The Internet home of Kevin Barrow
A couple of longer updates will be flowing through my keyboard over the next couple of days, including my encounter with the catharsis of flame and my first journey across the border… and the unclothed bodies I found there.
Stay tuned.
My best score so far: 312.6. Can you do better? 
(Update 9/27/05: Updated the link to point to a valid address out on the net, courtesy the MacLachlans.)
What’ve you got to say for yourself? http://www.fridayfive.org/
1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
For personal email, nothing; I don’t use a SIG file. For work, it’s name, title, department, organization, address, phone number, fax number, and email address.
I haven’t felt a huge need to do anything spiffy with my signatures, not since the early days of my online life, back when offline mail readers were still really, really new and cool and taglines became a de facto form of mass individuation.
(It was, if you think about it, used kind of like an Amazon wish list or an iTunes playlist - when we’d find some new tagline that we identified with, we’d add it to our personal lists, which, in time, formed a referential tapestry of who we were, what we liked, what we found funny, etc.)
2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven’t graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?
No, I didn’t. Wanted one, but couldn’t decide on which quote I wanted to use and so didn’t get it submitted in time.
On a closely related point, it took me a long time to figure out what the way too overused by members of my graduating class WALSTIB quote meant.
3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?
Don’t have ‘em. When I was 12, I knew I’d get custom plates that read CYBORG7 as soon as I could. Gladly, I grew out of that by the time I could. 
If I got some now, they’d probably read something like DRMNG1 or ADVNTRGK. There’s a reason why I don’t have vanity plates.
4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?
A pocket watch from my then-girlfriend, later-wife, later-ex-wife:
To KSB:
Til the end of time.
CAS
Well, not so much. 
5. What would you like your epitaph to be?
Geez… I don’t know.
Something simple?
Something hopeful?
Something nudge, nudge; wink, wink?
One of the difficulties with having the “What I’ve been reading” and “What I’ve been listening to” sections in the sidebar (assuming you’re using the Soul Cookie or Space styles - Tangerine hides the sidebar) is that I quite frequently read far more and listen to far more than what I get around to putting in there.
Take just the last few weeks as an example. The books that I’ve read are:
And I’ve actually had a bunch of CDs in rotation in my car and in iTunes. A bit of Sarah McLachlan, some White Stripes, a dash of BNL, a pinch of Liz Phair.
Maybe I should just build a list of books that are in the queue/pipeline. Right now, that’d be Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, book two), Patty Jane’s House of Curl and, I’m sure, more RPG books and more magazines. 
Not sure where I was going with this…:
And, yes, I know that TV breaks down into more than three acts when you factor in the commercial breaks.
Ghost or spirit:
You are a lost soul. Very calm and sweet, you are often the one who asks: What if?
With a clever mind, you want to explore the world on a different level. Without the answers, you aren’t ready to move on. You are most likely very creative and find yourself thinking things through on a different level.
Where will you go when you die?
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An update about JMS’ cat Buddy (remember his story?), courtesy the B5JMS mailing list:
From: jmsatb5@AOL.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 01:36:42 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 64For those who’ve been inquiring about the latest on Buddy….
Well, I’ve finally answered one of the questions I’ve had about the whole of the Boo clan (named for the first cat adopted out of this group, Boo, the cat with one blue eye and one green eye). I suspected that one of the two progenitors of this group was a siamese, givens ome of the markings, a suspicion recently confirmed when one came out with all the siamese recessive genes….
And now Buddy, the king of the recessive genes, has answered the other half of that question. The other progenitor was a Maine coon cat…which is what he is, in spades.
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Friends foil Olympia man’s home
A lone book titled “Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends” was untouched. But nearly everything else in Chris Kirk’s downtown Olympia [Washington] apartment was encased in aluminum foil when he returned home Monday night from a trip to Los Angeles.
The walls, ceiling, cabinets and everything in between now shimmer with a metallic glow, thanks to a prank by Kirk’s longtime friend, Olympia native Luke Trerice.
[link - including pictures!] 
