I hate fruit. I always wanted to be the kind of person who likes fruit, but the other day I realized I should quit fronting like I’m a fruit-liker. Apples, bananas, pears - fuck that.

In the past two weeks, I had I think two 8-hour work days. The rest have been over 12 hours a day. This includes weekends.

If I ever have a baby girl, her name will be “Graceland”, after the Paul Simon album.

I can do “the worm”.

I was born in Paris, France. Lived in Kuwait, Tucson AZ, Dhahran Saudi Arabia, Pebble Beach CA, New Orleans LA, NYC, San Jose, and San Francisco CA.


I listen to Pandora all day long, every day. Check out my stations: http://www.pandora.com/people/amanda.wixted#tbl_stations_table,all (Yeah, you read that right, “Teen Pop”. What.)

I took 9 semesters total, plus one semester off, to finish college. I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t finish in four years.

I like you less if you don’t smoke cigarettes.

Someday, I’m going to quit my day job and play the fiddle in a bluegrass band.

I’ve been offered a position at every job I’ve ever interviewed for, except for one. But then that company tried recruiting me a few years later.


I have five tattoos. One of them takes up most of my back. The most recent addition is a rocket on the inside of my right arm. They make me look more tough than I really am.

I have a thing for jackets. I am always on the lookout for cool jackets, and I usually don’t try to stop myself from buying them. My favorite one is a bright green puffy hooded space-looking jacket I found in this wild teenager-centric department store in Tokyo last year.

I have a hairless cat named MeowMeow.

Everything I’ve done in the past year has revolved around the iPhone. Programming games for it, using it to check everything from bus schedules to restaurant reviews to twitter. It’s become all-encompassing. Everyone I see on a daily basis is the same way.

I was a stripper for about 6 months in college. It was wildness. I had a great time, made a lot of money, learned some pole tricks, and got in shape.


One time, I dropped out of college and moved to NYC. I moved in with an internet friend who I’d never met IRL, and we lived on the 26th floor of a downtown highrise. Somehow, we had a briefcase full of benjamins and a handgun. Long story.

I’m a tap dancer. Not professionally.

When we were 14, my best friend and I wrote a book. Well, more like a collection of essays about American and international teen culture. It was about 60 pages long. We posted it on our BBS for all our friends to read. I guess this means we were bloggers? In 1995?

I find “inspiring quotes” insipid for the most part. However, there’s one that really struck me: “If someone else can do it, you can do it.” I remind myself of that whenever I’m feeling discouraged about something not coming easily to me. My other favorite quote is “You probably didn’t set the clip right.” #graphicsprogramming

When I was 2, my parents tell me that I said I wanted to be Tina Turner when I grew up. I remember thinking, when I was 4, that I would totally be a ballerina astronaut when I grew up. In highschool, I was going to write the great american novel. Now I’m a game programmer.


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I have, according to some, a really dumb sense of humor. I love lolcats, puns, and word-play jokes.

I’m terrible at math. Abysmal. Like, I get the concepts, and I went as far as vector calculus and discrete math in college, but when I’m at dinner and the bill comes, I always have to have my dinner mate figure out the 20% tip for me.

I still have my christmas lights up in my front window. I don’t think I’m going to take them down.

I have just said 23 things about myself.