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From the altfriday5:

1. List 5 things which are basic common knowledge in your culture, which people outside are unfamiliar with. This is not about obscurity, but something everyday to you, that others go "bzuh?" at.
At first I thought I had nothing to offer about straight-white-male-american culture, but then I thought: Geek Culture!
0b000 Counting begins at the zeroeth thing.
0b001 Numbers in hex and binary.
0b010 date ; unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep ; sudo make me a sandwich
0b011 slashdot is full of trolls and script kiddies
0b100 being multi-lingual in C, C++, Java, Python, perl, and probably other more obscure languages

2. What was the last book you read that was written by a person who is a different race than you? Do you seek out books written by people of other races? Why? Why not?
"Peace is Every Step" by Thich Naht Hanh (Vietnamese)
I don't seek out books by people of other races just for that sake. I don't really do cultural tourism. I seek out books that are entertaining to me or have something to say that I want to read.

3. What did you eat at dinner last night? Would you call it ethnic food? Why?
Pizza. No. I think that counts as an american staple now.

4. Has your gender presentation changed over the last 5 years? Has this change/lack of change been a deliberate choice on your part?
Nope. I'm a regular geek guy with long hair and have been for 10+ years.

5. Do you discuss race and racism in your livejournal/blog or in person? Why have you made that choice?
Normally no. I rarely experience it directly, so I don't have experiences to write about. I have other favorite political issues to pontificate and theorize on.

6. Bonus question. Were you aware of International Blog Against Racism Week? Did you choose to participate in it? Why or why not?
I was not aware of it until this questionnaire came up. I didn't mean to participate in it, but I just happened to make a couple posts.