10. Salad from someone's garden.
11. Homemade salad dressing.
12. Baseball park food. Bonus points for a Fenway Frank. Beer doesn't count.
13. Homebrewed beer.
14. Something baked in an EZ-Bake Oven.
15. Slab bacon from a butcher shop or meat market.
16. Real maple syrup.
17. Astronaut ice cream (purchased from a gift shop on a school field trip, if possible).
18. Something you didn't think you would like, but you tried anyway.
19. Yuengling beer
20. Mastroianni Brothers bread
21. Bueon Y Sano burrito
22. Guiness draft
23. Haggis
24. Beets
25. Avocado
26. At least 10 different kinds of sushi
27. Something you've grown from seed
28. Something with the head still attached when it was served
29. Crawdads/Crayfish (Bonus points if you caught/cleaned them yourself)
30. Alcohol that was older than you were