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First, I can always be contacted via email at webmistress@irrsinn.net.

Second, I can be instant messaged at the AIM name irrsinn99 or the ICQ number 20375438.

About irrsinn.net

This domain was purchased in 2002. Why “irrsinn”? Geisteskrankheit used to be my handle, back during the summer before eigth grade, until someone told me it was an archaic word that would get me laughed at. So I changed it to Irrsinn, which has a very similar meaning of insanity or madness. Very fitting to describe me. So I named my domain that, as it is nothing more than a haven for my craziness.

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Some good things to know

(Because I think this list will be fun to maintain.)

  1. I’ve been described as “Extrememly curious, fun to play with, goal oriented, intellectual, etc.” I couldn’t get a good explanation of the “etc”.
  2. Personal responsibility and accepting the consequences of my choices are key aspects of my life.
  3. So are my attempts to understand what goes on in my head.
  4. Right up there are also my attempts to understand what goes on in others’ heads.
  5. Only when I’m in a very odd mood do I wish to talk on the phone. Usually this is late at night, when I’ve mellowed out and can easily kill all distractions.
  6. I cannot multi-task while conversing, whether it be on AIM, phone, or in person.
  7. I prefer “in person” or via e-mail.
  8. I like observing the way people move–everything from the movement of mouth/face while talking to the general movements of a person walking or sitting.
  9. I go to yonder teeny engineering school of the Mid-West… for computer science.
  10. I have an obsessive personality type that I love. It keeps my grades fairly high and enables me to dig into something (or someone) until I exhaust myself or that “something”.
  11. I run. Obsessively.
  12. I’m not good at it, though.
  13. Running is the first non-intellectual hobby I’ve had since puberty.
  14. I geek about running anyway, though.
  15. My father and I manage to be civil to one another about 80% of the time we interact.
  16. I have civil thoughts about him about 50% of the time I think of him.
  17. I haven’t broken an [academic] honor code in school since the tenth grade.
  18. In the eleventh grade, I decided I wanted my International Baccalaureate diploma to be worth more than the paper it was printed on.
  19. I didn’t sleep so much, 11th grade…
  20. Ninety-eight percent of the time I am near a computer, CD player, stereo, or in a car, there is music playing for my listening pleasure.
  21. Favorite band? Tool.
  22. Favorite genre? Don’t have one. I love something about every genre of music I’ve listened to.
  23. I do tend to own more rock-esque CDs than anything else, though.
  24. This may be due to the fact that I spent insane amounts of money on CDs in my middle years of high school [the height of my rock obsession], and the amount of money has necesarily decreased with increased spending on college supplies and living, despite my increased diversity in tastes.
  25. When people tell me that I think too much, sometimes I want to scream in frustration, sometimes I want to cry.
  26. People are always going to think just as much as it takes for them to make it through the day successfully.
  27. I see absolutely no reason for people to piss on my parade just because it takes me a little more introspection to get through the day happily.
  28. Someone once told me that if he thought about the dusty corners in his mental closet as much as I think about mine, he’d probably commit suicide.
  29. I suggested he might want to apply a long-hosed vaccuum cleaner and a flashlight to such areas. He might be a little more comfortable with himself.
  30. I hate it when I say something innocent and it comes out sounding snooty and arrogant, like I am perfect or actually know what I’m talking about.
  31. I have a [surprisingly?] high-pitched, memorable laugh that turns heads in restaurants if I let it out completely.
  32. I don’t get noticably red in the face or neck when I blush, but I do when I laugh hard.
  33. I hate it when people tell me to “calm down” when I’m happily excited.
  34. If I think something is funny, I’m going to laugh until I stop. Again with that whole “pissing on my parade” thing.
  35. I like books. “Literature”, science fiction, fantasy, computer books. Harry Potter.
  36. Not Tolkien, though.
  37. Loved the movies, however.
  38. Languages written or read or spoken: English, C++, French, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic, CSS, XHTML.
  39. I am not a gamer, but I play Diablo II.
  40. I am not a hacker, but I have a good memory for things I see written, like numbers and passwords.
  41. Real winters (of the Indiana sort) depress me and leave me fighting an eating disorder and anti-sociability.
  42. Favorite dessert: cheesecake.
  43. I also like vanilla ice cream. Or chocolate. I don’t need weird shit floating in my ice cream for it to taste good.
  44. Years of sugar abuse have killed my taste buds.
  45. Eight packets of Splenda are required to sweeten a bowl of oatmeal. Six packets of Equal are necessary for a small cup of coffee
  46. I do my best not to ingest any drugs besides mild painkillers, and those only when my options include either taking the medicine or missing some important activity.
  47. I don’t like caffeine. It’s a drug.
  48. I also don’t enjoy drinking air. So I stay away from soda. Or pop.
  49. I have very large, very muscular legs that I have yet to come to accept enough to wear shorts.
  50. Manly legs run on both sides of my family, although more heavily on my father’s.
  51. So what if I can kick a hole in the wall if I can’t find a pair of Fuck Me Boots to fit over my calves?
  52. I’m finding that growing into myself is a ridiculous amount of fun.
  53. I very strongly associate particular songs or CDs with the books and activities I am engaged in when I listen to them obsessively.
  54. When I purchased Lateralus, I listened to “The Grudge” for nine hours a day, seven days a week, for six months before moving to the next song, “The Patient”.
  55. I am completely tone deaf.
  56. I have yet to teach myself to play any musical instruments.

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