Okay, I'll bite.
Twenty three questions, by way of merde's journal:
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"because a program that is dazzlingly fast and astoundingly small is of"
(There were 15 books on the same shelf and I had to sort of guess at which one was really "nearest")
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
A handsome if cheap shoji screen, provided by my employers to act as a 'door' for my cubicle.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Several episodes of the first season of Six Feet Under.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
10:38 (but I checked not very long ago)
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
10:35
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
A conversation between a sound designer and an audio director about a lip-sync demo another team is going to show them. No dwarf grunts at the moment.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
45 minutes ago walking from the parking garage to my office.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
www.pandagon.net, a political blog.
9: What are you wearing?
Black jeans, black tee-shirt with a Jennifer Feinberg two-headed cat drawing.
10: Did you dream last night?
Yes - a scary one where m and I were trespassing in a stranger's house. She got away; I was just about to get caught when I woke up at 3am or so with my heart hammering.
11: When did you last laugh?
Reading http://www.partiallyclips.com/ this morning.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Whiteboard with state flow graphs and memory management schematics. Small piece of paper with this written upon it: "She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely." "Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl."
13: Seen anything weird lately?
As I was traversing the parking garage, I saw a strange blue hot-rod-dune-buggy thing driving in, and it looked strangely like my manager was driving it, but I hurried along so as not to have to face this weirdness.
14: What do you think of this quiz?
Amusing.
15: What is the last film you saw?
Das Boot. Director's Cut. Cheery thing.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
Honestly? I'd probably pay off the mortgage on the house.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
"When I was four years old, I ate an entire outboard motor."
18: If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
More quiet places.
19: Do you like to dance?
Sometimes.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
I'll go with "insecure, foolish, immature little boy who has no clue how to deal with unintended consequences". Functionally, it's basically equivalent to power-crazy nutcase.
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Mantissa.
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Oban.
23: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yes, but for the moment I still believe America can be saved. If it collapses into savagery and can no longer project effective power internationally, we're off to Australia or New Zealand (unless m has a better idea), but until then, I'd rather be a conscience than a victim.
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"because a program that is dazzlingly fast and astoundingly small is of"
(There were 15 books on the same shelf and I had to sort of guess at which one was really "nearest")
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
A handsome if cheap shoji screen, provided by my employers to act as a 'door' for my cubicle.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Several episodes of the first season of Six Feet Under.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
10:38 (but I checked not very long ago)
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
10:35
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
A conversation between a sound designer and an audio director about a lip-sync demo another team is going to show them. No dwarf grunts at the moment.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
45 minutes ago walking from the parking garage to my office.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
www.pandagon.net, a political blog.
9: What are you wearing?
Black jeans, black tee-shirt with a Jennifer Feinberg two-headed cat drawing.
10: Did you dream last night?
Yes - a scary one where m and I were trespassing in a stranger's house. She got away; I was just about to get caught when I woke up at 3am or so with my heart hammering.
11: When did you last laugh?
Reading http://www.partiallyclips.com/ this morning.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Whiteboard with state flow graphs and memory management schematics. Small piece of paper with this written upon it: "She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely." "Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl."
13: Seen anything weird lately?
As I was traversing the parking garage, I saw a strange blue hot-rod-dune-buggy thing driving in, and it looked strangely like my manager was driving it, but I hurried along so as not to have to face this weirdness.
14: What do you think of this quiz?
Amusing.
15: What is the last film you saw?
Das Boot. Director's Cut. Cheery thing.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
Honestly? I'd probably pay off the mortgage on the house.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
"When I was four years old, I ate an entire outboard motor."
18: If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
More quiet places.
19: Do you like to dance?
Sometimes.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
I'll go with "insecure, foolish, immature little boy who has no clue how to deal with unintended consequences". Functionally, it's basically equivalent to power-crazy nutcase.
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Mantissa.
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Oban.
23: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yes, but for the moment I still believe America can be saved. If it collapses into savagery and can no longer project effective power internationally, we're off to Australia or New Zealand (unless m has a better idea), but until then, I'd rather be a conscience than a victim.