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This is a good question and it has sat in my inbox for ages because it deserves a well thought out answer and I wasn't sure how to answer it.
I think a museum about my life would begin with a long hallway. On the walls would be photos of all the people in my life that ever meant anything to me, with a plaque beneath each one explaining why they were important to me.
At the end of that hallway would be my first computer, the machine that changed my life so drastically, that I became a different person. (I still own it and it still works.) It would be turned on, with all the digital art I had created loaded in an automatic wallpaper changer. On it would also be all the software I had created, at least the things I wrote that would run on it, which is most of my projects.
On the left side of that exhibit would be an exit to leave the museum, because honestly, nothing else is really that important that you'd want to stick around and see it.
But just in case you did want to see it, there would be a door on the right side of that exhibit, leading to a room with objects from my life before that computer. Things like my huge nail polish collection, beaded jewelry that I made, things I crocheted, embroidered, painted, etc., and the simple gadgets I invented out of a perceived necessity to solve everyday problems.
The section of the room representing my childhood would contain a lot of old, rare, out of print books and an old pair of Union skates with steel wheels. They were my best friends, growing up.
As far as special events goes, they would all have to be ones that gave back to the community or the world at large.
An event to encourage every parent to get their children a library card and encourage them to take their children to the library on a regular basis.
Events that encouraged creativity would also be good, especially ones that involved recycling things you'd normally throw away by turning them into something useful or beautiful.
Any hands-on event that introduced kids to the wonderful world of programming would have to be an essential. Can't have a museum about my life without doing that. Events to encourage self-education would be another essential, with seminars to teach basic and advanced internet research skills.
Thinking more about it, I think the museum would have to be more of a school than anything else, with the exhibits about my life being a much smaller part of the whole experience. -
I only have sex with men. Does that make me sexist...or just straight?
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About 10 years ago Motorola phones used to come with a ringtone that I can only describe as the Doy Doy Doy song. A friend of mine used it as her default ringtone. I have a copy of it, but the quality isn't very good, since I recorded it by her holding her phone up to my PC mic. If you can find a better version, use it. It's the derpiest ringtone I have ever heard. Download it here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/684853/music/cailin-ringtone.mp3
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I have wished I could play flute like Ian Anderson since I was about 6 years old.
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In grammar school it was science. In high school it was computers, but it only beat jewelry making by a hair.
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I have a Converse t-shirt from the 80's that has an American flag in the shape of a map of the US.
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I don't know. I don't like receiving flowers. I think they are a waste of money.
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A werewolf. A vampire is a vampire every day and has to always deal with the issues that come with that. A werewolf only has to worry about the issues when there is a full moon.
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The eggs were already in my refrigerator when I bought the chicken.
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I don't sleep at night. I have a 12/4 cycle, which means I stay awake 12 hours and then sleep 4 hours. This makes the time I sleep fluctuate each day. It also makes my online friends think I never sleep.
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I used to, where there was money for clothes shopping.
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April Russo’s Bio
NJ
I create software, websites, and strange ideas, sometimes all at the same time.


