Three things

[fearmeforiampink]

Firstly, answers:

10. I've plade on a lot of ice, all over this planet we call home - Men With Brooms

11. Hey, that light? At the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not heaven... That's the C train!" - Daredevil

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Secondly...

How would you describe me?

Not just the good things! Recently both one of my tutors and one of the speakers at a London conference I was at suggested the same thing - a self description/history of very limited word count. The "limited word count" - cutting it down, summarising, I think I can do. But I'm not sure of my starting point - the long description of me that I then shrink.

Thus, I'm asking you who read this to say how you see me, how you'd describe me to someone else. Both good and bad. In whatever format you'd like - a set of words, a sentence or paragraph, a haiku, whatever.

I'm not fishing for compliments, just wanting to get an idea of how others see me to compare with how I see myself. And then do some funky typography with whatever I end up with.

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Thirdly...

Anime Bitch Slapping Flash Game!

Comments

sorry but

[hawklord2112.livejournal.com]

"geeky lummox" is the first thing that's come to mind.

Re: sorry but

[lifeonsaturn.livejournal.com]

yep. or the full title: he who is the embodiment of all things geek. And all that stereotype entails.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Pink is the kind of bloke who takes his shoes off when I'm eating dinner in the room next door and makes me wonder if I'm eating cheese or not. Also, we have a sock of his in the living room that has gone rock solid. Euw.

[matgb]

While all of this is entirely accurate, I don't think it's exactly the sort of thing he's looking for. I do recall being very grateful that my sense of smell is bloody awful a few times though...

@Pink: It depends entirely on who you're pitching yourself at, so you probably want different descriptions for different purposes.

You're a designer, an economist, a writer, a geek, a gamer, you've got involved in many projects and some have been succesful.

So, for example, I described you to Jennie when she wanted to tie your LJ name to the person we met as "the tall geeky bloke with long hair, may have smelt a bit, talks a lot". Which was perfect for her. But I'd be completely different if I was recommending you to a client ;-)

[fearmeforiampink]

Yes and no. I'm not particularly doing this directly to sell myself to a client, though I may use some of it in a roundabout way in some self promotion stuff I do in the future.

The idea behind what I'm doing is one of how do you describe something consisely but sufficiently. The starting point for it was the Hemingway story that is my user icon above, a story which Hemingway described as his best work. As that's the point of the exercise, I'll be doing the summarising myself, but I was having trouble coming up with the bigger description to do that to.

So, since I needed to post the remaining answers for the movie quiz, I thought I might as well see how others see me, and put that together with my own views, and see what I can summarize from it.

[velvetiertrout.livejournal.com]

"Pink is a stand up guy" and "Does not suffer fools gladly" spring to mind.

I don't really have anything bad to say about you as I'm not around you day in day out and so don't see every side to your personality.

[fearmeforiampink]

I'm not after "Bad bad bad, bad to the bone, bbbbbbbbbaaad!" stuff, just wanting both the good and the bad, and not wanting this to come off as a "Tell me I'm great" post.

[velvetiertrout.livejournal.com]

Sure, I know that I just can't think of anything particularly negative to balance the positive.

Re: sorry but

[fearmeforiampink]

Well, I'll take that as a compliment ;)

[dainul.livejournal.com]

Blunt.

[velvetiertrout.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[dainul.livejournal.com]

Trivia-ful

Thus, I'm asking you who read this to say how you see me, how you'd describe me to someone else

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

You are a complex carbon-oxygen-hydrogen-nitrogen-sodium construct (with trace elements) consisting of a vertically elongated sphere supported by a calcium laticework and bifuricated midway up the trunk, said construction topped off with a smaller sphere sporting many keratin strands.

Re: Thus, I'm asking you who read this to say how you see me, how you'd describe me to someone else

[fearmeforiampink]

Useful if I ever need to describe myself to the aliens from the 17th dimension.