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This is a bit of a trend on the interwebs lately and I've enjoyed reading my friends' contributions, so I thought I'd bring it to my online home. All you need to do to participate is share 25 random things about yourself, like I'm about to do.

1. I think it's silly that Roman numerals are still in use.
2. We have some three-way switches in the house. If the light attached to a pair of these switches is off and both switches are not down (the typical off position), I will switch them down.
3. Kids in grade school called me "Mr. Technical" because I had a habit of correcting their grammar.
4. After I rescued a bird that had flown into the classroom and slammed into a window -- and freaked out a bunch of students -- my 7th grade English teacher (Mrs. Calender) told me I'm the kind of person that's great to have around in an emergency. It's one of the best compliments I've ever received.
5. I've never had a job (other than odd jobs) that didn't have something to do with computers.
6. I'll eat almost anything at least once. Even insects, as long as they're dead and someone else eats one first.
7. I've thrown up on the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. (Don't finish off a night of drinking with a double of Rumple Minze. No, I wasn't driving.)
8. My high school German teacher taught me how to install sprinklers and work with PVC pipe.
9. I've been electrocuted more times than I can count. I find it perversely enjoyable, even though I try to avoid it.
10. I'm a complete wimp about static shocks. If I know I'm charged and need to touch something metal, I'll hesitate a bit before touching it.
11. I lived in Venezuela for 4 months when I was 8 and spoke fluent Spanish by the time I left.
12. I once told a friend (while both of us were drunk) that if I were gay I'd want to date him.
13. I get along better with my in-laws than almost every other married person I know.
14. I've broken my nose, left arm, left wrist, and collar bone. The last came with a concussion.
15. I bit through my lower lip after landing on my brother in a pool after an attempted cannonball revenge.
16. I haven't had to pay to have a cell phone since 2000.
17. My teeth were extremely crooked until I got braces in 2000. They came off a month before my wedding.
18. I think squirrels are cute until they're within a 10 foot radius of me.
19. In the early 90s, I participated in illegal activities involving computers and modems that one of my friends got in trouble with the FBI over.
20. I've plucked stray gray hairs, but when they start coming in force, I'll go gray-cefully.
21. I used to shave off my goatte before visiting my grandmother because I knew she disapproved of it.
22. When we were little kids, I convinced my younger sister that dry dog poop was chocolate, and she tasted it.
23. I believe my home town was a fantastic place to grow up in, and I regret that my children won't have the same freedom to roam that I had.
24. I've never been in a fight.
25. I married the first girl who kissed me.

1. I find articles about memes more interesting than the memes themselves: http://www.slate.com/id/2211068

Cruel and unusually hilarious.

Oh no.

What he didn't mention is that I see his sister for her ongoing battle with coprophagia.

Wait, I think I just violated confidentiality. Nevermind!

If that was the only thing being violated here, it would be better.

Peter, sorry about the squirrel thing.

Was it plain or peanut?

Kibble, I believe.

You lost me after CVXXII.