FAQ
1. Who are you?
2. What is existential fashion disaster?
3. What does existential fashion disaster mean?
4. Is this a blog?
5. Why is there no “About Me” page?
6. Are there pictures of you?
7. How did you make this site do all this cool stuff?
8. Are you Mikey?
9. Did you take all of those pictures?
10. What kind of camera do you use?
11. Are you my Dad?
12. What happened to your old site?
14. What happened to question #13?
15. Are you superstitious?
16. Can I comment on your blog posts?
17. Are you gonna sell my eMail address to a spamhouse?
18. Are you still a swinger?
19. Do you still drive that awesome Jeep?
20. What kinda awesome car do you drive now?
21. Dude, that’s lame.
22. Can I come over?
23. Which Woonsocket do you live in?
24. I think I owe you money, do you want it?
25. You want to go out for a drink?
26. Where’s the beef?
27. Weren’t you in that awesome band?
28. Do you ever go back to Dudley?
29. Didn’t you go to UMASS?
30. How do you survive in the real world without a college degree?
31. What’s your favorite color?
32. Are you gonna eat that?
33. Wait, you don’t live in Worcester?
34. Do you still run Wormtown?
35. Why does WTDO look so different, now?
36. Where’s Waldo?
37. Wait a minute. you don’t drink?
38. What do you want for Christmas/Birthday/Equinox/Ides of March?
39. Is there going to be a test?
40. Are you a hippie?
41. Why don’t you cut your hair?
42. What about that beard?
43. I heard that you were living in an autonomous collective with no currency on a self-sufficient island somewhere. Is that true?
44. What do I do if my question wasn’t answered?
1. Who are you?
2. What is existential fashion disaster?
3. What does existential fashion disaster mean?
let’s break it down. I’ve removed most of the alternate definitions that don’t apply:
| ex·is·ten·tial “eg-(”)zis-’ten(t)-sh&l, “ek-(”)sis- adj. 3. Of or as conceived by existentialism or existentialists: an existential moment of choice. ex·is·ten·tial·ism “eg-(”)zis-’ten(t)-sh&-”li-z&m, “ek-(”)sis- n. A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts. |
fash·ion ‘fa-sh&n n. 1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion. 2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion. 3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion. |
dis·as·ter di-’zas-t&r, -’sas- n. 2. Informal. A total failure: The dinner party was a disaster.… |
now, you can make your own conclusions. I’ll give you one more definition to help you out.
i·ro·ny ‘I-r&-nE also ‘I(-&)r-nE n.
1. a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit.
4. Is this a blog?
5. Why is there no “About Me” page?
6. Are there pictures of you?
There are some pictures of me in the Photo Gallery in the section marked me.
7. How did you make this site do all this cool stuff?
I used a combination of the WordPress “semantic personal publishing platform” (blogging software), Gallery “photo album organizer” and a lot of plugins.
8. Are you Mikey?
9. Did you take all of those pictures?
I took all of the pictures that are not in the “Not taken by me” gallery, with some possible exceptions in the “work-related” and “me” galleries.
10. What kind of camera do you use?
Currently, I shoot with a Panasonic FZ50. I used an Olympus C-2100UZ for many years. I also own an Olympus E-100, but I don’t know where it is, currently. Some of the older shots were taken with an Olympus C-3030Z and the really old ones were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic F on Fuji film, printed on Fuji paper and scanned in with an Epson Perfection 1650. I still own a Spotmatic F, though not the original one, and the light meter batteries are hard to find and don’t last as long as it takes me to get through a roll of film, so I don’t use it very often. Most shots are unedited; any editing and/or cropping (also rare) was done in Paint Shop Pro.
11. Are you my Dad?
12. What happened to your old site?
All former versions of this site, and previous personal websites belonging to me, were partially or entirely lost in various webhost failures.
14. What happened to question #13?
There never was a question #13.
15. Are you superstitious?
16. Can I comment on your blog posts?
Yes, please do, but I don’t allow anonymous commenting, so you need to register.
17. Are you gonna sell my eMail address to a spamhouse?
No. I wouldn’t even know how to find a spamhouse to sell it to. I hate spam. No matter how broke I get, I would never do that.
18. Are you still a swinger?
I’m not sure if I was ever a swinger. If you are referring to my views on love, they are always in flux… read the blog. I believe the best analytical work on love is still James Parks’ New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships.
19. Do you still drive that awesome Jeep?
All three jeeps that I owned are long gone. The first one burned. The second one had a badly rebuilt engine. The third one (the bad-ass black one) rusted away in Mom’s backyard for years, in case I wanted to rebuild it someday… but was recently hauled away with all the other dead cars.
20. What kinda awesome car do you drive now?
21. Dude, that’s lame.
That’s not a question… and my wagon can blow away that piece of crap you drive, and it’s paid for.
