Yeah, well, do you wanna know why I latched on to Show so hard?
It's because of that time when Dean called Sam a 'walking encyclopedia of weirdness' (if memory serves, it's in Roadkill). My mom and dad have both called me variations on that since I was eight years old. It all started when I got a book called 'Beyond Belief' from my third-grade teacher - it was all about weird shit like ball lightning, spontaneous human combustion, aliens, crop-circles, and so on. Thus, a lifelong love of acquiring seemingly-random trivia was born.
I've taken to calling myself a 'swiss-army geek' - I know at least a little bit about everything. Sometimes I even manage to amaze myself with the random nature of some of the crap housed between my ears. (For example, did you know that the average caterpillar has over two thousand muscles, while humans only have around seven hundred? Or that if you fill a black garbage bag with acetylene and toss it in the sun, it can explode with enough force to leave a three-foot crater? Or the fact that feathers originally evolved from scales on a parallel branch of evolution to hair follicles?) The only area I know next to nothing about is team sports - I never was into the whole jock-scene.
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Date: 2009-11-27 05:44 am (UTC)It's because of that time when Dean called Sam a 'walking encyclopedia of weirdness' (if memory serves, it's in Roadkill). My mom and dad have both called me variations on that since I was eight years old. It all started when I got a book called 'Beyond Belief' from my third-grade teacher - it was all about weird shit like ball lightning, spontaneous human combustion, aliens, crop-circles, and so on. Thus, a lifelong love of acquiring seemingly-random trivia was born.
I've taken to calling myself a 'swiss-army geek' - I know at least a little bit about everything. Sometimes I even manage to amaze myself with the random nature of some of the crap housed between my ears. (For example, did you know that the average caterpillar has over two thousand muscles, while humans only have around seven hundred? Or that if you fill a black garbage bag with acetylene and toss it in the sun, it can explode with enough force to leave a three-foot crater? Or the fact that feathers originally evolved from scales on a parallel branch of evolution to hair follicles?) The only area I know next to nothing about is team sports - I never was into the whole jock-scene.