codergeek42

I'm shamelessly stealing this sciathan_file...

Send me about with my camera!

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about - it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite books, etc. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them as an LJ entry. That way you get to know a little bit about my life. =]

We just came back from an El Torito restaurant nearby, where I took my dad out for Father's Day, and I cannot help but to think, "What the heck is up with El Torito's chefs?"

My dad and I both had to get our orders switched twice because the dishes they gave us were too spicy, even though we had explicitly told our waiter that we did not want any spices on them at all - which he seemed to comply with at first, since the dishes came with the sauces and salsa on the side, and those are normally the significantly spicy parts of the meal - but this was not a good kind of spicy. This was just spicy for the sake of being spicy. Even the meat had tiny pieces of Jalapeño or something in it.

I can definitely understand adding spice, even very strong if necessary, for the sake of augmenting the food with a specific tang of flavor (such as is done for many east-Asian dishes, and many meats used in Italian cuisine). But this was not it. No addition to taste or anything of the sort. It was just for the purpose of ensuring that one's throat burned sufficiently as the food was swallowed. (As a minor comparison point, those who know me know that my mom is of Spanish descent, and even she had trouble eating it because of the spice.)

But I digress, I suppose it's time for ( another meme! )

Having aced two math exams in twice as many days (w00t), I feel it necessary to do something completely speshul [sic], and ergo I have bestowed upon myself another meme from the great sciathan_file . So here we go.

1. My username is codergeek42 because I use this same alias on nearly everything I do online. Actually, it came from a dare from one of my best friends originally to change my AIM screen-name. "Coder" being that I am a programmer at heart; "geek" showing...well, that I'm a geek; and "42" coming from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, being the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

2. My name is Peter because my parents thought it a great name, coming from the saint of Biblical history, the founder of the Church. I agree wholeheartedly with their choice, though I'm not as religious myself. St. Peter was also my Confirmation saint.

3. My journal is titled "Caffeinated Thought Processes" because I'm an addict and advocate of the wonderful drug called Caffeine. Yay, lack of creativity! :o

4. My friends page is called "Party Members" because I've been playing a lot of classic RPGs recently (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, etc.), so it seems to fit the whole "Friends" idea quite well.

5. My default userpic is the Hogwarts 42 message because Harry Potter is a great series, and 42 is an excellent number. (Thanks for sending me that image, Sci!)

Cue the music! DOO DOo DoO!

(Romaji: "sono MIIMU wo shimasu!" / English: "I'll do that meme!")

So, while taking a break from studying for my Linear Algebra exam tomorrow, I found an amusing "shell history" meme on Fedora People. So, I will join in the fun! :)

As my user:

[pgordon@werewolf ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
87 mplayer
67 cd
58 su
58 ls
57 nano
50 rpmbuild
33 grep
33 exit
30 rpm
30 less

And as root:

[root@werewolf ~]# history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
111 yum
79 nano
49 ls
30 rpm
19 exit
16 service
13 dig
11 tune2fs
10 rm
10 less

Hmm...my history is rather boring, it seems...

So, having been tagged by sciathan_file, I must complete the meme!

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you.

( What quirks? I'm perfectly normal in every way...XD )

Ta-da! I now tag nimda, anoracushla, evilrobot69, gregdek, jkeating, mmcgrath, and spyderous. MWA HAH HA. =)

[P.S.: Apologies for tagging you people! Feel free to refrain from the meme if you like; but I only know a handful of LJers... T_T)