22. Can I come over?
I’ll ask the family. The chances are good, especially if you bring food/money/hugs.
23. Which Woonsocket do you live in?
I don’t live in Woonsocket anymore. There are only two Woonsockets in the world. If you try, you can figure out which one I lived in, I live closer to the other one, now.
24. I think I owe you money, do you want it?
25. You want to go out for a drink?
I still don’t drink. But I’ll hang out with you anyway, even if you want to get drunk.
26. Where’s the beef?
27. Weren’t you in that awesome band?
Yes.
28. Do you ever go back to Dudley?
I’m used to be in Dudley quite a bit. I always avoided Webster as much as humanly possible, though; bad vibes… no offense to the 2 or three decent human beings that still live there. I don’t worry about it much anymore, though, since I’m halfway across the country.
29. Didn’t you go to UMASS?
I went to UMASS Amherst for two years. I went there immediately after high school, and it was the only school I applied to. The only reason I went to school at all was to be in the Marching Band. I enjoyed being in the band there immensely, but it was a little weird and not exactly what I expected. I was on academic probation by my second semester and withdrew from school early that semester because I was in my classic hyper-focus mode and not able to balance a whole courseload. I went back a full year later and tried again, but the results were about the same: hyper-focus -> academic probation. Then in the last semester I was there, I got tested for ADHD and they said that I was clearly the opposite of every case they had dealt with, but since I did exhibit enough of the symptoms they could officially diagnose me with it and get me in a help program… but I was already done with school at that point. I enjoyed the area and the campus and the classes that I focused on, but me and school don’t get along.
30. How do you survive in the real world without a college degree?
I should just slap you for asking such a stupid question. Simply put, some employers will hire based on skills and not certification. I was a network & systems administrator for over 2 years. When that dried up, I was already in a situation where my cost of living was low enough to do the lower-paying work that I do now.
31. What’s your favorite color?
Green, but some days I just can’t stand anything related to yellow… and on those days my favorite color is purple.
32. Are you gonna eat that?
33. Wait, you don’t live in Worcester?
No. I haven’t lived in Worcester since sometime in early 2002.
34. Do you still run Wormtown?
I am still the webmaster at Wormtown.org, but I don’t run the site. I used to moderate the messageboards, but gave up when some of the assholes there starting trashing me on other sites for doing so. Brian Goslow runs the site and takes care of all the news and listings. I just help him use the software and fix problems when they come up.
35. Why does WTDO look so different, now?
When the webhost booted us, I installed new versions of the software and imported the old database into it. I am less willing to mess with the core code to get it to look like the original site because the files I customized are the ones the old host blamed for the “excessive server load” which got us suspended. Please direct all other questions about Wormtown.org to its messageboard.
36. Where’s Waldo??
37. Wait a minute. you don’t drink?
What is wrong with you? That was over ten questions ago… no. I don’t drink. I’ve consumed part of a beer while watching one Superbowl, a shot of Goldschlager at a New Year’s party, a Long Island Iced Tea at a discotheque in Acapulco and some awful teenage concoction in a Mountain Dew bottle, walking through the woods, on the way to a show choir practice. I consider all of those incidents mistakes. My family has a history of alcoholism that I’d like to avoid.
38. What do you want for Christmas/Birthday/Equinox/Ides of March??
If you’re feeling generous, I have combined my confusing multiple Amazon wishlists into one big honkin’ list. Obviously, you don’t have to buy these things from Amazon if it’s cheaper elsewhere or whatever. Maybe, someday, I’ll find an impartial wishlist system, or just design my own.Â
39. Is there going to be a test?
Yes, but I will let you use your notes.
40. Are you a hippie?
I am not a hippie. I missed the actual hippie movement by a couple decades. I also don’t fit many of the common connotations associated with the term hippie today: I don’t follow jam bands, I don’t smoke weed all the time, I don’t belong to bullshit environmental activist organizations.
41. Why don’t you cut your hair?
When my hair is too short, it defies gravity. I grew it long when I was about 13 and just kept growing it because I liked it. I kept on letting it grow and didn’t cut it at all for more than 10 years. One day, while I was in the middle of a big reorganization of my priorities and lifestyle, I walked into a salon and got it cut to right above my shoulders. I’m probably going to keep it around that length with semi-regular salon visits.
42. What about that beard?
I don’t like shaving. When my razor ran out of a charge and I didn’t have my charger with me, I decided to just grow a beard… I trimmed it drastically a few times in the last couple years. I never really get rid of it entirely though, as that would require regular shaving.
43. I heard that you were living in an autonomous collective with no currency on a self-sufficient island somewhere. Is that true?
44. What do I do if my question wasn’t answered?
um, well, there used to be comments on this page… and you could just add a question, but they don’t seem to be there anymore… so… email me, I guess?
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