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The 1st Pirates of the Caribbean movie was pretty good; I liked it.

My favorite Johnny Depp movies so far are, in order: Edward Scissorhands, then Sweeney Todd, and after that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I'm not sure where Alice in Wonderland ranks yet, but I'll know in less than 24 hours.

Uhh... that I like anime?

That I'm an aviation nut who's obsessed with the Macross saga.

That I'm a big fan of Dwarf Fortress.

(It's the symbol for a carp. Carp have something of a reputation.)

hmmm that I am trouble

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I found it when I watched my old pics.

Anyone who knows what it's referencing will get it.

my avatar is the robot from lost in space and i used to identify with it when i was little.

lost in space was a cheap show with a few excellent set props. the jupiter 2 spacecraft was very expensive to make and is impressive (i would like a house just like it), and the chariot was an expensive real vehicle that i liked, and the robot was very detailed and expensive to make for the show. anyway, that is irrelevant to why i identified with it.

the show was mainly about a "warm and loving family" that epitomized the world as i saw it then. they were all "concerned" for each other and there was cheap and crass music when there were family moments where someone got upset or felt sad etc.

but the robot was apart from it all because he was an electronic mobile computer who had no humanity in him, yet he was very good.

when everyone was talking among themselves with their family prattle, the robot was always standing nearby and not engaged in it and said nothing. all you could hear were the whirring mechanics inside his bubble head and you could see the little lights popping on and off, and the little actuators moving in his bubble head.

i imagined he was in a world where i was, and he was not paying attention to the family talking at the dinner table, but assessing the environment continuously for details that may be of importance.

they never addressed him in conversation except to ask him questions as to his analysis of a situation that they needed to know about, and he always unfalteringly sprouted what he had calculated about the situation which was of much value to them.

many times, an emergency was unfolding and the alpha male (the father (john robinson)) was unable to calculate what was happening and the second in command (the beta male) also could not work it out. the robot obviously had calculated what was happening but remained silent and motionless except for the whirring of the gears inside his head. he offered nothing unless asked.

when the humans had exhausted their thinking, they turned to the robot and demanded him to tell them what was going on, and he flawlessly described exactly what was happening, and then without thanking him, they acted upon his information and saved the situation while the robot went back into silent private analysis mode.

there were many times in the series where the alpha male (father) and the beta male (pilot) were fighting an alien that was far stronger than them, and they "heroically" flung themselves at the alien and tried to wrestle him down, and they got thrown around like rag dolls and it seemed all was lost. the robot just stood there idly without concern until someone yelled to him "robot!! !! do something!! !!" and the robot would roll foreward and say something like "desist or i will destroy you", and when the alien then turned his attention to the robot, the robot electrically arced a 40,000 volt charge at the alien instantly incapacitating him. then he rolled back and went off line again into his own private world of continuous calculation.
i liked him only in that show. i never paid attention to the human characters that were the stars of the show that everyone else liked.
the robot was always ignored and never even mentioned in the credits at the end of the show.

i am not saying i am like the robot, but i am saying that he was my favorite entity when i was a child.

It means that I'm eeeeevil~ EEEEEVIL!

It shows I like human brains. It shows I've been to the Natural history museum, and taken a pic of the preserved human brain there.
It shows I'm not comfortable having photos of me on here.

It shows I dat DW: strike force rocks!
my personality kinda matches wid dat gurl wid attitude.

-I like the detail that's in it.
- I like to look back in time to get a 'snaphot' of the world/culture, and in this case the 15th century.
(Im not an art connoisseur by any means, but this painting caught me eye in my 1977 world book encyclopedia ..... long time ago.)

You can look in the background at the mirror and see the mirrors reflection of the room contents.
There is also symbolic meaning in the various features/aspects in the room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfini_Portrait

I guess you could say I appreciate 'depth' or the quality of being deep.

M.D.