Doug’s Sounding Board

Douglas Jones..Supposed Space Alien and Master of the Space-Time Continuum

What I do:

I work at VeriSign in Santa Cruz working on J2ME client software.
What else do I do? I used to see a lot of movies. I love movies. I used to play a lot of video games, but not as much as I used to see movies.
I think.
I contemplate my next move.

Theory of communication gaps:

You cannot possibly communicate everything you think. What you do communicate is a but a sampling of your thoughts. When someone else receives this communication, hopefully the entire thing, they must then fill in the blanks or interpolate between the samples as best they can based on what they know of how and what you think. If they don’t know the correct thinking of your brain or a close approximation then they will not get the message.

Likes: (Not in any special order)

• Nicole
• Fiber optic lamps
• Being a geek.
• Being member to the most superior astrological sign, the Aries.
• Silly Putty (original, but other colors are pretty dern cool too)
• Bug zappers
• Most uncooked vegetables (especially carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower)
• Brown eyes
• Twix: Caramel only please
• All music
• Jazz especially
• Mail (real and electronic, but not spam of either type)
• Chocolate
• The color gray
• The Star Wars series
• Solving problems
• Toys
• Programming
• Playing the trumpet (though I haven’t in a long time)
• Fu movies
• Kazoos and kazooing
• Reading
• Passing out from exhaustion (it’s good knowing you’ve done everything you can)
• Movies
• Funk
• Weird Al - new album, “Straight Outa Linwood,” on September 26!
• Coca-Cola Classic
• Dr. Pepper
• The above two mixed together
• Pizza
• Going to the movies
• Long talks that last until dawn
• Laughing
• Ho-Hos (far superior to Ding-Dongs)
• My old room being a cave
• George Carlin
• Steven Wright
• Denis Leary
• Sleeping without a pillow
• Mental stimulation
• Peanut butter sandwiches
• Pineapple - This with the above is the ultimate minimal cost diet
• OLD Milk Duds before they introduced the new softer caramel (bleah). It used to be the ultimate movie food
• Nutter Butters - The best cookie ever invented
• Original Cinn cookies from the Pacific Cookie Company.
• SweeTarts - The best ones are in the rolls.
• 100 Grand bars (I liked them better as $100,000 bars)
• Sugar Daddys
• Spree - non-chewy

Dislikes: (Again, not in any special order)

• Bananas - Just don’t like the taste
• Popcorn - Just don’t like it
• Chewing gum - The flavor goes away too quickly and the chewing is boring.
• Fig Newtons (etc.)
• Flip tops on toothpaste tubes they get very messy
• Toothpaste tubes not squeezed from the bottom
• Cheesecake
• Tomatoes - blech
• Rice Krispee treats - I don’t know why. Probably because I don’t like…
• Marshmallows
• Yogurt (frozen or normal)
• Pickles or pickled things
• Cheese Puffs (any shape)
• Misunderstandings resulting from non-face-to-face communication
• People who act more stupid than they really are
• Making mistakes
• People who doubt me and/or my ability
• That every few years SweeTart rolls get shorter and then 3 months later they put it back to the original size and say “Now 10% more!!”
• Being rushed
• People lying to me
• Ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Relish
• Salad dressing
• Condiments and toppings added in general
• Being used (or an attempt thereof)
• Being manipulated (or an attempt thereof)
• People who insist on trying to put me into some catagory they can deal with, and then keep changing my catagory and thus how they treat me.
• Being late
• Not finishing first on tests both in time and score
• Butter on toast
• Margarine
• Whoppers
• Foods with malt in general.
• Food with nutrasweet and nutrasweet in general. I have an allergic reation to it that induces asthma.
• People who try to hide or suppress something that is quite natural.