By coming here, you've indicated your desire to know more about me. Or you might have been indicating your state of extreme boredom. Either way, I hope to not disappoint you!

And if you think this would look nicer with tables, please read what I have to say about my HTML. If you're still confused after that, please just accept the fact that I'm lazy, and that I would rather do anything other than write HTML. Hey, it's why my pages are only updated once a decade or so.

General Information

Middle name:

"Dean". Generally, people who are exposed to both of my names at once will immediately assume that I prefer to go by the one that they recognize. This is an incorrect assumption. "Cloyce" is what I go by. I'm only "Cloyce Dean" at family gatherings when my uncle "Cloyce Gene" is present.
Hey. I see you laughing! Stop that.

Vehicle:

Blue 1986 Saab 900S1999 Kawasaki KLR-650.
This car is special, because it has been resurrected. It decended to the depths of Jim's yard (about 10 cm) and came roaring back to life. Now it serves me, and I take care of it. I still prefer to walk when possible, mainly because my air conditioning doesn't work. Unfortunately, that's not possible all the time. I have broken the Jim's Blue Car Curse (tm, patent pend.)!

Cross-lingual name wierdness:

When I was small (before my voice changed), I had problems with people expecting "Cloyce" to be a little girl. As a matter of fact, there is an actress named Cloyce Morrow, so as you can see, that's a pretty natural mistake to make. I went to Japan in the summer of 1994, and while I was there, someone noticed that the Japanized version of my name ('kuroisu' -- kana when I get around to it) sounded a lot like Japanese for "black chair". While that's interesting and everything, the Chinese characters used to write "black chair" in Japanese ("little black chair" in Chinese, or so I've been told) end with a character that is an extremely common ending for girl's names.

Bogus Personality Indicators

• Star sign: Leo
• Chinese zodiac animal: Rat
  (Yeah, it makes me think of Jimmy Cagney, too.)
• Blood type: A negative

More Personal Info

Nah... that's not important. Let's just say that I'm not short and I'm not too fat.

Personality Stuff (non bogus)

• Attention span: short, except for when it's not.
• Likes:
  • Eating: sushi (octopus, squid, salmon roe with quail egg), other non-moving things
  • Reading: science fiction, Mangajin, manga (Japanese comics), food labels
  • Watching: bad movies, MST3K, Babylon 5, Pinky & the Brain, sappy Japanese soaps, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Planet, Secret Squirrel, Dexter's Laboratory, Rocko's Modern Life
  • Keyboards: Sun type 4, IBM selectric-style (small return key, big backspace key... come on, I know you make mistakes, too)
  • Writing: nearly information-free content for the WWW, other stuff
• Dislikes:
  • Eating: natto, liver, dirt
  • Reading: obituaries, boring stuff, TEXT IN ALL CAPS (HI MY NAME IS BRAK!)
  • Watching: Star Trek (except TOS), local news, sappy sitcoms, sappy American soaps
  • Keyboards: Sun type 5, DEC, HP, most PC keyboards, IBM's "compact" keyboard
  • Pages that are " Enhanced for Netscape" (or any other specific browser, as the preceeding was written before Microsoft woke up in the late '90s) or only look good on a PC (800x600, 16 bit color... come on, guys, I've got at least 1056x760)
  • Easily distracted by: bright, shiny objects
  • Quickest path to heart: through chest
  • Fave footwear, in order of preference: slippers, Magnum boots (with shank and safety toe, please), Birkenstocks (size 45), NB sneakers, dress shoes

  I realize that this page could look much nicer. It doesn't, though.

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  Cloyce D. Spradling
  cloyce@{headgear.org,spec.org,central.sun.com}
  Cloyce last had fun with personal.html on 04 May 2008 at 09:27:37.