Tagged by ~NTamura and ~jconway
Well two people tagged me so I guess I might as well...

The rules:
1. post these rules
2. each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves.
3. tags should write a journal of these facts
4. at the end post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged
(I'm ignoring #s 4 and 5 )

1) I love curry. I had never eaten any until about a year ago, now I get antsy if I go a week without having some.

2) I dislike organized religion but I love disorganized religion. I think that sounds less cheesy than saying I'm "spiritual but not religious." The closest thing I have to a sacred vitures text for myself is D.H. Lawrence's list of virtues from Chapter 2 of _Studies in Classic American Literature_. [link]

3) I haven't gone skiing in years, despite having grown up next to two ski resorts and having gone home at least for holidays every year.

4) I still come up with new ideas for digital drawings (my latest is a Hallucinations-style therizinosaurs hanging around in a tree), but when I get home after work I inevitably crash and watch Neighbours instead.

5) Same with reading--I have one book to finish and two to start, been working on the first for ages. I really like it but lack motivation.

6) In a half-assed attempt to decorate my bedroom I cut photos of celebrities out of a magazine and taped them up in interesting patterns. The photos include Jack White, Sean Connery, Sasha Cohen, and "1957 Man."

7) The last two movies I saw in the theater twice: The Fellowship of the Ring, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

8) I prefer Chure's definition of Aves. I think all the quibbling about whether Archaeopteryx is in or out is silly. I think taxonomy should be simple and elegant--feathers make the bird. I like Meyr's (1985) suggestion that cladistics and phylogeny should refer to two distinct types of classification. I think the ICZN should be reformed to include official diagnoses just as PhyloCode hopes to adopt official definitions, and expanded to include all ranked taxa above family level.

I also think this will never happen, and taxonomy/classification will become so arcane that it will eventually be useless to everyone but specialists. Que sera sera.