Thanks to Hoffman and Dan, I am now aware of an Internet fad I haven’t yet jumped aboard. Ergo, this:

Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I’d like to know more about you.

01. I very firmly aware of the fact I’m far more an idea than implementation person. That said, I like to show myself I can do both every once and awhile.

02. I would much rather walk or take public transit places if possible merely because those are both significantly more interesting than driving.

03. As of today, I am currently hosting 36 domains and 23 subdomains. How the fuck did that happen?

04. I am a total cold-wuss and try not to wear less than 3 layers at a time from October to May. This also explains my affinity for flannel.

05. As much as I whine about university, at least I’m not counting the days until graduation. Yet.

06. I’m starting a personal religion called Datafarianism. It’s a combination of my limited understanding of both Information Theory and Rastafari. Suffice to say that we are all simultaneously slowing the heat death of the universe merely by existing and continuing to create beauty and ideas through communication. Oh, and psychotropics are merely a tool to create more Information and facilitate communication, and thus the government is waging a war against human consciousness and fulfillment by perpetuating their criminalization. You’re all honourary Datafari (as is every member of the human race), the only barrier to entry is sentience.

07. I like to take long bubble-baths where I smoke a bowl and read this week’s issue of Time. I have the odd sensation that I’m learning more from that than my entire Political Science degree…

08. I spell my name with a diphtong (Æ) because I’m pretentious and it’s good branding. I may yet have it legally changed. See: http://aendrew.com

09. I truly think that anybody who is steadfastly against the legalization of cannabis has not yet had sex after smoking it. I predicted in 2008 that cannabis would be legalized by 2010, and I stand by this.

0A. I can count in hexadecimal. My mom taught me to use MS-DOS when I was 5. Any knowledge of computers I may have is a result of that initial first step.

11. Along with attempting to create my own cannabis media startup (hotboxmagazine.com), I also volunteer copy-editing skills to Treating Yourself (treatingyourself.com), a medicinal cannabis journal out of Ontario, and find it one of the most intellectually fulfilling things I do. I also worked in a head shop for a year and a half and think The Next Level (thenextlevelinc.ca) is the raddest store in Calgary—period.

12. My philosophical framework is Sartrean Existentialism and I consider myself an Anarcho-Collectivist. I vote Green.

13. I have a burgeoning suspicion that caffeine is the worst drug in North America and is being used (albeit unintentionally) to prevent us from questioning the capitalist superstructure.

14. I believe in the existence of other sentient species. Look up at the sky from the middle of a field in Saskatchewan on a clear night, and you’ll know why.

15. I haven’t had cable television for over a year and it’s wonderful. I don’t really like television that much anyway; it’s too passive.

16. I’m generally a total philistine when it comes to movies. That’s not to say I don’t like them, I just haven’t watched many of the so-called “classics” everyone else saw in the mid-nineties.

17. I speak excellent English, workable French, a few words of German and Japanese, and know how to say “Cheers” in more languages than I do “Hello” (I believe 9 at last count).

18. Of all the insanely geeky things I’m disconcertingly good at, Dance Dance Revolution and Dungeons & Dragons rank at the top.

19. Random achievements: I’m a green belt in Judo, I have my ACUC SCUBA certification (I’ve also done night diving and ice diving), ASIP (Alberta Server Intervention Program) certification and  pleasurecraft operator certification (IE, I can drive a boat), I can do 180s on snowboards, 360s on seadoos, pop shuv-its on skateboards, can stay upright on wakeboards and kneeboards, won 3rd place in a science fair in third grade, can program in C, C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, BASIC, PASCAL and probably a few I’m forgetting, I was an honour roll kid/mathlete/choir kid/band wing kid/punk kid/drama tech kid/hacker kid/french club kid/student newspaper kid/disillusioned art kid in high-school, I am an ordained minister in the United Life Church Monastary and I started my first website in grade six.

20. I think the world needs more communication, togetherness, backrubs, mushroom trips, bass-heavy music, tolerance, understanding, starry nights, books, art, imagination, courageousness, girls that smoke cannabis, collective groups, public transit, biofuels, Free software, honest politicians, sustainable agriculture, non-trivial information on the Internet, bong hits, dancing and logic.

21. Someday I’m totally going to write and illustrate a comic book about fractals.

22. I’m definitely a cat person.

23. I bought a shrieking, glowing, baby head theramin for a class project and fully intend to use it in my rig when I become a drum and bass DJ (Escape Plan #282).

24. Political Science has destroyed me creatively. If I go through a very pissy and hermitic creative phase, blame my education.

25. I have tried practically every energy drink on the market, and they all suck. The only ones I actually like are the ones Mountain Dew is releasing.

That’s it.