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• I have spent roughly half my life in each of two geographical regions, roughly 2500 miles apart.


• I have never personally owned a pet larger than my hand.


• If I had to guess, I would say that, measured by weight, my possessions are comprised of roughly 1/3 vehicles, 1/3 books and bookcases, and 1/3 everything else.


• Compared to the mean LJ user (as defined by these demographics and readily available correlated statistics) I am very probably:
  
  
  
  • significantly taller
  
  
  • noticably thinner
  
  
  • decidedly older (if you are 21, you are already older than roughly half the users of Livejournal)
  
  
  • more intelligent (no good stats here -- just speculating that the LJ mean IQ is close to that of U.S. college freshmen)
  
  
  • less arrogant
  
  
  • more civil
  
  
  • less outgoing
  
  
  
  I may have taken three of these qualities to a fault, and in arrogance and civility I hope to amend this by regressing a little toward the mean.
  


• I would like
  
  
  
  • A whole room devoted to the accessible storage of books, sorted by category, and cross-referenced by title, author, and subject. I would call it my 'library'. It would be cool.
  
  
  • A planetarium to sleep in.
  
  
  • A one-man sailing vessel suitable for circumnavigating the globe.
  
  
  • An apartment in the tower of a gothic ruin overlooking the lonely windswept moors, where the doleful sound of distant church bells at dusk ushers in the coming night. It should be dry, clean, and reasonably bug-free. (a fixer-upper in a nice town might work as an alternative)
  
  
  • A Roomba
  
  
  • My own custom MUD. All things considered, I don't know why I don't have one already.
  
  
  • Eyes that work all by themselves.
  
  
  • A mass spectrometer
  
  
  • A bathroom tiled with Penrose's quasiperiodic tilings, in tasteful colors
  
  
  • A decorative, glittering mobile of functioning computers to hang in an unused corner of my dwelling, taking the place of a hanging plant. They should talk to each other, and make useful observations.
  
  
  • Several casual acquaintances who can correctly define 'capitalism'.
  
  

In another context, I would simply expect people to figure this out, but on Livejournal it might easily be overlooked:

None of the entries are in 'my own voice' -- everything's taken from other sources (see above re: scrapbook).

While I am nearly always quoting, the views of the quoted sources do not necessarily reflect my own. I'm using the journal to accumulate items I've encountered, not as a means of speaking-by-proxy.

Also, if you're planning to spam the journal, you'll want to read more than one entry first before placing your advertisement. In future, I don't think I'm going to take a polite approach on this point.