Full Name: Jonathan Russell Haskell
What Everyone Calls Me: Rusty
Height: 5 feet 6 inches in socks
Weight: I don't really know. I haven't stepped on a scale in years. Let's just say somewhere between 200 and 300 pounds.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown, but it turns black when it's wet or has gel in it.
Defining features: I only have half of my left thumb. My left arm has two big scars on it. I also have a scar on the left side of my groin area. All of those are legacies from my childhood go-kart accident. I also have a scar on my upper lip from when my sister dropped me as a child and caused me to get three stitches.
Date of Birth: May 24, 1979 (Start planning for my birthday now.)
Method of Birth: C-Section (I was also a month premature.)
Birth Weight: 8 lb 10 oz
First Person to Hold Me: The Doctor
First Non-Medical Personnel to Hold Me: My Dad
Place of Birth: Georgetown, Ohio
Started School in: Centertown, Tennessee
Current Base of Operations: Gainesville, Florida
Sexual Orientation: Practicing heterosexual
Marital Status: Married to my beautiful wonderful sexy wife Allyson
First Person I Went on a Date with: (Saint) Jessi Mickler, I think
First Girl Whose Hand I Ever Held: Allyson Haskell (nŽe Bristol)
First Girl I Ever Kissed: My Mom
First Girl I Ever Kissed Besides My Mom: Katie Humble, who is absolutely one-hundred percent right all of the time
Religion: Christian
Denomination: Southern Baptist (more or less)
Parents: Stephen and Brenda
Siblings: Renda (Sister), Married. Douglas (Brother), Separated, one kid (my nine-year-old nephew Stephen who lives with my parents).
Occupation: Computer Programmer/Analyst at the Registrar's Office at the University of Florida. I make sure that all the nightly mainframe batch jobs run appropriately.
Career Goals: Probably something computer-related. I rather enjoy the company of computers.
Goals More Important than My Career: Being a good husband, being a good daddy (someday in the far future if Allyson and I decide to procreate), making a difference, standing up for what's right in spite of ubiquitous wrong, being an individual and not a group, being happy with who I am.
Favorite Bands of All Time: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and The Cure
Other Bands I Really Like: Crass, the Mountain Goats, REM, Beck, They Might Be Giants, The Smiths, Milli Vanilli, Sebadoh, Garbage, The Vandals, Dinosaur Jr., Oasis, The Beatles, Girls Against Boys, Primus, among others and not necessarily in that order
Favorite Book Series: Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Favorite Single Book: 1984 by George Orwell
Favorite Video Game Series: "Final Fantasy" and "Castlevania"
Favorite Video Game: "Final Fantasy 7"
Favorite Foods: Chocolate, cheese, the Jamaican Sirloin from Hops
Favorite Cheeses: Monterey Jack, mild cheddar, Swiss
Favorite Desserts: anything chocolate, cheesecake, banana pudding, jamocha shake from Arby's
Favorite Pizza Topping: Mushrooms. Bacon is a close second.
Favorite Programming Language: C (but if Java could ever give me the same performance, I would use it exclusively).
Favorite Video Game Console: Sony Playstation2...It plays all of my old Playstation games and new ones.
Favorite Cartoon Characters: Gateau Mocha (from Sorceror Hunters, Tigger, Hello Kitty, Felix the Cat, Beavis
Favorite South Park Character: Either Stan or Wendy
Favorite Sesame Street Character: Grover
Favorite Final Fantasy 6 (3 US) Characters: Locke and Edgar
Favorite Final Fantasy 7 Character: Aeris. Vincent is a close second.
Favorite Final Fantasy 9 Character: Vivi
Favorite Letters of the Alpabet: k and x
Favorite Beatle: Paul
Favorite Beatles Song: "Eleanor Rigby"
Favorite Actress(es): Claire Danes and Janeane Garofalo
Favorite Actor(s): Bill Murray and Patrick Stewart
Favorite TV Show of All Time: "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Other notable television programs would be "Tom and Jerry", "Sailor Moon", "You Can't Do That On Television", "Underdog", any cooking show with Emeril Lagasse, "The Frugal Gourmet", "Taxicab Confessions" (HBO rulez!), "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", Ren and Stimpy cartoons, "My So-Called Life", and "Jerry Springer".
Favorite Current TV Show: I never watch TV anymore. I have little concept of what's on TV -- only what I hear about on Slashdot.
Favorite Pokemon: I have ceased to have one. The game was extremely fun and quite addictive, but I'm really tired of all the merchandising.
Favorite Soda(s): Dr. Pepper, Mello Yello, and Cherry Coke
Favorite Sailor Scout: Sailor Venus
Favorite Metallica Song: "The Thing That Should Not Be"
Favorite Metallica Album: And Justice for All
Favorite Operating System: Unix (Preferably FreeBSD, but I don't have anything against Linux).
Favorite Linux Distribution: SuSE. It offers the right blend of features and performance for me. I'm a big fan of YaST2.
Favorite Fantasy Race: Elves
Favorite Tool Song: "Jerk-off"
Favorite Domesticated Animal: Cat
Favorite Wild Animal: Tiger
Favorite Medieval Weapon: Short Sword
Favorite Movies: "The Crow", "Ghostbusters", "Interview with the Vampire", "Sleepless in Seattle", "Top Gun", "The Breakfast Club", "The Story of Us", "Groundhog Day", "Billy Madison", "What About Bob?", "Happy Gilmore", "Son-in-Law"...These are some that come to mind right now.
Favorite RPG Character Class: Thief
Favorite Beer: Hoptoberfest Seasonal Brew from Hops. Guinness would be a close second.
Things I Do for Fun: Hang out with Allyson, work on my webpage, play role-playing games (3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons if I have any choice in the mattter), program in C or Perl, listen to music, play the guitar, write music, read, tinker with my computer...all sorts of things.
Things I Collect: Plastic Cups from Fast Food Restaurants, CDs, MIDI files, old video game systems, old computers.
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