1. The Doors is/are my favorite group
2. Eggplant is my favorite vegetable
3. I resumed stamp collecting after a hiatus of four decades
4. I find public speaking easy
5. I fall asleep within minutes
6. I score highly on I.Q. tests (whatever that implies)
7. I've completed several walks of over 1000 km . . . barefoot
8. I’ve trekked in the Himalayas
9. I didn’t speak English until I started school
10. I’ve travelled by ship through both the Panama and Suez canals
11. My first child is 23 years older than the youngest
12. I have a B.Sc. in Biochemistry
13. I can’t use urinals
14. I spent more than 8 years on a book that was never published
15. I’ve written over 5000 haiku over a ten-year span
16. I’ve lived and worked in India and Japan
17. I was vegetarian for 25 years
18. I learned to meditate at age 15
19. I took piano lessons for 5 years, passing every exam, but one, with honors
20. I suspect that I’ve high-level functioning Asperger’s syndrome
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21. I can almost ride a unicycle
22. I’ve lost track of the number of marathons I’ve run
23. I’m happily married for the second time
24. I've cycled comfortably on snow and ice
25. I don’t watch TV
26. I rarely drink, and have never been drunk
27. I’ve never done any drug
28. My gall bladder, along with 14 stones, was removed
29. I have read aloud the entire The Lord of the Rings
30. I was born at midnight but don’t know the date of my birth or zodiac sign
31. I once walked 150 kilometres in 35 hours
32. I only got my car driver’s license at the age of 28
33. I have appeared on two TV game shows
34. I relate to Kwai Chang Caine more than I do David Carradine
35. As a teenager I was really into Surrealism, Op Art and Dada
36. I have memories from when I was a baby (cribs, nappies, bath-time)
37. One of my great-grandmothers lived to be 100
38. My first favorite movies were Papillion and 2001: A Space Odyssey
39. I use the bathroom several times during the night
40. I use earplugs whenever it’s too noisy
41. I can read whilst walking
42. The first cuisine I ever mastered was Indian
43. I spent a week travelling across the USA by bus
44. In my fifties, I weigh what I did when I was 17
45. I remember when The Beatles broke up
46. I remember Robert Kennedy being shot, but not his brother
47. I can’t abide gardening
48. I hated how my face changed when I turned 16
49. Heinlein’s The Door into Summer was the first book I stayed up all night to read
50. Our family first got television to see the moon landing
51. I am 16 years older than my wife, but we feel the same age
52. I still hope to set a personal best for the marathon
53. I tend to wear the same comfortable clothes
54. When I began cycle-touring, traffic wasn’t yet a problem
55. I could walk at the age of 10 months
56. I’m still in the process of figuring myself out
57. I have never bought bottled water
58. I am most content in my own company
59. My fingernails are thin, round and flat
60. I have the hairiest legs of anyone I know
61. I don’t put salt on my meal
62. Too much sugar makes me sneeze
64. I’m not attracted to Western women
65. I can’t imagine being homosexual (though am not homophobic)
66. After Muhammad Ali retired, so did I (from watching boxing)
67. I own thousands of books
68. I knew it was true the instant that I learned about Peak Oil
69. I feel at home in Japan
70. I could eat bibimbap every night
71. I'm the only one in my family never to have smoked
72. I never use an alarm clock
73. I have gone for more than a year without toilet paper
74. I’m allergic to nothing that I know of
75. I get second hand clothes and wear them into the ground
76. I like using computers, but they frustrate me
77. I’ve entertained the ex-Prime Minister of my country at my home
78. I started listening to rock after watching a Jimi Hendrix documentary
79. I always read on the toilet (I must)
80. I use the smallest dab of toothpaste when I brush
81. I hardly use soap or shampoo
82. I’m an excellent teacher, but it leaves me exhausted
83. I’ve never owned a dishwasher
84. I’m not averse to foraging
85. I attempted to set a world record in 2008, 2009 and 2010
86. I own perfectly good tape cassettes over 30 years old
87. I’ve never been in trouble with the law
88. When I stroke the left corner of my mouth, the inside of my left ear itches
89. I grew a beard for 16 years
90. In my teens, I read nothing but science fiction
91. Every year my wisdom grows exponentially, yet I feel I’m just a neophyte
92. I could do anything that I set my mind to; I just don’t want to
93. At school I was second in my year, but the top guy was literally a genius
94. In a face-to-face situation, I can’t speak to save myself
95. I’ve never had a broken bone
96. I haven't any tattoos or body piercing
97. I'm named after both grandfathers
98. I feel most at ease in other countries
99. I’ve spent as much on a photo-editing workstation as on a house
100. I’ve solved the mystery of being to my own satisfaction
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