exercise in self

Some online compatriots of mine started a thread where we told things about ourselves that we wanted each other to know. It has been bugging me for a while that I hadn’t posted it here.

No longer.

Name: Scott James Magner. That’s not pretension, I really have two first names, not a middle name. This fact is lost on almost everyone I know and has known me for years, since almost no-one besides coworkers or ladyfriends calls me anything besides Bhagwan.

Occupation: I make games, and have done so professionally for about 10 years.

I read very fast, usually averaging 100 pages an hour. That’s roughly a book a day, depending on other activites. My brother Bjorn (no relation) reads 6 times faster than that, a skill he perfected in the first Gulf war.

I hear music all the time.

I collect things.

I drink. A lot. But not in that order.

I have 3 sets of step-Grandparents.

Many people think I am Mexican or Asian in descent

My father is an Indian, but every year I get a little bit more white.

My mother’s family are gypsies, but no-one but me cares about this, and the branch of the family that remained in Europe ran afoul of goose-stepping morons. We think.

My son’s mother has exactly the same racial mix as I, making him more or less screwed growing up.

My step-father is Irish, but won’t admit to it. He thinks he is a German. In a bizzare twist of fate, my best friend’s father thinks he is Irish, but is in fact of German descent.

I love sports, and was a college athlete. In high school, I was a nebbish, who could not gain weight; I put on 40 pounds of muscle the summer after graduation. I lost it all 2 years later. I highly recommend divorce and homelessness if you feel you really need to lose those few extra pounds.

I get angry, but am not a violent man. I have been involved in exactly one fistfight in my entire life. My freinds have stopped me from initiating all the others.
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You don’t know me. You only think you do.