Nicked from various

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✓ I miss somebody right now.  (My best friend in England)	× I don't watch much TV these days.  (Why do we need TV if we can download the series?)	✓ I own lots of books.  (And I bought more this weekend)
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (Not anymore)	× I love to play video games.  (Very, very occasionally)	× I've tried marijuana.  (Never needed a reason to do so)
✓ I've watched porn movies.  (Who hasn't?)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (Nah, those boys' bodies were never found)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (Tricky, very tricky on knowing when to be honest and when not to butt in)
✓ I curse sometimes.  (Bad Windrider! :))	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (I change every year - such is life)	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (Well, actually, I have several...)

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✓ I'm paranoid at times.  (Everyone has a stalker)	✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.  (As I get older I think vanity does come back to haunt you)	✓ I need/want money right now.  (You can't have enough with ICON coming up)
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.

✓ I have a lot to learn.  (Always)

✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.

Book meme

Nicked from claidheamhor

What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular scifi books at What Should I Read Next?

I liked it!

I didn't like it!

I want to read it!

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Neuromancer - William Gibson

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Dune - Frank Herbert

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

The Stand - Stephen King

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

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Joining the Dark side

On many weekends a year in parks in the Washington-Baltimore
area, 100 or more people gather in medieval costumes and wield
soft weapons to wage battle in the 20-year-old Darkon Wargaming
Club, according to a May report in Baltimore City Paper.  Players
point out that their hobby is simply of a piece with historical-battle
video games and feature films, but still acknowledge the whimsy.
Said a club manager (who is the wife of the player "Shalor" of the
"Bloody Axe Mercenary Company"), on seeing the games for the
first time, "I didn't want to get out of the car.  I thought it was the
dorkiest thing I'd ever seen.  And 12 years later, of course, I'm
running the thing."  (An acclaimed documentary film on the club,
"Darkon," has just been released.) [Baltimore City Paper, 5-10-06]

I'm on meme spree today

Nicked from writerwench

You Are 36% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

This reminds me of a scene from "Austin Powers": "You are not evil, you are semi-evil" emphasizing the soft l in "evil".