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I have done a lot of eccentric things. Here are some:

While in college I began collecting synthesizers---I ended up with around 30 of them.

I bought an Airstream travel trailer in 2004 that I can't tow with any vehicle I own. The Airstream sits in the yard under a carport, and I have never spent a night in it. It just sits there so I can look at it.

During a remodeling of my house, I had quarter round windows put in like the ones the Amityville Horror house because I loved that book so much.

Because I found the character of Captain Quint so interesting in Jaws, I bought a fishing reel identical to the one he used in the movie---a Penn Senator 16/0 trolling reel. However, I don't fish.

I bought a Rolleiflex twin lens reflex medium format film camera because I thought they were neat. I have never used the camera. And I have no real intention of ever using it.

Although tattoos aren't that uncommon anymore, I have 8 tattoos.

I ran down some stairs flailing my arms about and screaming "ARMS! LIKE! NOOOODLES!"
Then I took off my shirt, wore it as a hat, ran into a lamp-post, bit my tongue, and said
OH NOES
I HATE MOTHERFUCKING BLOOD.

...True story. I actually DID this. Hint: I wasn't sober.

Once in English class I thought it would be really funny to suddenly stand up during a moment of silence and loudly declare that I was a potato seller.

I do stuff like this all the time.

I once shouted "STOP! HAMMERTIME!" At my teacher while she was talking. I got in trouble but it was so worth it

Yes now that is eccentric.

At a place I used to work I told a guy he looked like someone who would wear a cap with a propeller on it.

Sometimes I read the descriptions on the backs of DVDs for fun, without planning on actually watching the movies. I do the same thing with Netflix. I once spent half an hour doing nothing but reading descriptions of movies on Netflix.

Similarly, when I was a child, I used to read the dictionary and thesaurus for fun. I attribute that to my large vocabulary.

I avoid killing bugs, but if it happens, I always apologize. I do it in my head so no one could tell, but it's something I feel compelled to do.

Me and rabbit take models and toys out with us of our favourite animals (his is a dinosaur called parasaurolophus). Yesterday I took a really big orangutan puppet I bought from Twycross zoo out with me to the park and a chinese buffet restaurant (I was with wabbit.)

Also I can do a pretty good bonobo impression.

I camped out overnight on the roof of Beaumont Tower with my then-girlfriend.


Beaumont Tower, MSU Campus, East Lansing, Michigan

When I was building a new shelf for my bedroom, I decided to take an inventory of exactly how many books I had... then I classified them by size, genre, and importance to me (since ones on the bottom shelf may be lost in the event of a sudden flood)

... then when I was done assembling my beautiful shelf I took a picture and posted it along with my inventory on my personal blog.

My sister says that's the second nerdiest thing I've ever done.

Oh? What time is supper?

I once went to Burger King, got a whopper combo meal, put it all in a blender, and then drank it. In the dining room.

Oh high school, how I miss thee.

One time I was daydreaming about "What if Spock and the Doctor had a love-child?" and I worked out the percentages of its Vulcan/Human/Time Lord heritage. Then I thought, "What if that child had children with another alien race?" And I worked it out through several generations on paper. At one point I got stuck (since I'm not good at math) and asked my brother to help. He took one look at what I had written and declared it the nerdiest thing he had ever seen.

Heh.

I say a prayer for any snails I accidentally step on in the dark

How did it taste?