In What Have You Achieved Perfection?

I can lace knee-high boots, one-handed, in less than 4 seconds.

I think I’ve pretty much perfected taking all the scratches and noise off records with the computer, and making new, pristine-sounding CDs of them. Last night I did the first album in mono by The Association, because it’s never been reissued. Some of the musical content aside, it sounds absolutely flawless now.

And then along comes Mary…

I am still working on it, but I one day I hope to be the perfect grump. “Fetch me my teeth nurse, I just dropped them here next to my wheelchair…no, bend the other way. The other way!” :stuck_out_tongue:

But actually, I’m mostly just pretty good at lots of things so…perfection at non-perfection perhaps?

OMG do I love MiniPutt. You have set a new bar for me to reach.

I’d bet that 99% of dopers have achieved Zen-like perfection in the ancient art of onanism.

Me too! It is an underapreciated skill, I must say.

Me three. :smiley:

I never miss a deadline, but I think my co-workers, teachers, and fellow Toastmasters would be dismayed to ever discover just how close I usually get. And not only do I get things done, I get them done well: I finish my documentation at the last minute and there are hardly ever any errors; I write my papers at the last minute (sometimes mere hours before they are due) and I get "A"s; I never write speeches, I just come up with a vague outline in my mind and then wing it, and I always get positive evaluations and feedback.

This is not to say that I never finish anything “early” (in fact just last week I finished something a few days early), and if someone else’s work is dependent on mine I’ll be more conscientious about it, but in general I’m pretty much a last-minute kind of worker. :slight_smile:

I make the world’s tastiest vegetarian suasage gravy and biscuits. And I’m a Yankee. :smiley:

I maintained perfect attendance in school, all the way from kindergarten to my senior year. Not too many people can honestly make this claim.

Then you just don’t have enough to do. I predict you will be assigned more and more until you finally cannot keep up. Business abhors a happy worker.

I can beat Super Mario Bros. 3 in under 20 minutes.

Meh, it’s worked well enough for the past 13 years. :wink:

I am about to take on my first management job (fingers crossed), but I don’t see why that should make me mend my last-minute ways… :smiley:

Gary Grundeman did when I was in school. You should be very proud.

I am a master of:

Cooking:

Home Fries
Smoked ribs
The Omelette
Paneed veal with Fettucine Alfredo (comes with its own heart attack)

Socially:

I order extremely well at restaurants.

Poker:

I have studied, read books, bought the Wilson Software, played on the internet and I am absolutely, undeniably perfect. I never win.

Oh, og! I’m such a failure!

Wait…what?

I’m confused: do you mean a subject in which I have become perfect, or do you mean a subject where I’ve achieved a perfect result by chance or otherwise?

my ballet teacher says I have training video piquer turns and assembles.
There’s no such thing as perfection in ballet, but “training video” is better than what everyone else in the class has.

You know, for the past 11 days, I have often found myself wishing that I had never clicked that link. That blasted game is insanely addictive! Anyway, after several sleepless days and nights, a number of scientific approaches to the problem (none of which really worked better than simple eyeballing), and finally reaching a trance-like state where I could “feel” the holes… well, look at the screenshot and weep!

Sorry to steal your achievement, by the way, but once I got started with this thing I couldn’t stop myself. Oh, and try not to feel bad that about those years of failed attempts vs. my 11 days. In actual time spent playing, we’re probably pretty close.

Man, it really does feel great to have achieved something in life. And best of all, now I never have to go near that cursed game again. :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, really? :smiley:

Me, I can make the perfect, and I mean toes curling *perfect * Manhattan without measuring a damned thing besides my own desire.

I have to say I’ve achieved perfection at being the other 1% --no waking orgasms in many years!

I have it on good authority that my rack is perfection.