I’ve been memed by Heather at The Practicing Catholic, and I must say I’m in good company. Being a spoilsport I’m not going to tag anyone else (hey, I’m on vacation!) but I will respond to the meme-ing. The rules are:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about six unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag six fellow bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the six blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

Obviously I’m not going to do 4 or 5. Anyway, here goes: six quirks:

1. I cannot abide the thought of eating crustaceans. I say they are giant bugs, and I say the hell with them. Most people I know applaud this attitude, as it leaves more for them.

2. I have no real taste for poetry. I enjoy light comic verse (i.e., Lewis Carroll) but serious poetry generally leaves me cold. In my world (software development), communicating clearly and concisely is the most important thing. Whether my lack of taste for poetry is a cause or a symptom, I dunno. I generally regard this as a personal flaw.

3. I have no real interest in travelling to foreign countries. I’ve twice been to Australia on business; in the past I’ve had opportunities to fly to Germany and Korea on business. I’ve been glad to decline. Please note, this is no reflection on Australia, Germany, or Korea; and if I had the funds to fly First Class (or even Business Class) I’d possibly feel differently about it.

4. I like peanut butter more than most people. I suppose that really ought to be “more than most people do”; but it might possibly be true either way.

5. I have never seen an episode of Lost, 21, or any of a number of other shows I hear people enthusing about. I stopped watching TV about the time I got out of college. I started watching again when my kids were really small, because it’s something to do while holding an infant; but when my eldest announced that he couldn’t get his homework done because he had to watch his cartoons, I said, “Oh, really? I can fix that!” and disconnected the cable. It’s been that way for about three years now. (We don’t watch broadcast TV, either.) I’ve seen about half of the episodes of Firefly, though, since a friend of mine has them on DVD.

6. I have never been seriously drunk. Scratch a computer programmer, find a control-freak; I don’t like the feeling of not being able to control my limbs.

There you have it. Six things you didn’t need to know. But now they are in your head, and you won’t be able to get rid of them.