1. i had to go pee before writing this
2. i'm dating a nice gal from Russia right now
3. I checked the starting time with the little LCD display on my desk phone, even though I guess the clock on my laptop would've worked just as well
4. I spoke with a calypso accent at first, learning to speak on the island of St. Thomas in the virgin islands.
5. therefore my first words to my (probably racist, and not happy about his grandkid talking like an islander) were "Heyyyyyy Poppa Samm" -- you have to imagine the accent for that I'm afraid
6. I don't like it when my wrists get warm from my laptop
7. i think prose is better than poetry
8. i'm not very romantic despite running the romance poetry community website "blender of love"
9. I have the domain "mortals.be" so that http://lord.what.fools.these.mortals.be should be a valid domain
10. i like to drink a lot of water but haven't landed on a vessel I'm truly happy with. Right now I'm using a big plastic tumbler, which carrries a risk of tumbling. before this i tried gallon jugs and reusing clear plastic soda bottles, but the jugs are tough to clean out and the bottles are kind of skanky and don't hold much water
11. i think i'm about as heavy as i've ever been
12. i can seal my nostrils just by inhaling hard, and also flare them at will. the former always gets more laughs, even though as a kid I thought the latter was more impressive and unique
13. I don't think I have the writing cajones to be a famous writer.
14. I'm a touch neurotic. I'm prone to very intermitent anxiety attacks.
15. The attacks seemed to get there start around Y2k anxieties in 1998 or so, but they find various subjects to latch on to from time to time.
16. I'm paralyzingly afraid of proof coming out that I'm not the smartest guy in the room. I'd rather not try and fail then try and fail and prove my lack of inborn greatness.
17. Diet Coke with Lime is my favorite soft drink, the one I'll probably grab when presented with a full array at a store
18. I've been to Canada, Mexico, Portugal, England, and Germany. Curiously I've never been west of the Mississippi in the USA, except maybe for a half-forgotten airport stop on route to Mexico.
19. I sometimes feel like I'm in a low level digital photography contest with my ex-wife. I've been doing it a lot longer but she recently went the fancier camera route. I don't think she knows about this.
20. I changed fact #2 to make it less incriminating. (the subject changed completely, it wasn't about my romantic life at all previously)

5! = 1·2·3·4·5

public string access(string 5! a)
{
  string
    string b = a.substring(0,1);
   string
    Int int c = b String.getValue(b);
    if(c < 2){
      System.System.err.println("1");
    } else if (c < 3){
      System.err.println("1·2");
    } else if (c < 4){
      System.err.println("1·2·3");
    }

Stickies and Spindle

I'd right things on stickies, and then stick them on a spindle when they were complete.
PROS: Visceral pleasure of impaling stickies, can use physical placement of stickies to makes subasks or to re-arrange priority, have tangible record of what was done.
CONS: stickies don't stick to cube walls that well, so I had to designate deskspace as "sticky land". Also, generally disorganized looking, and it got pretty easy to loose stickies.

PalmPilot

I do tend to keep my personal ToDos on Palm, and a while back I thought about what my Ideal Palm ToDo app would be like
PROS: With me all the time. Very neat and orderly.
CONS: Old tasks tend to linger-- too low of a "nag" factor, and not much to show other people. Clunky reordering, and no concept of "subtasks". Plus, completed tasks pretty much go away when you "purge completed tasks".

Whiteboard

PROS: Kind of fun, and you can be very expressive in terms of priority.
CONS: Tough to reorder. Bad marker smell. Old tasks tend to accumulate, surprisingly. Almost a little too visible to coworkers. And at my previous job, I didn't even have my own whiteboard, though maybe I could have asked for one.

Small .txt files and notepad.exe

Sometimes I'll still use this when I have a lot of things to do during a weekend: creating a list, and then cutting and pasting from a TODO section to a TODONE section so I can feel good about getting through stuff. (In fact, I posted an example a while back.)
PROS: Readily available, easy to put in priority order and then re-arrange on the fly
CONS: Doesn't travel very well, too easy to forget to save file.

Graph Paper a Day

The latest and my current favorite. Originally I was stealing printer paper, but graph paper has some advantages as described by this Book of Ratings entry. For over a week now I've been starting the day with a fresh sheet, dating it, transfering any previous undone tasks to it. (On the previous day's sheet, I circle things that were undone but passed forward.) Then as I get things done I cross 'em off with a big bold stroke of the pen.
PROS: Many! Each day is a bit of a blank slate, unlike the whiteboard, but the discupline of transferring undone things urges me not to let them linger. You can group things into subtasks. Plus I have a nice historical reference, good for both personal satisfaction as well as having to record "hours worked". More viscerally satisfying than the electronic based systems. CONS: Not much...sometimes I come close to running out of room on a single sheet.

• peeing next to somebody else.
• noticing people laughing at his sandals .
• coming out of the water with his swimming suit sticking to his body

• to tear big pieces of wallpaper off the walls
• to line up his shoes and polish them with great care
• to empty his toolbox, clean it thoroughly, and, finally, put everything away carefully.

• to have her fingers all wrinkled by hot water.
• when somebody she doesn't like touches her,
• to have the marks of the sheets on her cheek in the morning.

• the outfits of the ice-skaters on TV.
• to shine the flooring.
• to empty her handbag, clean it thoroughly, and, finally, putting everything away carefully.

• to turn around in the dark movie theater to see the faces of the people around.
• to spot the little detail nobody will ever see
• putting her hand in a bag of seeds,
• piercing the crust of crème brûlée with the tip of a spoon.
• Play at ducks and drakes on the Saint-Martin-canal.

• when the driver in the movie doesn't watch the road.

• books where the book title and the author name are repeated at the top of every page rather than the chapter or story title
• The feel of sitting on a toilet seat when one's backside is still wet from the shower
• when television actors have subtly changed their postures between consecutive shots

• reclining in the car in silence at night after arriving home and turning off the car and the radio
• the smell inside freezers at the supermarket
• peeling off band-aids

• You can fit a lot more buttons there (yes, I've been teased for how many windows I tend to have open at once)
• "Group Similar Taskbar Buttons" tends to (usefully) sort rather than (annoyingly, IMO) combine multiple windows into one button
• If you do want to see the full title of your windows, just drag and make the bar wider...an effect you can't easily duplicate with the taskbar in its usual position, since Windows tends to limit the width of each button even if you give the bar lots of real estate.