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Eric Lee dot net is a personal insight blog, covering topics from politics, current events, technology news, to personal issues.  The content is definitely eclectic, but informative.

The Author

Eric is an engineer and amateur blogger from a sleepy little town in Mississippi.  In addition to blogging, he enjoys playing golf, computer games, reading, and just hanging out and watching a good movie.

Born the youngest of five children, Eric attended junior college for two years, graduated, and then attended the major engineering university in Mississippi for three years, graduating in 2001.  Upon graduating from college, he moved back to that sleepy little town in southeastern Mississippi where he grew up.  He married his beautiful wife in 2002.

100 Things About Eric

1. I was born in a small town in Southeastern Mississippi.  I still live in that town.
2. I am the youngest of five siblings.
3. I love maps.
4. In eighth grade I competed in the State Geography Bee.
5. I took piano lessons for 10 years. 
6. The first concert I ever attended was (probably) the Bellamy Brothers with my older sister and her husband.
7. My first job was on a surveying crew for a local engineering firm.
8. Most of the jobs I have worked have been engineering-related, whether it was chopping surveying lines with a machete, grading college freshman papers, taking photometric readings on paint stripes, or doing structural analysis.
9. I walked from my junior high school to baseball practice every day during the spring.
10. In junior high school and high school, I got so bored in algebra I would create my own alphabets and languages.
11. I have read the entire Bible at least twice.  (I need to do it again though.)
12. I am of the Baptist faith, but I believe in what the Bible teaches first and foremost above any dogma or charter.
13. I have fifteen nephews and nieces – nine boys and six girls.
14. My mom was one month older than my dad.
15. My dad passed away in March 2009 doing what he was known for and never complained about – helping others in need.
16. I briefly considered joining the Navy’s NUPOC program while in college, but ultimately decided not to since I was close to graduation.
17. I now work on the design of Navy vessels.
18. I have a degree in civil engineering but do mechanical engineering work.
19. I am thinking about getting my master’s degree.
20. I can’t decide which field to get my master’s degree in.
21. I still play computer and console games.
22. My favorite computer game is World of Warcraft, and my favorite console game is Rainbow Six: Vegas.
23. I own a Playstation 2 and an Xbox 360.
24. I love mountains, but haven’t been to the summit of any.
25. I hate hot weather, but live in the South.
26. I have never skiied.
27. I have a lazy left eye.
28. I also have a receding hair line.  (I am NOT going bald!)
29. Frasier is still my favorite TV show, although 24 and Fringe are right up there.
30. My favorite television characters are Niles Crane (see above) and Tony Almeida.
31. I’m pretty good cook, to toot my own horn – heheh.  My favorite meal to cook is breakfast.
32. My favorite meal to eat is steak.
33. My favorite fast food is Taco Bell or buffalo wings.
34. I can never stick to a diet – I love to eat.
35. My favorite snack food is chips and salsa.
36. I once ate escargo in Paris.  Surprisingly it was quite tasty.  (I think it was the garlic.)
37. My favorite cuisines are Italian, Mexican, Greek, and Indian.
38.  I want to visit Greece and the Scandinavian countries someday.
39. I can speak a little bit of Spanish and Icelandic.
40. I’m working on Dutch.
41. I have never lived outside of my home state.
42. I have traveled to several states and countries though.
43. I have read over 12 different Star Wars books.
44. I don’t particularly care for the Stars Wars prequel as much as the original.
45. I like Star Trek, but don’t own any of the movies.
46. My favorite time of the year is fall.
47. My least favorite time of the year is summer.
48. My least favorite word is “anywho”.
49. My favorite poem is the “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
50. I love chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
51. My largest pet peeve is slurping.
52. I love to roast and drink different types of coffee.
53. I don’t like flavored coffee because I considered it “faux coffee”.
54. I have met and shook hands with a country singer, soap star, and TV broadcaster.
55. I marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in junior college.
56. I attended the Rose Parade in high school.
57. I used to play the tenor saxophone in a jazz band in college.  I think the group we had could have went on tour, we were THAT good!
58. I have flown many times, but still get very nervous like it’s my first time.
59. I am a fan of different types of music, but cannot stand rap at all.
60. I think astrology is a crock of *bleep*.
61. I think scientology is a crock of *bleep*.
62. I think global warming is a crock of *bleep*….I think there’s a trend here somewhere.
63. I strongly dislike people who can’t think for themselves and tend to repeat “talking points”.
64. I am running out of ideas to post here.
65. I think drugs should be legalized (with an age limit like alcohol, which is a drug as well) – if just to drive the drug pushers out of business…People who use them are going to use them no matter what, and those who don’t use them (LIKE ME!) will NEVER use them no matter what.  Legality with the drugs is not as big a deterrent as it was meant to be (unfortunately).  If you have a strong moral center, you’re not going to use them anyway.
66. I have tried alcohol, but never used any other drug (and never will).
67. Cigarette smoke nearly makes me sick to my stomach.
68. I will never get a tattoo, and I don’t really like tattoos on women, either.  They’re not that attractive to me.
69. I have only ever broken my right wrist.
70. I have been hit square in the forehead with a baseball, but it didn’t do any damage. 
71. I have only had two surgeries, one to sew up my head where I busted it open on the edge of a coffee table and one to take out my gallbladder.
72.  I’ve been told I have a photographic memory…Don’t know if that’s true.
73. I hate Curious George…I think it’s because it’s the only story they ever read us when we couldn’t go outside to play because it was raining.  (Either that or watching the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.)
74. My favorite book is Four Past Midnight by Stephen King – a collection of four novellas.  “The Sun Dog” still freaks me out.
75. I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books.
76. I’ve seen all but one of the movies.
77. I have seen all of “Heroes”.
78. I have seen all of “Lost”.
79. If I had my academic career to do over again, I would have gone into either Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, or Composites Engineering.
80. I aspire to be a famous conservative blogger.
81. I have never written a complete story.
82. If I was a superhero, I would want the talent to be able to download and interpret satellite signals – connecting to the internet without a computer would be so convenient.
83. I love to sing when I’m alone, but not so much in public…It makes me super nervous, even when I’m with a group.
84. This is my third blog.
85. I wish I could design my own blog theme.
86. I am married to a schoolteacher.
87. I am a homebody.
88. My second least favorite word is “antisocial”.
89. I have a sarcastic and dry sense of humor.  I think that’s one of the things I got from my Dad.
90. I like to be snarky.
91. I have been in many wrecks, with only one of them being my fault.
92.  I’m not much of a phone person.  I’d rather send you an e-mail or talk face-to-face.
93. I hate being photographed.
94. I like taking pictures.
95.  I love subways and trains.  I only dislike airplanes when I’m on one.
96. Spelling errors bug the heck out of me, especially mine, I guess because I was the school spelling bee champion when I was in third grade.
97. I tend to get bored with a task easily.
98. I’m almost out of things to say.
99. I usually don’t talk much.
100. Thinking is more fun than talking.