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Quirks

While reading a blog post by rands, coming across yet another great xkcd, and making a bowl of midnight ramen noodles, I thought it would be interesting to make a detailed (but by no means comprehensive) list of my small quirks.

• When pouring a glass of water, I pour a full glass, take a deep sip, then pour again to fill the glass back up before I leave. Reasoning: It’s more efficient to get a sip now (I’m obviously thirsty) than to take more trips to fill the glass.
• I don’t clean often, but when I do, I’m extremely meticulous.
• I often find myself comfortable in the oddest of positions, especially when confronted with large pieces of furniture.
• When I encounter an odd problem that I’m not used to, instead of doing it the best I can quickly and moving on, I take an extra-long period of thinking time on the first solution, in hopes that the next time the problem comes up I will have an efficient way to solve it already in mind.
• I enjoy talking with people about ordinary things in strange terms. For example, I may refer to the “selfish drivers” as “those who only look for local-optima”. I try not to use these terms around people who wouldn’t understand them, but I occasionally slip an “xor” into a non-technical discussion.
• I have to force myself to put the punctuation inside the “quotes”.
• I am reminded daily by my watch beeping at me in the morning, but I never seem to remember to put it on.

• I cut my pizzas into a prime number of pieces, just to make people wonder why.

• In restaurants, I never put my glass down in the same place, making a pattern with the condensation.

I’ll continue to add to this list as I think of more.