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[stellar_muddle]

1. Name someone with the same birthday as you:
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1829 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884)
(That is a cool feature of Wikipedia...)
2. Where was your first kiss?
Beside the embers of a dying campfire:)
3. Have you ever seriously vandalized someone else's property?
No
4. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
Yes - but I haven't been to metal weapons practice for ages...
5. Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people?
Yes - Choir for school musicals
6. What's the first thing you notice about the preferred sex?
Not certain...
7. What really turns you on?
Interesting conversation
8. What do you order at Starbucks?
Ha, that woud mean buying something there...
9. What is your biggest mistake?
Not asking for help soon enough
10. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
No
11. Say something totally random about yourself:
Goldfish
12. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
Yes, Jodie Foster in Contact, when in enthusiastic public speaking astronomer mode...
13. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
No - home at the wrong times
14. Did you have braces?
No
15. Are you comfortable with your height?
Yes, I fit through doorways
16. What is the most romantic thing someone of the preferred sex has done for you?
See the answer to #2.
17. When do you know it's love?
Don't know
18. Do you speak any other languages?
Enough german to get from Heidelburg to the Max-Plank Institute in Bonn, but there was a bit of looking pitiful at the bus interchange (right number, wrong direction)
19. Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
Nope
20. What magazines do you read?
New Scientist sporadically. Whatever scientific magazines are in the tea rooms
21. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
No
22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away?
Yes
23. Do you watch MTV?
No
24. What's something that really annoys you?
Uncommented fortran script, written in the 1960s... in German. IDL
25. What's something you really like?
Parrots, kangaroos, warm skin
26. Do you like Michael Jackson?
No
27. Can you dance?
Sort of and it improves going back a few centuries
28. What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
Got up at 4pm for observing (Mount John), 8am, after a full clear night, packed up and was picked up and taken back to Chch, then, for some odd reason, stayed up til midnight. The Thin Red Line was better while sleep deprived. So, ~32 hours. There may be worse some where in the collection of international flights I have done, but I have gotten better at sleeping on planes. It is the days with only 3-4 hours sleep in-between that are the killers... It's not tommorrow until you have had some sleep.
29. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
No
30. Do you actually read these when other people fill them out?
Some of them...