― the pinefox, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I also act, but since I stopped doing stage acting I just started honing my craft thru lying to everyone. It's working pretty well.
I cannot, however, sing. A note. At all. I'm the worst singer I ever heard.
― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Paul Strange, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Thankyou.
― christopher, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Though I type well, can write in cogent sentences most of the time (a skill that is lacking in the majority of folks out in the Real World, unfortunately) (present company excluded, of course), can play a bit of guitar (though I have no idea what I'm doing, and haven't bothered to try & figure it out), have been known to sing a bit (when I actually try to). HTML skillz don't mean shit no more, though. Social skills, I have a few - but, then again, too few to mention.
I guess my claim to fame is the endless amounts of useless trivia I have at my disposal. This trivia comes from my unnervingly precise & random memory. If remembering the stupidest details of an encounter counts as a skill, then there you go.
Besides that, I'm just spewing out carbon dioxide like every other person.
― David Raposa, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Things Paul is good at, since he is being modest: DJ-ing (well, DUH!), making omelettes (which is odd since he hates eggs) and being nice to and about really crap bands. Oh, and giving these funny back to front piggy back rides.
― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm actually rubbish at omelettes. Kate ate a Pauled Omelette yesterday which looked horrible. Burned and everything...
― james e l, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Simon, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Though that omelette from Sunday was rubbish, though. Not like your usual fantastic goats cheese and spinach ones.
James has just reminded me that I have forgotten to say that one of my best skills is my ability to read maps exceptionally well. I think it comes from having no sense of natural direction, I had to learn how to read maps or I'd never get anywhere.
Except wasting time on ILE/M, obviously.
― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michele, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Madchen, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JM, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Jimmy the Mod --> weren't you in my ballet class?
― Josh, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― AP, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― masonic boom, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Simon, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Above 'above average', I think.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Josh, it must be the middle of the night where you're forging these axiological relations of yours.
But I think like that during the day, too. I said I excelled at sophistry.
Cookie, I'm not sure about your hug skills. Remember when you knocked over that plate of chips doing it? Maybe you still need more practice.
― Ally C, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ernest, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(SEE!!!!! NO-ONE CAN BEAT ME!!!!!)
― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Maria, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I would love to write something in ultra-neat Latin (preferably in snazzy dactylic hexameter, or at least with some Ciceronian clausulae), just 'cos Maria's post sounded like a gauntlet being thrown down to me, but, eh, it's been too long (and I was never *that* good - or indeed any good at all - anyway).
Someone is now going to tell me that Cicero never used clausulae, but I never really got what they were anyway, I just got told that they were a good stylistic thing. I then promptly ignored this advice, 'cos using 4 different ways of saying "and" (and trying not to use enclitic -que at the end of the sentence because it's not good style, even though I always ended up putting it there anyway) and going crazy with the compound verbs are much easier ways to pick up style points...
I so miss my Kennedy's Primer. (Oh, it looks like I'm quite good at writing really long, rambly, boring, pretentious, geeky, completely off-topic posts. Yeah, I admit I can be good at inadvertantly doing things which suck, but I think that's stretching the word "good" a little.)
― Rebecca, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Or has anyone stopped being good at anything, or started being good at anything new?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually I think I eschew references and would rather form my own opinions.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
(ally, you're just asking for it, ain'tchya?)
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can imitate Barney from The Simpsons pretty well, too. And, thanks to the tutelage of Chris "Buh" Butler, I developed a wickedly effective imitation of your stereotypical "otaku" indie-rock obsessive record buyer.
Other than that, fuggit, I'm worthless.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
(I've had it happen many times)
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
this slip shows a hidden vanity.
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David (David), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
Martin, how do you hold the paddle?
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
I used to think I could draw. I decided I couldn't. Decide for yourself.
I still think I can write. But I could be wrong. I do a blog. Is that writing? I've been working on a novel for a few years and making little progress. (Extract here.)
I'm good at being sarcastic and making dirty jokes. This is nothing to be proud of, I feel.
Nothing else springs to mind.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
The special ladyfriend says I'm "a really good kisser", which is all I really care about.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bryan is good at unnecessarily apologizing.
I'm good at Scrabble (gygax, let's play sometime...e me or something). At various times I've been good at foreign languages (which I've mostly forgotten), cooking/baking, playing the violin. Playing well enough, anyway, that people who know nothing about music rave about how fantastic I am and want me to play at their weddings. I prefer to play around those kind of people, as I actually think I kinda suck. I'm good at photography in a super-amateur sorta way.
I'm trying to find something to say that actually sounds meaningful/interesting but perhaps I'm not good at that.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've had an urge to draw something lately, but I don't seem to get round to it. I have a proper drawing desk, too -- now 18 years old and very filthy and lived in. (Mom bought it for one of my birthdays, thinking perhaps that I was a genius and would make big money and therefore needed the proper tools of the trade. *sigh*)
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
The other day, I saw this guy I've known for years at a pub, who was trashed, and he told me "I remember a few years back, when you [hiccup] flowed at this field party [hiccup], and got these girls all horny, and I [hiccup] had sex with both of them that [hiccup] night!" And I was like, "that's funny, I DIDN'T GET NUTHIN!" But that's okay, cuz he was puking in the bushes outside like 3 minutes later.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I make up songs that get stuck in people's heads.I'm good enough on the guitar to play the songs I make up.I can sing well if I think about it.I can write and draw comics better than I think.I know how to write a good love letter.
― martin mushrush (mushrush), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.imagedeposit.com/Ad_images/Imagedeposit_dot_com_Big_ID_1233__afton.jpg
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mandee, Friday, 25 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bambi (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rimmer/boot/C64.gif
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mandee, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― I'm luna (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― I'm a man who Luna made cry (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
The good old days, eh?
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
One of the last 64 games I bought was Bubble Bobble. Then I did something stupid and bought an AtariST.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hurrah for nickalicious and his ladyfriend!
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Um... I'm good at posting on iLX, quantitatively speaking anyway.I think I'm a decent rockstar, I keep up with my journal pretty well, and I'm good at being appreciative.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Phil, I've not played much in years, except for a bit against a girlfriend who is England's #1 in her wheelchair class, and hoping to make the next Paralympics. I used to favour the more typically European grip. For a while, I played in the more Chinese style to try to give opponents a chance, but I got as good at that. I wasn't world class at this by a long way (unlike, say, Minesweeper) - I'd probably have got my blue at Cambridge had I stayed much more than a term, as I was very probably the best in the first year, but I also once played a guy who was then the UK #3, and he murdered me. I don't think I'd have ever got nearly that good, had I kept it up.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
Martin, I have NOOO idea how that works... The Chinese grip, that is. It's insane - when I try it, often I'll strike the ball at a funny angle and it'll go flying off to the side.
― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link