1. I'm from a relatively small town of 35,000, although I grew up more on the fringes of that metropolis. We had one neighbor next door, and a farm across the street. There weren't any other kids around so I had to learn to play with myself most of the time. ;)
2. I still play video games, although I haven't upgraded to the Xbox360 yet. I'm currently in the middle of Psychonauts and Half-Life 2, so I'm a little behind the times.
3. I like to cook. I watch the food network frequently, and I think I'm getting decent at making a few things although I'm a long way from Iron Chef. I did win the 1st annual OCI Chili cookoff last year though. Ok, I tied. :)
4. I used to be a Ham. I got my first amateur radio license when I was 11 or 12, but I lost interest when I found out the computers could be more than my commodore64.
5. Although my first computer was a C64, and I wrote some simple BASIC programs for it, I never *really* learned to program until college, when I learned Modula-2. Maybe it's because my first two languages were of the no-curly-braces variety that I prefer Python, VB, and Pascal to C++, Java, C#, or Perl.

When I started this blog, I didn't think I would have any trouble keeping a steady stream of posts going, but it's been a while since my last entry. I'll try to do better going forward.

Thanks for getting me back on track Weiqi. :)